I thank Chairman Walden for holding this important hearing and working with us to assemble a balanced panel.

I think we're all supporters of the FDA; but if the Republicans were truly interested in FDA, they would work with Democrats. We would have a conversation about it to lift the sequester and restore funding for FDA and all other critical…

We're on the seventh day of a government shutdown caused by the reckless actions of House Republicans; and we are now considering the sixth piecemeal bill that reopens a few government activities, but still continues the shutdown for…

Funding the government is one bipartisan step we could take. It is a compromise for us, and I would vote for it.

Let's refund all of the government efforts, including the CDC and the NIH and the FDA, and not single them out and leave everybody else behind.

Let's put policy over politics by funding the government. What this reckless closing of the government has accomplished is to stall a lot of government agencies from doing their mission, and one of the most important agencies that has a…

I am pleased at this time to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas, (Mr. Green).

I yield the gentlelady an additional 30 seconds. Ms. DeGETTE. I am committed to strengthening this law so that we never have any other tragedy such as what Mr. Griffith discussed, where we have a Doug Wingate who right now is missing his…

I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. Mr. Speaker, in addition to these important compounding authorities, this legislation will establish an electronic, interoperable system at the Federal level that tracks each package of drugs at the…

At this time I yield 2 minutes to a good friend from the State of Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro). Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the act before us. I support the track-and-trace provisions to prevent fake medication from…

And my colleagues, the Republicans would not work with us and figure out how ObamaCare should meet the needs of the American people, but it was passed into law. The courts approved it. The electorate voted and approved the President, who…

On Friday, the world's best scientists rendered a conclusive verdict: climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and its consequences will be catastrophic. What the scientists are telling us is that evidence is now just as…

What is your plan? Don't just say no; propose an alternative.

If we are going to ask the United States to bear all of the environmental risk of transporting this dirty oil, we should at least ensure that the American people see some benefit.

I think we are going to have success around the country unless Republicans intimidate people.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

The worst abuses of the insurance companies have been ended. This Republican approach, I believe, is bad for the country.

I resent the kind of questions that our witness has just been subjected to by my colleague.

I don't see the benefits to U.S. energy consumer even though that is an argument that is put forward quite a bit.

It appears to be part of the efforts by the Republican party to engage in partisan attacks on this law and if they could do it, even sabotage the Affordable Care Act.

The President has wisely said that he will not approve the pipeline if it leads significantly to worse climate change, and that is clearly the case.

There are plenty of other infrastructure investments that we can make that would generate good jobs across the country, hundreds of thousands of jobs.

I just think this is such an abuse of power to intimidate Navigators who are going to explain the new law to people.

If our goal is creating jobs, Keystone XL is not the answer.

They want to confuse people. They want to scare people.