Many in the device industry argue that Europe should be our model and they say new technologies are available years before they are on the market in the United States.

When you force a decision, you get a bad decision.

But the Congress needs to work with this administration on long-term adjustments that must be made to ensure that the U.S. economy is one that rewards fair play and hard work.

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

I was concerned about this program when we implemented it in 1997. I was never comfortable with the concept of having external third parties who have the potential for conflict of interests on their own reviewing these important devices.

I am concerned that some may try to hijack the reauthorization to advance proposals that would put the health of patients at risk.

I have very little faith that Congress is going to provide the appropriations for the FDA to do the job without a user fee.

I am proud that we were able to work together in such a strong bipartisan fashion on this legislation.

This legislation will help us turn this untenable situation around.

The idea that EPA requirements to clean up air pollution will hurt the economy and kill jobs is now Republican economic dogma, but these are the same doom and gloom scenarios we have heard from industry since the Clean Air Act was first…

One person's cost is another person's income, and so what is compliance costs from the perspective of the industry is incomes and jobs from the perspective of people installing the pollution abatement and control equipment.

Clearly, this a Republican majority that has run out of new bad ideas, so they have just decided to recycle all of their old bad ideas.

What the Republicans are giving us are false choice.

The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts found that EPA's Clean Air Act cross-State air pollution rule and the mercury rule would together create nearly 1.5 million jobs over 5 years.

This committee has had numerous hearings to examine the question--the big picture question of whether new regulations harm economic growth.

Well, many of my Republican colleagues talk about the cost of complying with EPA's rules as if the money spent on pollution controls and upgrades goes into a black hole.

In addition to the overblown rhetoric about the impact of this rule on jobs, some have warned that this rule will cause electricity prices to skyrocket.

These new standards will have tremendous health benefits.

These new standards will cut emissions of toxic mercury by 90 percent. This is a major step forward.

These regulations are expected to have particularly positive effects under current economic conditions.

We should be standing up for the health of infants and children, not the powerful coal and utility industries.

According to the EPA, the regulations that are subject to today's hearings will create 46,000 short-term construction jobs.

According to EPA, the Mercury Air Toxics Standards will generate up to $90 billion in health benefits each year, far outweighing the costs of compliance.

It is stunning to realize that this committee of Congress... reported legislation that simply rubber-stamped the current program for 7 additional years.

We didn't do our job, and that legislation needs to be revisited in light of this new information.