I believe the Prescription Drug User Fee Act reauthorization gives an opportunity to review the ways in which we can help improve the FDA approval process.

The question is, basically, Who pays for that? And under current law and since 33 years ago when the Civil Service Reform Act was passed in 1978 and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, the issue basically stated that official time…

Can we afford such charity, given the fiscal problems facing our country?

I am proud to be a cosponsor of that legislation.

I want to make it very clear in starting my opening statement that this bill that I have proffered, H.R. 122 which you will consider, in no way, shape, or form takes away any Federal employee's rights to collective bargaining.

My bill really does nothing of the kind, and as you peruse it and hopefully mark it up, maybe even change it a bit, I think you will come to that same conclusion.

Americans deserve to know how their taxpayer dollars are being spent.

On the first day of 2012, physicians face a 30 percent cut if we don't fix the current Medicare Physician Payment System.

This is a problem that Congress created, and this is a problem that I expect Congress, not Republicans, not Democrats, but Congress to fix.

I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to the policy of openness and transparency.

The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration.