Ed Markey

It's not the Obama administration holding back more domestic production, it's the oil companies that are currently warehousing roughly 26 million acres offshore that hold billions of barrels of oil.

The Majority said their drilling bills were necessary to pay for transportation funding. Yet, the three bills reported out of this committee would generate less than 10 percent of the revenue shortfall for our transportation projects over…

The Republican Majority is threatening to raise taxes on the wind industry, which would jeopardize these projects and could kill 37,000 permanent and existing clean energy jobs.

The Majority should not be imposing a de facto natural gas tax on American agriculture, manufacturing in chemical, steel, and plastics by allowing our natural gas to be exported.

We should keep that here for our own industries, our own farmers, our own consumers.

The Majority's drilling bills may be good for the members of the American Petroleum Institute, but they are not good for the American people.

These are phantom revenues from phantom drilling that are being proposed by the Republicans in order to pay for a transportation bill.

It is not the Obama Administration holding back more domestic production. It is the oil companies that are currently warehousing roughly 26 million acres offshore that hold billions of barrels of oil.

Despite the claims of critics, the Obama Administration has been fostering both traditional oil and gas development, while moving us forward to a clean energy future.

Last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that cyber threats will soon surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States.

It is imperative that this committee pass the GRID Act so that we can move it forward and empower the FERC to move quickly to safeguard the electric grid from cyber threats.

All five commissioners agreed, cyber threats are the number one threat to the grid.

It is Groundhog Day here in the House with the same hearings, the same bills, the same votes over and over again.

The academy also wishes to acknowledge and thank Representatives Mike Rogers and Ed Markey, who together authored the Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act of 2007.

I see no reason, Ms. Eshoo and I agree on this, that companies failing to meet their obligations to children should enjoy those special protections.

So this is something that Ms. Eshoo and I are working on, this next subject, which is that the FDA data shows that since 2007, 78 percent of PREA's pediatric study requirements were not completed by their due dates, if at all.

Do you agree that any clinical trial regardless of where it takes place should be subject to the same transparency requirements if the trial is used as part of the company's approval application to the FDA?

So if another researcher decided to pursue clinical trials of this same drug, they would have no idea about the dangers identified from the previous trial and would put more people at risk of the same adverse health effects that had…

The Web site clinicaltrials.gov was transformed into a mandatory registry that I created along with Representative Waxman in the 2007 FDA amendments.

So if you would be willing to work with us, we are willing to work with you and with Mr. Pallone and others to see if we can do something legislatively in this area.

We need to get over the concerns about the pipeline and the environment.

So what I am hearing you saying then is that there is a threat because they are extracting the oil from tar, that there is a greater likelihood of a dangerous warming on the planet and that the benefits as the pipeline goes through our…

The Keystone Pipeline would carry some of the dirtiest oil in the world right through the middle of our country.

Step five. TransCanada and the sheiks in Saudi Arabia laugh all the way to the bank.

Step four. Americans get higher gas prices and no increase in energy security.