This is a simple little amendment. Currently, any expenditures for flag officers' general housing on base has to be reported if there is an expenditure in excess of $35,000. This lowers this number down to $15,000. It doesn't mean they…

Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you why people would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It has become very, very clear that no matter how well-intentioned it may have been, it will not work. Time after time, we are finding that the…

So those numbers weren't right, and they apparently thought they had enough money built into the budget and gave the Secretary large latitude to take money out of various funds to make things happen, but now she seems to be going around…

I thank the gentleman for yielding for a question. I am looking at the report that you have referenced that people can go look at online for themselves, and I notice that your home State of Texas has a projected 23 percent premium…

And I also notice that the report says, from the data that was obtained from the insurance companies, that my home State of Virginia is going to have a 31 percent premium increase in the small group; again, not talking about the large…

If the gentleman will yield further, perhaps for a colloquy, I would ask the gentleman if he suspects that this is because up to this point in time this has always been a State- driven market and, therefore, there are some differences…

And I would further ask the gentleman if it makes him a little nervous that the folks who are going to be trying to get out there and get records and make sure that folks are doing what they're supposed to, either paying the tax or buying…

I would say to the gentleman that I'm sure some of those things have played out, not necessarily the differences between Texas and Virginia, because Virginia has a longer history with medical malpractice caps. And we, too, have seen that…

I would ask you in that regard, if someone sees these premium increases that we've been talking about and they decide that they don't want to buy the insurance, what then happens from the IRS's standpoint, or from the government's…

I would say to the gentleman that it was very interesting when you talked about the cost of the insurance, and while he said overall that he thought the rates were going to go down, my recollection was--and correct me if I'm wrong--that…

I would also have to point out that, with everything that we've gotten to so far, it appears that their numbers have not been right. They told us that they could produce a long-term care insurance plan, and they backed out of that because…

Well, we once had a political party known as the Know-Nothings. We now have a President who wants us to believe that he knows nothing. He wants us to believe that he knows nothing about who decided to blame the terrorist attacks in…

Thank you so much for yielding as we talk about the importance of American energy independence and using all of our fuels and all of the above. I know that we all want to use all of the above, but there are a lot of people who want to put…

I believe it is going to make a majority of Americans losers in the health care arena.

Ladies and gentlemen, I join you today to share an amusing note that one of my constituents posted on Facebook recently. He said: I carved my pumpkin, and it was snowing outside. Today, I dyed Easter eggs, and it's snowing outside…

In regard to the questions, the list of examples that Mr. Waxman listed out, while the FDA does not currently have any plans, do you believe that the FDA could if it so chose to do so regulate those examples down the road if it had a…

So if the Canadians, the Bostonians, and the Swiss who worked this up to help in other countries decided that it might be helpful in rural parts of the United States, they would have to come to you first, and instead of costing $8, it…

At that point, coal does become competitive again. And then the question becomes, you know, who wants to use it and are they going to be allowed to use it by regulations?

It is always better to have multiple sources available to supply the electricity for the American citizen, isn't that true?

I think that Mr. Dingell's comments in regard to the circumstances are always changing is one of the reasons that I feel so strongly that we ought not to throw coal out, or treat coal as if it were a bad word, because long-term, we know we…

It would be ill-advised for our country to completely eliminate coal as an energy source in light of the fact that we have the world's greatest supply of coal.

I would say, I don't come from a medical background. I was a country lawyer, and most of the time when people lose, if it is close, they don't appeal, and I understand that.

Well, let us just say you are at the right place to get those legal restrictions changed, and if you need something that helps catch the bad guys but makes it easier on the health care providers, we would be glad to oblige.

one of the problems that they are having is, they feel like these independent contractors are taking the money and saying wait a minute, we are not going to release this unless you go through the process, push it to the end, and then if…

if we can't get it straightened out, we may have to look at a different system because that is not fair to the medical providers.