I thank Chairman Upton, and I congratulate my friend Diana DeGette. Also, I thank Frank Pallone for a good job. I thank him for being supportive, especially today, as we move this forward. Thank you for including six of my bills that I had…

the promise was premiums on average would decrease by $2,500 per family. Obviously premiums have gone up.

we have a challenge and the premiums are up.

The Federal Government should use additional specific guidance to State regulators on plans on how to implement the Federal parity law, identify parity violations, and enforce the law in both public and private insurance.

We apologize. We are sorry. Everyone should have universal service. And this has to be fixed.

I want to welcome home Jeff Williams and the crew of Expedition 48, which landed safely last night in Kazakhstan. Jeff is a Wisconsin native and a West Point classmate of mine from the class of 1980. In fact, when he landed, he put a hat…

In some parts of rural America you don't have universal cell service still.

I actually want to congratulate my colleague Mr. Welch from Vermont and of course my colleague from Iowa for drafting and starting the process.

If we are representing rural America, if you are being left out, we are not doing our jobs.

there is really a desire by many of us to be more specific, because in other agencies, we feel that they have kind of overstepped that

The Nation's Superfund legacy is part of a response to our nuclear legacy, which was implemented to make sure we saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

The EPA has had more than 25 years to understand and resolve the situation at this landfill and they have delivered zero, zero results.

Hopefully, our witnesses can share with us what worked but, more likely, we will need to take a look at what doesn't work.

If there is a way we could transition and incentivize transitioning older generation to new generation then we'd give these workers some hope.

You have to consider the loss. You have to really appreciate the job dislocation that's occurring in major coal-producing areas in our country.

You never do the cost of the cumulative aspects of regulation. They pile on.

where does the executive branch get its authority and we don't think the legislative branch should excuse the executive branch for any reason for illegally breaking the law

we should make a Clean Power Plan that's based on clean energy, not renewable energy

The Supreme Court said no, stay.

I would ask our panelists to not only give us their best case story but also to listen to each other, because as we move forward we are going to have to move towards compromise.

How many of you think it is time to rewrite the Telecom Act?

if we squeeze too much--my colleague Mr. Rush--if we go too much, we lose jobs to overseas manufacturers and that would be unfortunate.

Don't you think that if we are going to have this debate that the Department of Energy ought to help us define what is a family?

This is actually a very good panel. There really is more that unites us than divides us on this whole debate.

Southeast Texas, my home, exists in a climate we call 95, 95.