I voted previously to repeal these 1099 reporting requirements. But for broad Republican opposition, these requirements would have been repealed a long time ago. I was a little amused to hear one of our Republican colleagues actually say…

When Texas received $3.25 billion in education stimulus funds over the objection of every Texas Republican, Governor Perry played a shell game that left Texas schools not a dime better off than if no Federal aid had come in the first…

I thank the gentleman. I enter in the record the request of education organizations from all over the State of Texas for this amendment and the statements of the Texas delegation last year and again this year. Governor Perry may have come…

It means seniors pay more out of their pockets for prescription drugs. It means seniors pay more out of their pocket for a cancer screening.

While I think that Dr. Berwick did an outstanding job last week in explaining the increased costs that seniors will face if what they call repeal and what I would call the Republican Senior Insecurity Act were to be approved.

And all we get out of that, other than seniors having to pay more, is that the solvency of the Medicare Trust Fund declines by over a decade if they are successful with their Senior Insecurity Act.

There are millions of Americans that really have a stake in not going back to the old system.

So they can call it repeal, but to a young person who is counting on that insurance, it means terminate their insurance coverage.

If you look at the work the Fiscal Commission did, one of the places where I think they made a real contribution was in having a conversation about spending on both the revenue and direct spending side.

I think it actually ought to be revenue increasing to help deal with this problem, but that is a non-negotiable position in the administration.

what the Republicans are proposing in repealing that law is to hike the cost for prescription drugs to seniors in America this year by over $2 billion

that ought to give seniors not only lower health care costs but more choice than they have ever enjoyed in the history of Medicare

We will just agree to disagree.

the average individual who would reach this donut hole gap in coverage... will get a little over $500 in benefits under existing law

We know that an earlier generation of Republicans fought Lyndon Johnson in getting Medicare created in the first place with the same fervor that our Republican colleagues are fighting health insurance reform today.

That is the longer-term goal. But in the short-term goal, it has become increasingly apparent when you cut through all of their repeal rhetoric that what they are really presenting to seniors and individuals with disabilities is a plan to…

And so if we repeal that guarantee of no copayment, seniors will have to pay more for those services. Their health care costs under the Republican plan will increase, will they not?

I want to agree with the expression of concern that Chairman Ryan has made concerning the growth of our debt...

I think that kind of reversal would be very troubling.

Our middle-class families are threatened not only from the challenges of government, but from the big pharmaceutical monopolies that charge our people more than anyplace in the world, from the giant insurance monopolies. And sometimes…

With last year's important health insurance reform law, we provided real guarantees to American families against insurance monopoly abuses. Today, Republicans tell these families, ``Forget the binding guarantees. We have 12 platitudes for…

Let it be remembered that Congress began this debate on whether or not to reduce corporate tax revenues... how much more America will borrow from the Chinese

The choice here is whether to give more money to insurance monopolies or to leave just a little bit in the pockets of middle class Americans. But for House Republicans, always putting insurance companies first seems to be a preexisting…

Our energetic and talented colleague Gabby Giffords was doing what she does so well, the core responsibility of every Member: listening to her constituents in an open public forum. Young and old, Americans of all political philosophies…

If you're hit by a truck this afternoon or your child contracts a dread disease, your future ought not to depend on the fine print in an insurance policy you didn't have anything to do with writing. No insurance monopoly should stand…