Marsha Blackburn

The issue that we are looking at today and as a part of our Disrupter Series is something that is really important to my constituents in Tennessee.

A recent HHS-OIG report found that the remaining CO- OPs are becoming financially insolvent. They are looking as if they, too, are going to go the way of the others that have failed. Not only does the failure of CO-OPs waste tax dollars…

I think it's so appropriate that we have this hearing that we look at this as a part of the Disrupter Series and not be fearful of it but engage what it is going to bring to productivity in the manufacturing marketplace, to our…

We do look at this plan and we realize that the Affordable Care Act product is unaffordable and that it is indeed on shaky ground.

I want to thank the chairman for calling the hearing, and I want to thank all of my colleagues for the great work that we all did together as a team to pass that mental health reform package through the House, get it through the House in…

I do have tremendous concern about what we see happening here.

And I think we all as, you can hear, have a heart for what is going on in rural America.

I commend you for it.

I want to join in welcoming our witnesses and raise how important this is to those of us who have rural areas.

It does need more attention. It needs more research. It needs more focus, so we are pleased to see that.

I appreciate Representative Olson's good work on looking at this issue.

I want to thank our witnesses for being here.

I am honored to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts). He is the chairman of our Health Subcommittee and one of the life leaders, chairman of the Values Action Team here in Congress. He is retiring this year, and we…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment No. 44 Offered by Mr. Boustany The Acting CHAIR. It…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. Each amount appropriated or…

There should also be the awareness that most of the healthcare informatics components... should be able to go directly to the marketplace.

The SOFTWARE Act really addresses much of what we are going to discuss today.

I want to tell you I am so pleased that Mr. Hudson has brought the bill forward and that we are having the hearing today.

It is inappropriate. We should be doing the oversight and making the determination of what is happening with these dollars.

This trend toward an all-powerful Administration must not continue in the next Administration.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. Each amount made available…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

It confirms the fears that Title II reclassification was more of a power grab than it was something that would be constructive.

We are concerned that what the FCC is seeking to do is going to end up doing less to protect consumer data, that it would be another of these false hopes that something is being done when indeed the opposite is happening.

I think it does warn of exactly what we have talked about through the entire net neutrality debate which is Government overreach and getting outside of their set wheelhouse, if you will, and their authority that they are given.