I also want to thank the committee for calling this hearing because the Energy and Commerce Committee has jurisdiction over the Safe Drinking Water Act.
I am disappointed that, once again, your budget eliminates funding for this critical program, and I'm troubled by EPA's ...
The goal eventually is to ensure that our neighbors can live longer and healthier and not just get the test or medicine ...
One of the strengths of the law is that it allows some flexibility among the medical specialties.
It's a very important message for the millions, and millions, and millions of our neighbors who travel across the Americ...
So we spend a lot of time if they do have to travel talking about preventative measures.
I think the U.S. Government needs a more active role in coordinating what's going on in Haiti.
So we're going to need extensive research on all that, and that is just starting. Is that right?
We have 12 million Americans now living with a neglected tropical disease in the United States.
We want our states and our communities to be well prepared and we want to better understand the impacts of the virus.
I'm also especially concerned with the American citizens in Puerto Rico because we now have 117 confirmed cases.