John Shimkus

I can't imagine what she must be thinking about the fact that we spent $14 or $15 billion on Yucca Mountain and it is still not open.

I think it is vitally important that you all do adequate travel, because I think the expertise that we have in the U.S. on nuclear issues and nuclear safety is better than any place else in the world.

I question why it took so long and why some key budget and schedule information is still missing.

We are holding this hearing today to conduct oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and to consider H.R. 3132, Chairman Terry's bill: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Reorganization Plan Codification and Complements Act.

Going forward, I will work with Chairmen Upton and Whitfield to bring greater scrutiny of the NRC's abilities to manage its workload and to make decisions in a timely fashion.

These LNG exports are critical to our NATO allies, Poland, Lithuania, who want to stop the extortion by Russia.

The citizens of southern Illinois are getting no benefit from this line. It is just a pass-through.

Shame on us if we have rolling blackouts in the Midwest in 2016.

We cannot go down that route.

Having that as part of the record, how can we say Medicare is strengthened?

I am getting comments from constituents in my district who Medicare Advantage folks now their benefits are being reduced.

I am finding out like everybody else is, I have less coverage at higher cost, and the real concern is, and exhibited by my constituents on Medicare Advantage, we are going to see the same thing occur in Medicare Advantage.

I, like myself, another member, a handful of staffers went down to make sure we were enrolled in our new healthcare plan because we couldn't get confirmation.

My job is really to stall for Mr. Whitfield to get here, but since--that is a joke, so.

I applaud the calling of this hearing and I, too, want to mention Congressman Blackburn and her bill.

The real way to solve sequestration is understand debt, deficits, and our entitlement programs, and get those reforms.

No one really believed that these out-of-the-woodwork folks would be so high that they are going to cause a huge financial burden

I would call the healthcare law a mistake.

It was not correct. It was deceptive to the American people.

200,000 people who have coverage and have pre-existing conditions have lost it under catastrophic plans that have been dropped throughout States because they don't meet the minimum requirements under this law.

I hope you are as much opposed when the President in a few minutes says he is going to do an administrative fix to do what you so adamantly claimed is a failed policy.

Can you commit to us to make sure that the Federal exchanges that offer that is clearly identified?

The problem with the whole debate is you all won't tell us who made the decision.

Isn't that misleading?

The Washington Post gave the administration and the President, your self, four Pinocchios on this whole debate of if you like the insurance you have, you can keep it.