Political Quotes

“House Resolution 600 provides for the consideration of a bipartisan bill reported by the House Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee. The rule provides for 1 hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chairs and ranking members of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Ways and Means. The rule adopts the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means. Further, the rule waives all points of order and makes in order no further amendments to the legislation. However, the minority is afforded the customary motion to recommit. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of millions of seniors in my home State of Texas and all across the United States, I am grateful that the House is considering H.R. 849, the Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2017. This bill has been championed by my good friend from Tennessee, Dr. Phil Roe, in this Congress and in previous Congresses. It accomplishes a very simple task: To repeal the unpopular Independent Payment Advisory Board created under the Affordable Care Act. This repeal has strong bipartisan support in both the Energy and Commerce Committee, on which I serve, and in this entire body. As of today, there are 270 Republican and Democratic cosponsors to the bill who all agree that the creation of this board was a very bad idea. More than 800 organizations representing every State support this bill.…”