Tim Murphy

This mandate stands in stark contrast to the stated purpose of healthcare reform expanding access to healthcare.

By direction of the House Republican Conference, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 447 Resolved, That the following named Member be and is…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania. I now yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana, Mr. Joe Donnelly.

I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for his comments and in helping to lay out how we need to lay out America's infrastructure, clean up our environment and do this without raising taxes, borrowing, or buying more from OPEC. I now yield to…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania. What he is referring to also is taking care of our infrastructure, which has aged so much, and it's just a massive problem. I know it is something that the Transportation and Infrastructure…

I would now like to yield to the gentlelady from West Virginia, Ms. Shelley Moore Capito.

I have to say that I am deeply disappointed that Secretary Sebelius refused to testify today.

Leaving the statute on the books is irresponsible, and it must be removed.

The Department of Health and Human Services has rightfully decided to cancel the program.

If any insurance company began collecting premiums, then tried to spend $86 billion before paying out a single penny in benefits, they would rightly be prosecuted as a Ponzi scheme.

It looks like the CLASS Act was a budgetary deception to mask the actual cost of the Affordable Care Act.

As a physician who has dealt with many, many patients... I can surely tell you... there are many, many other options that are much more responsible.

CBO's credibility should also be called into question for scoring the program as a saver.

Congress should repeal it instead of waiting for bureaucrats to change their mind.

This week I introduced a bill to repeal CLASS and other new entitlement programs in PPACA.

At a time when we are struggling to save the entitlement programs we already have, good programs like Social Security and Medicare, we simply can't afford massive new government programs like CLASS.

I don't think CLASS should be rewritten or redesigned by the bureaucracy.

Once we stripped away the political spin, brushed off budget gimmicks, and cut through the bureaucratic jungle, we saw a foundational pillar of the President's health care law for what it really was, truly a Ponzi scheme.

Mr. Waxman, I would say CLASS dismissed, and then we need to work on canceling.

I would once again call on this Congress to pass H.R. 1173, a bill that my good friend and fellow physician Dr. Boustany has introduced to repeal the CLASS Act.

We simply cannot afford to let this administration hide behind any backroom deals and secret handshakes any longer.

CLASS does not work. The administration cannot fix it without massive taxpayer bailouts.

As a matter of fact, we would love to follow through on the President's constant promises we ought to be cleaning up coal.

But the hard fact of the matter is, losing control of this technology is going to cost us a heck of a lot of more money and it's going to cost this industry and jobs, not just of the new technology, which is where our hope is as a…

I mean why window shop when you can't afford, but in our push to make sure that drugs are affordable, are we also tripping over ourselves?