The Congress should be helping you and the President accomplish that goal. Instead, Republicans in Congress attack every proposal you and the President make.

I think the President is on the right track.

We have to also confront the enormous challenge of climate change, which threatens our economic strength, our national security, and the health of our citizens.

We have to invest in clean energy to diversify and reduce our energy use.

It makes just common sense. But this isn't the only example.

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

The idea that our problem is insufficient oil production is a fantasy, and I believe it is a very dangerous fantasy.

Let us just quit BS-ing the American people that there is some way to control the price of a barrel of oil.

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

Let us just quit this kind of talk and let us be real with the American people.

What they want from us and from the President is some vision and some leadership about the future.

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

We don't control the price. We don't control the price.

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.

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

Let us quit BS-ing the American people that there is some magic wand or some policy that Congress or any President, Democrat or Republican, can do to affect the price of a world priced commodity.

to say it is the President's policies is just poppycock, as far as I am concerned.

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

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

What this Congress ought to be talking about is what we can do today for generations 20, 30, 40, 50 years from now.

I think it is criminal that we are not doing it.

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

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.

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