House Resolution 858 provides for consideration of H.R. 3590, the Halt Tax Increases on the Middle Class and Seniors Act and the Restoring Access to Medication Act. The rule provides for 1 hour of debate equally divided among the majority…

I am pleased to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Lance), the author of the bill and vice chairman of the subcommittee.

I advise the minority that we have no additional speakers. I reserve the balance of my time.

We are going to be looking at legislation that seeks to identify and improve the overall public health of our country.

We want those things that are supposed to be there by now, and I would include this as one of those things that we want to be there by now.

we have called for the EPA to fully dredge and remove the toxins from the San Jacinto River.

the community was united on not having a short-term solution.

we want it removed and permanently dealt with so the people there can feel comfortable with what they are getting out of their groundwater.

Again, I think that the bar for safety is lower when it is physician-to-physician or when it is data being provided to a physician.

I am encouraged by this emerging technology within the healthcare system, and I look forward this morning to examining how it is transforming the way in which doctors, patients and consumers approach and manage the delivery of care.

The potential comes in part from enabling both sides of the equation: doctors and patients.

I rise this evening to offer an amendment on an issue that I have worked on, as well as the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for the last 6 years. In 2006, the Committee on Appropriations, without consultation with the Committee on Energy…