EPA and NHTSA found that the average cost increase for a car by 2025 due to the standards will be about $1,200 and that that cost would be offset by an estimated fuel cost savings of about $1,900.

I thank the lady for yielding to me and for her continued advocacy for all consumers, particularly the low- income consumers who are affected by this legislation. I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 1699, a bill that guts consumer…

It is fact: the Republican tax scam is an attack on America's senior citizens. According to the AARP, 5.2 million senior citizens, many on fixed incomes, will see a tax hike under the Republican bill. Meanwhile, over 60 percent of the tax…

It is almost cruel to find a cure and then have it priced so high that a patient can't afford it.

We would like to see that data.

I have a bill called the Secure and Protect America's Data Act that I introduced with Ranking Member Pallone.

We truly recognize the president has the authority to eventually nominate and get someone confirmed by the Senate. But we hope that person is qualified as a consumer advocate and is not someone who has attacked the bureau and called it a…

I hear from my constituents that the cost of the drugs that they pay for, that they need, is far too high.

I believe that some of the calculations and some of the prices really do say that many people are not going to be able to access the cures that are available that are shortening their lives.

By appointing--by suggesting that the head of the OMB, a deeply political agency of the White House, could also at the same time be the director of the independent Consumer Bureau, we just don't think that computes.

But we must have a serious conversation about drug prices and we need to do more to address this growing problem.

The Consumer Bureau, in just 6 years of existence, has recovered over $12 billion--about $12 billion for 29 million Americans and has restored confidence in the financial system.