mr. upton: mr. speaker, at this point i yield to the gentleman from oregon, mr. walden. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for one minute. mr. walden: thank you, mr. chairman. 42.7% of oregon's seniors, that's 200,000 in oregon, nearly 41,000 in my district, were enrolled at the time this law was established in medicare advantage programs. you know, under this bill, under this new law instead care gets whacked by $500 billion and reports indicate one out of two seniors might lose their medicare advantage across the country. look, i want a patient-centered health care system. it's your life, it's your health, you should have the right to choose your doctor and your hospital and make those decisions. we will address with our replacement bill pre-existing conditions, making sure kids who are in college or up to 26 or whatever the age are going to be covered by the insurance. i tell what you, in the law that is on the books today, it drives up the cost of health care,

mr. upton: i might just ask how much extra time we might have been given by mr. kline from minnesota? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 1 1/2 minutes. mr. upton: great. mr. speaker, i would yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. upton: mr. speaker, today we take a step towards compassionate, innovative, and job creating health care. it's ironic we must end something to realize a new beginning. but that's exactly what obamacare has compelled us to do and that's precisely what we will do today. it's time to be honest with the american people. remember the hypocratic oath? first do no more. -- do no harm. obamacare produces the opposite of growth, compassion, and innovation in health care. it destroys jobs, busts budgets, creates an unsustainable set of mandates on individuals, employers, and states. it will stifle innovation and the development of lifesaving medicines t will make health care more expensive not more affordable. mr. speaker, tha

mr. upton. and, gentlemen, let me just say that this legislation has been written and introduced by mr. cantor, the repeal measure, and i've introduced the replace measure in response to a commitment that was made to immediately have an up or down vote on repeal of the health care bill and a very strong commitment that we made to deal with replacing this measure with some of the thoughtful proposals that came forward during debate, many of which are supported by president obama and other democrats as well. so we welcome you here, and whatever remarks you have will be included this their entirety in the record that you have prepared, and we'd welcome summary from you. so why don't we begin with chairman kline. >> thank you, chairman dreier. good morning to you and members of the committee. many new i members and new seats, kind of an exciting day. i appreciate the opportunity to testify in many support of this legislation that reflects the wishes of the american people and repeals the disastrous

mr. upton voted for the bill, and then voted to repeal it. and that's what i did. >> we were here when the bill came up. i can remember looking at it. all right. >> we found out what was in it, like the american people have, and wanted it repealed. >> the thing that has made it so distressing to me is we had no fingerprints, we knew nothing about this bill, which we all know is not true, that we jammed it down the public's throats, which was not true. if you call that a jamming, i don't know what this is. maybe we'll come up with something on our side that will be appropriate to that, thank you very much. >> thank you have,s mrs. slaughter. let me just respond to a couple of comments briefly, and then we'll call on ms. fox. first, this is technically first, this is technically designated as an emergency meeting for the following reason. we took the oath of office less than 24 hours ago. and the minority was informed of this meeting at the beginning of this week, and today is thursday. from my p

mr. upton voted for the bill, and then voted to repeal it. and that's what i did. >> we were here when the bill came up. i can remember looking at it. all right. >> we found out what was in it, like the american people have, and wanted it repealed. >> the thing that has made it so distressing to me is we had no fingerprints, we knew nothing about this bill, which we all know is not true, that we jammed it down the public's throat which was not true. if you call that a jamming, i don't know what this is. maybe we'll come up with something on our side that will be appropriate to that, thank you very much. >> thank you have,s mrs. slaughter. let me just respond to a couple of comments briefly, and then we'll call on ms. fox. first, this is technically first, this is technically designated as an emergency meeting r the following reason. we took the oath of office less than 24 hours ago. and the minority was informed of this meeting at the beginning of this week, and today is thursday. from my persp

mr. upton, do you deem it unreasonable that that measure could go forward, and then the things that you and the resolution, as offered by the chair, could be undertaken? >> well, let me just say particularly, as i look at the very talented and thoughtful members on the energy and commerce committee, many of them who you just cited and i consider as my dear friends, as we look at a bill to replace the repeal of this bill, that that certainly would be considered in the full and open debate before the -- not only the health subcommittee, but the full committee as well. something that i would note did not happen in the passage of the house bill because they skipped the subcommittee. it went directly to the full committee. but i would think that mrs. capps, who's on -- you're on health, right? well, you haven't decided actually. ranking member waxman i don't thk has decided yet who the ranking mmber is or the membership of that subcommittee. and we're in the process of dog that now on the republican

we have before us today mr. upton and mr. klein, the nature of the education and workforce committee. there is been a very strong commitment made by the speaker. i have made up by authoring this legislation -- this resolution that we will insist that the committees proceed with their reaction. we have is the seeking a pre-determined the outcome. but as you see, i have made and we have a record of commitment to ensure that committees adequately address those issues that have come forward. i can say that it's not a press release. this will be resolution passed by the united states representatives as we move forward. and i urge the adoption of h. is benign. if there is no further discussion, the thought occurs. does that favor say aye ko. the supposed no. the eyes have it. the clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] >> the clerk will report the total. [inaudible] and the motion is agreed to. and now we will proceed to consideration of the rules that will allow us to consider both h.r. two as well as h. res nine and the

i want to hold mr. upton: one victim this morning.orwin stoddard but through a close network of friends i've had the opportunity to learn a little bit about dorwin stoddard and he's the one that shielded s wife with his own body, saving her life but losing his own. and he and his wife were having breakfast and decided they wanted to go to the congress on the corner to give gabby encouragement for the new year and the new year in congress, to encourage her. he loved the bible, he loved the scriptures in its simplest and purest form and wanted to live them which is evidence in his life. he's very involved in church work. he ran the benevolence program which lived up to christ's challenge to feed the hungry and clothe the poor. and we know he internalized the scripture because of his last act. of his last act. and i don't know this, but i think i can say without fear of contradiction there were many times he's probably sitting in church waiting for the minister to deliver a sermon on marriage and i'm sure the text was one when it said, h

i want to hold mr. upton: one victim this morning.dard but through a close network of friends i've had the opportunity to learn a little bit about dorwin stoddard and he's the one that shielded his wife with his own body, saving her life but losing his own. and he and his wife were having breakfast and decided they wanted to go to the congress on the corner to give gabby encouragement for the new year and the new year in congress, to encourage her. he loved the bible, he loved the scriptures in its simplest and purest form and wanted to live them which is evidence in his life. he's very involved in church work. he ran the benevolence program which lived up to christ's challenge to feed the hungry and clothe the poor. and we know he internalized the scripture because of his last act. of his last act. and i don't know this, but i think i can say without fear of contradiction there were many times he's probably sitting in church waiting for the minister to deliver a sermon on marriage and i'm sure the text was one when it said, husband,

i want to hold mr. upton: one victim this morning. i didn't know dorwin stoddard but through a close network of friends i've had the opportunity to learn a little bit about dorwin stoddard and he's the one that shielded his wife with his own body, saving her life but losing his own. and he and his wife were having breakfast and decided they wanted to go to the congress on the corner to give gabby encouragement for the new year and the new year in congress, to encourage her. he loved the bible, he loved the scriptures in its simplest and purest form and wanted to live them which is evidence in his life. he's very involved in church work. he ran the benevolence program which lived up to christ's challenge to feed the hungry and clothe the poor. and we know he internalized the scripture because of his last act. of his last act. and i don't know this, but i think i can say without fear of contradiction there were many times he's probably sitting in church waiting for the minister to deliver a sermon on marriage and i'm sure the text was o

i want to hold mr. upton: one victim this morning. i didn't know dorwin stoddard but through a close network of friends i've had the opportunity to learn a ltle bit out dorw stoddard and he's the one that shielded his wife with his own body, saving her life but losing his own. and he andis wife were having breakfast and decided they wanted to go to the congress on the corner to give gabby encouragement for the new year and the new year in congress, to encourage her. he loved the bible, he loved the scriptures in its simplest and purest form and wanted to live them which is evidence in his life. he's very involved in church work. he ran the benevolence program which lived up to christ's challenge to feed the hungry and clothe the poor. and we know he internalized the scripture because of his last act. of his last act. and i don't know this, but i think i can say without fear of contradiction the were many times he's probably sitting in church waiting for the minister to deliver a sermon on marriage and i'm sure the text was one when it

you on the energy and commerce committee, where i'm a senior member, i have encouraged chairman upton, mr. whitfield, mr. stearns and mr. shimkus to hold hearings and bring witnesses on both sides from texas, bring our friends from the e.p.a. both up here and dallas, come down, come up, and let's put the facts on the table and see what laws, if any, need to be changed. i'm already a co-sponsor of a bill that would make it explicit that co-2 is not a regulated pollute ant under the clean air act and should not be. i'm not saying that we may not need to issue a standard on co-2 if it is proven it is a harm to public health. but until that time, it should not be regulated under the clean air act. it was never intended to be and we think the e.p.a. is wrong to keep insisting it should be. i thank you, judge, and thank you, judge, for this special order and glad to participate. mr. carter: reclaiming my time. i thank you, mr. barton, for coming here to talk about this. you have been dedicating your life for these issues in congress. i always wonder, sometimes people back at home are saying, so

upton of the great state of michigan. [applause] he has a lot on his plate not the least of which includes the portfolio energy so we look forward to working with you, mr. chairman. i'm going to introduce the consumers. we have a very diverse head table to become a first former governor bill graves of the great state of kansas who is currently the president ceo of american trucking association. [applause] next to him as tom gibb said the friend and currently president ceo of the american odierno and steel institute a very intensive institute. thanks for being here. as shall be mentioned during my spare time working in the house and the senate i was privileged to attend an esteemed institution here in town called the george washington university and i have the privilege now to co-chair the council on political affairs, a graduate school of political management and employees to welcome the president of the george washington university thank you for being here today. [applause] a new found trend that we've become close and a relatively short period of time is the president of the building construction trade of the afl-cio about a year ago, a little over a