[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1744-1755]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  EXCHANGE INFORMATION DISCLOSURE ACT


                             General Leave

  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may 
have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to 
include extraneous material on H.R. 3362.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 455, I call up 
the bill (H.R. 3362) to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act to require transparency in the operation of American Health 
Benefit Exchanges, and ask for its immediate consideration in the 
House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 455, the 
amendment printed in part B of House Report 113-322 is adopted. The 
bill, as amended, is considered read.
  The text of the bill, as amended, is as follows:

                               H.R. 3362

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Exchange Information 
     Disclosure Act''.

     SEC. 2. WEEKLY REPORTS ON HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGES.

       Section 1311(c)(5) of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
     Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18031(c)(5)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period and 
     inserting a semicolon; and
       (3) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:
       ``(C) not later than the first Monday after the date of 
     enactment of this subparagraph, and each Monday thereafter 
     through March 30, 2015 (or the next business day when Monday 
     occurs on a Federal holiday), in coordination with the 
     Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Labor, submit 
     to Congress and make available to State governors, State 
     insurance commissioners, and the public, a report concerning 
     consumer interactions with the Internet website maintained by 
     the Federal Government for health insurance coverage 
     (healthcare.gov or any subsequent Internet site (or sites) 
     that is established in whole or in part by the Federal 
     Government to facilitate enrollment in qualified health 
     plans, the receipt of advance premium tax credits or cost 
     sharing reduction assistance, or comparisons of available 
     qualified health plans) and any efforts undertaken to remedy 
     problems that impact taxpayers and consumers, such report to 
     include--

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       ``(i) a State-by-State break down of--

       ``(I) the number of unique website visits;
       ``(II) the number of web chat logins;
       ``(III) the number of individuals who create an account;
       ``(IV) the number of individuals who have selected a 
     qualified health plan;
       ``(V) the number of individuals who enrolled in Medicaid, 
     and, of such number, the number who became eligible to enroll 
     because of changes in eligibility effected under this Act and 
     the number who otherwise were eligible to enroll;
       ``(VI) the number of individuals who have effectuated 
     enrollment in a qualified health plan through payment of the 
     first monthly premium;
       ``(VII) the age of individuals who have effectuated 
     enrollment in a qualified health plan through payment of the 
     first monthly premium;
       ``(VIII) the number of enrollees in each zip code; and
       ``(IX) the level of coverage obtained;

       ``(ii) a detailed description of the problems identified 
     with website functionality, the actions that have been taken 
     to resolve those problems, the identity of the contractors 
     that are involved in such actions, the cost of such actions, 
     how such actions are being paid for, and the names of the 
     Federal officials responsible for overseeing the process; and
       ``(iii) a description of the separate problems with the 
     website, including problems relating to--

       ``(I) logging into the website;
       ``(II) enrolling in coverage;
       ``(III) transferring to the State Medicaid programs;
       ``(IV) the calculation of advance premium tax credits or 
     cost sharing reductions;
       ``(V) eligibility for qualified health plans, advance 
     premium tax credits, cost sharing reductions, Medicaid, or 
     the Children's Health Insurance Program;
       ``(VI) income or identity verification;
       ``(VII) the transfer of information to health insurance 
     issuers; and
       ``(VIII) consumer privacy and data security; and

       ``(D) not later than the first Monday after the date of 
     enactment of this subparagraph, and each Monday thereafter 
     through March 30, 2015 (or the next business day when Monday 
     occurs on a Federal holiday), in coordination with the 
     Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Labor, submit 
     to Congress and make available to State governors, State 
     insurance commissioners, and the public, a report concerning 
     the Federally operated customer service call center, 
     including the number of calls received by the call center, 
     the Internet website or enrollment problems identified by 
     users, how many calls are referred to the Centers for 
     Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, how many calls 
     are referred to State insurance commissioners, and how many 
     callers enrolled in a qualified health plan through the call 
     center.''.

     SEC. 3. DISCLOSURE OF NAVIGATOR AND CERTIFIED APPLICATION 
                   COUNSELOR GRANTEES.

       Section 1311(i) of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
     Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18031(i)) is amended by adding at the end 
     the following:
       ``(7) Public availability of list of navigators.--Not later 
     than 5 days after the date of enactment of the Exchange 
     Information Disclosure Act, the Secretary shall make 
     available to Congress, State attorneys general, State 
     insurance commissioners, and the public a list of all 
     navigators and certified application counselors that have 
     been trained and certified by Exchanges, including contact 
     information for all navigator entities and their partner 
     organizations, including subcontractors. Such list shall be 
     updated by the Secretary on a weekly basis through March 31, 
     2015.''.

     SEC. 4. DISCLOSURE OF CERTIFIED AGENTS AND BROKERS.

       Section 1312(e) of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
     Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18032(e)) is amended by adding at the end 
     the following flush sentence: ``Not later than 5 days after 
     the date of the enactment of the Exchange Information 
     Disclosure Act, the Secretary shall make available on the 
     Internet website maintained by the Federal Government for 
     health insurance coverage (healthcare.gov or any subsequent 
     Internet site (or sites) that is established in whole or in 
     part by the Federal Government to facilitate enrollment in 
     qualified health plans, the receipt of tax credits or cost 
     sharing reduction assistance, or comparisons of available 
     qualified health plans) a list of all agents and brokers who 
     have been trained and certified by the Federal Exchange, 
     including their name, business address (if available), and 
     phone number. Such list shall be updated on a weekly basis 
     through March 31, 2015.''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill shall be debatable for 60 minutes, 
with 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and 20 minutes 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member 
of the Committee on Ways and Means.
  The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) and the gentleman from 
New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) each will control 20 minutes. The gentleman 
from Michigan (Mr. Camp) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin) 
each will control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3362, the Exchange Information 
Disclosure Act. This bill is fundamentally about transparency. Since 
healthcare.gov's disastrous launch, the public has received confusing 
and conflicting information about the site's functionality and the 
number of individuals actually able to purchase insurance through the 
Web site.

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  States trying to enroll individuals in Medicaid and insurance 
companies trying to sign people up for private insurance have received 
incomplete and inaccurate applications from the Web site.
  H.R. 3362 would require the Secretary of HHS to provide a State-by-
State breakdown of the number of unique Web site visits, the number of 
individuals who create an account, the number of individuals who select 
a qualified health plan, and the number of individuals who enrolled in 
a qualified health plan or Medicaid. The report must also describe the 
problems Americans are encountering with the Web site and how HHS is 
addressing them.
  The American people have a right to firm data and an accurate picture 
of the exchanges. I urge my colleagues to support this bill.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I am afraid the bill before the House today, H.R. 3362, the Exchange 
Information Disclosure Act, is simply an effort by Republicans to 
continue to impede the efforts of the administration to implement the 
Affordable Care Act.
  Transparency and enrollment information is important for Members of 
this body to receive. But this bill's requirements on the Secretary go 
way above and beyond what I think is necessary and valuable 
information. This is just an attempt to pile so many requirements on 
the administration that they are taking away from the true job of 
enrolling people in the law.
  Enrollment numbers and visitors to the site are important pieces of 
information, and we certainly all know that, but this bill is simply 
unnecessary. There is already extensive disclosure of data on health 
insurance enrollments being provided. The administration releases 
enrollment data monthly, just like they do with Medicare and the 
children's health insurance program and other Federal programs. The 
monthly HHS enrollment reports are excellent, detailed reports. In 
fact, the newest HHS monthly enrollment report, which was issued this 
Monday, which covers enrollment through December, has even more 
extensive data than the two earlier monthly reports.
  Mr. Speaker, in addition to providing data on total enrollments 
nationally and in the States, the latest report includes data both for 
the Nation and the States on, first, greater breakdown of those who 
have selected marketplace plans; second, age breakdown--I stress, age 
breakdown--of those who have selected marketplace plans; third, 
financial assistance status of those who have selected marketplace 
plans; and, lastly, a breakdown of the coverage level--or metal level--
of the plans people have selected.
  So these numbers show that there is a very strong demand for the 
quality, affordable coverage options now available to Americans because 
of the Affordable Care Act. More than 6 million Americans have now 
either signed up for a private health insurance plan or for Medicaid, 
including the nearly 2.2 million who signed up for private insurance 
through the marketplace. Nearly 1.8 million of these consumers signed 
up for private plans in December, and that is nearly five times as many 
people as signed up in October and November combined.
  Frankly, Mr. Speaker, I am encouraged and excited by these numbers. 
Americans aren't going to the Web site

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because they are forced to, like the Republicans claim. They are going 
to the Web site because they want and need access to health insurance. 
This should be no surprise. Thirty percent--nearly one in three--of 
people who have enrolled in a marketplace plan are younger than age 35; 
24 percent are between 18 and 34 years old; and there was a more than 
eightfold increase in December enrollments in the Federal marketplace. 
In addition, more than 3 million young adults have gained coverage 
because the Affordable Care Act allows them to stay on their parents' 
plan until they turn 26. So we are getting more of the younger people 
as well.
  Meanwhile, healthcare.gov and State Web sites have received more than 
53 million visits, and State and Federal call centers have received 
more than 11 million calls.
  The administration has committed to release this information monthly, 
the way they have done with every other Federal program to date. So I 
am sorry to say that I simply do not believe this is a serious effort 
in any sense of the word by Republicans. This bill is nothing but a 
weak effort to smear the law.
  I urge Members to oppose the bill. There are only so many resources 
out there. Why would we want HHS to have to provide this excessive 
information? I would rather they spent their time trying to enroll 
people, doing more outreach, and encouraging people to sign up so that 
they actually have health insurance.
  So again, Mr. Speaker, I urge Members to oppose this legislation, and 
I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, at this time, I am pleased to yield 3 minutes 
to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton), the chairman of the Energy 
and Commerce Committee.
  Mr. UPTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 3362, the 
Exchange Information Disclosure Act.
  This bill would require that HHS provide weekly progress reports 
regarding the President's health care law and attempt to ensure greater 
transparency from an administration that has done everything that it 
can so far to bury the facts when it comes to its signature health care 
law. Remember, this is the administration that knew millions of 
Americans would receive cancelation notices, but they only acted to 
allow people to keep their health care plans that they had and liked 
after we forced their hand back a few months ago. Perhaps by acting 
today we can again force them to do the right thing and share basic 
information with policymakers and the public about how the law is 
working or not.
  In building healthcare.gov for the October 1 start of open 
enrollment, the administration chose not to allow Americans to window-
shop and find accurate and reliable prices of health care plans in the 
exchange.
  Over the last 17 weeks since the law was launched, this 
administration has released enrollment figures on just a handful of 
occasions. We are still left asking the most important question: 
``Who's paid?''
  Instead, the administration has gone to great lengths to redefine 
enrollment as the number of folks who have selected a plan through the 
exchanges. These numbers simply don't tell us the true status of the 
law, however. More than 3 months after the start of open enrollment, we 
still don't know how many Americans have actually enrolled in health 
plans by paying their first month's premium.
  Just 1 day before the start of open enrollment, Secretary Sebelius 
defined success as enrolling 7 million Americans by the end of March of 
2014. The administration has since distanced itself from enrollment 
being a measure of success at all. If enrolling individuals in health 
plans is not the goal, what is?
  Preventing access to reliable data about the exchanges is not exactly 
what you would expect from the self-proclaimed ``most transparent 
administration in history.'' It should not take a vote in Congress to 
get basic information from the administration, but without voluntary 
transparency, we don't have any other choice.
  The bill before us would require HHS to provide accurate, useful 
figures about enrollment and the operation of the exchanges on a weekly 
basis. It also is going to require HHS to report to the American people 
other key metrics, including demographics of enrollees, Medicaid 
enrollment, regular reporting on ongoing problems with healthcare.gov, 
and HHS' efforts to address those issues.
  The President's health care law will cost the taxpayers an estimated 
$2 trillion over the next decade. At the very least, the administration 
should provide the American people regular and ongoing information 
about its implementation. There is no reason for the administration to 
keep the public and the Congress in the dark. Whether the news is good 
or bad, it is time for full disclosure.
  I urge my colleagues to support the bill, and I applaud Mr. Terry for 
his leadership.
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
North Carolina, G.K. Butterfield, a member of the Energy and Commerce 
Committee.
  Mr. BUTTERFIELD. Thank you, Mr. Pallone, for yielding time, and 
especially thank you for your leadership on our committee. It has been 
nothing less than extraordinary.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the Exchange 
Information Disclosure Act. This bill would cost millions of dollars of 
limited Federal resources but doesn't include any mechanism for paying 
for it. It is an unnecessary piece of legislation that will have no 
impact or benefit to the American people. It is just the latest attempt 
by the Republican majority to incite fear and distrust of the Federal 
health insurance marketplace and discredit President Obama and the 
Affordable Care Act.
  Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent wrote that the Exchange 
Information Disclosure Act is ``a political attack coming from a party 
that wants to see the law fail.'' The House has voted 47 times, Mr. 
Speaker, on bills that would repeal or undermine the Affordable Care 
Act, but not one of them has become law.
  My friend Mr. Terry's bill that we are considering today marks the 
48th attempt, and it is another nail in the coffin of haphazard 
Republican efforts to disenfranchise the American people by chipping 
away at the Affordable Care Act, with the ultimate goal of taking away 
Americans' access to affordable health care.
  Make no mistake, this bill is not about transparency and open 
government. Its true purpose is to pile on more and more unnecessary, 
cumbersome, and unprecedented requirements so that HHS will be forced 
to focus time and attention away from managing the Federal health 
insurance marketplace and redirect it to completing worthless weekly 
reports.
  I am particularly disappointed in the committee process--or more 
accurately, the lack of committee process--with regard to this bill. I 
sit on Energy and Commerce's Health Subcommittee, and at no point did 
the chairman of the subcommittee nor the full committee hold a 
legislative hearing or markup on this bill. I don't recall one. Surely, 
adding mountains of onerous reporting requirements that will cost the 
government millions in order to comply would have warranted an 
opportunity for members to weigh in before it was brought to the floor. 
Apparently, the chairman of the committee felt differently.
  This bill is now the 48th example of House Republicans pandering to 
their base by ramming through partisan policies that attack the 
President. The bill would require HHS to supply Congress weekly reports 
detailing the number of unique Web site visitors to healthcare.gov, the 
number of chat logins, the number of enrollees by ZIP Code, their level 
of coverage, and other data sets. What exactly my friends hope to 
accomplish with this weekly data dump still escapes me.
  Perhaps House Republicans weren't aware of the extensive disclosure 
of data on health insurance enrollments that is already being provided 
on a monthly basis. The administration releases enrollment data 
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Speaker, just like they do with Medicare, CHIP, and other Federal 
programs.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I yield the gentleman an additional minute.
  Mr. BUTTERFIELD. The monthly HHS enrollment reports are excellent, 
detailed reports. Weekly reports will shed no more light on enrollment 
in the health exchange than would monthly reports.
  The bill also demands that HHS make publicly available a list of 
navigator grantees. Were my colleagues unaware that the Department 
released the entire list of navigator grantees back in October? I have 
those here for your inspection.
  I will say it again: this bill is completely unnecessary, and it is 
Republican fear mongering. The fact is, Mr. Speaker, the Affordable 
Care Act is the law of the land. I ask my colleagues to embrace it. It 
is benefiting millions of Americans in my district and in your district 
as well.
  Thank you for the time, Mr. Pallone.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, at this time, I am pleased to yield 3 minutes 
to the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Terry), the prime sponsor of the 
legislation.
  Mr. TERRY. Mr. Speaker, to clarify one thing, we did have a 
legislative hearing on this bill with robust debate on it in that 
committee hearing. Evidently, you didn't get the notice of that 
hearing.
  Mr. BUTTERFIELD. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. TERRY. No, I only have 3 minutes. If I have extra time, I will.
  Today we are taking what should be an easy vote and, frankly, a 
bipartisan vote.
  My legislation, the Exchange Information Disclosure Act, does nothing 
more than ask the administration to provide Congress, Governors, State 
insurance commissioners, and the American people with information.
  By the way, the information that is outlined in this bill to be 
provided or accessible on a weekly basis is simply what most States 
already require to be done by health insurance companies within their 
States. This is a request by State insurance commissioners, especially 
ours from Nebraska that are very frustrated with the lack of 
information that they are receiving about who is signing up for what 
plans in the State of Nebraska.
  This should be easy. What we are talking about here today is basic 
transparency so we all have the data to assess what is working and what 
is not. This bill is a mechanism for accountability so we can get the 
answers that both Democrats and Republicans and State insurance 
commissioners and Governors need to know in order to understand what is 
working and what is not.
  We are asking for information that an entity overseeing a health 
insurance operation should have at the tip of their fingers at all 
times.

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  Our metrics are not complex. We are simply asking for: How many 
people have enrolled? How many of these people have paid their first 
month's premiums, which means they are actually insured, that they have 
been effectuated? What plans did they pick? What ZIP Codes are they 
from so we know if people from Nebraska or Iowa or Kansas have signed 
up? Were they already eligible for Medicare or are these new enrollees 
from the expansion? These are critical issues in determining the safety 
and soundness of the policies being issued, and is, again, information 
that State insurance commissioners usually receive.
  This administration and some on the other side say that this 
information that we are requesting is extraneous and costly and 
burdensome, but yet this data is already being obtained; it is already 
on a realtime basis being calculated. It is just the issue of when and 
in what form this is released to the public. As to cost, here is the 
CBO score--zero--not the millions that we are being told by our friends 
on the other side of the aisle and the White House. This is necessary, 
usual course of business data.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. PITTS. I yield the gentleman an additional 1 minute.
  Mr. TERRY. We do add another part in here and another frustration 
from our State insurance commissioners, which is that they don't know 
who is selling the insurance. They would like to have the names of the 
people who are the navigators out there. Grants go to organizations, 
but we don't know who is actually sitting down and selling policies or 
helping them through the exchange. That is, again, basic information 
that is the normal course of business in the insurance world. We are 
just asking that they provide the same information that the State law 
would require of an insurance company that has had a salesman who is 
out signing people up.
  So that is the totality of this bill, and you have to ask the 
question: If they are fighting so hard, what are they trying to hide?
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Waxman), the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce 
Committee.
  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, supporters of this 
legislation claim that it is simply an effort to get more information 
about how the Affordable Care Act is being implemented, but it is not 
really that. It is an effort to slow down the implementation of the new 
law by drowning the Department of Health and Human Services in red 
tape.
  They want enrollment information, but this week, they got enrollment 
information from the administration. That enrollment information showed 
that 2.2 million Americans have signed up for private coverage. They 
want demographic information. HHS has given them demographic 
information. HHS is going to release all of the information that they 
are asking for every month, but the Republicans say, ``Oh, that is not 
good enough. We want it every week.'' They want more than what 
otherwise might be available to them because they want to know some 
things that I can't understand why they would want to know them.
  They want to know the ZIP Codes of everybody who has signed up. They 
want to know what the details are of a chat between somebody who is 
asking a question on the Web site and what answers he got. I can't 
understand why that is important. They want to know what transpired in 
the call centers. In other words, they want to know what somebody said 
in a call center. Is it their business to know what questions are asked 
in a call center? They want a list of the people who are the adjusters 
and the brokers. There are thousands of them around the country, so 
there is no purpose to knowing that. They are not accredited by the 
government. If they are by the States, it is up to each State. They 
could ask each State that information.
  Let me put this in perspective.
  If anybody had a bill asking the private sector to come up with 
reports every single week on information that they could wait a couple 
of more weeks to get, it would be looked at as just straight 
harassment, government red tape, bureaucracy that is intruding into the 
business for no purpose. That is what this bill is all about. They want 
to intrude in a government agency. I guess, if they have a bureaucratic 
intrusion and the harassment of a government agency, it is okay, but if 
it were to happen to a private sector business, it would be 
inappropriate. If we asked polluters this information, you could get 
the information. If you asked them to give you the information every 
week, why do you need it every week?
  I ask the Republicans: Why do they need this every week if they are 
going to get it every month?
  It is obvious. This law is working, and they don't want to come again 
to the floor and ask for its repeal because people have insurance. 
Millions of people now have insurance. If they want to repeal the law, 
they are going to take that insurance away from them.
  They want to continue to say: What are they hiding? What are they 
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that they are not giving you on a weekly schedule but that they are 
giving you on a monthly schedule?
  Absolutely nothing that is significant. The enrollment reports we 
already have indicate that over 6 million people have signed up for 
coverage since October 1. The Web site can handle 80,000 simultaneous 
users, and it has been stable even though there was a surge of 
enrollment in late December.
  The law is working. Republicans don't want to hear these facts. They 
don't want to know about it, but they think they should get everybody 
at HHS--maybe even have them hire more people--to report to them every 
week so they can still not recognize that there is good news in what is 
actually happening.
  This is a goofy bill--it is absolutely unnecessary--and I urge my 
colleagues to vote against it.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, just to clarify, we hear the words ``sign 
up,'' ``signed up,'' ``equal to enrollment.'' We may know how many 
people have signed up. We do not know how many have actually enrolled 
and have paid their first month's premiums. Secondly, we are stewards 
of the taxpayers--we are not shareholders--and the lack of data is 
precisely what led the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to 
declare this law as a train wreck in that there are no metrics, no 
data, to determine whether this law is working and on track.
  With that, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Maryland (Mr. Sarbanes), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
  Mr. SARBANES. I thank the chairman of the Health Subcommittee.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge a ``no'' vote on H.R. 3362, which, I 
think, is really just designed to harass the Department of Health and 
Human Services as it is trying to do its job in bringing affordable 
health care to people all across this country.
  If you look at the metrics that are already being assembled by the 
agency on a monthly basis, they really present a very clear picture of 
whether there is progress being made or not being made with respect to 
the Web site and signing people up for affordable health care, and of 
course, we know that there is a lot of progress being made. That 
monthly report includes the total enrollments nationally and by State 
so that we can get a clear picture of what that trend is, and that is a 
positive trend. It includes a gender breakdown of those who have signed 
up for the plans, an age breakdown, the financial assistance, and what 
kinds of plans people are choosing. That is all good, useful 
information. Frankly, it is the kind of information that it makes sense 
to collect on a monthly basis, not on a weekly basis. I mean, these 
numbers sort of naturally evolve month to month. That is the picture, 
the photograph, you want to take--month to month. Week to week doesn't 
really get you any added insight into what is happening with the Web 
site or with the signups.
  Then look at some of the information that they would require on a 
weekly basis, and you have got to ask yourself: What purpose would it 
serve, a State-by-State breakdown--I am reading from the bill now--of 
the number of Web chat logins? What are we going to do with that 
information? That is not useful. That does not add anything to the 
clear picture that can emerge on a monthly basis of how we are doing 
with the Web site.
  Finally, I have to observe, as Ranking Member Waxman just did a 
moment ago, that we hear all the time from our friends on the other 
side about the importance of government efficiency and about working 
well and streamlining. We hear them talk about that both with respect 
to government and, obviously, in terms of what they want to do for 
private sector businesses out there. These kinds of requirements don't 
help with that. They are not going to make the agency function more 
smoothly and more efficiently and get the information out in a sensible 
way to the American people.
  This is really just designed to kind of harass the agency, to make 
them run around in small circles, gathering information and providing 
stuff that doesn't give us any added perspective or insight into the 
progress that really is now being made. We can get that picture on a 
monthly basis. The information that HHS is providing to us and to the 
public--to the American people--I think, is very valuable on that 
monthly basis, and that is the way we ought to continue to have it 
presented to us and presented to the American people.
  So I urge my colleagues to vote against H.R. 3362. Let's let the 
agency do its job and do it well.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, opponents of the Exchange Information 
Disclosure Act have argued that requiring weekly reports on the health 
care law to the American people is too burdensome, too costly for the 
Department of Health and Human Services. Yet, somehow, HHS managed to 
find money in its budget for taxpayer-funded grants spent on such 
things as bike lane signs, dog neutering campaigns, promoting a sport 
called ``pickleball,'' and lobbying campaigns for soda taxes. Clearly, 
HHS does not suffer from a lack of resources.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, may I just ask how much time remains.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey has 5 minutes 
remaining. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 10 minutes remaining.
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to my colleague from New 
Jersey (Mr. Andrews), who has spent so much effort in passing and 
drafting the Affordable Care Act.
  Mr. ANDREWS. I thank my friend from New Jersey for his tireless 
leadership on this very important cause. It is inspirational.
  Mr. Speaker, since the Affordable Care Act became law, 9 million 
Americans have health insurance who did not have it before--9 million 
people. Now, not surprisingly, there have been problems in the 
implementation of the law. Many customer service problems need to be 
addressed, and we should come together in good faith and make sure they 
get addressed. This bill takes us in the opposite direction. It says 
that people who could be working on solving the very real and important 
problems of customers who are trying to enroll in health insurance will 
have to write a report once a week instead of once a month.
  If you go to get your car fixed and if there is a long line of people 
ahead of you and if you are going to be late to get back to work and if 
you find out the reason the line takes so long is that the person at 
the counter explains the history of the carburetor to every person who 
comes to pick up his car instead of waiting on the people who are in 
line, requiring a report a week instead of a report a month just 
doesn't make any sense.
  There is another reason to oppose this bill, though, that is even 
more important than that. Today, 10,000 Americans will go home and tell 
their children or their loved ones that they have run out of income 
because their unemployment benefits have expired. This week, 72,000 
Americans will have that happen to them. There is a bill in this House, 
on this floor, that could be taken up this morning and voted on to 
provide relief to our neighbors and family members who are in that 
position. This majority leadership has ignored that legislation.
  This is a breathtaking misplacement of priorities. We can spend an 
hour of the House's time on harassing Health and Human Services into 
filing one report every week instead of one report every month, but we 
can't take 5 minutes and debate on a bill that will restore a measure 
of decency and income to 72,000 Americans a week. Many of these 
Americans are over 50 years old. For every one job that is advertised 
there are three people looking for that job. The callous indifference 
of the House majority leadership to these people is just wrong--and so 
is this bill.
  We should reject this bill and, instead, proceed with a vote on aid 
to America's long-term unemployed.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, at this time, I am pleased to yield 3 minutes 
to the gentlelady from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the vice chairman of 
the Energy and Commerce Committee.

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                              {time}  1045

  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania 
for the great work that he has done on this bill.
  What is so interesting and one of the reasons we find it necessary to 
come and address these issues is Secretary Sebelius told us in December 
that 5,000 people a day were getting access to health care that they 
had not had before.
  The other side of that story, which was not told, is 74,000 American 
families a day were getting cancelation notices. They were looking at 
one another across the dinner table and saying, Guess what, our 
insurance has been canceled.
  It has had a devastating effect. And as we try to do oversight and 
due diligence and continue to push for that oversight and due diligence 
and carry it out, even this morning at the Energy and Commerce 
Committee, where we had Mr. Cohen, what we have found is it is very 
difficult to get information, even when we are sometimes hearing from 
employees admitting what they told us was wrong; but then we do not get 
the straight story.
  So it is very appropriate that we require HHS to release weekly 
detailed reports about the exchanges, including their enrollment, their 
functionality, and efforts to address the technical issues at 
healthcare.gov.
  It is absolutely appropriate because this is all being done with the 
taxpayers' money. The American taxpayers have paid for every bit of 
this. It is not the Federal Government's money. It is not President 
Obama's money. It is not Congress' money. It is the taxpayers' money. 
This is a failed rollout and a failed program.
  This administration was supposed to be the most transparent 
administration in history. It has not been that. It is well documented 
that it hasn't been. Indeed, the rollout and the implementation of this 
law have been even less transparent. The reason, I think, is because 
there have been so many problems, such as millions of Americans losing 
access to their health insurance.
  None of the information being shared by the administration regarding 
enrollment means much of anything. We talk about people that enrolled, 
but we don't know how many people have paid and how many people have 
completed that process. What are the demographics of the individuals 
that are enrolling?
  All of this is information that the individual that is paying for 
this--the American taxpayer--deserves to know.
  Who has paid for this insurance? The White House has backed away from 
using any measure of enrollment as a means to determine success.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. PITTS. I yield the gentlewoman an additional 1 minute.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. As recently as September, Secretary Sebelius herself 
said that 7 million enrolled by the end of March would define success 
of the law. Well, is that 7 million that go to the Web site, put an 
insurance product in their cart, and then go think about it?
  Mr. Speaker, when I was growing up, I spent a lot of time working in 
the retail industry selling clothes in a little dress shop. Every once 
in a while we would have somebody that would come in and put something 
on hold. They would say, I'm going to be back.
  Well, we called them the ``be-backs'' because, guess what, more often 
than not, they did not come back and complete that purchase. Yes, they 
put it on hold. Yes, they put it in an online shopping cart. But then 
they move away from it because this program is broken, it is too 
expensive to afford, and the American people do not want it.
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, at this time I am pleased to yield 3 minutes 
to the gentleman from Louisiana, Dr. Cassidy, a very active member of 
the Health Subcommittee.
  Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. Speaker, I kind of keep asking myself why we would 
not want to provide transparency.
  If the Federal Government is going to impose a massive bureaucratic 
regime involving the American people, why should we not at least 
require them to be accountable for the success or failure of that 
regime?
  The Exchange Information Disclosure Act requires accountability and 
transparency, which has been, frankly, elusive from the administration 
on these issues. And, indeed, before committees and before Americans 
there has been a tendency to give information which is misleading.
  For example, enrollment numbers are calculated by the numbers who 
sign up for coverage, not those who actually pay for their first 
month's premium. In reality, unless you pay for that first month's 
premium, you are not enrolled. Coverage does not become effective until 
these are paid; and history shows many will sign up who will never 
actually enroll.
  The American people are affected by this. They are paying for it. We 
are their employees, so to speak. They pay our salary. They have a 
right to know, and the only way to know is to see the results.
  I keep on smiling in kind of an angry sort of way when I think about 
those folks who came to testify about the Web site.
  Two weeks before it was to open, we were told that it was ready and 
that there were no problems. I specifically asked if the Spanish-
language Web site was ready. Oh, yes, there's no problem. We can just 
stand it up.
  In truth, none of that was true. The only way we learned it was not 
true was when the numbers came out, it was clear that folks were not 
enrolling. So everything we had been told was exposed as a lie, and yet 
we would not have known had we not seen those enrollment figures.
  Compliance should not be difficult. Insurance companies know on a 
daily basis how many people have clicked on, how many people have 
signed up, how many checks they receive. Insurance companies know this 
on a daily basis. Certainly, Mr. Speaker, the Federal Government can 
tell the American people these results on a weekly basis.
  The Exchange Information Disclosure Act is a commonsense piece of 
legislation that all my colleagues who champion transparency and 
accountability should support. All it does is ensure full disclosure of 
the most important data points needed to determine what is really going 
on with the President's health care law's implementation.
  It is vitally important for the public, and it is vitally important 
for us as we attempt to do the American people's will in our oversight 
of the program.
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Minnesota (Mr. Ellison).
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, we are told that the Exchange Information 
Disclosure Act is just a good-faith effort to try to get some 
transparency. But wait, isn't this bill coming from the same party that 
shut the government down to try to kill it? Didn't that just happen?
  My memory is not faint about it. My memory is very clear that we 
stood here watching the Republican majority shut down all of government 
to prevent people from health care access.
  And now we are supposed to believe, Oh, we just want to make the bill 
a little better with transparency. No. What has happened is that 
millions of people are signing up. People know that if you snatch a 
benefit from people that they have--and expect to have--that is going 
to cause issues. And so now the tactics have changed. Instead of an 
overt 50th repeal bill, now we will just try to undermine it by making 
a bunch of paper requirements--more distraction, more paperwork, more 
division, more obstruction.
  I think I prefer the days when we just had repeal bills.
  Vote ``no'' on this bill.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, again, this GOP bill is designed to harass 
the Department, preventing it from doing its job. It is an unworkable, 
unnecessary bill that places onerous, unrealistic, and costly reporting 
requirements on HHS, with no benefit to the general public.
  I heard my colleagues say over and over again, Oh, nobody is going to 
enroll. Now people are enrolling, and they

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say they want to know whether they paid or not.
  Where does it end? Why don't you spend your time trying to get people 
to enroll, trying to give people information and do more outreach so 
people actually are able to get health insurance? That is what we are 
trying to do with the Affordable Care Act--make people who don't have 
insurance get insurance, make people who do have it, have it more 
affordable and have a better benefit package.
  All these things are wonderful. This is what people want. That is why 
so many people are, in fact, signing up. And I just cannot help but 
think that this is nothing but another effort to make it more 
burdensome, to scare people to make it less likely that people actually 
enroll.
  Mr. Speaker, I wanted to mention that the administration opposed the 
bill. The administration said that they oppose the passage because it 
would require unfunded, unprecedented, and unnecessary reporting 
requirements that exceed those of other public and private programs.
  I urge a ``no'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, as Secretary Sebelius acknowledged at an 
Energy and Commerce hearing in December, enrollment in an exchange plan 
is not complete until the first month's premium has been paid.
  The administration, so far, has refused to tell the American people 
how many people are actually enrolled by paying their first month's 
premium in the health care law's exchanges.
  Asking the Department to provide the American people regular updates 
is simply a matter of transparency. Given that HHS officials were so 
blatantly wrong about the readiness of the health care law's exchanges, 
they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.
  Regular disclosure is necessary to assess the status of the law, and 
that is all this bill requires. Let's make the administration, who has 
continually held back facts regarding implementation of the health care 
law, meet their pledge to be the most transparent in history.
  I urge my colleagues to vote for this bill, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3362, the Exchange 
Information Disclosure Act. There is widespread agreement that the 
ObamaCare rollout was a failure. Most of us believe the 
administration's lack of transparency and candor with Congress and the 
American people caused most of the problems.
  Since the beginning of the rollout, I have pressed the administration 
to release enrollment data to Congress. That data, including who is 
actually enrolling and what the mix of those who signed up looks like, 
are the kinds of hard facts we need before us to evaluate how this 
fundamental restructuring of our health care is really operating.
  Yet the administration did not provide that long-promised 
transparency. Instead, I was forced to subpoena the administration to 
get any information. While I received some of what I requested, it is 
not enough for Congress to understand the true impact of this law.
  It is clear that, more than halfway through the enrollment, the 
administration is failing to meet its own goal of 7 million enrollees 
by March 31.
  Last week, the administration released data that showed it has failed 
to meet an even more important goal--the right mix of young and healthy 
enrollees. The reality is that you need a good balance of young and 
healthy individuals in order to offset the more expensive costs of 
those who are older and less healthy.
  Without enough young and healthy enrollees, millions of Americans, 
including those who have had their plan canceled as a result of the 
President's broken promise, will see higher costs and fewer choices. 
With the little data we have, we can see this is actually what is 
happening.
  The American people deserve better than the administration's empty 
promises. They deserve to know what is really going on. Additionally, 
the administration has not provided any information on the number of 
people who have completed enrollment. We don't know how many people 
have paid their premium.
  Taxpayers don't know how many people are receiving tax credits. There 
is no harm to national security if the administration provides this 
information to Congress, the media, and the American people; but there 
may be harm to an individual's health security if their interests 
aren't protected.
  Frankly, I believe this administration cares more about implementing 
this law than protecting the health care of American families.
  The American people have every right to know this information and the 
future of their health care. Having this data will not change the 
President's broken promise that ``if you like your plan, you can keep 
it,'' or his promise that families will see a $2,500 reduction in their 
premiums.

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  However, it will undoubtedly affect Americans' health care future. 
This is not just arbitrary data. This information will determine how 
much premiums will increase next year, whether access to care will 
become more limited, how many insurers may no longer offer coverage, 
and whether or not you can keep seeing your current doctor.
  This administration's failed rollout has given the American people 
little confidence that they can effectively oversee the overhaul of 
one-sixth of the economy. What possible reason, other than politics, 
could there be for the administration not releasing this information? 
This is data that Congress and the American people deserve to know and 
that the administration should readily and willingly provide.
  I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this bill 
today, and I call on the Senate to take quick action to move this 
commonsense legislation forward.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LEVIN. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I think informed people are asking why are we taking up 
this bill this morning. I guess one reason is the Republicans will do 
anything they can to undermine ACA. Indeed, the more it is successful, 
the more desperate they become.
  The administration says it quite clearly:

       To implement this new reporting system, contracts may need 
     to be modified and new staff would need to be hired on an 
     expedited basis, adding millions of dollars in costs to 
     States and the Federal Government, without additional funding 
     from the Congress, for information that is already largely 
     being provided on a monthly basis, consistent with other 
     publicly funded health care programs.

  Maybe a second reason we are taking up this bill is because the 
Republicans in this House think there is nothing else to do. This bill 
is going nowhere in the Senate, and you know that. You know that. But 
there is something else that we should be doing.
  We are leaving here for 11 days. The House Republicans have said we 
are not going to be in session next week. 1.5 million Americans have 
lost their unemployment insurance because of inaction from this House 
of Representatives. Next week, 72,000 more will be added to the 1.5 
million people, 50,000 in the State from which Mr. Camp and I come, 
50,000 left out in the cold--left out in the cold--left, really, to 
their own devices, without a single bit of assistance that they really 
worked for. These are people out of work through no fault of their own, 
looking for work, and essentially they get, from this institution, 
action this morning on a bill going nowhere when there is somewhere we 
should be going.
  I think this morning represents maybe more vividly than in recent 
times a reprehensible distortion of priorities of the majority in this 
House. There are 50,000 people in Michigan looking for work at a time 
when there remains a historically high percentage of the unemployed who 
are long-term unemployed. There are three people looking for work for 
every job that is available. And we come forth here with a bill that is 
going nowhere? Reprehensible. Inexcusable. You can go home.

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  I suggest you go home and talk--I guess you haven't done this yet--to 
the long-term unemployed. Every single person who votes for this bill 
should go home and talk to those out of work and out of luck, because 
the majority in this institution, in this House, are simply out of 
synch with the needs of the American people.
  We shouldn't vote ``no'' on this bill, because we need the 
opportunity to vote ``yes'' on what really matters.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE. Members are reminded to address their 
remarks to the Chair and not to others in the second person.
  Mr. CAMP. I thank the Chair for that admonition, and I yield 3 
minutes to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Young), the distinguished 
member of the Ways and Means Committee.
  Mr. YOUNG of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, since the launch of open 
enrollment and healthcare.gov on October 1, I have heard repeated 
stories of frustration from my constituents trying to enroll in the 
Federal exchanges.
  The President and his administration have tried to assure us time and 
again that the Web site is improving and that Americans are enrolling.
  Unfortunately, neither the stories I have been told, nor the claims 
of this administration, are easy to verify because HHS is giving us 
very little data to go off of. Now, that is a shame, because one of the 
greatest constitutional obligations of the legislative branch is robust 
oversight of the executive branch--to be sure that laws are working and 
being enforced as intended.
  But there is an even bigger shame here. In August of 2013, HHS 
estimated that approximately 900,000 individuals in my home State of 
Indiana were uninsured. This week, HHS offered us a progress report. 
Now, can you guess how many Hoosiers, according to this report, 
actually selected a plan through healthcare.gov as of December 28? Only 
30,000. Now, that means, according to the HHS estimates, the Obama 
administration estimates 29 out of every 30 uninsured Hoosiers have not 
selected a plan through healthcare.gov.
  That 30,000 figure, by the way, is suspect in itself, to put it 
charitably. Since HHS is only reporting those who put a plan in a 
shopping cart, we don't know how many actually went through with the 
purchase.
  Now, with a big deadline coming up for the individual mandate tax 
penalty, it is imperative that Congress understands exactly how many 
people are in compliance with the law. Merely selecting a plan won't 
help you avoid being taxed by the IRS.
  That is why I am a strong supporter of the Exchange Information 
Disclosure Act. The Obama administration should be required to provide 
the American people and Congress weekly reports on the status of 
healthcare.gov. They should be required to tell us how many are 
actually purchasing plans. They should be required to tell us all sorts 
of additional data points they are already tracking that will help 
Congress perform our oversight role on behalf of the American people.
  I urge my colleagues to support this measure here in the House and, 
hopefully, in the Senate.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Crowley), a member of our committee.
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Michigan for 
yielding me this time.
  Mr. Speaker, it is a shame we are not up here considering an 
extension of the unemployment insurance. American families are looking 
for some kind of sign that their Congress isn't going to leave town 
without extending unemployment insurance, and I don't think they are 
amused by this 48th attempt to undermine health care in our country.
  The fact is the legislation before us is supposedly all about the 
numbers. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are fixated on 
the numbers behind the Affordable Care Act. They seem to think they 
will find numbers that somehow discredit the law and the important 
benefits it provides. But you know what? It is true that numbers tell 
an important story, so here are some numbers that actually matter for 
the American people:
  Nine million, that is how many people have already obtained health 
insurance under the Affordable Care Act--9 million. It is also 9 
million people who don't have to worry that a major medical incident 
could bankrupt them and their families;
  Twenty-five million, that is how many seniors on Medicare received 
free preventive care last year because of the Affordable Care Act--25 
million. That is 25 million seniors who can get a mammogram or a 
cholesterol screening without financial barriers, so that serious 
diseases can be caught and treated earlier, saving taxpayers' dollars;
  Eight million--big number, 8 million--that is how many jobs have been 
created in this country since the passage of the Affordable Care Act--8 
million. That is more than twice as many jobs created than were lost 
during the 10 years before the Affordable Care Act was enacted.
  These are just some of the numbers that tell the true story of the 
Affordable Care Act, not to mention the number of people with 
preexisting conditions who can no longer be discriminated against, or 
the seniors who are seeing reduced prices on their prescription drugs, 
or the small business owners who now have a way to provide insurance 
for themselves and their employees.
  These are the numbers. These are the numbers that matter to me 
because the Affordable Care Act is about helping the American people 
afford care in this country.
  So my colleagues on the other side of the aisle can go and play their 
numbers games as long as they want, but their fixation doesn't add up. 
These numbers do.
  Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, how much time is left on either side?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin) has 
2\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Camp) has 
3\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield the balance of our time to the 
gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott).
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, what we are engaged in today is what I 
call loving a bill to death. Every legislator knows how you do it. You 
load it up with a bunch of stuff to kill it. They are still trying to 
do this. They are not talking about transparency or accountability. It 
is simply another plan to muck up the path to better health for 
Americans.
  It is not surprising, because the House Republicans don't want a 
health care system that works any more than they want a balanced 
budget. If they wanted a balanced budget, they wouldn't push for health 
care policies that cost more to get less.
  America spends more on health care than any other advanced nation, 
and we get worse outcomes. Let me tell you one of the reasons for that. 
We spend less on social services. Instead of helping people afford good 
food to stay in shape, we cut food stamps. Instead of supporting 
families who care for their parents in the comfort of their home, we 
force them to push them into nursing homes. Instead of helping people 
to stay in their homes, instead of strengthening the bridge between job 
and new career, we pull the rug out from under them.
  And right now, every 8 seconds, another American loses his 
unemployment insurance. While I am speaking, 15 families will lose 
their way of supporting themselves.
  Where do these people go? How do they stay healthy? Is it any wonder 
our diet is full of what we call comfort food? And is it any wonder 
that we are the most anxious country in the world? Is it any wonder 
that the ER has become more common than the doctor's office?
  We can pay now. We can invest in a country where people have jobs. We 
can help people keep their homes and care for themselves, or we will 
pay later in skyrocketing health care costs and the economic drag of a 
sick nation.

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                              {time}  1115

  If Republicans wanted a health care system that works, we would be 
investing, not wasting our time in forcing States and the Federal 
Government to spend more on useless bureaucracy.
  Nobody is asking for this. Maybe the insurance companies want to have 
more data. I don't know. But nobody who is administering this program 
has said, Let's have more reports. We don't know enough.
  It is like babies; you don't weigh them every day to see if they have 
gained weight. You take them in every couple of months or every month 
to get the baby checked. That is what we are doing here already. And 
they say, No, let's do it every day. Let's do it every week. Let's 
waste more time and money.
  Vote ``no'' on this wasteful, destructive bill.
  Mr. CAMP. I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, the reason this legislation is important is that, from 
what little information we do have, we know the administration is not 
meeting their stated goals, and they are not on track to meet 7 million 
people by March 31. We don't know the mix of people that have enrolled. 
We don't know how many of them are young and healthy. We don't know how 
many of them have paid a premium. The reason these things are important 
for us to know and to track is, this is a big deal. This is one-sixth 
of the American economy. There is probably no legislative area that 
affects people more than their health care.
  The reason we have to know this information is because if they aren't 
meeting their stated goals and their projections in terms of the cost 
of this bill, it could mean that people's premiums skyrocket next year. 
It could mean that the physician that they are used to seeing and being 
treated by, many times for an ongoing illness, may not be available to 
them under their insurance plan.
  So these are important issues. These are important benchmarks for us 
to know. It is important for the American people to know. It is 
important for the media to know. Because then, if we can understand 
what is really happening as we are in the middle of this, constructive 
changes could be made to this bill. What they want to do is keep us in 
the dark. They say vote ``no.'' Make sure we don't know what is going 
on, and then we will have a health care crisis even greater than the 
one we have now.
  So I urge a ``yes'' vote on this bill, and I yield back the balance 
of my time.
  Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the 
Exchange Information Disclosure Act. This legislation is needed because 
of what we know and what we do not know.
  Congress has repeatedly asked this administration for information 
about the rollout of Obamacare. We know this administration is not 
transparent. We know this administration has not been forthcoming or 
willing to acknowledge problems. The administration repeatedly came 
before Congress and testified the exchange was ready. Now know the 
federal exchange was not ready and there is mounting evidence just how 
early the administration knew.
  We know enrollment is in serious trouble. Based on the 
Administration's projections, December enrollment was over 1 million 
people below their own goal. At the current pace, enrollment for 2014 
will fall over 2.4 million people short of the Administration's own 
projections. They project they need 38 percent of enrollees to be young 
and healthy, so far only 24 percent are. We know, without the right 
demographic mix premiums will continue to go up.
  This is what we know. But there is a lot we do not know.
  We do not know how many people have completed enrollment by actually 
paying premiums. We need this information to understand just how bad 
the problem really is. The administration has been unwilling to 
regularly release data about enrollments; instead we get limited, 
sterilized data of the administration's choosing provided on seemingly 
random dates.
  Our health care system is facing a crisis, and Congress needs to be a 
full partner with the Administration in fixing this disaster. For that, 
we need the raw data, we need the hard truths and we need to know what 
the administration knows, when they know it. This bill requires weekly 
reports of all of the important data. This bill is needed if Congress 
is going to be able to do its job for the American people.
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 3362. 
It's very important for the administration to disclose data on 
enrollments in coverage through the health care Marketplaces, at the 
same frequency as it does for Medicare, the Children's Health Insurance 
Program, and other federal programs. In fact, Monday's monthly report 
provided extensive national and State-by-State data for December, 
breaking it down by gender, age, and financial assistance status of new 
enrollees, as well as the levels of coverage selected. Today's bill is 
not about enhancing data disclosure in the Marketplaces. Rather, its 
goal appears to be to tie the hands of State and federal agencies with 
unnecessary, unrealistic requirements, and delay their efforts to 
enroll people in quality, affordable coverage. I urge my colleagues to 
oppose this bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 455, the previous question is ordered on 
the bill, as amended.
  The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit 
at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill?
  Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. I am.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I reserve a point of order against the motion 
to recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. A point of order is reserved.
  The Clerk will report the motion to recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts moves to recommit the bill H.R. 
     3362 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with 
     instructions to report the bill back to the House forthwith 
     with the following amendment:
       Add at the end of the bill the following new section:

     SEC. 5. DISCLOSURE OF LOWER COSTS AND ADDITIONAL HEALTH 
                   BENEFITS PROVIDED TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES.

       Not later than 5 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, and every month thereafter through March 2015, the 
     Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to 
     Congress and make available to State governors, State 
     insurance commissioners, and the public a report containing 
     information, with respect to individuals and families 
     enrolling in health insurance coverage through an Exchange 
     established under title I of the Patient Protection and 
     Affordable Care Act, on each of the following:
       (1) The number of such individuals and families who have 
     received premium tax credits or have lower out-of-pocket 
     costs.
       (2) The number of such individuals and families who are no 
     longer subject to discrimination based on pre-existing 
     conditions.
       (3) The number of such individuals and families who are no 
     longer subject to annual and lifetime limits on health 
     insurance coverage.
       (4) The number of such individuals and families who were 
     uninsured prior to enrolling in health insurance coverage 
     through such an Exchange.

     Nothing in this Act shall limit the ability of the Secretary 
     of Health and Human Services to inform individuals and 
     families of the lower costs for health insurance coverage and 
     additional benefits that are available pursuant to the 
     Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title I and 
     subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education 
     Reconciliation Act of 2010.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from 
Massachusetts is recognized for 5 minutes in support of her motion.
  Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as 
I may consume.
  This is the final amendment to the bill. This amendment will not kill 
the bill; and should it pass, the House will immediately take up the 
bill, as amended.
  Mr. Speaker, having just been sworn in a month ago, may I first say, 
it is an honor to serve the Fifth District of Massachusetts. My 
district is looking to us to focus on jobs, rebuild the economy, and 
extend unemployment benefits. Instead, Republicans have scheduled the 
48th vote to undermine the Affordable Care Act.
  We have a job to do. We have to ensure that the hardworking families 
we serve are able to navigate the health

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care law and are able to make informed decisions about their health 
care coverage. Our job is to ensure that should problems arise, we are 
able to direct resources toward a timely fix.
  Some of my colleagues believe that an increase in transparency will 
help us achieve those goals. So why not do that? Why not let Americans 
know exactly what has been going on since this law has been 
implemented? Why not let people understand all facets of this law? I 
support transparency and making the law the best it can be for millions 
of families and children who will benefit from it.
  I know firsthand how good this reform will be for the American people 
because I watched it happen in my own State. In 2006, Massachusetts 
implemented health care reform which today is benefiting hundreds of 
thousands of families. It took hard work, and it meant lawmakers who 
didn't always agree on everything had to work together to do right by 
those they served. Today, 98 percent of the people in Massachusetts are 
benefiting from some form of health care coverage.
  Because I was not yet elected last fall, like millions of Americans, 
I watched from home as the destructive and irresponsible fight against 
the ACA shut our government down. It is time to stop the obstruction 
over this issue and get back to work for the American people.
  If our goal is truly transparency--not just harassment to make sure 
the law never works--why not give the full picture? Let's give families 
and businesses all of the information they need regarding what is 
available to them, as well as what we are going to do to make the law 
work better.
  My motion to recommit will better inform those we serve with facts 
about the benefits which millions of American families are seeking. My 
amendment will provide the full picture, not just data handpicked to 
support a partisan argument.
  This includes information regarding how many families and individuals 
have received tax credits. It will include disclosures on the number of 
Americans who are no longer subject to discrimination based on 
preexisting conditions. Families at home will know how many people are 
no longer subject to annual and lifetime limits on coverage. They will 
know how many people who were previously uninsured are now able to 
access health care and plan for the future.
  If we are to do right by those we serve--do what we were elected to 
do, which is to make health care reform work for the American people--
then we should spare the partisan agendas and pass this commonsense 
amendment.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my point of order, and I claim the 
time in opposition to the motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The point of order is withdrawn.
  The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, opponents of the Exchange Information 
Disclosure Act argue that HHS is already reporting data. Yet more than 
3 months after the disastrous launch of the exchanges, we simply do not 
know how many Americans have actually completed enrollment by paying 
their first month's premium. As Secretary Sebelius acknowledged at an 
Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in December, enrollment in an 
exchange is not complete until the first month's premium has been paid.
  The administration so far has refused to tell the American people how 
many people are actually enrolled in the health care law's exchanges. 
Either the administration is refusing to tell us how many people are 
actually enrolled or they simply do not know. Neither answer should 
instill confidence in a law that puts over 2 trillion taxpayer dollars 
on the line.
  This underlying bill would require the administration to give us real 
and actual enrollment data. The American people deserve transparency, 
and this is what the Exchange Information Disclosure Act would deliver. 
I urge all Members to oppose this motion to recommit and vote for the 
underlying bill.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas 
and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair 
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on 
the question of passage.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 186, 
nays 226, not voting 20, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 22]

                               YEAS--186

     Andrews
     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--226

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers

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     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--20

     Bachmann
     Buchanan
     Carson (IN)
     Cleaver
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Gabbard
     Hinojosa
     Huffman
     Jones
     McCarthy (NY)
     Miller (FL)
     Noem
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Slaughter
     Smith (NJ)
     Stockman
     Wolf

                              {time}  1151

  Messrs. ROGERS of Michigan, RICE of South Carolina, ROGERS of 
Kentucky, WHITFIELD, STIVERS, and FORTENBERRY changed their vote from 
``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK and Mr. PETERSON changed their vote from ``nay'' to 
``yea.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 259, 
nays 154, not voting 19, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 23]

                               YEAS--259

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barrow (GA)
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bera (CA)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Byrne
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Capps
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Enyart
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallego
     Garcia
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Kuster
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lummis
     Maffei
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     Matheson
     McAllister
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Michaud
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     O'Rourke
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peters (CA)
     Peterson
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Rahall
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schrader
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shea-Porter
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Sires
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Vargas
     Vela
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Walz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--154

     Andrews
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Butterfield
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Cartwright
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Garamendi
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (MI)
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Sherman
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--19

     Buchanan
     Carson (IN)
     Castor (FL)
     Cleaver
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Gabbard
     Gutierrez
     Hinojosa
     Jones
     McCarthy (NY)
     Miller (FL)
     Noem
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Slaughter
     Stockman
     Wolf

                              {time}  1200

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                          Personal Explanation

  Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, due to a medical procedure, I was unable to 
vote the week of January 13, 2014. On Monday, January 13, had I been 
present, I would have voted ``yes'' on rollcall vote 12 (H.R. 1513), 
and ``yes'' on rollcall vote 13 (S. 230).
  On January 14, had I been present, I would have voted ``yes'' on 
rollcall vote 14 (H.R. 2274), ``yes'' on rollcall vote 15 (H.R. 801), 
``yes'' on rollcall vote 16 (Journal), ``yes'' on rollcall vote 17 
(H.R. 2860), and ``yes'' on rollcall vote 18 (H.R. 1233).
  On January 15, had I been present, I would voted ``no'' on rollcall 
vote 19 (Previous Question on H.R. 1233), ``no'' on rollcall vote 20 
(H. Res. 458), and ``yes'' on rollcall vote 21 (H.R. 3547).
  On January 16, had I been present, I would have voted ``yes'' on 
rollcall vote 22 (Motion to Recommit H.R. 3362) and ``no'' on rollcall 
vote 23 (H.R. 3362).


                          Personal Explanation

  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained and missed 
rollcall vote Nos. 22 and 23. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``yes'' on rollcall vote No. 22 and ``no'' on rollcall vote No. 23.


                          Personal Explanation

  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, today I attended the funeral of 
Army Sergeant, First Class William Kelly Lacey, a fallen soldier from 
my district, and missed the following rollcall votes: Nos. 22 and 23 on 
January 16, 2014.
  If present, I would have voted: rollcall vote No 22--On Motion to 
Recommit with Instructions, H.R. 3362, Exchange Information Disclosure 
Act, ``nay;'' rollcall vote No. 23--H.R.

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3362, Exchange Information Disclosure Act, ``aye.''


                          Personal Explanation

  Mr. CARSON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, on January 16, 2014, I missed 
rollcall votes 22 and 23 because of district business. Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``yes'' on rollcall 22 and ``no'' on 
rollcall 23.

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