Diana DeGette

The real issue here, Commissioner Hamburg, is what authority does the FDA have that they didn't exercise for whatever reason in the last 10 years, and what new authority does Congress want to give them?

I think that this investigation has the potential to become part of the great bipartisan oversight history of this committee.

In the last 2 years, I have sent over 20 letters asking for hearings on the impacts of climate change.

This issue is a non-issue. We did not need to spend 1 day of hearings on this, let alone 3.

You are looking at what the purpose is, right?

I just want to clarify exactly what the Agency is planning to do, Ms. Foreman.

I have asked you to hold hearings on the abuse of tax and regulatory loopholes by the tobacco industry.

Ultimately, the adoption of these records will reduce medical errors, save money, and most importantly, improve the quality of care.

The 2009 stimulus bill contained billions of dollars to help incentivize doctors and hospitals to implement meaningful use of electronic medical records.

Mobile medical apps and electronic health records are developing at a rapid pace and they have the capacity to transform the patient-doctor relationship, improve healthcare quality, and also to save billions of dollars.

The problem is not too much oversight. The problem is too little effective oversight and accountability.

We have to insist that standards are simply never relaxed because people don't like filling out paperwork.

I want to thank you for having this follow-up hearing to learn what has happened to address the security breakdowns that resulted in the breach.

We need to have clear oversight from the top down, and as Mr. Poneman says, independent oversight, right?

In the wake of that incident, this committee had a hearing toward exactly how such an absurd and dangerous breach of security could happen.

So it is for economics? That is why they are building in the east first?

I would be happy to sit down on a bipartisan basis with him and with your office and see if we can make peace in Colorado.

And so that is why you put them under suspension, right?

The NTIA has been aware of difficulties--many of them political--around the EAGLE-Net project for many months now.

Some of the facts of this EAGLE-Net project don't look very good.

I do believe the BTOP program has provided a path towards helping to close our Nation's digital divide.

In my opinion, the BTOP program has laid a foundation for advancing our internet economy.

Throughout the BTOP process, I have advocated for broadband adoption and digital literacy grants for urban underserved and anchor institutions.

For those of you who don't know, I have been working on a bill called the FRAC Act since 2006.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and welcome, Mr. Chairman.