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Joe Barton is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 6th congressional district from 1985 to 2019. During his tenure, Barton served as the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he played a significant role in shaping energy policy and telecommunications legislation. He was known for his advocacy of fossil fuel interests and his support for deregulation in the energy sector.
Will you commit to the committee and to the American people that, one, you do want to protect their privacy; and, two, you will take this out, fix it, make sure that it doesn't have bearing on people that try to apply through the Web site?
How in the world can this be HIPAA compliant when HIPAA is designed to protect the patient's privacy?
As I mentioned earlier, the new benefit in its implementation are hardly perfect, but rather than trying to scare and confuse seniors, I would hope that we could work together as we go through the implementation phase to find out what is…
This lie is way beyond an awful computer program. This lie affects the health and well-being of every American.
You are telling every American if you sign up for this, or even attempt to, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Well, in my opinion, if we have a system that almost no one can successfully navigate, that we have to go to the paper system of this gentleman's company down here, that is a system that has failed.
I am damn angry that I and 700,000 Texans I represent have been misled, misled, and misled.
It is a legitimate function of government to ensure that everybody is connected and has the ability to communicate.
I want to thank you for holding this hearing on the transition of the Internet Protocol.
It might have worked for 1996, but that world doesn't exist today, so let's figure out what exists today and in the future.
Last weekend I finally got to go home to Texas after the government shutdown.
What they want is something that works, that is efficient, and that is cost competitive.
To my friends in the body, this is a serious issue. ObamaCare, or the Affordable Care Act, as I said at the start, is a huge new entitlement. At a minimum, we would have a real debate about it. As has been pointed out, it barely passed the…
How much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 2 minutes remaining.
Before I yield to Mr. Stockman, I want to apologize to the House for reading into the Record comments from citizens of the United States exercising their First Amendment rights. One of those citizens made a disparaging remark about the…
How much time do we have remaining in this Special Order? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bentivolio). The gentleman from Texas has 9 minutes remaining.
For the last hour, the minority in the House, the Democrat Party, has had the right to speak to the American people in their leadership Special Hour. I think the gentleman from Oregon and the gentleman from California did a good job of…
We're seeing an interesting dialogue today in the 1-minutes. Last week, House Republicans brought to the floor a bill before the shutdown to pay our military. Both sides totally supported that, the Senate accepted it, and the President…
If I may let the Speaker know, this was an email sent to me from an American citizen. I was just reading something an American citizen wrote. These are not my remarks. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from engaging…
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