Today is the last day of baseball, but, more importantly, it is the first day of open enrollment for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This year, enrollment only runs from November 1, today, through December 15. This is half…

I am not disingenuous about anything I say about Medicaid or Medicare or LIHEAP or SNAP programs.

A woman's constitutional right to choose to terminate a pre-viability pregnancy--which the Supreme Court established in Roe v. Wade, 1973, and which it has consistently reaffirmed, including as recently as last year--is a fundamental…

I strongly oppose the bill and would ask without objection to enter into the record written testimony and letters opposing this bill.

This bill bans all abortions where a fetal heartbeat is detectable, which means as a practical matter it would ban abortion after just 6 weeks of gestation. This is patently unconstitutional.

Culture of death is taking 23 million people's healthcare away from them.

It is a sure sign of House Republicans' misplaced priorities and their failing agenda when they turn yet again to attacking women's right to choose.

H.R. 490 is a direct attack on that right.

I just wondered, do you have in there all the things Chris Christie did that came up in a hearing that we held in 2009 in our committee showing the abuses of the system by Chris Christie? The CHAIR. The Chair would remind Members to…

The reason I have this amendment is because I don't think the bill is a good bill, and it shouldn't affect settlement agreements on the basis of race, religion, national origin, or any other protected category. I was kind of shocked that…

Mr. Pascrell will discuss it in more detail. The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 11, insert after ``settlement agreement'' the following: ``(except as provided in subsection…