I hope all the commissioners will give these ideas serious consideration.

The Clean Power Plan will accelerate these changes and may pose greater challenges, but they are challenges that we already must and will address.

Supreme Court decisions are the law of the land.

The Republican members of this committee deny the existence of climate change or pretend it doesn't exist.

EPA's Clean Power Plan is eminently, in my opinion, reasonable and quite modest proposal.

I applaud President Obama and the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, or PCAST, for their ongoing support of NNI and their broader efforts to bolster this field.

Natural gas is a driving force.

They see the EPA's Clean Power Plan for the power sector as a threat to grid reliability.

Those of us who are listening to the overwhelming scientific consensus see carbon emissions from power plants, not EPA regulations, as the real threat to the grid.

It is clear to me that they don't have any productive ideas of their own to offer.

They certainly are working hard to secure their place in history as the least productive Congress in the history of this Nation.

We cannot eliminate coal, which seems to be the goal of this administration, without having that passed on to the consumers.

Today's hearing focuses on the economic impacts of State energy policies.

I can assure you there is a war on coal.

In identifying the best system of emission reductions, we certainly have renewable energy and energy efficiency success stories in every region of the country.

We have to proceed with reason and with caution, and to make sure that we let the science get in front of the regulations.

The Affordable Care Act strengthened our movement away from a healthcare system that rewards providers for the volume of services they provide and toward a system that fosters and promotes high quality, high value care.

We are seeing a lot of tailwinds from the healthcare reform. It has put a lot of pressure on existing stakeholders to reduce costs.

in my district, people are finding that their premiums are going up at a substantial rate.

We should not forget today that the reason CDC conducts their special agent research is to help keep the American public safe.

I would submit that Dr. Frankenstein couldn't fix his monster. We are not capable of fixing Obamacare.

I think it is important for us to investigate this incident involving the release of potentially viable anthrax on CDC's campus in Atlanta.

the President ought to execute the laws passed by Congress and not suspend the law and then re-insert his own legislation into that.

Unfortunately, House Republicans appear more interested in weakening existing environmental protections.

There is no question that water pollution, air pollution, and toxic chemicals cause widespread economic harm.