Mr. Speaker, on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, I was absent during rollcall vote No. 169 due to a family medical emergency. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on the motion to recommit on H.R. 4348--Surface Transportation Extension…

Mr. Chair, on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, I was absent during rollcall vote No. 168 due to a family medical emergency. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on agreeing to the Ribble Amendment No. 2.

Mr. Speaker, on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, I was absent during rollcall vote No. 166 due to a family medical emergency. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on agreeing to H. Res. 619 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R…

Sequestration and the cuts involved in sequestration would be a disaster for the Defense Department and would truly hollow out our force and weaken our national defense.

the bottom line is that anything that takes the Assad regime down is a step in the right direction right now

I rise in opposition to the amendment. President Obama has already threatened to veto this legislation because it circumvents the longstanding process for reviewing the potentially dangerous Keystone XL pipeline. The McKinley amendment…

This legislation does not include any legal standard to establish a minimum level of safety, and to the extent new safety requirements are established, nearly all of them can be waived at a State's discretion. This legislation appears to…

Mr. Speaker, I'm sick of women getting the short end of the stick. On the whole, women earn less than men for the exact same jobs. In fact, compared to men, women basically work for free 3.5 months of the year since we only make 77 cents…

This legislation would remove all liability for harm caused by these fuels and fuel additives.

I think that this bill is flawed beyond just the drafting.

We should not eliminate liability from harm caused by MMT, but that is what this bill does.

Thank you for what you are doing, and I hope that we can continue that sort of program.

I think it is, during a time of economic difficulty, to pull the rug out from any number of people in the clean energy sector is a travesty.

Although I don't believe that this hearing is going to lead to any meaningful legislation, it is more of a political sounding board for the majority party, but I do have some questions.

I think whenever we talk about adding new exclusivity, we need to ensure that it is truly necessary.

We must worry not only about patients receiving medications that could be dangerous to them because their safety has not been established in broader populations.

I don't think we just want any antibiotics. We don't need two versions of the same antibiotics we already have.

the LPAD offers an approach that I think should be given serious consideration because it has a potential to get important new antibiotics into market more quickly than usually possible.