So water is undervalued to the point where somebody would pay $2.50 for a cup of Starbucks coffee, but they might squawk at paying the same amount of money for a 1,000 gallons of safe drinking water delivered right to their tap.

I believe to fully protect our citizens' public drinking water from cyanotoxins, it is imperative that Federal, State, and local governments work together.

I caution jumping to simple or sweeping conclusions. There is no single smoking gun that leads to algae based toxins in drinking water.

As I said, Mr. Speaker, we want to recognize two colleagues whom I served with. Congressman Hultgren mentioned Phil Crane and Congresswoman Kaptur mentioned Lane Evans. Both were colleagues of mine that I was fortunate to serve with, so I…

I thank my colleague. It is great that you took the time out to come. A lot of our colleagues want to come down but are caught up with time issues. General Leave

I appreciate my colleague from Ohio mentioning Lane Evans. The point of this time is to recognize two of our colleagues who have have passed. We want to remember them. I appreciate Marcy for those kind words about Lane Evans. I am going to…

The business model to whether it is going to be in diagnostics or testing is the same business decisions that we make in our home. It is simply about risk and reward.

if we go down the route of trying to beat up corporate America in this process, we are not going to be friends.

Primarily the statement that, even in the great recession, in my district, we were building a coal-fired power plant and we are expanding a major refinery.

I want to applaud my friend, Bobby Rush, from the State of Illinois for helping us look at how we can get people more--more people back to work.

Happy Liberty Day. I just wanted to let you know I was--left the room. I got accosted by a bunch of--we used to call them broaching snatchers, little kids who then came to ask me a question about the Constitution.

We do know what the goal of--and that is to kill coal and coal generation in this country.

Using a regulatory agency to enforce rules and regulations not passed by the Congress of the United States... is really part of this national debate.

there is a definite war on coal. It has been planned by this administration

make no mistake, this is a designed application of Executive Branch force to destroy low-cost power and coal mining jobs

I want to thank my colleague for yielding. I rise today to celebrate the lives of two extraordinary public servants, both considered from southern Illinois--one from deep southern Illinois--Senator Alan Dixon and Congressman Kenny Gray…

We want this present tense, not future tense. Does that make sense? It should be going on now.

The gentleman yields back his time.

When we create policies to protect human health and the environment, when should we defer to States?

I don't think there is any serious constitutional argument that somehow or other once the Federal Government acts it needs to preempt more stringent State standards.

The Commerce Clause confers enormous potential power on Congress.

Our job is to reconcile those provisions.

I think that if both State Governments and the Federal Government are able to focus on those areas where they have comparative advantage, we would improve the overall levels of environmental protection.

I think Congress had good reason for doing that, and I think it is definitely constitutional for Congress to do it.

I thank the committee for doing again fine work. The amendment talked about none of the funds can be used for the NRC's work. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is the independent agency to ensure the safety of the nuclear power industry…