Let's also just deal with a couple of things that have been said during the last hour of debate. The gentleman from Connecticut stood up and provided a CRS report that detailed various times in the past where rules have been delayed, the…

Here it is, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, section 1513, page 159, paragraph D, Effective Date. This is the section that deals with the so-called ``employer responsibility,'' what we call the ``employer mandate,'' the…

Some of the Affordable Care Act's oldest and strongest supporters are now coming out against the bill. Yesterday, the three largest unions in the country wrote a letter to Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid and said that the President's health…

I have to tell you, I just don't get it.

A collective failure, and we want to give you new authority? I mean, honestly, do you see the problem with that logic?

I just have to tell you, it doesn't sound like a gap in the statute, it sounds like an enforcement issue.

Stop telling us it is not workable, and start helping us with a practical solution.

So 53 Americans are no longer here because the Food and Drug Administration refused to use their statutory authority to enforce existing regulations.

So they are licensed and regulated. Now, when they engage in interstate sales, that seems like it would come under your jurisdiction, would it not?

But this is not that situation. These are companies that make a large volume, and they make it not on receipt of a prescription.

In this House, in 2007, a bill was passed called the Energy Independence and Security Act. One of the features of this bill was to take away consumer choice when deciding which light bulbs our constituents could use in their own homes…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following new section: Sec. __. None of the…