All the talk of repeal, defund, dismantle, it is easy enough to do here in a hearing room hundreds of miles from home, but this past week I heard again from constituent after constituent who has gained new protections, new peace of mind…

Instead, our Republican colleagues are here yet again to live in the past and attack the Affordable Care Act.

the Republican alternative to the health reform bill would actually increase the number of uninsured people from 50 million in 2010 to 52 million in 2019.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for your timely testimony. I recently toured the University of California Santa Barbara's Institute for Energy Efficiency.

I have enormous anxiety and sadness over the events that happened there.

I hope that this issue can be revisited not to take away from the responsibility and authority of the federal agency but to work with other agencies.

It is well documented that the Nation's water utilities will have to address hundreds of billions of dollars worth of infrastructure needs over the next few decades.

In my own community, I witnessed firsthand the devastation of the Platform A blowout in 1969.

The Exxon-Valdez oil spill devastated the ecosystem of Prince William Sound--killing wildlife, destroying habitat, and threatening the health and economic wellbeing of Alaska's residents.

This issue is critical to me and my constituents. Our coastal economy and fragile marine environment cannot tolerate even one more accident.

I think it is such an important topic for us as we consider a comprehensive energy policy, to be talking about what is going to happen on the Outer Continental Shelf.