Kathy Castor

I am opposed in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Castor of Florida moves to recommit the bill H.R. 5797 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with…

This is the final amendment to the bill. It will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to passage, as amended. Mr. Speaker, the House has been debating legislation to combat the…

this is kind of a boondoggle. I think people are really seeing through the fallacy of, boy, this is going to help the average American.

This is the fallacy of the trickle-down economic theory.

the first priority of the Congress right now should be stopping the family separation policy.

I would say to American families: Hold on to your wallet, because we have seen gas prices go up.

they promised. They said that this tax bill, people are going to get thousands of dollars into their paycheck.

$2 trillion added to the debt. And then the Republican budget comes out yesterday, and what do they do? Huge cuts to people that rely on Medicaid for healthcare and to Medicare.

This week, the House is considering a number of bills relating to the opioid public health epidemic. I serve on the Energy and Commerce Committee, and over the past year, our committee has heard from experts. We have had numerous hearings…

In April, I filed a resolution, it is H. Res. 834. It is a resolution of no confidence in the EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. We now have over 140 cosponsors to this resolution. This is a resolution that points out that we have high…

We simply cannot be caught up in these partisan fights.

Thank you, and thank you to the witnesses for everything you do to strengthen America's public health infrastructure, especially when we are talking about medical emergencies and preparedness and response.

Previously, this has been an issue and it's been a problem because transfers during emergency situations resulted in automatic cuts elsewhere in funding in critical areas for state and local governments.

I think congressional members have a lot of responsibility for those.

It's very important that we do.

I hope the authors can look at what the Senate language is and make sure that we are carrying over this very important initiative.

This bill is a bill in search of a problem. FDA has approved 99 percent of the expanded access requests it receives. FDA's expanded access program approves nearly all requests for investigational drugs or biologics it receives. Physicians…

I thank the gentleman for his leadership and for yielding the time. Mr. Speaker, we simply must do more for pediatric cancer and the children and families who are impacted by it. That is why I urge adoption of S. 292. It is also H.R. 820…

I thank the ranking member for his leadership and for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, S. 204 is harmful legislation that offers a false hope of access to investigational therapies and endangers patients who have serious and life-threatening…

I have concerns about the discussion draft that makes changes to DOE's Part 810 process.

I believe the commercialization of nuclear technology can be positive in that expanding and exporting this technology can be beneficial to businesses here on our economy and on international security.

I have to say that I am disappointed in a lot of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that have let the Administrator off the hook today by barely asking any tough questions.

But there is a pattern. There is a pattern.

your actions belie what you say when your EPA scientists and public health advocates and pediatricians all say here is the ban and you come into office and time and time and time again you are siding with the special interests and not with…

your pattern of unethical conduct and conflicts of interest are now very well known, but I am very troubled by your failure to take personal responsibility for your actions.