dr. roe, mr. speaker, just said that the doctor-patient relationship, the provider-patient relationship, be that provider an advanced practice nurse or psychologist or physician or even the hospitals of course are huge providers of health care, and who should be -- we be concerned with as members of congress? well, it's those 700,000 people that each of us represent all across this country and that doctor-patient, provider-patient relationship that is most important. cost of course is important, but first and foremost is the sanctity of that care. and that's exactly what dr. roe is speaking of, mr. speaker, and why it's so important that we do vote to pass his bill and we do it as quickly as possible to repeal this very bad decision. in fact, mr. speaker, back i think in december of 2009, almost two years ago, our colleague on the other side of the aisle, a senior member of the appropriations committee, the gentleman from massachusetts , richard neal, authored a letter that many of us in a biparti

nugent: i yield three minutes to my colleague, dr. roe from tennessee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. roe: i thank the gentleman, i thank the speaker. i rise in support of h.r. 3, the no taxpayer funding abortion act. i'm a proud co-sponsor of this legislation and as an on city trigs and gynecologist, i've delivered nearly 5,000 babies and i strongly support the sanctity of life. i believe life is a precious gift from god, it begins at conception. i've seen human development occur from the earliest sames of a small fetus all the way through birth, that the magic of the heart beat at 26 to 28 days post-conception is indescribable. this strengthens my quicks of the right to life. since 1976 until the passage of president obama's health care reform law, congress prevented taxpayer funding for abortion. unless it's excluded from plans is torically mandated. that's why the language in h.r. 3 is so important and necessary. it explicitly states that taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund abortion. abortion is not

i have to say that i'm also glad to see we have dr. roe here who has over the past couple of years regailed us in the rules committee of the failures of massive, even state government involvement in health care and the dramatic increases in costs he's seen in his state of tennessee because of the so-called tenncare program. i know we look forward to hearing from him later. let me respond, as the author of h.res. 9, to the comments that my friend from boulder has just offered, mr. speaker. . first, i want to say that the measures before us are all about job creation and economic growth, improving health care and improving education. all three of the things that my friend from boulder indicated he doesn't believe that we are successfully addressing here. second, i have to say that as we look at the litany of those 13 items, included within h.res. 9, mark my words, the committees of jurisdiction are already working on those priority items. i believe that the purchase health insurance across state lines needs to be a very high priority as we w