I must reiterate my resolve that no mistake going forward will be acceptable.

Madam Speaker, I rise to speak about our college tuition crisis. It's a topic of conversation that comes up around kitchen tables all across America. Parents are seeing college tuition creep up year after year, while their income has…

We owe it to our veterans and their families to get it right the first time, every time.

Due to the delay in receiving mail, please provide your response to Jian Zapata at jian.zapata@mail.house.gov.

It is my hope that NCA continues to move closer to near universal veteran access to burial options around this Nation.

The goal to these hearings is to examine the various fiscal year 2013 budget requests.

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 54, H.R. 3248, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' personal explanation

The rapidity with which legislators and bureaucrats are increasing the number of regulations with which we must comply adds to the various challenges our company and our franchisees face.

Our company and its franchisees, all of whom are small business owners, are facing ever-increasing regulatory burdens.

This is not a fact-finding hearing to understand whether we need changes in the regulatory system; this is a hearing to hear anecdotes from four people from four different industries about their complaints.

If our company and franchise restaurants are forced to replace our menu board panels, we estimate it will cost approximately $1.5 million.

Yet, as noted in my written testimony, independent research done to date demonstrates that caloric menu labeling has no impact on consumer eating habits.

Three years ago, Dr. Patrick Michaels testified before the Energy and Environment Subcommittee that widely accepted scientific data has overestimated global warming and that regulation enacted in response to that data could have a very…

Your members might be surprised to learn that their money was used to fund an advocacy firm to downplay the significance of climate change.

My question is about your company. I want to know whether Tri-State funded Dr.

It is important that we learn about his discrepancy and find out if Dr. Michaels was misrepresenting himself as an unbiased researcher if in fact he was receiving significant support from energy companies and polluting industries for…

Comprehensive reform is what we need here.

Ranking Member McNerney's points, I think were right on and lined up with our transformation plan.