I appreciate the sponsors of this legislation, Mr. Peters and Mr. McKinley, for moving this forward.

Fossil energy will continue to fuel the majority of our nation's electricity production, our transportation, and remain absolutely essential.

I do it. I am a politician, so I am not really trusted all the time but you are supporting the men and women--the working men and women.

Policies that seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a way that is economically beneficial must build upon our existing energy supply.

This is a thoughtful, widely supported bill. It is the kind of bipartisan legislation that we know we can enact in law.

This support has been driven by the plain fact that fossil energy, coal, oil, and natural gas, are and will remain central to our nation's economy for decades to come.

Carbon capture utilization and storage, or CCUS has been an important feature of Federal clean energy research and development policy for over 15 years.

We have been struggling with broadband deployment, especially in the areas that have been mentioned, for years.

Today's hearing will review the risk and harms of wildfires and what may be done to address the risk.

Today's hearing will review the risks and harms of wildfires and what may be done to address these risks.

I would encourage my colleagues that, as we move on this debate, just for electricity cost, just for clean generation, nuclear power has to be part of the portfolio.

Thursday and Friday of next week, I plan to visit my alma mater, the United States Military Academy at West Point. I hope to spend time with the Department of Social Sciences and thank them for their service to our country and for their…

This amendment has not been submitted to the Senate for ratification by either the Obama or the Trump administrations.

We are going to make an attempt to make sure their voices are heard.

The issues we're discussing in the bill before us today go back five decades.

I wish we would return to regular order.

My friends, and we discussed during the legislative hearings on the side, they say, 'Oh, trust us,' because it didn't work for ozone.

If I didn't know better, I would think... that this is a simple subject that certain parts of the industry have worked with a few environmental advocacy organizations to solve.

They say in this letter: ``Any Federal action should not address PFAS as a class or with predetermined outcomes, but rather should be based on sound science and the weight of the scientific evidence.'' As I said before, this is the first…

It is just amazing that last night, the National Journal published an article called: ``PFAS Bill Could Spark Tort `Bonanza'.'' {time} 0930 I will read from that: ``An association of U.S. trial lawyers with deep lobbying pockets and the…

I am happy to follow the Speaker, and I do have great respect for her. It gets me in trouble in my district every now and then when I talk about our relationship, but it has to be said that I can't allow a revisionist history to report on…

I already asked for inclusion in the Record a letter from the local municipal water plants, or the rural water associations, or the for-profit-owned water companies who said this makes it more difficult for us to clean up the water. We are…

No, I understand the physiology. I got that. I am just telling you the problem with this bill. But the question is, the device, labeled as toxic, thrown in a municipal waste field would then become a Superfund site under current law. And…

Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chair, on my time, I have a question for the gentleman from California (Mr. Ruiz). I have great respect for the doctor and his medical knowledge--just two questions. One, if the medical…

I reserve the balance of my time. Miss RICE of New York. Mr. Chair, I am prepared to close. Mr. Chair, I want to thank Chairman Pallone for supporting the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.