In your testimony, you discussed FEMA's efforts to stop the spread of misinformation through its rumor-control website, and to me this sounds a lot like a website I use called Snopes.

I believe education should always be a national obsession but a local possession, and relying on local stakeholders, I think, can really guide us.

I would first like to begin by extending my sympathies to those who died or were injured during the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on this past Saturday and to their families.

This hearing is very timely because at the crash scene, we saw first-hand the role that social media can play.

I think the evidence is clear from all of the witnesses that right now in the United States we are facing a shortage of high-skilled workers in technology, advanced manufacturing that our employers are just not able to fill.

Is there a goal to have all of the data that FEMA puts out in a open-source format that can be accessed by all?

The Supreme Court decision reinforced the ability of ACA to move forward with the exception of the state Medicaid expansion.

I do appreciate the efforts to partner with community allies in promoting understanding and enrollment in the health plans.

I think that it would be great to consider a waiver for small businesses, and I appreciate your positive response to that inquiry.

But the net result will be a reduction in private sector jobs.

I repeat my past appeals to the administration to follow the letter as well as the spirit of the International Religious Freedom Act and hold Vietnam to account as a Country of Particular Concern.

the vast majority of Americans want to see this be successful, including the vast majority of Republicans, including all of the members of this Committee.

I direct her attention to the Pacific Legal Foundation study that utterly debunked the notion that this has been such a fabulous success.

Well, then, it seems to me we ought to just count the damn hatchery fish.

As I listen to the acting Ranking Member, on behalf of the Democratic Minority, one would think that the ESA was this magnificent success to the environment that has had no cost to our economy. This is sheer fantasy.

I have to tell you, I have never met anybody that wants to pay more for their energy costs.

I just hate to see us taking money out of hazardous fuel reduction, out of ecosystem restoration, out of... proactive fire management in order to fund the very real need that we need to respond to, an urgent fire situation now.

I want to suggest to the Chairman that we ask the OMB to come and have this kind of a conversation.