Henry Waxman

I commend Representatives Rush, Whitfield, and Johnson on their introduction of this important legislation.

I am also proud to support Mr. Rush's most recent proposal. This bill would launch a comprehensive new program to create a pathway starting at the elementary school level for minorities to work in energy-related jobs.

Mr. Rush has been a longstanding and tenacious champion for helping minority communities gain access to the full range of career opportunities in the energy field, particularly clean energy jobs.

Mr. Rush's bill addresses a major challenge for our Nation to ensure that all Americans and especially minorities have the skills they need to carry out the jobs available today and in the future.

The Commission is also working hard to reduce the number of backlog across all of its bureaus and offices.

What we are learning is that the FCC is making significant progress in improving its operations and eliminating backlogs.

I support oversight of the FCC, which is a small but critical agency charged with overseeing industries that make up nearly 1/5 of our National economy.

All options remain on the table, including Title II, so that we can properly protect small businesses and startups.

I was successful in reversing this misguided decision legislatively.

There is nothing more certain to undermine confidence in an agency, and by extension the nuclear power sector as a whole, than this dangerous combination of secrecy, stalling and whistleblower retaliation.

I think he will do a great job. I urge you to give him favorable consideration.

We worked together to include the nuclear energy provisions in the Waxman-Markey bill.

We also worked together on the passage of the Markey-Waxman bill to increase the domestic supply of medical isotopes.

We upgraded the security of our electric grid so that it would not be vulnerable to cyber attack.

We commend EPA for using its existing authority under the law, as upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court to propose an effective, reasonable, and flexible approach to cutting carbon pollution.

Some States have not only recognized the danger of climate change, but also led the way in doing something about it.

Do any of you here today disagree that we must cut our emissions of carbon pollution to try to slow climate change?

I applaud the agency for finally taking formal action to change its LDT policy by issuing the notification of its impending guidance.

We don't want to stifle innovation, we do want these LDTs to continue

Well, Mr. Chairman, I want to commend you on this hearing.

For those improvements to be realized, we will need to rely on increasingly sophisticated tests that can both accurately analyze the genetic and molecular properties of diseases as expressed in individuals.

We should always try to learn from mistakes, not dwell on them but learn from them.

The Affordable Care Act is a historic success. It has made comprehensive healthcare reform a reality for the American people.

These hearings, if you look at them, all have one purpose: to undermine the Affordable Care Act regardless of the facts.

EPA's Clean Power Plan is eminently, in my opinion, reasonable and quite modest proposal.