"Many in the device industry argue that Europe should be our model and they say new technologies are available years before they are on the market in the United States."
"The recent budget by this administration for fiscal year 2013 shows its commitment to restoring middle class security by attacking wasteful spending and instead investing in education, innovation, and..."
"I have very little faith that Congress is going to provide the appropriations for the FDA to do the job without a user fee."
"I know some Republican members think we need severe cuts in the Federal budget that put gapping holes in our safety net while giving tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans."
"This legislation will help us turn this untenable situation around."
"I am proud that we were able to work together in such a strong bipartisan fashion on this legislation."
"One person's cost is another person's income, and so what is compliance costs from the perspective of the industry is incomes and jobs from the perspective of people installing the pollution abatement..."
"These new standards will cut emissions of toxic mercury by 90 percent. This is a major step forward."
"What the Republicans are giving us are false choice."
"Clearly, this a Republican majority that has run out of new bad ideas, so they have just decided to recycle all of their old bad ideas."
"The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts found that EPA's Clean Air Act cross-State air pollution rule and the mercury rule would together create nearly 1.5 million ..."