Tolbert of Kaiser Family foundation it. A message from the senate. The secretary the senate has passed section 3113, limitation of laboratory certification. The speaker pro tempore thank you. Pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. This morning. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones mr. Speaker, thank you very much. This afternoon a group of members from both parties are going to meet together to discuss possible legislative options to start the process of bringing our troops home from afghanistan in 2013. Yesterday, i was on the floo
Talk about the whatifs. Because, like many people throughout the country, they dont know what the next steps are. Theyve had to cut back and jill has even had to stop going to her doctor appointments because of her the injuries that shes been treated for that are associated with her military service. Her husband now is considering dropping out of school in order to bring home more money to help their family. And jill is applying now for a second job. What especially worries her is that if she has to work both night and day, and with her husband now not sure what hes going to have to do as far as his education or going back to work, is that her children, again, ages 4 and 6, might have to be with a babysitter not just during the day but at night now. And i would ask any mother or for that matter any parent who thinks that thats acceptable. Theres so much sacrifice that we have asked of our veterans and their families and in this case were asking so much for this family that all they wan
A partyline basis. And now, my friends, they sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind. So we need to repeal the Affordable Care act and we need to replace it. Because health care in america is still not satisfactory, nor have we fulfilled the needs and our obligations that we have to all of our citizens. The problems with the Affordable Care act are well known. A failed web site rollout that has hindered enrollment and the purchase of mandated coverage. As of december 17 only an estimated 440,000 835 people have ben enrolled for a health plan. Thats 6. 2 of the enrollment goal of seven million by march 31, 2014. Theres a destruct jiff tax on medical devices that encourages these businesses to move offshore. We have already seen medical Device Manufacturers leaving the United States of america, as they said they would if they were taxed to the point where they could not be competitive with medical devices that were manufactured in foreign countries. The disappointment for americ
Senator grassley was a no. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] the clerk will report is the results of the vote. Mr. Chairman the final tally is six ayes eight nose. Mrs. Amendment number two and would simply do its a minor amendment would add my chair membership to transportation benefits. As you know the code allows employers to provide compensation for transportation costs for their employees on a taxfree basis. They include taxes who see it with parking en masse transit and since 2008 associated with storage at the employee regularly bikes to work however last summer at the irs move to costs associated with memberships were not eligible as part of the draft and indicated legislative action is necessary to broaden the definition even though they had accepted that definition for previous years. All the men would do is just that. It would send the 20 dollar amendment available to bike owners for those participating in a bike share program. Many employers across the country could offer
Extreme opposition to some of these provisions in the package. Id like to specifically respond to claims that some of my colleagues have made about wind energy and the wind production tax credit. Im sympathetic to the argument that the tax code has gotten too cluttered with too many special interest provisions. Thats the reason many of us for a long period of time have been clamoring for tax reform. But just because we havent cleaned up the tax code in a comprehensive way doesnt mean that we should pull the rug out from under domestic Renewable Energy production. Doing so would cost jobs, harm our economy and harm the environment and even enhance problems for national security. Im glad to defend the wind production tax credit and wind energy. Wind Energy Provides more than 4 of u. S. Electricity, supports 80,000 american jobs, spurred 105 billion in private investment in the u. S. Just since 2005. And that source of energy displaces more expensive and more polluting sources of energy,