mr. burgess: mr. speaker, for the purposes of debate only, i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from new york, ms. slaughter, 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 the purpose of debate only. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks . the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. burgess: mr. speaker, house resolution 530 provides for consideration of a critical piece of legislation passed out of the ways and means committee and designed to address a critical flaw in the affordable care act, which is causing workers to lose hours at their job and thus lose wages to help put food on their tables and feed their families, pay their utility bills to heat their homes in the winter, cool their homes in the summer. h.r. 2575, the bipartisan save american workers act

mr. burgess: yield myself maint. mr. speaker, this bill was brought to the floor under suspension of the rules prior to the easter recess. so it has been available. it has been available for consideration for staff work to occur for some period of time. the fact of the matter is that it is a problem facing people who are working outside of the country, and for that reason it was important to get it solved. if the gentleman feels more work should have been done prior to that time, perhaps they should have worked with the majority prior to it being brought up under suspension. i don't know the answer to that, but i do know where we are today is that this is a problem that needs to be fixed and the republican majority is seeing to it that it is fixed, bringing it to the floor under a rule. the democrats will have -- minority will have an opportunity to amend during a motion to recommit and look forward to a lively discussion during that time. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves.

mr. burgess: i rise today to remember ray hutchison, husband to our colleague, former senator kay bailey hutchison a great texan and even better friend. through his work in developing nearly every public works project in our area, he's least lasting mark on the north texas community. he was a driving force in creating dallas-fort worth airport, one of the largest airports in the country today, as well as dwhoping dallas area rapid transit system. he also contributed to several professional sporting areas, we can thank him for moving the washington senators to texas and giving us the texas rangers. his accomplishments are too great to list in one minute but i'm proud to have known him. on behalf of the texas delegation i offer my sincerest condolences to former senator hutchison and her children, bailey and houston. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> last week, i signed on

mr. burgess: mr. speaker, i rise to ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. burgess: mr. speaker, just late last week there was a news story that healthcare.gov was still not finished, the back end portion, the part that deals with payments to doctors and hospitals still has not been constructed. it was odd just because the week before the president held a press conference down at the white house and said mission, accomplished, everything we wanted to do has been done. how do you reconcile these discrepancies and what is in fact the timeline for this to be accomplished? mission, accomplished. i wonder if the patients, the doctors and the hospitals who are going to end up ones on the hook for these payments that are not going to be received, i wonder if they feel the same way? i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. f

mr. burgess: mook, i send to the desk -- mr. speaker, i send to the desk a privileged report for committee on the rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 530, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 2575, to amend the internal revenue code of 1986, to repeal the 30-hour threshold for classification as a full-time employee for purposes of the employer mandate and the patient protection and affordable care act and replace it with 40 hours. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, by direction. democratic caucus, i offer a privilegeds remainlusion -- direction of the democratic caucus, i offer a privileged resolution. the clerk: house resolution 531, resolved that the following named members be and are hereby elected to the following standing committees of the house of representatives. one, committe

mr. neugebauer: the gentleman from texas, dr. burgess, is ecognized for three minutes. i recognize the gentleman from from houston texas for three minutes. mr. olson: i thank my colleague from lubbock for hosting this special order. to celebrate another texan from lubbock, good friend from kent. we became friends in 1998. i was working at the time for united states senator phil gramm. we talked about kent's achievements, i would like to pull back the curtain and show the real kent hance. he joined us on november 14, 1942. e is now 71 years young. -- re kent was born, he was he worked at several places. kent went to different high .chools, graduating in 1961 -- went to dement high school, dwradge waiting in 1961. they have two mascots, the bobcats for the boys and the bobbies for the girls. ent and his best buddy, spider spent a lot of time at the carlisle theater trying to find the love of their lives. spider found his love in corpus hristi, texas. kent met his true love suzy they both were lawyers. they worked hard and they played hard. and they loved races at the track

mr. chairman. >> we'll ask members for several to submit for the record. we recognize the vice chair dr. burgess for five minutes. >> thank the witness for spending so much time with us this afternoon. you mentioned, ms. barra, that over a decade ago general motors embarked upon a small car program. do you recall why that was? >> i'm sorry? >> why did they embark upon a small car program over a decade ago? >> to have a complete portfolio, i believe. >> the but the remission or type of car that was manufactured by gm previously had not fit that model, it was an entirely new business line that g mx was undertaking? >> the cobalt and several cars but specifically about the cobalt, it was following a previous small car but it was an all new program architecture, et cetera. >> was any part of this done in -- because of the cafe standards that were changing? any of this done because of congressional action that occurred previously? >> i can't answer that question. i wasn't in decision-making at that point. >> let me ask you this, when mr. waxman was giving his opening statement he said it was a shame

mr. chairman. >> we'll be asking members for several questions do s-- to submit to gm. >> dr. burgess. >> thank the chairman and the witness for spending so much time with us this afternoon. you mentioned, miss barra, that over a decade ago general motors embarked upon a small car program. do you recall why that was? >> snii'm sorry? >> why did gm embark on a small car program? >> to have a complete portfolio, i believe. >> but the mission or the type of car that was manufactured by gm previously had not filt fit that model, so this was an entirely new business line that gm was undertaking? >> the cobalt -- there are several products but if you're speaking specifically about the cobalt, it was following a previous small car but it was an all-new program architecture, et cetera. >> was any part of this done because of the cafe standards that were changing? was any of this done because of congressional action that had occurred previously? >> i cannot answer that question. i wasn't in a decision making at that point. >> let me ask you this, when mr. waxman was giving his opening statemen

mr. chairman. >> we'll ask members for several to submit for the record. we recognize the vice chair dr. burgess for five minutes. >> thank the witness for spending so much time with us this afternoon. you mentioned, ms. barra, that over a decade ago general motors embarked upon a small car program. do you recall why that was? >> i'm sorry? >> why did they embark upon a small car program over a decade ago? >> to have a complete portfolio, i believe. >> the but the remission or type of car that was manufactured by gm previously had not fit that model, it was an entirely new business line that g mx was undertaking? >> the cobalt and several cars but specifically about the cobalt, it was following a previous small car but it was an all new program architecture, et cetera. >> was any part of this done in -- because of the cafe standards that were changing? any of this done because of congressional action that occurred previously? >> i can't answer that question. i wasn't in decision-making at that point. >> let me ask you this, when mr. waxman was giving his opening statement he said it was a shame