I am very proud of the work we did in this committee to pass the Affordable Care Act because access to affordable health care is an essential pillar of middle-class economic security.

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act puts this Nation on a path to better health.

I believe it is crucially important that our State expand the coverage.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, roughly 17 million American children with preexisting medical conditions can no longer be discriminated against and be denied health insurance by insurance companies. And yet, rather than focus on the key…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for the time. I rise today on behalf of the hardworking middle class families in Wisconsin and across the country who have unfairly been paying at a higher tax rate than multi-millionaires and…

I rise on behalf of the middle class workers in Wisconsin and across the country who have unfairly been paying a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires. Middle class Americans deserve to know that our tax system has not been…

I thank the gentleman for yielding time. Madam Speaker, the bill before us today is entitled the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011. I want to make something very clear. If we were here today voting on a bill that actually stopped…

The scope of H.R. 1179 is broad enough to exclude anything to which an employer decides it is religiously or morally opposed.

This bill would also undo State law and it would completely undermine the Affordable Care Act.

Notably absent from the Republican agenda this year are the issues that the American people really care about--creating jobs and growing our economy. Just when we should be pulling together to work on these issues, instead, Republicans…

I introduced a bipartisan bill called the Critical Care Assessment and Improvement Act with my colleague from Minnesota Erik Paulsen.

I yield myself 15 additional seconds. If we let section 5 stand, it is unclear to me whether a similar company would ever secure the funding that they need to grow. I urge my colleagues to adopt the Baldwin-Sensenbrenner amendment. I…