Here is what I observed in my district. I have a large rural district. There are 102 counties in the State of Illinois. I represent 33.

This week, the House will consider the Path to Prosperity budget, reaffirming once again that House Republicans are the only ones in Washington offering serious solutions to government spending-driven debt crisis. Americans at home must…

the federal government gets involved, it creates uncertainty, it raises the cost of capital, it slows up the delivery process

The medical device tax is a very pernicious tax by itself.

So Medicare pays, in essence, 70 percent of private care costs.

So this must help that fund, shouldn't it?

I had Secretary Sebelius right at the table you are at, who in essence agreed that they had double-counted the depletion of Medicare dollars.

I was the ranking member of the Health Subcommittee when this law got passed.

Obamacare makes the program even worse because it creates a new entitlement that is not funded.

I would just like to remind him that we had not one hearing on this healthcare law before it was passed on the floor.

The bill that was passed was the Senate bill, without hearings, without movement through the committee.

It was the Speaker at that time who said the American people, we have to pass the bill before we know what is in it.

As Chairman Upton has said before to DHS, we are all on the same side. The enemy here is the terrorists who would seek to harm our Nation.

If we want to fix parts of the bill, the medical device tax would be one way that we could fix it to create jobs.

No one else has a tax in this sector in the world on gross.

Base load generation is the low priced commodity product, which--so people get harmed and the economy gets harmed by high prices.

Coal miners mine coal, take it to the power plant. Good paying jobs, good benefits, tough work.

Good paying jobs, good benefits, tough work. In the coal regions around the world, they are critical to the southern Illinois economy.

the 'all of the above' should be all of the above.

If we don't have a diversified portfolio based upon the regions, some big wind areas, some areas, they don't have a lot of wind.

I expect some of my colleagues will likely share some additional concerns with your response.

I don't think the staff should attempt to set policy on a matter on which the Commission has not yet reached a conclusion.

I am concerned the Commission risks undermining this balance by shifting to an unlimited application of the defense-in-depth philosophy in reaction to the Fukushima accident.

As you have just read, releasing the SER is the very next action for the NRC to take.

Collegiality is great, but just signing a letter because that is the majority way instead of you have opposition and you have a better way to do it, stand your ground.