Feb 4, 2013
We ought to be very pleased with the advantages that have come to us with the production of more oil and gas resources.
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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Feb 4, 2013
Do you think we ought to develop a policy that looks at the environmental consequences of where we are going in energy development?
Feb 4, 2013
We have a rapidly diminishing window to act to reduce our carbon pollution before the catastrophic impacts of climate change are irreversible.
Feb 4, 2013
I look forward to this hearing and future hearings on this subject and to our cooperation to deal with these problems in a bipartisan and a balanced way.
Feb 4, 2013
The future will belong to the country that leads the inevitable transition to the clean energy economy of tomorrow.
Feb 4, 2013
We can't have a conversation about America's energy policy without also having a conversation about climate change.
Feb 4, 2013
We are dramatically improving the efficiency of our use of oil, so we are using less of it.
Dec 12, 2012
May I inquire how much time each side has and which side has the right to close? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Emerson). The gentleman from California has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Texas has 12 minutes remaining, and the…
Dec 12, 2012
I'm pleased now to yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Castor), an important member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Dec 12, 2012
Well, it just shows, if we have more insurance companies willing to offer insurance policies, the competitive model for the consumer choice is going to be more successful under those circumstances.
Dec 12, 2012
Let us not buy into this next line of attack that the law must be delayed. Let us recognize that we have got a law.
Dec 12, 2012
The ACA has been law for nearly 3 years now. It has an impressive list of accomplishments, and the basic reforms are still ahead of us.
Dec 12, 2012
The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. We should all be united in seeing that its implementation works.
Dec 12, 2012
The Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act is a tremendous step forward for our health care system.
Dec 12, 2012
Your idea is not going to succeed. That was one of the issues in the presidential campaign, and you lost.
Dec 12, 2012
Medicaid is an expensive program but we have a lot of people who are very poor in this country, and we can save a lot of money if we didn't give them health care.
Dec 11, 2012
Some have expressed concern about guard bands that are too big or not technically reasonable.
Dec 11, 2012
The first duty of the public servant is the public safety, but that is not just my opinion, it is the law
Dec 11, 2012
You gave a speech several months ago at Wharton in which you suggested there is a war on Wi-Fi.
Dec 11, 2012
Why do you think that start-ups, innovators, technology companies, many of which populate Miss Eshoo's district and my district, care so much about unlicensed spectrum?
Dec 11, 2012
We understood this to be a good compromise that showed unlicensed and licensed uses did not have to be mutually exclusive.
Dec 11, 2012
The law advances unlicensed use in several ways: It allows the FCC to use the existing white spaces in the broadcast band for unlicensed use.
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