John Shimkus

Well, the plug I have is it look likes it is going to be 10 million under enrolled and that most people I talk to are paying more and getting less coverage.

You are in Washington and really nothing good is happening here these days.

If you're underestimating by your 2014 June analysis and your 2015, and you drop off 70 coal-fired power plants, base-load going to my friend, Jerry McNerney's question, your final analysis you're going to under-report the impact because…

Annually, over three million packages containing radioactive material are transported throughout the United States.

Welcome to Washington and a subcommittee in Washington where once you think you have got it figured out, stuff changes.

I thank my colleague. I don't have much to add. We are glad to have Darin here as a new Member of the 114th Congress. Obviously, he is joined by his dad. Also who we had hoped was going to be here--but I know he is watching--is former…

Your medical home is found in a federally qualified healthcare clinic.

We are going to be able to provide better care because Planned Parenthood clinics don't provide all the range of health care.

There was more outrage over the treatment of downed cows than we have of treatment of downed kids, babies.

I think, as I told some of the folks on the panel, those of us who are pro-life and vote that way who have served many, many years, we are saddened that these things still occur in our country.

I look forward to hearing from the Commissioners today, and thank you for your service.

The Federal Government's inability to fulfill its legal obligations established by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act continues to increase every year Yucca Mountain is delayed.

The nuclear industry's cost of complying with regulatory action has doubled over the last 10 years.

Thank you for attending this morning's hearing to discuss the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

I thank my colleague, and now I recognize the ranking member of the subcommittee, Mr. Tonko, for 5 minutes.

Used fuel management continues to remain a top priority for this committee.

I applaud NRC staff for recently releasing the draft supplemental environment impact statement on potential groundwater impacts for Yucca Mountain.

I commend Chairman Burns for acknowledging this principle in a recent vote on containment protection rulemaking.

I am concerned that the economic impact associated with an increasing price of regulatory compliance will disproportionately affect those economically distressed nuclear power plants.

The NRC is responsible for licensing and regulation of our fleet of nuclear power plants as well as management of nuclear materials which impact our lives daily.

Before I yield to my colleague from North Dakota, let me just respond in that, in the final rule, they didn't close the door to regulating coal ash as toxic. They can re-regulate. They can promulgate a new regulation and then call it…

Before I yield to my colleague from West Virginia, I would just like to mention that, when I mentioned the word ``RCRA,'' that is a municipal solid waste law. What we are doing is the same thing that we did to RCRA: Federal standards…

I appreciate you all being here.

I am here on the Democrat side, congratulating them for great work on 21st Century Cures. I was involved in a couple pieces of the legislation that were added, one on antibiotic resistance and a lot on medical devices, because we need to…

You have to make actuary changes, not nibbling around the edges.