Americans want clean air. They don't want this committee to use high gasoline prices as an excuse for blocking regulations.

Today's bills may win the prize for legislative false advertising. These bills will not reduce gasoline prices by a single penny.

The Gasoline Regulation Act of 2012 would not reduce gas prices, but it would waste government resources and taxpayer dollars.

The two bills that are proposed here are--they are simply not the answer.

The most effective thing we can do is use less oil.

If you really cared about helping the country become more resilient to gasoline price volatility, you would be working with the administration instead of trying to block President Obama's every initiative.

I am genuinely concerned about this for a lot of different reasons.

Most troubling, however, is the provision unrelated to gas prices. Section 6 would roll back one of the key public health protections in the Clean Air Act.

Cleaning up vehicles and fuels is a highly cost effective way to reduce air pollution and keep our children and families healthy.

If this regulation is adopted, there will not be another coal power plant built in America without carbon capture and sequestration.

Not only did they not reply in any way, did not respond by letter, by phone call, or anything else.

It is important that we understand the government perspective.

At this time I'd yield 5 of our 36 minutes to the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Braley).

I am pleased at this time to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Holt).

May I inquire how much time each side has remaining in the general debate. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 17\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Pennsylvania has 29\3/4\ minutes remaining.

Nobody is going to deny that there is a problem with medical malpractice. The issue is whether the State of Tennessee can adopt a law to solve its own problem the way the State of California has done, the way the other States have acted…

I am pleased at this time to yield 4 minutes to the distinguished Democratic whip, Mr. Hoyer, from the State of Maryland.

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to my colleague from California, one of the key people in the authorship of the Affordable Care Act, George Miller.

I am pleased to yield to an important member of our committee, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green) for 2 minutes.

I am pleased at this time to yield 3 minutes to the distinguished ranking member and soon-to-be chairman of the Health Subcommittee, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone).

I'm always amused when I hear people talk about government interference in our lives. If people think Medicare is an unjust government interference in their lives, they can forgo their Medicare, but I don't know too many people who would…

May I inquire how much time each side has. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Hastings of Washington). The gentleman from California has 36 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Pennsylvania has 44 minutes remaining.

I would like to thank my colleague, Congressman John Lewis, for his steadfast efforts to press for action on this issue.

The committee passed the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, which I introduced, to make sure NHTSA has the expertise to keep pace with emerging technologies.

The way to hold down cost is to try to reform the way health care is delivered. Medicare tries to do that. If we don't do it that way, the Republicans would say that private insurance will be able to control it because that's all people…