It is unacceptable that we would see people, understanding with our Nation's history that impairment kills, it is unacceptable that we would allow continued impairment from illicit drugs to injure families on our roadways.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we all teach our kids. We teach them how to stay safe and how to respond in an emergency. They learn things like stop, drop, and roll for fires; don't talk to strangers; look both ways…

We are here today considering a continuing resolution that will provide dollars for the Federal Government and our national defense, but it also will finally accomplish reauthorization of funding for several important healthcare programs…

One of the most important pieces of this package is the extension of the Independence At Home Medical Practice Demonstration Program, which allows participating high-need Medicare beneficiaries who have multiple chronic conditions to…

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 44. Stated against:

A quick history lesson: CHIP, 1996, a bipartisan offering; a Democratic President, Bill Clinton; a Republican Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich; as part of welfare reform, we are going to move people from welfare to work. But what do we…

Today we continue our examination of food safety--a matter which has been of interest to the American public ever since the publishing of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in 1906.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his work as the chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee that deals with funding public health as well as medical research. I heard some comments about extension of the funding for…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, late in June of 2012, like many Americans, I anxiously awaited a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States while they were considering the constitutionality of the individual mandate…

I consider it a gift to humanity that they are providing.

As we continue to build on the success of the transformative 21st Century Cures act, our committee must fully comprehend how each step of the drug supply chain process impacts consumers.

It's a gift. It's a gift.