Rubén Hinojosa

I am encouraged that we are doing some things right and helping a lot of people who under the conditions that our ranking member, Bobby Scott, gave that could not afford it or had preexisting medical conditions, are now covered.

In 2009, prior to ACA, 40 percent of the families in my congressional district were uninsured. Today, in 2016, only 20 percent are uninsured.

Just last month, we celebrated six years since ACA's enactment and celebrated the 20 million previously uninsured Americans who now have access to quality, affordable coverage.

In the last 4 years we have shown great improvement in graduation rates, in enrollment in higher education, and graduation, even, at the colleges.

You made the statement that the HBCUs are a very important component of higher education, and I have been one of the strongest supporters of HBCUs.

We sell our families short when we accept that high-interest loans are the best we can do for our communities.

It is absolutely essential to have a bird's-eye view of our financial system, in order to identify and prevent systemic risks from destabilizing our entire economy.

I thank the gentleman. I gladly accept his offer, and I look forward to working together to promote financial literacy, especially with respect to auto financing. Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 1737.

Raising the debt ceiling is the only responsible thing to do, in my opinion.

This H.R. 692 is nothing but default by another name. Moreover, adding insult to injury, H.R. 692 mandates that we pay foreigners instead of American servicemembers and veterans.

Small businesses and Main Street are the lifeblood of our economy. We should be doing everything we can to ensure that Main Street America is able to prosper.

According to the Government Accountability Office, removing export restrictions will create employment opportunities, expand trade, and lower gasoline prices. The economic and political landscape has evolved since the ban's inception in…

I strongly believe we must reauthorize Head Start without delay.

In my district, the majority of the uninsured population falls under the Medicaid coverage gap and does not qualify for assistance in healthcare marketplace.

Today, in my congressional district, because of the Affordable Care Act there are over 100,000 individuals who now have health insurance.

We can invest in our preschool programs today or in juvenile detention tomorrow.

To prevent such a calamity from happening again, we enacted the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Export-Import Bank is a vital free market, economic engine for our manufactures, producers, and exporters.

I would like to take a moment to state my unwavering support for the Export-Import Bank.

But let us not say that $1 billion increase as was pointed out by Ms. Bauscher is too much because I was voting to approve for many, many years, 12, 13 years, spending $10 to $12 billion a month in our war in Iraq and Afghanistan. So $1…

I was born and raised in Hidalgo County where more than half of the residents are on food stamps, and they have all these children who are participating. That is why I fully support these new child nutrition programs and believe we should…

However, due to their financial trouble in recent years, we have seen attempts to not just reform them, but wind them down completely, and I don't agree with that.

I must underscore that independent oversight is a critical tool in helping the U.S. Department of Education achieve its goals.

I am honored to yield 3 minutes to my colleague from Maryland (Mr. Cummings).