Lloyd Doggett

It is an investment in prevention and future development of children.

I share the objectives that you just outlined.

I think, if we keep working together, we can find ways to strengthen and improve this, but the main thing is for our families to get out there now. I think, increasingly, most folks are realizing, as you pointed out, with so many efforts…

So much of the original promise of the Affordable Healthcare Act has been undermined by faulty implementation that has sometimes been indifferent to local concerns.

Crimes against Social Security cheat hardworking Americans and honest beneficiaries.

I would rather like the people who are serving my meal to have gone to the doctor if they have the flu.

We need to be working to see that all Americans have access to a family doctor, to affordable health care.

The underlying reasoning of those who would repeal the Affordable Health Care Act is not unlike those who say they are helping minimum wage workers by keeping the minimum wage at a minimum.

It makes it all the more important that the navigator system work as well as the Web system works.

The limitations with the Web site are a part of the concern that I have.

While I am troubled by the determination of our Republican colleagues to destroy the rights of Americans to access affordable health care...

If there were even one Republican Member of this committee who wanted to fix the shortcomings in the act...

Hopefully the Senate will respond to our strong show of bipartisan support by moving this legislation this year. I yield back the balance of my time.

At this time, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee). (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

Surely no Member of the House has expressed more interest in this subject than the founder of the Foster Youth Caucus, our colleague from California (Ms. Bass), to whom I yield 3 minutes.

Forty-four? One can lose count because they do every time you turn around. But I thank the gentlewoman from Florida and the gentlewoman from Hawaii. This totally unjustified shutdown must end, and we must stand for American families to…

I want to yield back to the gentlewoman from Hawaii and in doing so thanking her for this time. The reason that it is alleged that they would not continue to stand by the agreement that was made between the House and the Senate for this…

We agreed to do that. The Speaker indicated that he had agreed to that, and then this Tea Party faction took control, the shutdown caucus.

We have said we will do that now if it will keep our government open and protect our families and avoid default, open the government. And it is that motion, not a motion to give us all that we have asked for, but a motion to take the…

There was an understanding, that he acknowledged, reached between the House and the Senate that we Democrats, in order to keep the government functioning, would agree on, for a time this fall, to accept an unacceptable low number that we…

I want to thank the gentlewoman from Hawaii for the opportunity to join with her on this because the numbers she refers to is back during the summer--and Speaker Boehner acknowledged this last Sunday on ABC. There was an understanding…

You are talking about things like cancer research or someone who is working on childhood disease.

That is one of the reasons I feel that, with every hour that we go through this government shutdown and with every hour that we get nearer to a default--an historic default on the full faith and credit of the United States--we are…

That is correct. The other thing that happens: suppose you have a cafe across the street from a major Federal installation. Suppose you have a dry cleaners or a service station or an auto repair. Your business has fallen through the floor…

I would ask the gentlelady about the number of Federal employees you have in your area who remain unable to do their work.