I thank my good friend from Michigan for yielding me this time and for his leadership on this issue. Mr. Speaker, just to address the previous speaker's comments, if you're a small business in America with 50 or fewer employees, you don't…

I thank the ranking member on the Ways and Means Committee for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, in the waning days of the work we were doing to get the Affordable Care Act in shape for consideration before the entire Congress, I wasn't…

While I support the legislation and what it's trying to accomplish here, I still think, following today's debate, there is going to be a lot more work that we're going to have to do in dealing with the other side of the Capitol, with the…

I want to thank the ranking member for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, just to set the record straight, the amendment that was offered by Mr. McDermott at the Rules Committee, and what our Ranking Member Levin and we Democrats in the…

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding me this time. Madam Chair, I rise in opposition to H.R. 5. Two years ago, the Affordable Care Act was passed, and I was a proud supporter of that legislation. Not because I thought it was…

I thank the gentleman. The studies show that one out of every three health care dollars is going to tests, they are going to procedures, they are going to things that don't work. They're not improving health care. And oftentimes, because…

Going south to hook up to the interstate bridge down there is not a viable option. That too is under study for expansion, given the increased traffic load that's going through it today. What this bridge that's being proposed considers is…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, this bridge is in my congressional district. I have been living and breathing this issue for the last 16 years. Mr. Speaker, it's time to build a bridge. This is a bipartisan…

I thank my friend from California for yielding me this time. Madam Chair, I rise in support of the resolution. I do so because I believed at the time when the CLASS Act was inserted in the Affordable Care Act it wasn't a sustainable…

May I inquire, does the majority side have an extra minute that they could spare?

Today I rise in support of H.J. Res. 2, the Balanced Budget Amendment. The Balanced Budget Amendment is now the only check on the last decade Republican fiscal mismanagement. It is a practical solution to the last decade of Republican…

I thank my good friend and colleague from the committee for yielding me this time. Madam Speaker, many of us have been rising throughout the course of the debate today talking about the merits of the three pending trade agreements before…