Henry Waxman

We can't have an honest discussion about the future of the electricity system unless we talk about climate change.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I would like to suggest that our committee look at this opportunity, take action, and pass this bill, Medicare Drug Savings Act, which would cut beneficiary costs, protecting seniors, make sure they have access to drugs.

I would not interfere in any way with any of the drugs that people would get, it would just mean a huge savings for those drugs, restoring the price we pay for those drugs that the manufacturers received prior to Part D.

I believe there is a better way, and I have introduced to the last two Congresses the Medicare Drug Savings Act that would end one of the worst giveaways that was included in the original Part D bill.

Today's hearing will focus on the Medicare Part D drug program.

So I think we ought to celebrate the ability of the new technologies to go along with the standards because it is going to be a win-win proposition.

But we have a long record of DOE's investments and EPA standards that work hand in hand.

So without a mandate, we are not going to get carbon pollution controls on coal, and that is why EPA rules are so essential.

Well, if you don't have this requirement, why spend the money? Why would a coal company or a power plant want to spend the money if they didn't have to if they could do it without having to spend the money and they can continue doing…

So it is good for American business? We can export this?

Industry can pollute because it costs less to dump pollution than to pay to clean it up.

Investments that the Department of Energy is making in CCS will help industry produce cleaner power...

There is one set of laws we cannot change. Those are the laws of nature.

My Republican colleagues accuse the president of waging a war on coal. In fact, the president is trying to create a future for coal.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, FSMA, we call it, represents a fundamental shift in how FDA approaches food safety, focusing on prevention instead of reaction.

We want to evaluate how businesses and government can better protect the security of consumers' personal information.

I think this may be the first of a series of troubling cyber attacks on prominent retailers that are going to tell us today about their experience.

We also need to start bipartisan talks to see if we can reach a compromise that protects the public from dangerous toxic chemicals without unduly burdening industry.

This disaster illustrated some serious problems with the current law.

There may not be bio-monitoring methodologies that are available.

Determining something is a low priority, or not hazard, should be a very high bar.

I believe TSCA is a flawed law that must be updated, and we need to work together to do this.

Technology has changed at a blistering pace since the enactment of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

I believe we need an agency like the FCC that can write forward-looking rules of the road for industry and consumers.