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…

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?

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…