This is a chance for people to decide whether they stand for patients or whether they stand for the profiteering of health insurance monopolies, whether they stand for competition or for collusion. This is a victory for common sense in the…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for giving us this time tonight to talk about the important issue of health care reform and, specifically, about a simple idea on which we believe folks across the political spectrum should be able to agree, which…

This is a year when there's a lot of demand for bipartisanship. And bipartisanship is a wonderful thing. We already have bipartisan support for this bill. Now, bipartisanship can't be defined by those who want to hold Congress hostage and…

One of the things I hear so often back home is why should there be one set of rules for the people who write checks to politicians and another set of rules for our businesses back home who are working so hard just to keep people employed…

We can make a difference tomorrow. We can make a difference in forcing competition in the health care market. We can also make a difference in starting to restore some of the trust in this body and in Washington. People across this country…

I think one of the reasons why Ms. Markey and I have enjoyed working on this bill together so much is that we both are home in our districts every weekend. We have done a lot of town hall meetings. We have done a lot of roundtables with…

As my coauthor from Colorado mentions, this isn't about being anti-insurance. This is being pro-competition and pro-consumer. It is well past time to put the patient first in the health care system. We heard during the last hour some of…

Before I turn it over to the gentleman from California, I just want to say I'm new to Washington and I understand that it's a city where a lot of things are gray rather than black and white, but this is a bill that really seems to me like…

Not to jump to the end of that story, but before we go on, I do believe when you instituted those reforms in your State, the premium rates increased at one-fifth, one-tenth of the rate of the rest of the country; is that correct?

I will take the challenge from the gentleman from Ohio and remind him of the recent NCAA soccer championship in which I believe the University of Virginia beat a team from your State, a very good team from your State.

Thank you. And before I go to the gentleman from Ohio, I think it is important to note how serious fiscal responsibility is and how serious it is for those of us, frankly, who are some of the younger Members of this body who understand…

We stand here in the midst of a tremendous economic crisis. What we hear when we go home every weekend is the pain of people who have lost their jobs, the fear of those who think they might be next, the confusion and frustration of having…

I do just want you to be warned that that challenge may not work out well for your State. I think what we're talking about here is this issue: We cannot speculate our way to economic recovery. Sometimes when I'm meeting with the folks in…

What the gentleman talks about here is so important. We have to have the courage at this moment not just to think about how we survive the next quarter, but how do we thrive in the next quarter of a century, How do we compete again. And…

Well, it is interesting that you mention the importance of this because really, again, what we're doing is voting referees back on the field. We shouldn't be choosing sides as a government, but we should make sure the rules are there. Now…

We can't say enough about how disastrous this decision is, not just for the political system in terms of corruption of the political system, but really a threat to the private sector itself, when the biggest corporations are able to…

One thing I just want to add on that before I move to the gentleman from Colorado is to say anyone who has run a business or a household knows the difference between an expenditure and an investment. Going out to the movies is different…

I think it is important to remember we have got to rebuild jobs in this country that are between $6 an hour and six figures. There still has to be a middle class, a working class in this country. We have to respect those jobs, remember…

The National D-Day Memorial remembers and preserves the lessons and legacy of D-Day, forever memorializing the lives lost on June 6, 1944.

Our servicemembers should not have to worry whether their homes will be foreclosed or their families will be evicted while serving their country overseas.

A right that cannot be enforced is no right at all.

this is the right thing to do. Our troops have earned this.

We have an obligation to help those who have defended our country by giving them the tools they need to rejoin the civilian workforce.

I find it very difficult to understand why brave men and women putting their lives on the line, responding to the country's call would be charged an early termination fee when deployment, not choice, necessitates the cancelation of such…

Mr. Perriello's H.R. 2928 Bill rectifies one of the most glaring omissions of the Post-9/11 GI Bill: supporting benefits for Apprenticeships and On-The-Job Training Programs.