It is clear that climate change is a serious problem that requires research for solutions and effective policies that allow us to meet our energy needs while protecting the environment.

This Committee has taken numerous bipartisan actions to protect the health and safety of all Americans.

I have in the State of Florida 4 million-plus seniors on Medicare, and they are petrified of the idea of privatized Medicare.

Obamacare has raised premiums and deductibles, narrowed doctor networks, reduced choices of plans, limited Americans' liberty, and undermined the doctor patient relationship.

I would get run out of the room by a group of senior citizens.

Most Republicans support the health law's requirement that insurance companies accept all applicants. But the replacement plan on preexisting conditions put forth by the most prominent Republican ignores the idea.

Remember that Donald Trump in the campaign said that he was not going to cut Medicare spending.

Another financial disaster is what is happening in Puerto Rico, not only because of what they are at fault about, but also in the unequal way that they have been treated by the law.

I would like very much for you to keep that in mind because we have to come up with a plan.

I ask that, in your position with this awesome authority as Treasury Secretary, that you put yourself in those shoes.

the effects would be devastating so much so that my colleague, a Republican former Senator, Senator Mel Martinez, joined with me for all of the reasons that I've stated, and we put in law, off limits until the year 2022 drilling in the…