I believe we need to take steps to put privacy back into the personal realm and take it out of the consumer marketing opportunity realm.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.

The cuts speak for themselves, but the American people deserve to hear the truth about the IPAB as little more than a roadmap to potentially rationing care.

Decisions regarding patient care shouldn't be made by a panel of 15 unelected bureaucrats who haven't examined the specifics of an individual's unique case.

What one person considers rationing, another might refer to as reducing excessive growth areas of Medicare.

The former OMB Director, Peter Orszag, called the IPAB the single biggest yielding of power to an independent entity since the creation of the Federal Reserve.

This isn't government by the people. It is instead government by the bureaucrats.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2417) to repeal certain amendments to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act with respect to lighting energy efficiency, and for other purposes. The Clerk read the title of…

I yield myself the balance of my time. I have listened, Mr. Speaker, with interest to what my friends on the Democrat side have said about this bill. And I think in the interest of fairness, we ought to call a spade a spade. It is true…

I yield 1 minute to one of our vigorous new Members from the great State of Illinois, Congressman Hultgren.

Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Houston, Texas, Judge Ted Poe.