mr. burgess. mr. burgess: i would remind the gentleman, the ranking member from new jersey in our committee hearing earlier this year, we heard from the governor of utah, who had been setting up a state exchange prior to the passage of the affordable care act and now was left with an uncomfortable situation where it was ruled unconstitutional by two district courts, he's waived what happened to the court system. as he told us in committee, i'm walking on shifting sands, i no longer know where to go, the passage of the affordable care act has made my life infinitely harder. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. lance. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey. mr. lance: i rise in support of h.r. 1213. we currently have a debt in this country of $42 trillion and it's rising rapidly. the annual deficit will be $1.65 trillion, the largest percentage of gross domestic product since 1965. current levels of federal spending are uh sustainable. we cannot continue on this fissdal path we hav

mr. burgess: mr. chairman, i'll tell you what's not rational, it's not agsal to spend this money and say you're prohibited from providing care. let's be honest, the money for construction was do you plick tif. it was offered up in the stimulus bill previously so we are duplicating a previous expenditure in forward advancing, advance funding in the patient protection and affordable care act. that is what doesn't make sense. previous speaker on the democratic side called me mindless. that's mindless. was mindless to pass this bill over the objections of the american people to not listen to the voices of the people that were literally ringed around this capitol a year ago that said kill this bill. now we have a chance to bring back a little bit of spending, to bring back into the arena in which it belongs which is the united states house of representatives, the people's house. the mandatory spending was not in the bill that passed this house in november of 2009. this language was put in by the united sta

mr. burgess: i withdraw the point of order. the speaker pro tempore: the reservation is withdrawn an the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. burgess: i thank the speaker for the recognition. it's an interesting little motion to recommit, described as being benign and not changing the overall nature of the underlying legislation. so benign is the motion -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspen. mr. burgess: it descends into the realm of being superfluous and unnecessary. it's a motion to recommit to publish the names and low cages of applicants who will not receive grants. from this, we won't know if those grants not approved were simply poorly drafted. we have a health care law that was poorly drafted so we know it is within the realm of someone working in the federal government to poorly draft an application for a school-based clinic. washington's addiction to spending has become crystal clear to the american people and the passage of this massive health care law by president obama last year is exhibit a

mr. burgess: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. burgess: if we are going to tell stories here let's start out with once upon a time and end with, they lived happily ever after. is it the responsible republican plan that was debated on this floor for hours. this was a plan, the first time we had ld out a pathway for how to save medicare for people who are going into the program in 20 years, 30 years time. now, wha is the plan on the other side? well, there was no plan fr house democrats. there is no plan from the senate democrats. there is a plan from the president. the president laid out his aspirational budget like the republicans laid out their program, which was their budget and the president's apirational document laid out a clear path. the president believes in 15 people, not elected by anyone, but appointed by him and their ability to control costs in the medicare system. it was written into a bill called the patient protection affordable care act. i have a great deal of sympathy with those on the other side who don't like the

mr. burgess: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. burgess: if we are going to tell stories here let's start out with once upon a time and end with, they lived happily ever after. is it the responsible republican plan that was debated on this floor for hours. this was a plan, the first time we had laid out a pathway for how to save medicare for people who are going into the program in 20 years, 30 years time. now, what is the plan on the other side? well, there was no plan from house democrats. there is no plan from the senate democrats. there is a plan from the president. the president laid out his aspirational budget like the republicans laid out their program, which was their budget and the president's aspirational document laid out a clear path. the president believes in 15 people, not elected by anyone, but appointed by him and their ability to control costs in the medicare system. it was written into a bill called the patient protection affordable care act. i have a great deal of sympathy with those on the other side who don't li

mr. burgess: i thank the speaker. many people didn't notice that a little over three weeks ago that medicare trustees report came out and advised that the medicare program would be in serious difficulty in the year 2023. now, you might ask what is congress doing about this? we have well over 10 years to react. the republican budget that was passed a few weeks ago did indeed lay out a pathway for dealing with the problems in the future, unfortunately the democratic leadership in the other body has decided not to take up any type of road map or pathway that may lead to a resolution of this problem. so we are left with the program that was essentially laid out by the president in the affordable care act. and this program relies heavily upon a group called the independent payment advisory board. 15 people not elected but appointed by the president, well paid, to sit on a board and to deliver to congress every year a menu of cuts and the amount of money medicare may spend. congress, true enough, has the ability to accept o

mr. burgess: thank you mr. speaker. the patient protection affordable care act build billed as a health care bill is a tax bill. it's riddled with fees and penalty that is will drive up the cost of health care by imposing taxes on families and businesses. included in the law was a tax increase on nonmedical expenditures from a health savings account. there's always been a 10% penalty now it jumps to 20%. in addition beginning next years employers that have 50 full-time employees for the previous calendar year must offer health coverage that meets the minimum essential benefit coverage requirement of the secretary of health and human services and that coverage requirement is likely to cost $52 billion over the next 10 years. hardly the way to foster job creation in an economy that desperately needs jobs. the individual mandate starts out as attacks then a penalty, now back to a tax again. the administration creatively changed its position when it realized that the mandate was indeed a tax even though it violated the pres

burgess? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. hall, commissioner hall, always good to see.od to start the month off with commissioner hall. i do want to talk about why the u.s. economy is not recovered in some of the steps we can take to bring the economy back. i'd like to should offer as an exampl the state with mr. brady lives and where i live, texas, as a good example of the direction where we would like should head to the rate in texas is a .1%, certainly below the national average. certainlmuch higher than we would like you to be in the state of texas, but nevertheless the texas economy has performed better than any other state because of, why? a job from the radar machine, no state income taxes, and the fact that texas is a right to work state. as of march annual job growth in texas was 3.6% compared with u.s. growth job rate of 2%. the dallas offense has unemployment rate in texas wld be even lower except for the fact that texas has had a rabbit population increase in the last 10 years, of which we are all aware. we also accounted for 14% of the united states employm

burgess? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. hall, commissioner hall, always good to see.ays good to start the month off with commissioner hall. i do want to talk about why the u.s. economy is not recovered in some of the steps we can take to bring the economy back. i'd like to should offer as an example the state with mr. brady lives and where i live, texas, as a good example of the direction where we would like should head to the rate in texas is a .1%, certainly below the national average. certainly much higher than we would like you to be in the state of texas, but nevertheless the texas economy has performed better than any other state because of, why? a job from the radar machine, no state income taxes, and the fact that texas is a right to work state. as of march annual job growth in texas was 3.6% compared with u.s. growth job rate of 2%. the dallas offense has unemployment rate in texas would be even lower except for the fact that texas has had a rabbit population increase in the last 10 years, of which we are all aware. we also accounted for 14% of the united sta

burgess? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. hall, commissioner hall, always good to see. always good to start the month off with commissioner hall. i do want to talk about why the u.s. economy is not recovered in some of the steps we can take to bring the economy back. i'd like to should offer as an example the state with mr. brady lives and where i live, texas, as a good example of the direction where we would like should head to the rate in texas is a .1%, certainly below the national average. certainly much higher than we would like you to be in the state of texas, but nevertheless the texas economy has performed better than any other state because of, why? a job from the radar machine, no state income taxes, and the fact that texas is a right to work state. as of march annual job growth in texas was 3.6% compared with u.s. growth job rate of 2%. the dallas offense has unemployment rate in texas would be even lower except for the fact that texas has had a rabbit population increase in the last 10 years, of which we are all aware. we also accounted for 14% of the united

burgess? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. hall, commissioner hall, always good to see.lways good to start the month off with commissioner hall. i do want to talk about why the u.s. economy is not recovered in some of the steps we can take to bring the economy back. i'd like to should offer as an example the state with mr. brady lives and where i live, texas, as a good example of the direction where we would like should head to the rate in texas is a .1%, certainly below the national average. certainly much higher than we would like you to be in the state of texas, but nevertheless the texas economy has performed better than any other state because of, why? a job from the radar machine, no state income taxes, and the fact that texas is a right to work state. as of march annual job growth in texas was 3.6% compared with u.s. growth job rate of 2%. the dallas offense has unemployment rate in texas would be even lower except for the fact that texas has had a rabbit population increase in the last 10 years, of which we are all aware. we also accounted for 14% of the united s