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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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Sep 18, 2014

I don't think Mr. Outterson or I thought or would want anybody to believe that we thought you don't need a profit and you don't need the private enterprise.

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Sep 18, 2014

I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gene Green). (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

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Sep 18, 2014

I yield myself an additional 1 minute. This bill creates a new process to rubberstamp every other pending and future tar sands pipeline. It even exempts these massive projects from the National Environmental Policy Act by limiting the NEPA…

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Sep 18, 2014

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Womack). The gentleman from California has 47\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Washington has 44 minutes remaining.

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Sep 18, 2014

I think it is essential that the drug bear a prominent statement describing the abbreviated pathway by which it came to market.

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Sep 18, 2014

We want to make sure they get a profit so that we want to guarantee we could take their investment, guarantee a certain percentage, and say that is how much the government will pay you.

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Sep 18, 2014

I would like to ask unanimous consent that a statement prepared by Congresswoman Louise Slaughter be included in the record.

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Sep 18, 2014

So tell us how to change this economic model. You talked about that in your presentation.

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Sep 18, 2014

I believe a lot more in public investment because the pharmaceutical engineers are not going to make a lot of investment in this area when their research investments can result in a blockbuster drug.

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Sep 18, 2014

We have given tax credits. We want to shorten the time at FDA to get this review done as quickly as possible to get the drug out there.

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Sep 18, 2014

I won't take 25 minutes to rebut the statement that was just made. I yield myself 3 minutes. I am impressed by the statement we had from a man who is trying to educate, as he says, the American people in that Republicans worry about 11…

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Sep 18, 2014

I hope we will discuss today another approach to getting new antibiotics on the market.

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Sep 18, 2014

Last Congress we passed the GAIN Act to provide new incentives for the development of important antibiotics.

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Sep 18, 2014

Well, I would suggest that we may be better off putting much more money into biomedical research at NIH and throughout universities around the country because they don't have the profit motive and what they do helps the companies because…

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Sep 18, 2014

You have done a wonderful job at the FDA, and your responses to questions from both sides of the aisle have been very, very thoughtful.

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Sep 16, 2014

One way to help alleviate those fears and build trust is for the United States to establish effective baseline privacy and data security protections.

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Sep 16, 2014

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

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Sep 16, 2014

Regaining the trust of consumers worldwide is crucial to the continued growth of Internet and communications technology sector in the United States.

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Sep 16, 2014

With these types of efforts, we can educate, train, and employ African Americans and other minorities so that they too can enjoy the economic benefits of the American energy boom.

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Sep 16, 2014

I strongly supported this effort. It would have created good, clean energy jobs for local residents while also helping low-income families save money on the energy bills through energy efficiency upgrades.

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Sep 16, 2014

There is no doubt that foreign trust in the United States Government and of U.S.-based companies has been hurt by revelations since last year about the NSA's online surveillance programs.

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Sep 16, 2014

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.

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Sep 16, 2014

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

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Sep 16, 2014

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.

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Sep 16, 2014

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.

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