Henry Waxman

My Republican friends want to ignore the broken healthcare system we had before the Affordable Care Act.

In the 111th Congress, we worked on a bipartisan basis with industry, labor, and other affected stakeholders to methodically resolve each of the issues surrounding the CFATS program.

The Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards Program, or CFATS, is a critical national security program designed to protect communities from potential terrorist attacks on industrial facilities with significant stores of dangerous…

The problems with the program are not all Congress' fault.

More work is needed before Congress and the American public can have confidence in the risk assessments that determine the potential dangers facilities pose.

Unfortunately, the CFATS program is a grave disappointment.

As the Committee further considers the CFATS program, having your legislative recommendations for reforming the program would obviously be very helpful.

Since we worked on that bill 3 years ago, additional challenges have come to light.

Does the administration still support maintaining EPA as the lead agency for drinking water and wastewater facilities with the Department supporting EPA's efforts?

Today's hearing underscores the need for reform of this program, and in my view, this committee should develop comprehensive reauthorization legislation.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing, and welcome to all of our witnesses...

I am proud to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia. Served in the General Assembly there for 17 years.

I hope the Republicans will heed Speaker Boehner's advice to accept health reform as the law of the land.

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, we have added 6 million private sector jobs.

We will hear some dire predictions that we have been hearing for 3 years about this supposedly nefarious piece of legislation.

The Affordable Care Act is a good bill. And the more their efforts are cut back on funding it, not implementing it, the more Americans will suffer.

I believe that most employers want to be part of the solution and once they begin to comply, I am confident they will begin to understand the overall advantages to offering health benefits.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for recognizing me and for holding this hearing.

I wish I could stay here to hear all the witnesses.

The proposed standard provides compliance flexibility and incentives for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technologies.

They want Congress to establish the rules of the road so they can plan for the future and make the appropriate investments.

We have advocated--we believe it is inevitable there is going to be regulation.

Would you agree that regulatory certainty is vital and the climate legislation would revive that certainty?

The question we should ask them is how can they reconcile unrestrained and ever-increasing carbon pollution with the scientific reality of climate change?

We need to understand and weigh those risks.