I would reserve what few precious minutes and seconds I may have left, and I would like to be informed of how many precious minutes and seconds I have. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Tennessee has 2 minutes remaining.

I'll just reiterate that this is a bad amendment to a bad bill. It basically puts the interests of special industry--the gas and oil industry, particularly--above the American public's health, clean air, and the environment. If you want to…

This is a bad amendment to a bad bill, so it's doubly bad. This would take almost anything that protects the air, the water, the public from carbon emissions away from the opportunity of the EPA to protect us. Many cities, such as Houston…

Again, this is just another amendment in another area in what's totally a bad concept. The basic concept is that any rule or regulation would have to go through a passage in both the House and the Senate and Presidential approval to become…

I, too, was alive when Richard Nixon was doing his service, and I remember him getting on that helicopter, waving good-bye. There were regulations that made sure that he was able to get away from Washington and get home to California, and…

What this shows is exactly what the situation is. You've got a majority in the House that's against the Affordable Care Act, and you've got a majority in the Senate that's for it. To have any rules and regulations under it go into effect…

The amendment is twice as bad as the bill because it decreases by $50 million the threshold, which means more and more regulations would have to go through this cumbersome process and really stifle regulations and rules, and that's what…

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman, we have had a good discussion on this bill. Indeed, it is ``Groundhog Day'' as we have had it so many times. We've just gone around and around. It is amazing that this body, which I am…

Insurance costs, health insurance costs, were going up at a much higher rate before than they are now.

I would just say I do not know why anyone who could get free insurance, free to them, insurance through their parents' policy, would choose instead to go on the marketplace and pay for insurance, even if they get a subsidy.

So I would say in two ways. I think one very important way is that today for anyone who has an illness or has had an illness in the past, it can be difficult or impossible to get health insurance coverage because they either will be…

the fact of the matter is that costs are going up for individuals, not decreasing $2,500 for families as the President promised the American people.