Mr. Speaker, it was 3 years ago tomorrow night that the President's affordable health care law, or bill, was pushed through this House of Representatives. On Friday, in CQ Healthbeat, an article was published where the Department of Health…

It is phenomenal what is happening in the oil and gas patch these days.

The amount of oil and gas that we produce and our safety record and our environment stewardship is a real testimony to the fact that we are proud of what we do.

America is on the cusp of having energy security, and with that, great paying jobs and revenue streams.

But isn't it interesting as we sit here this morning on the eve of the third year of the signing of this bill into law that the greatest obstacle to its implementation is actually the administration itself?

So when he gives a figure of tens of millions of people who are unable to get insurance for a preexisting condition, that number is probably a little bit overstated; is it not?

I am going to tell you, in health care you don't get something for nothing. There is always a cost, and someone always pays it.

Let us set aside for a moment the question of whether it makes sense to borrow $2 trillion from foreign nations to pay for a new entitlement when current Medicare and Medicaid programs are in trouble.

I don't have the same confidence that the President has that he can continue to run trillion dollar deficits every year for another 4 years and there is no effect on the larger economy.

I think you are going to have a lot of people who go to sign up on their 21 page application on October 2nd or 3rd and find that the system is not ready for them.

Right now, we have real difficulty in the State of Texas because a lot of providers are not opening their doors to Medicare or Medicaid patients.