Henry Waxman

We want to do better.

But I hope you realize that further cuts to our committee would be counterproductive.

We need to understand how this tragedy occurred and what role FDA plays in ensuring the safety of compounded drugs.

Utilities want Congress to act and I want Congress to act, but if Congress doesn't act, the President must do everything he can.

When future generations look back on this time, they won't care whether we enacted my preferred approach or your preferred approach.

Regulatory certainty is vital and the climate legislation would revive that certainty.

We talked about the NRC and the filter vent issue and how that is going to create new challenges.

If you want an all-of-the-above portfolio, we've got to have policies that will encourage alternatives to fossil fuels.

EPA's proposed carbon pollution standard for new power plants is a good first step.

The energy policy decisions that we make today will have a real and direct impact on whether we can prevent the worst impacts of climate change in the future.

We can't have a conversation about America's energy policy without also having a conversation about climate change.

Climate change is the biggest energy challenge we face as a country.

If you want an 'all of the above' portfolio, well, we have got to have policies that will encourage alternatives to fossil fuels.

Ideally, this committee would listen to the scientific experts and enact a responsible energy policy that recognizes the reality of climate change.

Climate change is the biggest energy challenge we face as a country.

The cost of renewable energy is rapidly declining.

Cheap natural gas is also helping to transform our electricity sector.

There is no way we can do our job ensuring that the taxpayers are protected with one out of every five slots unfilled.

That may be pennywise, but it is pound foolish.

Despite our joint commitment to operate more efficiently, the big problem we are facing now is to meet our growing legislative responsibilities with a shrinking budget.

Chairman Upton has followed that tradition. He has allowed the minority to control how we spend our budget to meet the needs of our members.

I appreciate this opportunity to testify on the proposed budget for the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the 113th Congress.

Mr. Cummings, myself, and everyone on the dais, oversight is in fact about recognizing the potential for savings.

As far as I can tell, we have never had a year in which we got less; we always got more.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has to curtail its output of its Browns Ferry nuclear reactors in Alabama during the summers of 2010 and 2011 because the temperature of the river used for cooling waters became too hot.