Henry Waxman

The agenda of congressional Republicans is clear: Do everything possible to maintain our addiction to fossil fuels.

I don't believe in surrender, Mr. Chairman.

We cannot afford to delay further action to tackle climate change if the long-term target of limiting the global average temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius is to be achieved.

That is no way to conduct a responsible investigation. We should be fair and impartial, and our goal should be to find the truth.

We want to know about these taxpayers' dollars that have been lost and how we can learn from this experience not to have it repeated.

I believe in this oversight on the Solyndra loan guarantee issue. It is part of our job.

The rest of us are not willing to go along in changing the law.

That's your interpretation, but the lawyers said otherwise.

It's pretty obvious what's going on in this hearing room. House Republicans and their coal and oil industry allies are manufacturing a scandal, trying to discredit you, President Obama, the clean energy companies.

I think we ought to let the witness go about his job.

You are again being abusive of the witness.

I know the preemption of State laws can sometimes be good for businesses, but it is not clear to me how preemption would help consumers or deter telemarketing abuses.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate your holding this hearing on the Mobile Informational Call Act of 2011.

No single piece of legislation in recent memory has done more to advance women's health and women's access to health services than the Affordable Care Act.

I disagree with the administration in providing that exception.

This is not a hearing about abortion. This is not a hearing about whether people can adhere to their religious beliefs and follow their own individual consciences.

It is another attempt by the Republicans to undermine and undo the Affordable Care Act's provisions related to women's health.

There can be no intrusion more significant than government telling people they cannot get contraception.

So we still need to address this long-term care insurance?

One of the problems people have in trying to buy insurance for long-term care is that if they had any kind of preexisting condition, they can't buy it.

The new benefit of the bill--the new benefits of the bill are entirely paid for and more by new revenues and by improvements that cut the overall cost of health care, cut waste, fraud, and abuse from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

The facts are that even with the news about the CLASS program, the health care reform law will cut the long-term deficit and save taxpayers money.

For the 200,000 seniors I represent, the jovial reaction to the suspension of CLASS was both disheartening and predictable.

Just as Social Security succeeded as a wage insurance, reducing elderly poverty from 50 percent to 10 percent, Americans should have an affordable way to finance long-term care.

If that is a concern, let's fix it.