The pipeline, in fact, exists between Cushing, Oklahoma, and Houston, Texas, this very day.

Well, thank you, chairman, and thank you for calling this hour together. Of course, the ranks of those who are able to capably deliver a narrative in this House suddenly have gotten a little thinner, but I did have the opportunity to sit…

Fiscal year 2014, the Government collected over $3 trillion in taxes for the first time, thanks to the generosity of the American taxpayer, and yet, we still had a deficit of almost .5 trillion.

If we don't start making difficult decisions now, our children, their children will inherit a burden unlike any generation previously has ever seen.

With our national debt reaching $18 trillion last month, we face the gravest financial situation in our history, and we must get serious about bringing that number down.

By funding the program through 2019, we would provide states with more time to plan for the future.

I want to say this may be my last time to serve as your vice chair of the subcommittee.

It is probably one of the most important that we will take up over the next year.

I practiced for a number of years in north Texas and my own experience was that it was hard to find specialty physicians.

CHIP was created, it is true, in a Republican-controlled Congress in 1997 as a joint federal-state undertaking.

We kind of heard during this subcommittee, during the passage of the Affordable Care Act, that once we were able to be in the elision fields of the ACA, programs like SCHIP wouldn't be necessary any longer.

I don't think any would argue that CHIP should not be extended, so let's just get it done.