House Resolution 223 provides for a structured rule for consideration of House Concurrent Resolution 34. This rule makes in order every complete substitute submitted to the Rules Committee. Continuing a bipartisan tradition, we are making…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 223 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 223 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the…

I yield myself such time as I may consume, Mr. Speaker, and I just want to address a few points that Congresswoman Slaughter brought up. I have scoured the budget looking for this notion of a voucher system for Medicare. I've scoured the…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, let's just clear up a simple point here. The only specified savings in this budget are from raising taxes and cutting the military. If we really wanted to have an opportunity to make…

Congressman, the fact is simple. We could tax those over $100,000 a year 100 percent and we still simply could not close the deficit for this year. The fact of the matter is people talk about this government getting smaller, and the…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 311, nays 106, answered ``present'' 2, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 267] YEAS--311 Ackerman Adams…

If you are looking for a prime example of government regulation which, first, is an unnecessary intrusion on small businesses, second, enlarges government bureaucracy at the expense of taxpayers and entrepreneurs, and, finally, creates a…

We must be working from very different mathematical systems. They keep saying that we are raising taxes, and there is nothing further from the truth than the statements I have heard from the left. You have consistently posed a question…

Every single day Americans are asking, Where are the jobs? The answer is simple. Current regulations are destroying jobs. Last year alone, government regulations cost businesses more than $1.7 trillion. As an example, this chart…

I will ride in on that and yes, process safety and especially in the development of new facilities is the best time to implement safer technologies or new technologies that you have in place.

We definitely should not start over. I mean, we have made a lot of progress.

We are not in support of mandating any single risk-reduction tool.

I don't think we should mandate any particular tool, especially IST.

I think we are not at the point where we can mandate that particular topic or that particular tool or any other particular tool.

A quarter of a billion dollars, $250 million dollars since 2002.

There is a significant cost to doing this.

The chemical industry is critical to our National economy as well as the quality of life of our people.

We believe changes to CFATS that require implementation or enhance scrutiny of any single-risk reduction option such as the mandatory consideration or implementation of inherently safer technology are unnecessary and would be overly…

There is a significant cost to upgrading security across the business.

The vulnerabilities identified in the inspections need to be addressed for your site security plan to be approved.

When you think about the repeal of the national health care bill, is that not a savings of $2.7 trillion, at least the elimination of a $2.7 trillion hole or an abyss on an entitlement program? Does it not reduce the debt by $700 billion…

As a business owner who's only been in Congress for 19 days, I know as a small business owner that if we want more jobs in our economy, we must be serious about spending cuts. Deficit spending in Washington is burdening future generations…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Question for you: Is it the first time since 1974 that the House has operated without a budget?

This health care bill is a job-destroying bill. Shifting who pays simply does not reduce the cost of health insurance. As a matter of fact, when you look at it, the CMS says over the next 10 years we will see an increase of $311 billion in…

Finally, the seventh point, we've heard lots of rhetoric about what we're doing to senior citizens and women. What we are facing is an opportunity to stop robbing future generations, to stop the unnecessary impact, the intergenerational…