"We empower these agencies to assess the impacts of a project, set appropriate terms and conditions to protect the public interest and public health."
"With everything science is telling us about climate change and carbon pollution, should our country be promoting and increasing exports of coal?"
"Coal is the single largest contributor to climate change and global warming, and the resulting impacts... are quite dire for our country and all across the globe."
"I thought that might be the case and just wanted to bring that to your attention at the outset of your services, Secretary."
"It is time to change this status quo, and empower the prosecutors to do some things, some innovative things."
"I have great concerns on H.R. 2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act, which would open up much of the east coast and parts of California and Alaska to offshore oil drilling."
"We want to permanently replace the Medicare physician payment formula, this SGR that is very poor public policy."
"The reforms that we adopted in the Affordable Care Act are helping to reduce the growth in spending in Medicare already."
"I think we are so far beyond the discussion draft. It doesn't provide us with any real direction on payment reform."
"It provides greater detail."
"We should be incentivizing physicians to transform their practices and participate in these innovative payment models."
"Where do we draw the line? Because I think as legislation is developed, and your testimony is that you do not want and it is not appropriate to capture the community pharmacists who are compounding."