Mike Cloud

It seems to me that oftentimes in Congress we go about trying to fix a problem before really stopping to ask what is broken about it.

But as we have seen with the Obamacare and Affordable Care Act, the intentions don't necessarily turn into actual policy.

It is also interesting to me that, you know, while we have H.R. 3 out there, which is, again, an attempt to kind of take over this from a government standpoint, we have another option out there, H.R. 19, which does address pay for delay…

Thank you. Appreciate you holding this hearing. This is, certainly, extremely important to the people we all represent and something we know we have needed to deal with for quite some time now, the extraordinary increase in drug pricing.

I share this concern very much, and I'm happy to be helpful to you and the Committee in trying to find ways to advance policies that would achieve a unique patient identifier.

I think we all acknowledge the difficulties of working in that region, a region where we in America probably have more of a centralized national identity of Afghanistan than those actually living in Afghanistan.

I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 4200, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I urge passage of this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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It is a patriotic duty to do this right, efficiently, and to require Lockheed to pay penalties when they don't get it right.

We have spent $1 trillion in the last five years on this, and at least the estimates that we have here, and it is--you know, that could have gone to a lot of different places.

It's important for the United States to be at the leadership table.

When it comes to poor construction made by the Corps in preconstruction engineering and design, the private sponsor should not have to pay to correct the Federal Government's mistake.

Should the Calhoun Port Authority begin construction to correct the Corps design, current law treats the construction project, however, as a new project, and requires that the port authority share the cost with the Federal Government.

The upcoming Water Resources and Development Act is critical for my coastal district, and I want to discuss a few issues and projects that are of concern for Texans back home.

When it comes to maritime commerce, Texas ranks second in the nation and handles over 20 percent of all tonnage in the nation.

Reining in our debt and our deficits only gets harder, the longer we wait.

American taxpayers in future generations deserve honest accounting, not more gimmicks that attempt to paper over our huge and unsustainable deficits.

We do not have the luxury of ignoring the true cost of our spending decisions.

We spent I think $7 billion last year from Congress, and it's the picture of this bucket that we're pouring into, but there's a hole in the bottom going into a bucket that China's sitting there

It is a key function of our republic, a republic of the people, by the people, for the people of having representative government.

I've always thought that the answer to that is for America to meet the challenge, because we will always do it a lot more responsibly than many of the other countries across the pond, so to speak, who don't have our best interests in mind.

Going to common carrier pipeline will relieve enormous challenges today in the CO2 market, and that will mean you'll get to see a lot more of these planned activities being done at scale.

The world's demand for energy is growing. I have always believed that the solution to the challenges we face is advancements in technology rather than us all retreating from the industrial age.

It is comforting that we can come together as a Congress on an issue as important as this and lay aside the differences.