I would like to start by joining the almighty and thanking Congressman Barton for his leadership on this issue and pragmatic efforts to create a regulated gaming environment.

I want to tell the committee, Mr. Chairman, that God must be for this bill because I got up this morning at 4:00 in Ennis, Texas, outside of Dallas and braved icy roads and 20-degree temperatures to get to DFW airport when my good friends…

Our ability to produce natural gas with hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling at the prices we can do it that are competitive impacts our ability to affect strategic interests.

It is a very important position that you four people hold.

this administration, who talks all the time about all-of-the-above policy, is in effect in their greenhouse gas rules going to prohibit even the option of building a new coal-powered plant in the future.

Can you imagine that, if we are having the horrendous problems we are having on just getting people interacted with making choices of which kind of coverage they are going to choose, the problems you are going to have when you actually…

Thank you. I want to recognize your leadership on the Republican Study Committee and the Health Task Force on preparing the legislation that you just referred to. I am the past chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, the past…

I am shutting it down, I am shutting it down.

What shocks me is that Mr. Chao, our witness, who is the Deputy Chief Information Officer and Deputy Director of the Office of Information and Services for Medicare and Medicaid, who has been identified numerous times as the chief person…

I appreciate the chairman yielding. Mr. Speaker, we are here today to begin the long process of amending--hopefully improving, and if that is not possible, at some point in time, repealing--the Affordable Care Act. The President, as…

I have a bill that hasn't had a hearing yet, and hopefully this subcommittee will have a legislative hearing on it, that doesn't repeal, and it doesn't delay, but it does make the Affordable Care Act voluntary the first year.