John Shimkus

I always talk about the need on the Universal Service Fund to get that right and start parlaying that toward a broadband deployment.

Representative Shimkus is focusing on how do we modernize our Federal regulation to expedite deployment of things like this and other new infrastructure.

We applaud Administrator Pruitt for making Superfund cleanup a priority because he correctly noted that cleanups take too long to start and too long to complete.

It's just not right to offer a service, pay the cost and then for someone else later on to say, oh, you got to give us money back.

Can someone tell me why? Can someone defend that practice? Do you really want to try?

I always get frustrated when we bring people before us who are doing everything we ask, and they seem like they're on trial and that they're under attack.

The good news is that Administrator Pruitt found this process to be completely unacceptable and has reopened the midterm evaluation.

It is time to review these rules to see if they are a good deal for consumers and whether they can be improved upon.

We need to make sure that the future targets under this program maintain vehicle choice and affordability.

The average price of a new vehicle has risen to $35,000 in 2017.

One of the costs of this energy and environmental regulation from the Obama administration is the one we will address today that targets fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions for cars and light trucks.

I will say to you that as we have engaged in our Superfund focus I have had career employees come up to me and say thank you for awakening areas that have been dormant for a little while.

I am just going to sum up, too, with thanking my ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Pallone; obviously, my ranking member on the subcommittee, Mr. Tonko; the associated staffs on both that had been mentioned numerous times. They did…

I like more pipes versus less pipes, and I don't want the Government deciding how one pipe should be structured.

I would encourage my colleagues to come together to do that.

I just want to put on the record on this whole net neutrality debate, it is just, for a lot of us it is what is the enshrined law by the legislative process versus what a regulator decides what to do.

We are going to do it this way, now we are going to do it this way, now we are going to do it this way, and to stop the pendulum you have to pass a law.

I hate to say he is right sometimes, but all he does is kind of give voice to frustration in rural America.

You need to get service there immediately.

The Energy and Commerce Committee is conducting a series of hearings to look at the response and recovery efforts conducted during this hurricane season so we can figure out what went well and what we could we have done better.

We know that many of you are still in the trenches of dealing with the response and recovery efforts, so your willingness to take the time to be here today does not go unnoticed.

We are especially grateful for those of you who have traveled significant distances to be with us today to share your stories about the hurricanes that tore through our country this fall and about the impact of those hurricanes on the…

I have more pigs than people in my district. We have large operations. I am very proud of that, because it is jobs, and production agriculture feeds the world.

I do not want to set a bad precedent of limiting citizen suits under environmental laws, and I believe that the legislation before us today is far too broad.

Congresswoman Blackburn, did you want a second or two to say something?