Given this wake-up call you would think members of Congress... would be outrageous.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing. As we in Congress look for ways to accelerate job growth, it is essential to highlight growth industries and examine what makes them successful contributors to the national economic recovery.

We are shocked that something like this could happen, but we then blame others and don't accept responsibility for ourselves.

This security lapse is incredible. We have to do everything in our power to ensure that no one else breaches our security.

The United States does not exist in a bubble. Pollution doesn't respect national borders.

I wrote to Chairman Upton and Chairman Whitfield and explained that their report was incorrect, asked them to retract that report until they reviewed the facts more carefully.

One of our greatest strengths as Americans is our generosity to those in need.

This investigation was commenced last summer and the Republicans released a staff report saying that President Obama had doled out millions of dollars to foreign recipients.

This bill proves that poor oversight leads to dumb legislation.

As far as I'm concerned, they ought to be put in jail. It's so terrible what they're doing, using the plight of our veterans to make themselves rich, and playing upon the good, well-meaning Americans who want to help veterans and are…

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

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

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.

Yet as America burns, this committee fiddles.

Domestic oil and gas production has increased each year of the Obama administration, and it is the highest it has ever been in 8 years.

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

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

I would like to make a few comments on the committee process for H.R. 4273. As introduced, I had substantial concerns about H.R. 4273. The introduced bill gave the Department of Energy unprecedented and unchecked new authority to waive any…

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.

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

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

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

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

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