mr. pallone, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for three minutes. mr. waxman: two. the speaker pro tempore: or three minutes. mr. waxman: three. the speaker pro tempore: for three minutes. the gentleman from new jersey is now recognized for three minutes. mr. pallone: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you, mr. waxman. unfortunately today's bill is a ruse. it claims to make things better but all it does is to make things terribly worse and republicans will hide behind the sound bite and be behind the nice feeling of the title. but what this bill really does is to go back to the old broken health insurance system. this is just another attempt for the g.o.p. to repeal the provisions of the affordable care act. they've made it their mission to push the a.c.a. to failure and the only consequence of this bill is just that. seriously damaging the insurance provisions of the affordable care act and the millions of americans who are expected to benefit from the improved co

mr. pallone: thank you, mr. speaker. republicans are at it again. instead of working together with democrats and agreeing to plan that will actually help improve the affordable care act, they are once again planning another vote to repeal the law. don't buy into the g.o.p. spin that they are offering the solution to address the insurance policies that have not been renewed by insurance companies. the president announced yesterday that he's offering an administrative solution that will allow insurers to continue to renew existing policies. the president has made clear he's willing to work to address the a.c.a.'s challenges, yet republicans are working to destroy it once again. they can try to paint this plan in a different color, call it by a different name, and dress it up any way they like, but don't be fooled. this is just the 46th republican attempt to strip americans of their access to affordable health insurance. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? >> mr. spe

mr. pallone, five minutes for questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. my questions of dr. woodcock, first, welcome back. >> thank you. >> i can guess you've had quite a busy year. and i wanted to start today talking about the new office of generic drugs. i was glad to see the decision fda made last year to elevate the office of generic drugs to a superoffice on equal footing with the office of new drugs within the agency. ask as you know, i introduced a bill last year that included a provision to do just that, and i've long been an advocate for this structural change within fda to enhance the role of the a office of generic drugs. i'd like to ask you, dr. woodcock, whether the office of generic drugs has officially been set up at its new, elevated position, and how is it structured? what kinds of changes have been made, and when do you expect the change to be finalized? >> >> the, um, organizational change has not been finalized, but we're in the final stages of that, and i would hope that it would occur very soon. be what it will do is recognize the fact that generic medi

mr. pallone, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for three minutes. mr. waxman: two. the speaker pro tempore: or three minutes. mr. waxman: three. the speaker pro tempore: for three minutes. the gentleman from new jersey is now recognized for three minutes. mr. pallone: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank you, mr. waxman. unfortunately today's bill is a ruse. it claims to make things better but all it does is to make things terribly worse and republicans will hide behind the sound bite and be behind the nice feeling of the title. but what this bill really does is to go back to the old broken health insurance system. this is just another attempt for the g.o.p. to repeal the provisions of the affordable care act. they've made it their mission to push the a.c.a. to failure and the only consequence of this bill is just that. seriously damaging the insurance provisions of the affordable care act and the millions of americans who are expected to benefit from the improved co

mr. pallone. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i know we're not in kansas but i do believe increasingly we're in oz because of what i see here. this "wizard of oz" comment by my colleague from texas i think is particularly aa pro given what we see on the other side. i don't know how you keep your cool with the gop trying to scare people and bring up red herrings. i'm going to ask you a question about that. before that, i want to say this whole idea brought up today that somehow policies are being canceled and people don't have alternativ alternatives, it's just another red herring. what my colleagues on the other side forget is this is not socialized medicine. this is in fact private insurance in a competitive market. if i'm an insurance company and all of a sudden everyone else is selling a better policy with benefit benefits at a lower price, i can't continue to sell a lousy policy that doesn't provide benefits and cost more because i'll be out of the market so that's what's happening here. insurance companies are canceling lous

mrs. mcmorris rodgers and representatives waxman and pallone for their leadership in this effort. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania yields back. the gentleman from michigan reserves. the gentlewoman from california. mrs. capps: i continue to reserve. mr. upton: i would yield two minutes to a leading advocate of mrs. gislation, ms. mcmorris rodgers, the chairman of the republican conference. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: i rise in strong support of the preemie re-authorization act. every three minutes, somewhere in the world, a child is diagnosed with cancer. in the united states, approximately 150,000 children have diabetes. i believe that medical research is the best investment we can make to change these statistics and find new cures for these diseases. working with my colleague from california, representative capps, we introduced the national eed at trick network research act which is included in the preemie re-authorization act. in supporting the legislation, the coalition for pediatric research which includes the children's hospital in seattle sai