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

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

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…

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

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.

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.

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.

This disaster illustrated some serious problems with the current law.

I thank you for yielding to me. Madam Speaker, existing law very clearly states no taxpayers' money can fund abortions--that is already the law--with the exception of rape, incest, or to save a woman's life. The Republicans are coming in…

And my colleagues, supporters of this legislation claim that it is simply an effort to get more information about how the Affordable Care Act is being implemented, but it is not really that. It is an effort to slow down the implementation…

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.

The previous speaker in this debate said that we don't know how many times there was a breach of security on the health care Web site. Well, we do know how many breaches of security there were, how many successful attacks there were--zero…

Well, thank you for yielding. I am not going to take that much time, but I do want to respond to the comments that were just made on the House floor. No one is forced to go on this Web site. No one is forced to buy their insurance by going…

I thank you for yielding so I can correct the record. Bipartisan staff on our committee met with the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense to hear a long list of objections they had to the bill that was before the markup in…

I thank my colleague from New York (Mr. Tonko) for yielding and for his kind words. Today the House is considering legislation to reduce the number of cleanups of dangerous contaminated sites that can occur each year. It is reducing the…

I hope we can get it across the finish line and let us get this job done.

Congress would be outreached if anyone proposed delaying payments to Medicare physicians for 90 days for a service provided.

I am generally supportive of these public health programs, but I do want to note my reservations about extending the Abstinence Only program.

I have heard a great deal from family doctors and pediatricians about the Medicaid primary care bonus.

The law was changed in December to say that States must delay payments to those providers for up to 90 days while they chase other potential sources of payment.

We must end the annual extender roller coaster and ensure this coverage is secure going forward.