Ed Markey

If we are going to reexamine whether or not that is a good investment after Fukushima, after the earthquake near the North Anna Plant, let us have that hearing, because I think that money is in jeopardy if you are really concerned.

If you want to waste American taxpayers' dollars, let us talk about the oil industry at record high profits getting $41 billion worth of tax money from taxpayers.

Fifteen Presidents, both Republicans and Democrats, rejected the movement and used the Antiquities Act to designate more than 100 national monuments.

A majority of this House is now on record rejecting the Stop the Monuments Movement--it is time for this Committee to reject this movement as well.

It is time, finally, for the Stop the Monuments Movement to end.

It is my hope that today's hearing marks the death of a political movement, however. It is time finally for the 'stop the monuments movement' to end.

Forty-nine years ago in September of 1962, President Kennedy issued an urgent call to the Nation to be bold.

Reclaiming my time, the effect of this amendment could be, because the Coast Guard relies upon the Park Service, that we wind up with an entire area without any law enforcement. Because the Coast Guard does not reach that area, the Park…

We would mandate to you to do it, to protect children and give parents the right to do it and to make sure that we don't invoke the law of unintended consequences.

We want to be able to erase it.

My first question is pretty straightforward to the witnesses here before us. Congressman Markey and I have introduced a bill, H.R. 1895, which is the Do Not Track Kids Act privacy protection of 2011.

And there should be a technology that makes it possible?

Do you agree that there should be a prohibition on targeting minors?

There should be a way in which that information is erased.

This is not a partisan issue. It should not be a partisan issue.

I think it is well past time to move ahead.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts will be postponed.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 23, line 4, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $100,000,000)''. Page 24, line 6, after the dollar amount…

That, in and of itself, is a subsidy. Let's be honest. It's Federal taxpayer money which is subsidizing an industry--the electric utility industry, the nuclear electric utility industry--that is probably the wealthiest industry in the…

If the gentleman from Indiana will yield, the gentleman from California is just saying this is the budget for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission? Mr. McCLINTOCK. For regulatory activities associated with this provision.

We just had a debate on the Everglades. The Everglades is a perfect example of where, over the next 20 to 50 years, climate change is going to have a profound impact on an entire State. And this amendment is just part of the denial, as is…

I thank the gentleman. This item is a response to climate change at Army Corps projects, response to climate change. Are we going to be in denial that projects here in the United States aren't affected by climate change, that we are…

There have been incidents and recent incidents that point to the potential harm that can come from the fracking process.

I don't want any audience that is watching or listening to this hearing to go away with the impression that your caution... doesn't have any support in reality out there.

For communities around this country the expansion of natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing has meant contamination of water supplies, loss of property value, deteriorating health conditions, dead livestock, and destruction of…