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.

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

I am proud to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia. Served in the General Assembly there for 17 years.

We have advocated--we believe it is inevitable there is going to be regulation.

We want to do better.

The question we should ask them is how can they reconcile unrestrained and ever-increasing carbon pollution with the scientific reality of climate change?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We need to understand and weigh those risks.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

That may be pennywise, but it is pound foolish.

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

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

They want Congress to establish the rules of the road so they can plan for the future and make the appropriate investments.

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