mr. woodall? >> thank you mr. chairman. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today. this was a discussion that i had throughout the past year. and in the spirit of full disclosure i'm a co-sponsor of h.r. 2, a proud co-sponsor. down to the seventh district of georgia, before march 30 of 2010 we used to talk about solutions. we were talking about health care costs rising as they have been over decades. we were talking about health care access and talking about some soft solutions that republicans put in place in 1996 at the federal level for federal plans. but the moment obama care passed on march 30, 2010 that discussion stopped. no more were we talking about solutions. we were talking about repeel. my people were so alarmed, so disturbed by the take away of freedom they had, and the increase in tax dollars they were expending, the entire discussion of productive solutions was completely subsumed by this new discussion of repeel and trying to get back to a level of sta cuss quo that we could begin to find stuff from. to that place where we were, whether it be medical

mr. woodall: insurance reform. putting patients back in charge of those decisions. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern:00 madam speaker -- mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i yield myself 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i think our objection is not with the idea of having a serious debate on these issues. there are areas we can come together and hopefully make this bill better. our objection is the fact my friends on the other side voted to repeal everything. voted to allow insurance companies to once again discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. i yield 15 seconds. they voted to take away the been fit for senior citizens that we put in there to help try to close the doughnut hole in the prescription drug bill. and what do they do in terms of replacing it? they come not with an alternative a press release. that's not serious legislating. that's politics as usual. madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new

mr. woodall: insurance reform. putting patients back in charge of those decisions. eaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern:00 madam speaker -- mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i yield myself 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i think our objection is not with the idea of having a serious debate on these issues. there are areas we can come together and hopefully make this bill better. our objection is the fact my friends on the other side voted to repeal everything. voted to allow insurance companies to once again discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. i yield 15 seconds. they voted to take away the been fit for senior citizens that we put in there to help try to close the doughnut hole in the prescription drug bill. and what do they do in terms of replacing it? they come not with an alternative a press release. that's not serious legislating. that's politics as usual. madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey

mr. woodall: insurance reform. putting patients back in charge of those decisions. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern:00 madam speaker -- mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i yield myself 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i think our objection is not with the idea of having a serious debate on these issues. there are areas we can come together and hopefully make this bill better. our objection is the fact my friends on the other side voted to repeal everything. voted to allow insurance companies to once again discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. i yield 15 seconds. they voted to take away the been fit for senior citizens that we put in there to help try to close the doughnut hole in the prescription drug bill. and what do they do in terms of replacing it? they come not with an alternative a press release. that's not serious legislating. that's politics as usual. madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new

mr. woodall: insurance reform. putting patients back in charge of those decisions. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts. mrmcgovern:00 madam speaker -- mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i yield myself 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i think our objection is not with the idea of having a serious debate on these issues. there are areas we can come together and hopefully make this bill better. our objection is the fact my friends on the other side voted to repeal everything. voted to allow insurance companies to once again discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. i yield 15 seconds. they voted to take away the been fit for senior citizens that we put in there to help try to close the doughnut hole in the prescription drug bill. and what do they do in terms of replacing it? they come not with an alternative a press release. that's not serious legislating. that's politics as usual. madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new je

mr. woodall. wamack, i apologize. mr. womack: each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disoerly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from maryland, ms. edwards. ms. edwards: each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy, and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire -- discretion of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from michigan, mrs. miller. mrs. miller:neither house, during the session of congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. . mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: section 6. the senators and representatives shall receiv

mr. woodall: thank you for yielding, michigan. i return to the well because i wonder if folks have the same small business people in their district i have in my district? i wonder if folks are doing the same listening in their district i'm doing in my district? we are here today to respond to what folks have been asking for. to give credit where credit is due, last year, before the last congress expired, democrats and republicans came together to extend for one year, i would have like to see it extended longer, but to extend for one year the tax cuts our small business men and women were demanding. but the second part of the indecision there in the business community, the anxiety and uncertainty that was there, is what's going to happen with the health care costs? what's going to happen with the health care plan? we have not solved that anxiety. we have not solved that indecision. because we've only gotten half of it done. we've gotten it passed in the house. but we've still got to take it to the senate and to the white house. in

mr. woodall from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. woodall: i thank the gentlelady. mr. speaker, i could not get over here to the floor fast enough when i saw this rule cup come up for debate. i recognize -- come up for debate. i rise in strong support of this rule, for the underlying legislation. i'm pleased to be joined on this day after the state of the union, not just by my colleagues, but with so many young people in the gallery today, because that is exactly what this debate is about. we've heard much talk on the floor of this house over the past week about the upcoming c.b.o. baseline report. if it arrived in your emailboxes this morning like it did mine you saw that c.b.o.'s most recent score predicts a $6.9 trillion 10-year operating deficit. that's not the $14 trillion in debt that these young people are going to have to pay back, it's the actual operating deficit, the initial debt that we're going to add over the next 10 years. this proposal today is one small step towards attacking that operating deficit. now we're talking

mr. woodall: thank you for yielding, michigan. i return to the well because i wonder if folks have the same small business people in their district i have in my district? i wonder if folks are doing the same listening in their district i'm doing in my district? we are here today to respond to what folks have been asking for. to give credit where credit is due, last year, before the lt congress expired, democrats and republicans came together to extend for one year, i would have like to see it extended longer, but to extend for one year the tax cuts our small business men and women were demandin buthe second part of the indecision there in the business community, the anxiety and uncertainty that was there, is what's goi to happen with the health care costs? what's going to happen with the health care plan? we have not solved that anxiety. we have not solved that indecision. because we've only gotten half of it done. we've gotten it passed in the house. but we've still got to take it to the senate and to the white house. in the spir

mr. woodall. wamack, i apologize. mr. womack: each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from maryland, ms. edwards. ms. edwards: each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy, and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire -- discretion of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from michigan, mrs. miller. mrs. miller:neither house, during the session of congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. . mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: section 6. the senators and representatives shall rece

mr. woodall. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today.this was a discussion that i had throughout the past year, in the spirit of full disclosure i'm a cosponsor of h.r. two, proud cosponsor of h.r. two. down in the southern district of georgia before march 30 of 2010, we used to talk about solutions. we were talking about the health care costs rising as they have been over decades. we would talk about health care access. we were talking about some of the solutions that republicans put in place in 1996 at the federal level for federal plans. but the moment obamacare past, on march 30, 2010, that discussion stop. no more were we talking about solutions. we're talking about repeal. my constituents were so alarmed, so disturbed by to take we have freedoms they had, their health care decisions, that take away the increase in tax dollars they were expanding. the entire anti-discussion of productive solutions was completely subsumed by this new discussion of repeal and trying to get back to a level of status quo that we could again begin to fin

mr. woodall made. my state, new jersey, has set up a high-risk pool contract with horizon blue cross, blue shield to operate. the state is obligated to pay the insurer. it's received some of the funds necessary to do that. but one the questions that i would wonder about the repeal, if it became law what would become of the obligation of the state of new jersey? who would fund them? my sense is the contract is still binding and the obligation would have to come from the state taxpayer and state treasury as one of the questions not simply a technicality when you do push the erase button, which i think what they are pushing, there are some consequences that would be difficult for taxpayers. >> what you are saying, mr. andrews, your state has already made decisions and entered contracts under the expectation that this is the law. >> our state is signing people up for health insurance coverage under this fund. >> yeah, with regard to the high risk pools, everything i've heard, they want to see more of this

mr. woodall. wamack, i apologize. mr. womack: each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disoerly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from maryland, ms. edwards. ms. edwards: each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy, and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire -- discretion of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from michigan, mrs. miller. mrs. miller:neither house, during the session of congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. . mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: section 6. the senators and representatives shall receiv

mr. woodall. wamack, i apologize. mr. womack: ch house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disoerly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from maryland, ms. edwards. ms. edwards: each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy, and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire -- discretion of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from michigan, mrs. miller. mrs. miller:neither house, during the session of congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. . mr. goodlatte: i now yield to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: section 6. the senators and representatives shall receive

mr. woodall and followed your campaign some. i know everything you say. you have the backing obviously of your people. but i campaigned, too, and the people i represent want me to defend some other provisions that are helping the middle class in this legislation. and i believe that my constituents as your constituents are entitled to know where you stand, where i stand. the way we tell them, the way we are accountable is when the roll is called on specific questions about repealing, access to health care, for people up to age 26, about taking away the lifetime caps, that if you have one opinion and i have another opinion, we state that publicly by our vote, and then our voters are allowed to decide whether they agree with you for that agree with me. that's the way it should work. this is the first opportunity for you to follow through and i'll i was to be accountable to our constituents. the third question is this. is the first bill passed by the republican congress on health care going to take away some specific hard-fought achievement that -- for the mi