Ron Kind

How much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

In response. To my good friend in Minnesota, my average dairy herd size in western Wisconsin is 125 cows. I don't have the mega-dairy operations and that. So we'll have plenty of time to debate the federally run supply management program…

At this time I'd like to yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), a champion for family farmers and for the nutrition program in the farm bill. Ms. DeLAURO. I rise in support of this amendment, strong support of…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: In title XI, insert after the title heading the following: Subtitle A--In General At the end of title XI…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Wisconsin will be postponed. Amendment No. 48 Offered by Mr. Carney The Acting CHAIR. It is…

Let me close by saying that, listen, I understand there's a lot of hard work that goes into the committee in producing a farm bill. I get that. But there are areas of cost savings that we can justify to the American taxpayer without…

I thank my friend from Ohio for yielding me this time. I thought his summary was very accurate on what our amendment would do. What Mr. Gibbs didn't point out, though, is this would also save $12 billion over 10 years by a more fiscally…

I think there is tremendous opportunity to enhance the quality of care in the post-acute-care setting, at a substantial cost savings as well.

I think the average taxpayer back home would be astounded if they knew that because of our unwillingness or inability to reform our own cotton subsidy program within our farm bill, we are now subsidizing Brazil cotton producers to the tune…

We have a problem on our hands, and hopefully this Committee will be able to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to fix it.

if at the end of the day all we are doing is talking about cost shifting, that is not the path forward because that is not the reform that we need to create the right incentives to get better value at a better price within the healthcare…

if time is of the essence, I don't know why we are repealing the Affordable Care Act 37 times and then trying to move forward on a plan that does nothing for the next 10 years.

I hope this is the first of many more hearings that we can do to explore avenues of bipartisan cooperation on reforming a healthcare system that is in desperate need of reform.

There are tools in the Affordable Care Act right now to drive the system in that direction, including payment reform.

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time, and I, too, rise in opposition to the Pay China First Act. Madam Speaker, I, for the life of me, do not understand why we are even seriously considering this legislation which would call for…

I urge you to support this common sense, good governance bill, and I thank you for holding this hearing.

I think there will be great resistance with current Medicare beneficiaries for any increased cost sharing that might be asked of them.

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, the legislation before us today solves no problems. In fact, it just maintains the great uncertainty hanging over the U.S. and the global economy--whether or not we're going to…

We need a long-term, bipartisan deficit reduction agreement in this place that is comprehensive and that will get our fiscal house in order.

I really don't understand the argument for holding the debt ceiling hostage and jeopardizing the full faith and credit...

I want to thank my good friend, the gentleman from California, for his support of H.R. 1845, in particular, the SMART Act, and congratulate him, as well, on his distinguished career since he will be retiring at the end of this session of…

I have no further speakers. I encourage my colleagues to support H.R. 1845, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I yield such time as he may consume to my very good friend, the gentleman from New Jersey, one of the leaders in the Energy and Commerce Committee, Mr. Pallone.

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. I want to first commend the chairman and the ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, Mr. Camp and Mr. Levin, for the work they did in getting this legislation to the floor. I rise in…

Something that is not available to us until we're able to move this legislation here today. Now, as was pointed out earlier, Governor Romney indicated that Russia, in his view, is America's greatest geostrategic adversary in the 21st…