We can't tell the American people buyer beware when potentially life-and-death care decisions are at stake.

I agree that innovation is important, that overregulation can harm public health just as underregulation can.

We all want to see this pace of innovation in the mobile medical app market continue and accelerate.

There are legitimate concerns that we ought to examine, instead of using today's hearing to invent new fallacies to attack the Affordable Care Act.

Mobile medical applications hold incredible promise for patients and health care providers.

Unfortunately, in the name of fiscal responsibility and balancing the budget, we are often presented with what I believe is a false choice between securing our Nation's fiscal health and ensuring the health of older, disabled, and…

It seems that the term 'entitlement' has come to mean different things to different people.

The Ryan budget proposal that is going to be on the floor this week... don't hold down the costs but simply shift them to beneficiaries, providers, and States.

Health reform is entitlement reform. It is this kind of reform that builds a better healthcare system for all Americans at the same time that it lowers costs and helps support the long-term sustainability of our public healthcare programs.

We've come a long way with clean energy over the last 4 years. We've doubled the production of clean renewable energy like wind and solar. And the new tailpipe standards for automobiles will double the fuel efficiency of our passenger…

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

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

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...

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…

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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