Well, today is a historic day in our country. Despite a Republican-led government shutdown that was completely unnecessary, we are celebrating the opening of the Affordable Care Act or, as I affectionately call it, ObamaCare. You know…

We are just 2 days away from a Republican government shutdown. Now, you can try to deny it, but you're going to have to wear the jacket. The Fiscal Times says that it's going to cost $150 million a day to shut down the government. The…

We stand here today on the brink of a threatened shutdown of the Federal Government--bad enough--and worse, a refusal to pay the bills of the United States of America. These are completely unnecessary, Republican-manufactured crises. Hal…

I don't have to have a chemistry degree to know that this pipeline is all risk and no reward.

I think each one of us 435 has to ask ourselves, Is this really what we were sent here to do, to take food out of the mouths of hungry people, nearly half of them children? That's what's at stake this week when we are asked to vote on…

I have suggested and will suggest again that my friends on the Republican side of the aisle ought to get their heads out of the tar sands.

There is one reason why we are fighting this pipeline and it is because we don't believe that American farmers and ranchers should have to take on the risks of a foreign tar sands export pipeline.

I would hope that we treat witnesses who have come here a bit better than that, and nobody deserves to be harangued in the manner that she was.

the issue of unleashing the dirtiest source of energy, the tar sands in Canada, is a dangerous and unnecessary way in my view to proceed right now.

I believe that the threat to at least human life on our planet is the greatest challenge that humankind has faced.

I can't imagine that efforts by this body to get funding--by this body to gut EPA funding--we are talking about cutting, including the interior and environmental appropriations bill, by 34 percent, a 34 percent cut to the EPA have made it…

This is a moment of great opportunity that I fear as a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee that we are squandering.