Janice Schakowsky

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: After section 1, insert the following section (and redesignate the subsequent sections, and conform…

I am saddened that a company in which both the Bush and Obama Departments of Energy saw such promise has filed for bankruptcy, causing the loss of more than 1,000 high-tech jobs.

Last night, exploiting the Solyndra case, this House voted to cut the DOE loan guarantee program. This is a shortsighted mistake that will undermine our ability to compete in the global energy sector.

Conceding the green energy race to China would be a reckless and irreversible decision.

I want to congratulate you on an impressive record, and again, any implication that the EPA is looking just to maintain in place or even propose regulations that are redundant and any way not necessary to your mission is just not true.

I also wanted to reemphasize something I heard you say earlier, that there was actually a Congressional mandate in 1990 to do this.

Clearly, we are witnessing the most anti-environment House of Representatives in American history.

I would just like to suggest that the gentleman from Pennsylvania I think made a very good argument that when we negotiate trade agreements, that environmental concerns ought to be part of that.

It is high time that the Environmental Protection Agency continued in what has been a bipartisan tradition of protecting our environment.

Without a doubt, if this rule is delayed or, God forbid, killed in any way, there will be more premature deaths, more hospital admissions, more people getting sick because of increased levels of everything from mercury to soot, to arsenic…

If Texas were its own country, it would be the eighth biggest polluter in the world.

The sign you have there says that poor conditions of their schools interfere with students' learning. So we are also depriving our children of that sense of pride that will motivate them to be good students, to learn, to be ready to take…

These are jobs that can be created right away. I'm from the Midwest, so we actually have a construction season; but for fixing schools, you can do that around the year, around the calendar. We can put these people to work within a few…

Some have actually lowered premiums, making it easier for consumers, that the number of insurance agents and brokers... has actually gone up.

In 2010, Mr. Larsen, United Health, WellPoint, Humana, Cigna and Aetna made combined profits of $11.7 billion.

I just wanted to correct one item that I think was mistaken that was mentioned in questioning.

What we are witnessing once again today is an effort by the Republicans to do the bidding of the insurance companies at the expense of ordinary consumers.

So clearly, the money generated by rising premiums was not being used for medical or patient care, my point.

I think this is utterly outrageous that we should be spending our time doing that when the American people are looking to us at this moment for help.

Our legislation said that preexisting conditions for children will not be a reason to exclude children from health care.

This hearing is also going to focus on legislation to repeal the grandfathered health plan regulation, and doing so basic consumer protections like ending lifetime coverage limits and rescission of coverage will be undermined.

By law, insurance companies have to spend at least 80 percent of their premium dollars on medical care and health quality improvement as opposed to administrative costs, marketing, executive salaries and bonuses.

We are investing right now billions of dollars in oil and gas companies. We are investing, as my colleague Mr. Markey said, in a questionable technology, risky technology called nuclear.

I am very concerned here that this is an attack on a program that, let us face it, when you invest in various innovative and novel technologies that we need to do, it is not true, Mr. Silver, that there is some inherent risk associated…

We must hold Internet service providers and search engines accountable for their actions.