Henry Waxman

I support President Obama's all-of-the-above energy approach.

Yet as America burns, this committee fiddles.

Mr. Chairman, might I remind you that today, more than 113 million Americans are living under extreme heat advisories.

Public lands are not solely for oil and gas production. Our public lands are held in trust for the American people, not the oil companies.

The results of the law are clear. Toy-related deaths have fallen, recalls due to lead have declined by 80 percent.

This law was a landmark piece of legislation. It fundamentally changed how we protect children from potentially dangerous products.

Thanks to this safety law, we now have strong standards for products used by infants and children.

It is a relief that the shutdown of this reactor went smoothly, the defects in the equipment were discovered before there was a major release of radiation into the atmosphere.

But I don't think we have got to push legislation to put a product back on the market in the face of such strong opposition by public health and physician organizations.

I take seriously when the health professionals take a point of view that something is not safe.

I would actually recommend... we have the ability for patients to get albuterol very easily.

Obviously, if you have two on each side, it doesn't produce a tie; it just means it is a balanced presentation and that is always a good idea so we hear both sides of the issue.

Mr. Murai, the California strawberry growers are by far the largest remaining users of methyl bromide in the United States.

I am concerned about the provision of the bill that would allow growers to obtain methyl bromide without a critical use exemption for so-called emergency events.

Let me ask, does anyone on the panel think that we should amend the Clean Air Act to allow sectors that have completely eliminated the use of methyl bromide to start using it again?

The whole idea of the protocol international agreement is that we are not going to give an advantage to other countries.

We should be celebrating and strengthening the Montreal Protocol, not considering legislation to weaken it.

In the 1970s, scientists warned that manmade chemicals were depleting the stratospheric ozone.

I think that this particular medication is concerning.

I yearn for the day when the Republicans knew how to handle this problem.

We must find a way to end the unsustainable system of cuts that loom over our physicians every year.

I would like to start by acknowledging and welcoming the bipartisan interest in transforming the Medicare physician payment system.

It certainly would send a signal to a lot of people who don't have health insurance that they are not going to have an opportunity to get health insurance.

Of course, the main thing that makes sense at the moment is to deal with this SGR problem because it is--nothing else seems to work unless we take care of SGR.

We want a health care system that works. We want some innovation, experimentation, but no one size fits all.