Kevin Brady

Sir, I think it would be best to answer that by saying that if someone wants to act like an insurance agent, there is a rigorous pre-licensing examination process and pre-educational process that they have to go through.

It would tend to surprise me, sir.

First let me thank Chairman Pitts for his leadership of the Health Subcommittee of Energy and Commerce and toward a solution for our local physicians. I rise today in support of the Pathway for SGR Reform. This is an important bill because…

We are no longer debating what will happen when the President's healthcare law goes into effect. The Affordable Care Act, as it was written and is being implemented, is having the negative consequences on the American people we long…

My Democratic colleagues repeatedly promised the ObamaCare exchanges would deliver a new, competitive marketplace that made it easy to shop for insurance, but the reality is far from that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think this is an important issue, it hasn't been highlighted much, but it is a real concern for the families who don't fit into the box, as Washington likes to do.

I don't think many of us are worried about the insurance companies. We are really worried about the process of does that local doctor--are they assured that they are actually going to see reimbursement.

Improving the defective Web site won't prevent millions of Americans from walking to their mailbox only to find the healthcare plan they have and like is canceled because of the Affordable Care Act.

The Affordable Care Act's fundamental problem can't be fixed with better marketing.

Improving the defective Web site won't make ObamaCare premiums more affordable.

Real disposable income per capita has increased by a mere 3.7 percent.

The current recovery has produced 4.4 million fewer private payroll jobs since the cyclical low.

We are all pulling for a strong recovery.

America's employment-to-population ratio has actually declined by 1.1 percentage points.

The current recovery remains the weakest among all post-1960 recoveries.

What my constituents want to know, what happens?

So why should the American people believe you now?

My constituents are frightened. Like millions of Americans, they are now being forced out of the health care plan that they like.

What has become abundantly clear, the flaw is not the Web site, the flaw is the law itself.

I think what has become clear as well is Obamacare is not ready.

As Nobel laureate Milton Friedman taught, the best single measure of Washington's burden on Main Street is federal spending as a share of the economy.

America will not default on our debt. Nor will the debt ceiling be lifted without addressing the unsustainability of the government's finances.

Negotiations over the debt ceiling provide both parties with an opportunity to enact a 21st century strategy to put America's finances in order for the long haul.

There is no way that we are going to default or miss interest payments or miss payments.