Elijah Cummings

With that, I urge all Members to vote in favor of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

The time for our Nation to take action on climate change is right now; not tomorrow, not next week, but now.

Today's hearing is not about policy. Today's hearing is not about policy or substance. It's about politics and press.

The President also directed the Archivist and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to craft a modernized framework.

I look forward to hearing a status report on these efforts.

Representative Henry Waxman, our former chairman, engaged in a constructive effort to find solutions to these challenges.

I care about your reputation. I care about what people think of you.

I would mourn for what could have been.

We're better than that. We are a better country than that. And we are a better committee than that.

Rather than continuing on this path, I sincerely hope that we will turn to constructive legislation with concrete solutions to help Federal agencies run more effectively and efficiently.

I believe our committee's work should be a responsible effort to obtain the facts and a responsible effort to find the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

I hope we can all agree that the Chemical Safety Board plays a very important role in investigating chemical accidents.

When I hire people, I hire the brightest and I hire people with compassion, and then I let them do their job.

I want to underscore the importance of these reforms for the millions of our constituents living with preexisting conditions. For them, health insurance may be a matter of life or death.

I know from the title of this hearing, my counterparts on the committee believe that Obamacare 'fails patients' but to me it is clear that the system that existed prior to the Affordable Care Act is one that failed patients.

I am proud to say today that we are doing better. More than 8 million people have now enrolled in health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges.

I have always believed that, as a nation, we must and can do better. It is a moral issue.

I want us to deal with the outliers.

The implication is that people don't pay into the system. And they do.

I keep hearing this word, entitlement. And sometimes I have to, I think it is social insurance.

You can have motion, commotion, and emotion, and no results.

We want to get this right.

We heard testimony during our investigation that some people waited so long for their hearings that they died waiting.

At some point questions should arise if procedures are not being properly followed by those judges.

We want judges to have independence, which they should have.