I encourage other people to do the same.

Mr. Speaker, last week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that despite her Department's best efforts, what is known as the CLASS Act is not fiscally viable and will not be implemented. The CLASS Act would…

I would submit that the volume of CFC that is released into the atmosphere from the contingent of asthma patients that uses an occasional rescue inhaler that they buy at 2:00 in the morning is vanishingly small and not responsible for the…

If we are concerned about asthma, we would fix that.

How can we be sure you are not double counting those individuals?

I guess that is overall what the concern here is of the committee today, and I think the reason that Representative Noem brought the legislation forward.

the Waxman-Markey bill that was debated and passed through this committee and then passed through the floor of the House in June of 2009 contained in it a provision for providing credits, payments to companies that would sell carbon…

I thank the chairman. I won't take the full minute. I just simply wanted to respond to what we just heard here on the floor of the House. H.R. 358 does not change current law or any standard related to section 1867 of the Social Security…

I favor renewables. I've got a solar manufacturing company in my district.

I thank the gentleman for the recognition. Let's be clear about the Affordable Care Act. The EMTALA provision of the underlying law, the Affordable Care Act, is not actually the EMTALA provision because it puts in a great big loophole. The…

I think it is important here to--when Secretary Zients, former Secretary Zients from the Department of Energy was here, one of the very last things we asked him was, would you make available members of your staff, to our staff, to be able…