Rubén Hinojosa: “It is absolutely essential to have a bird's-eye view of our financial system, in order to identify and prevent systemic…”

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

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

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.