mr. burgess: mr. speaker, by the direction of the committee on rules, i call up house resolution 413 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 73, house resolution 413. resolved, that upon adoption of this resolution, it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill, h.r. 3350, to authorize health insurance issuers to continue to offer for sale current individual health insurance coverage in satisfaction of minimum essential health insurance coverage requirement, and for other purposes. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. the bill shall be considered as read. all points of order against provisions in the bill are waived. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and on any amendment thereto to final passage without intervening motion except, one, one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committ

mr. burgess: mr. speaker, i yield myself one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. burgess: mr. speaker, that evening in march of 2010 when the senate bill was finally going to be considered by the house, there was a meeting of the rules committee that night, democrats were in charge, i presented myself to that meeting with 18 amendments to senate bill h.r. 3590. house bill 3590 that had been passed by the senate. every one of those was summarily rejected. the problem the democrats had that day was should we change a single word in h.r. 3590 as passed by the senate that the bill would have to go back to the senate and concur with the house amendment to 3590? the majority leader in the senate having lost his 60th vote in a special election in massachusetts that year, felt he could not pass anything. he could not achieve cloture with only 59 democrats to vote in favor of that motion for cloture. that's the reason why not one word was changed between christmas eve 2009 and the

mr. burgess: i thank the speaker. for the purposes of debate only i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. burgess: during consideration of this resolution all time yielded is for purposes of debate only. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. burgess: house resolution 420 provides for the consideration of a critical piece of legislation that was passed by the committee on energy and commerce designed to address the costly and unnecessary delays which many businesses experience when trying to get a final determination to be made by the federal government in relation to a pending pipeline. member a member of the committee, mr. pompeo of kansas, the bill's author, has drafted a meaningful piece of legislation taking into account v

mr. burgess: you know, mr. speaker, it was a little over a year ago, the american people went to the polls and in their wisdom, they elected divided government. they knew what divided government looked like. they had seen it for the two years prior. the president came to town in 2009 and promised a lot of sweeping changes and he delivered on those sweeping changes during the first two years of his administration. had a health care bill passed. health care bill passed without a single republican vote. you talk about a partisan vote. the patient protection and affordable care act was a partisan vote and unfortunately, we're seeing now, as we have convulsed the country with these changes that are occurring within the insurance system, we see the changes that are going to occur to our providers, our doctors, our hospitals, our nurses in the months ahead, this is a serious situation and it requires serious action be taken. i won't apologize for any action that's been taken by the majority in this house to try to rei

mr. burgess: mr. speaker, i yield myself one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. burgess: mr. speaker, that evening in march of 2010 when the senate bill was finally going to be considered by the

mr. burgess: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to rise to aaddress the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. burgess: mr. speaker, last week i asked the question, what does it take, what does it take for someone to get fired by this administration? we are faced with the serial incompetence of the rollout of the healthcare.gov website. well, then late last week someone was fired. but not for incompetence but for daring to criticize the administration. the district of columbia insurance commissioner, william white, criticized the president's ruling on allowing people to keep their insurance. the next day, commissioner white was fired for being public in his criticism of the administration. well, if the president is so eager to see people lose their jobs over the problems with the -- with his health insurance takeover, i've got some suggestions on where he could start. what about the directo

mr. burgess: i thank the chairman for yield. this bill is a commonsense olicy, it's going to remove -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentlelady from california. mrs. capps: all right. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to submit letters of support from the following organizations into the record, the children's hospital association, the coalition for pediatric medical research, fight s.m.a., the humane society of the united states, the march of dimes and a joint letter from several health professional and public health organizations. so mr. speaker -- thank you. so mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this important package of public health legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from michigan. mr. upton: mr. speaker, i would just say that every one of us has beautiful children in our districts. this bill is going to save lives. it has been bipartisan from the get-go. again, i want to commend republicans

mr. chairman, i yield back. >> dr. burgess. >> mr. chairman, i wonder if i may make a unanimous consent request also? >> yes, go ahead. >> i would like to request unanimous consent my opening statement, which we were not allowed to be given could be made part of the record to this hearing. >> no objection. >> further, i do have a number of questions, many have come from constituents, i would also like to submit those for the record and ask the secretary for her attention to those so we can get answers, because they are, after all, important questions. okay, thank you, mr. chairman. it just came to my attention that on cnn, the cnn's website, that the site was hacked just last week, and i will be happy to make this available to you. i don't think -- >> the cnn website? >> the cnn website? >> cnn ran a story that the healthcare.gov website was hacked last week. i would appreciate your response to that. mr. terry asked a question about he wanted to get the information about the number of people that signed up. you said you wouldn't provi

mr. chairman, i yield back. >> dr. burgess. >> mr.chairman, i wonder if i may make a unanimous consent request also? >> yes, go ahead. >> i would like to request unanimous consent my opening statement, which we were not allowed to be given could be made part of the record to this hearing. >> no objection. >> further, i do have a number of questions, many have come from constituents, i would also like to submit those for the record and ask the secretary for her attention to those so we can get answers, because they are, after all, important questions. okay, thank you, mr. chairman. it just came to my attention that on cnn, the cnn's website, that the site was hacked just last week, and i will be happy to make this available to you. i don't think -- >> the cnn website? >> the cnn website? >> cnn ran a story that the healthcare.gov website was hacked last week. i would appreciate your response to that. mr. terry asked a question about he wanted to get the information about the number of people that signed up. you said you wouldn't provid