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Henry Waxman is a former U.S. Representative from California, serving from 1975 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was known for his work on health care, environmental policy, and consumer protection. During his tenure, Waxman played a key role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act and was a prominent advocate for climate change legislation. He chaired the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he focused on issues such as tobacco regulation and health care reform.
I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I am a strong supporter of science-based policies. Throughout my career, I have always welcomed expert scientific advice and relied upon facts and scientific evidence to legislate. But…
Today, we are voting once again to grant special treatment to TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This is the third time this Congress and the eighth time since Republicans took control of the House. Instead of helping families…
The last gentleman that spoke said everybody is for this. Well, everybody in Louisiana is clearly for it. The Senator from Louisiana has been a strong supporter of it, and the would-be replacement Senator is strongly for it. The Republican…
I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Cleaver).
May I inquire how much time we have on each side. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Kentucky has 5\1/2\ minutes remaining.
I won't take 25 minutes to rebut the statement that was just made. I yield myself 3 minutes. I am impressed by the statement we had from a man who is trying to educate, as he says, the American people in that Republicans worry about 11…
May I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Womack). The gentleman from California has 47\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Washington has 44 minutes remaining.
May I inquire as to how much time we have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 25 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Washington has 22 minutes remaining.
I yield myself an additional 1 minute. This bill creates a new process to rubberstamp every other pending and future tar sands pipeline. It even exempts these massive projects from the National Environmental Policy Act by limiting the NEPA…
I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gene Green). (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)
I yield myself 2 additional minutes. We said it is not fair to discriminate and deny, allow insurance companies to deny the chance for people with preexisting conditions to buy insurance. The Republicans said, Oh, yeah, we don't think that…
There is an old saying, ``you get what you pay for.'' This is true in medicine as in many other fields, and it is why federal healthcare payment policies are so important. The Affordable Care Act made important reforms in this area. We…
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