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One year ago today, April 30, 2014, the Energy and Commerce Committee embarked on an ambitious, bipartisan goal to develop legislation that would bring the medical innovation cycle of discovery, development, and delivery into the 21st…
It ought to just remind you, as you sit here today, how important these issues are.
The amount of fraud and abuse in the program is staggering.
You ought to be embarrassed for the agency you work for and for the American people.
I think that a drastic change like what is proposed here can have a huge impact on a program that has worked effectively since 2002.
Section 11(c) is badly in need of modernization.
I am sick and tired of hearing the Federal Government primarily and the states say we have to increase revenues, and it is always on the backs of hard-working, tax-paying Americans, okay? It is about time that the Federal Government…
It is simply not fair to hit someone two times, three times, four times because they happen to work in that state.
Maybe the state has to get its act together and start running efficiently like my business ran.
Believe me, I have been there, I know what it is like. I do not agree with this whatsoever of being taxed by multiple states.
It's a first. We'll do 5-minute rounds, and we're going to try to move to our next panel at about 10:20.
The OSHA Act was designed to--and you say this at the bottom of your first page, 'assure as far as possible every working man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions,' which is language we should remind ourselves…
In 2012 alone, 4,383 workers were killed on the job, including 163 workers in my home State of Pennsylvania.
Our mission is to assure the health and safety of every worker.
You think just that alone--there might be as many as 200 cases a year that are meritorious that don't get considered.
It's a day to honor those workers who have died, been disabled, injured, or made sick by their work.
Protecting whistleblowers is a responsibility we take very seriously.
