The chairman of our committee says that there were great gifts to insurance companies. What the Build Back Better bill did was to give individuals additional tax credits. Some Republicans call those tax cuts, but they were credits given to…

This amendment has a rather nominal effect in not improving what is a very bad and deceptive bill. It is appealing to talk about rural areas. I am concerned about those rural areas, about the chicken pluckers, about the meatpackers, about…

I would say to the gentleman from Michigan, I am sure there are many Republicans who want to assure good healthcare to all people. The problem is with this specific bill. The one-page amendment that I offered could have guaranteed these…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 220, nays 209, not voting 5, as follows: [Roll No…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Roy The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

The guns are already the number one killer of children in our country. This year, there have been 291 mass shootings. We can count the numbers, but we can't count the pain of an empty chair where there was once a vibrant parent or a…

The GOP has become, sadly, the ``Guns Over People'' party. Their answer to the desperate pleas of families from all across America who want to stop the slaughter of schoolchildren and other innocents--their answer is to do absolutely…

Since Austin, deep in the heart of fossil-fueled Texas, is the only place I have ever called home, I don't believe I have ever been in a home without a gas stove. But I certainly don't need any protection through this contrived bill, and…

The leader they worship, Donald J. Trump, is the ``king of debt,'' as he described himself. Spellbound, whenever he commands, they would crash our government and default on America. Never concerned with the soaring Trump debt that they…

Within this very week, the World Meteorological Association has indicated that for the first time in human history, we will hit a critical high temperature level by 2027. It reported that in just 2 recent years, there were 22,000 deaths…

It reminds me of Texas--in fact, it reminds me of someone with whom I served in the Texas Legislature. He was asked what he did there, and he said: ``Oh, I am not here to do anything, I am just here in case somebody else decides to do…

And so adding another $2 or $3 trillion to the deficit by cutting taxes is largely likely to have the same impact as if we increase spending by that amount.

your testimony before the Ways and Means Commission, Committee over the years has been very consistent that tax cuts do not pay for themselves, and that remains true today, does it not?

I hereby remove my name as cosponsor of H.R. 901. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's request is accepted. ____________________

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After President Trump twiddled, while thousands of Americans died of COVID, we entered a national crisis. In that emergency, the Trump administration, the Biden administration, and the States did not do enough to prevent fraud in this and…

America's strength has always been found in our diversity. Let's overcome the fearmongering and the anti-immigrant hysteria and do the serious, hard work of passing genuine comprehensive immigration reform. Let's turn immigration into a…

over 200 device qualified in the first 3 years of the program. And some of those didn't actually show any useful benefits for patients and had important safety risks.

Despite these many significant concerns, our Republican colleagues would have taxpayers pay monopoly prices for questionable drugs and devices.

While my focus has been principally on drug pricing today, this hearing also, of course, deals with the question of medical devices.

The real angel investors in research and development for new cures in America are none other than American taxpayers.

I am particularly concerned that under what we have termed the 'Republican Default on America' legislation that was approved a week ago that in a 22 percent cut in NIH funding is going to deny us the very kind of cures that all of us today…

I think that much of the research shows that a good way to get new cures is to invest in the NIH.

I think paying outrageous drug prices hasn't resulted in innovation. In fact, I think it has had just the opposite effect.

the NIH's budget should be doubled. But shockingly, a bill passed by the House instead cut NIH's funding by $10 billion.