Henry Waxman

The fundamental problem isn't that we are not drilling enough or even that we are too inefficient.

The top five oil companies earned $137 billion in profits last year and gas prices are rising.

The President has called for eliminating the $4 billion in tax breaks for oil companies, and instead investing it in alternative energy.

As long as the U.S. is heavily dependent on oil, we will be vulnerable to price volatility in the global oil market.

We can't afford to take money from taxpayers struggling to pay their mortgages and fill up their tanks and hand it to oil companies making billions in profits.

The Republican mantra is that we need to 'drill, baby, drill.' This slogan may sound good, but it is based on a complete fiction.

It is vital that we are paying attention to this question.

IPAB is a useful backstop to impose some discipline on Congress to stop out-of-control Medicare health spending.

I think this political approach would jeopardize all the progress we made.

You are one of the finest Secretaries we have had for Health and Human Services

This is exactly the type of oversight this subcommittee should be conducting, ensuring that our government uses its resources wisely

The smart grid offers tremendous potential benefits. Modernizing the grid will make electricity cheaper, more efficient, more reliable

I'm pleased at this time to yield 4 minutes the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rush), the ranking member of the Energy Subcommittee,

Since the 20 years that Congress last reauthorized the FCC, this subcommittee has held oversight hearings to look at your budget and to also review how the agency is functioning.

My question is about your company. I want to know whether Tri-State funded Dr.

It is important that we learn about his discrepancy and find out if Dr. Michaels was misrepresenting himself as an unbiased researcher if in fact he was receiving significant support from energy companies and polluting industries for…

Your members might be surprised to learn that their money was used to fund an advocacy firm to downplay the significance of climate change.

Three years ago, Dr. Patrick Michaels testified before the Energy and Environment Subcommittee that widely accepted scientific data has overestimated global warming and that regulation enacted in response to that data could have a very…

Yet, as noted in my written testimony, independent research done to date demonstrates that caloric menu labeling has no impact on consumer eating habits.

If our company and franchise restaurants are forced to replace our menu board panels, we estimate it will cost approximately $1.5 million.

This is not a fact-finding hearing to understand whether we need changes in the regulatory system; this is a hearing to hear anecdotes from four people from four different industries about their complaints.

The rapidity with which legislators and bureaucrats are increasing the number of regulations with which we must comply adds to the various challenges our company and our franchisees face.

Our company and its franchisees, all of whom are small business owners, are facing ever-increasing regulatory burdens.

No one action turned the economy around or can turn the economy around, but efforts including the Recovery Act... have helped.

The financial crisis that ripped through our economy in 2008 was the worst our country has faced since 1929.