degette, lisa from ms. degette's office. nate from mr. green's office. joe from mr. matheson's office. karen and rachel, all of these people played an essential role in getting this bill through. i want to single out mr. griffin who introduced the bill in the house, along with ms. degette and mr. green. this served as a foundation for the compounding debate. mr. matheson, mr. latta introduced the house track and trace bill. everybody didn't get what they wanted. this bill is a compromise. this institution has to reach compromises to get things done. we cannot have every issue litigated and relitigated. once the law is settled, we must go on. and i am chagrinned that we are likely to close the government because on the other side of the aisle the leadership in this house wants to keep the fight going on the affordable care act. it is the law, it is a firm -- it has been affirmed by the courts, it's about to be put in place. we should work together to solve our country's problems, not make them worse. by failing to compromise and work with each other. i yield back the

degette: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlelady for yielding. as you can tell, not just from what everybody from our congressional delegation has said, but also from the many, many news reports that we have seen in the last week. this flood really was one of the worst floods in colorado's history. i'm a fourth generation coloradoan and i remember some of the previous ones. the flood in 1965 when i was a little girl, the terrible platte river flood that flooded cherry creek. . my home was right by there and we had flood damage. and the tragic big thompson flood where many, many people were killed. this is what happens to us in the west sometimes, but it really was a 500-year flood or worse. and i guess we feel terrible for the eight coloradoans who have died, many are still unaccounted for and we pay for all of them that they may be safe and that they may be -- that their homes may be preserved by the time the snow flies, which is any minute now. on september 15, president obama issued a major disaster declaration for colorado ordering federal ai

representative degette for yielding to me to make a statement. oversight is important, but the affordable care act oversight of the last three years has not been to a mite the committee or improve the lot. it appears to be part of the efforts by the republican party to age in partisan attacks on this blog and if they could do it, even sabotaged the affordable care act. i released a report last month highlighted the unprecedented republican campaign to undermine the law. 41 repeal votes, refusals to expand medicaid for about middle income americans and the imminent threat to shut down the entire federal government or force the catastrophic government default if the law is not repealed. there is no legitimate purpose served by the letters to 51 navigators who are community groups, food banks, community health providers and many similar not political organizations passed with trying to help inform the public about the affordable care act benefits. this request was ill-timed and a serious mistake and i find it amazing to hear the chairman talk about

>> guest: they talk about the relationship of julian simon degette when he went for the than other economists in the way that he talked about population growth we have more people that can be living and lives and that was the part of most economists would be willing to go. but his basic critique of the idea of the limits to growth - is widely shared in the heart of the economics profession and the human activity, the role of markets to adjust to the problems and i think that there was a lot of criticism going back to the early 70's. who can focus on the problems for the sulfur dioxide emission and legislation that around that if we are focused on the shopocalypse being declared by the computers making forecasts in the book led to growth. so i think summer's fits within that school of thought. and it's clearly skeptical of many environmental claims in terms of what they are going to -- how things are going to play out. but like many other economists like i don't know who the specific policy position but many economists favor the carbon taxes into the cost of doing business so in that sense aga

degette, and matheson for their work as well. additional one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. upton: i also want to thank chairman harkin and chairman alexander for their leadership. i talked with him a number of homes over the last number of weeks. waint to thank our staff on both ides, particularly our side. it is because of their collaborative and tireless efforts that we are near the resolution of last year's deadly outbreak. and their work is to be applauded. to all the families who have lost loved ones and those still suffering today, i talked to someone whose relative is still suffering within the last hour, we are near the resolution of last year's deadly outbreak. so let's say to those families and to those who lost loved ones and those still suffering today, with this bill we are going to say never again. so i urge my colleagues to support the bill. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. waxman: i yield myself three mi

this is of important implications for the ttip degette i won't go into the details for the benefit of time. third, for all of the criticism that we may direct to the turkish government, the prime minister as well as the foreign minister by the lead to thousand's, they had a clear vision about what they wanted to achieve in the least in terms of economic and regional integration and liberalization. he had a middle east where it would be a bit like in europe the free movement of goods and people from the most eastern city to the atlantic ocean. however, that as you are all aware has turned sour. last, with obama coming to power and then his famous visit at an early stage of his last term, the model partnership with the launch one of its important legs being improving economic relations and in that context, the framework for economic and commercial cooperation was set up. against this background what is at stake? and this is the impact of a study of what the impact of ttip will be on the countries participating in ttip and on third countries that come up. these are still at the prelimina

mortgage interest rate, all of the difference attended to -- intended to promote home ownership to degettes barney said you can't have too much of a good thing. a residential home prices tended to go up in the united states so all the models people looked at didn't foresee a big drop in residential mortgages. if you are an investor and you owned a residential mortgage, the biggest risk wasn't historical you wouldn't get your money back. was he wouldn't get it back too soon. the other thing i would like to say that disappointed me in terms of dodd-frank and the way that was watered down, the regulators allowed this exception if the mortgage was a qualified mortgage and the new consumer finance protection bureau originally had regulations that said the wire had to be able to afford the home and put 20% down. there is a huge resistance. so, the affordability is important and the ability to pay and willingness to pay is also important. and the only way you get the willingness to pay is the 20% down. so even on that there is no consumer finance protection bureau to my judgment to the political

biggest victim, can't look the other way in the context of its values and the weapons to get sali degette helps them on the margin to make the case and removes the argument from the opponent that we are hypocrites. so that's what i would be advocating. i don't know if it will happen or not. last but not least, i hope and i suspect that the administration is thinking about that after planning for syria not just in terms of how to use the strike on the diplomacy in syria but how to minimize the collateral damage of the strike on the iran diplomatic track and potentially even leverage the strike to have some conversations with the iranian on a whole host of issues. i don't know that is happening but i hope they are and think they should. >> on the u.n. involvement i think i see the two potential roles. certainly on the u.n. security council should strengthen the sanctions. i talked about illicit goods. more needs to be done to make it harder for iran to buy the goods it needs for its nuclear program. and maybe in the distant future year, will be able to go out and buy these things like what

. >> good morning chairman, ranking member diana degette and members and look forward to discussing the work of the affordable care act of putting the navigator program. as we approach the beginning of open enrollment, cms and all of our partners across the country are focused on helping people sign up for affordable health care coverage that begins on january 1st. we are already seeing competition works. the creation of new marketplaces encouraging insurers to offer plans at competitive rates. as a result in the 16 states the rates are less expensive than the cbo projected. states are using their improved powers to help keep the rates affordable. and according to recent estimates as the congresswoman mentioned many consumers may be a bill to pay $100 or less per person per month for coverage in 2014. when open enrollment begins october 1st, it is one more step towards putting in place one of the core promises of the affordable care act. affordable and accessible coverage that begins next year. we are working to ensure consumers have the information they need about their coverage option