May 17, 2012
At this time, I would like to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Doyle), an important member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Henry Waxman
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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.
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May 17, 2012
Before I yield to Mr. Rush from Illinois, I just want to make a comment. We need to get ourselves off of our dependence on oil whether it is from the United States or overseas; and if we go along with this pipeline, we are increasing our…
May 17, 2012
I'm pleased at this time to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey).
May 17, 2012
May I inquire as to how much time each side has? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Chaffetz). The gentleman from California has 5 minutes. The gentleman from Georgia has 8\1/2\ minutes. The gentleman from Kentucky has 8 minutes.
May 17, 2012
And I rise in opposition to this instruction. First of all, whatever your views are on the pipeline coming out of Canada, this is not the place for this issue to be brought up because what this provision would do would be to short-circuit…
May 17, 2012
I would like to inquire whether whoever is claiming time to speak on this motion on the Republican side of the aisle is, in fact, opposed to the motion.
May 17, 2012
I'd like, at this time, to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Cohen).
May 17, 2012
Those of us who are speaking on this motion to instruct the conferees are from the Energy and Commerce Committee, not the Transportation Committee, which developed the fundamental underlying bill to which this pipeline issue has been…
May 10, 2012
The bill that is before us today is an unbalanced package of cuts that hurts the most vulnerable populations in our society and the working middle class. There was a budget agreement on a bipartisan basis between the Congress and the…
May 10, 2012
Instead of a budget that actually reduces the deficit, which this budget would not do, and that tries to do it in a balanced and fair way, the Ryan budget, and this bill specifically, targets those most in need; and it puts our Nation's…
Apr 27, 2012
I thank the gentleman for yielding. The cynicism of the debate today is why Congress is held in such low repute. We hear Republicans saying that a public health fund is a slush fund. This is a fund set up to keep us healthy, prevent…
Apr 19, 2012
Today is Yom Hashoah U'Gvurah. It is a day to remember the Holocaust heroes and martyrs--those who fought and those who resisted; those who survived and those who perished. In Israel, the day is marked with the piercing wail of sirens that…
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