Ed Whitfield

I introduced legislation, the Mobile Device Privacy Act, that requires app sellers to disclose if monitoring software is installed.

Those are just the values that are our grandparents passed down, you know, and keep getting passed down.

I don't believe, Mr. Chairman, that this type of spending reflects the priorities of the average American voter that vote for us to come to Washington.

I think it is helpful--I think it is healthy to look at the agencies and they are spending--for example, China alone through this program has received over 3 or $4 million over the last 2 or 3 years.

the obstruction of Federal regulation stands in the way of all kinds of stuff.

The impression that he leaves is we have these entities that have all these leases, and they are complaining they want more leases.

Alaska has far more areas of federally owned and controlled lands, and this administration has substantially cut back on new energy leasing.

This administration has cut back on new leasing in the federally controlled Gulf of Mexico.

If you do not produce by a certain time, do you lose those leases?

So rather than rush, what I am going to do, I am going to adjourn this hearing.

We have many others, but one, of course, relates to energy production and becoming more energy independent.

This is a matter of critical importance to the American people and to the future of farmers in our Nation, American consumers.

I will recognize myself for 5 minutes of questions and thank you again for your testimony.

I also want to welcome the commissioners from the NRC today and tell all of you how much we appreciate the important work that you do.

Regulations certainly affect cost.

I know you are looking at different tiers now, Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4, or there may be additional orders for post-Fukushima safety improvements.

As you know, the U.S. is still struggling to rebuild its economy and to lower unemployment, and energy is always a key component in our ability to compete in the global marketplace.

As I said, we are holding a legislative hearing on the U.S. Agricultural Sector Relief Act of 2012 and the Asthma Inhalers Relief Act of 2012.

The Environmental Protection Agency should be on the side of patients and consumers. In this case, it is not.

We have already seen job losses in other industries due to EPA coming out with regulations that do nothing to address the problems they are concerned about.

We did not complete that hearing so today we are going to hear three governmental perspectives.

One of the things that bothers me is we talk about electric cars.

Do you expect it to be released within a month?

I would like to call this hearing to order.

And there were just some technical issues with it?