The FAST Act, based in large part by the Rapid Act promoted by Mr. Shimkus, was passed in 2015.

Even the business roundtable has said that we should be looking at existing law, not layer on new laws to the NEPA process.

I would like the committee to appreciate why NEPA is so important.

The NEPA processes save money, time, lives, historic sites, endangered species, and public lands.

It is my hope that Chairman Blackburn and the Committee staff for the majority can work with us to avoid this shortsightedness and avoid unnecessary problems for the future.

This is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. Mr. Speaker, this amendment is about promoting greater…

I am opposed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Sarbanes moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 4015, with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith, with the…

I want to thank my colleague for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 3312. I appreciate my colleague's redesignation, renaming of the bill. I think it is much more appropriate. Mr. Speaker, this is a…

So that, to me, is a powerful analogy and, frankly, where it gets my head, just to send a shudder through the panel here today, is to the idea of regulation approaching a kind of utility regulation when you come--when it comes to drugs…

I agree with just about everything that my colleague just finished saying and I hope... we are kind of reaching the end of our tether.

The Democracy Reform Task Force, which I am privileged to chair, has been monitoring the Administration's progress with respect to draining the swamp.

I hope that you will bring some real attention to these conflicts as we move forward.

Do you agree that as EPA administrator your job is to protect public health and the environment by serving the public interest and not wealthy special interests?

Now we have pushed back against that, but that is hardly a follow-through on the pledge that you made to Senator Cardin.

I am mentioning it because it really makes a lot of Americans anxious when you consider the conflicts of interest that this suggests.

Despite the fact that as Oklahoma attorney general you sued the EPA challenging the Bay TMDLs previously, you also pledged with Senator Cardin that you would support the federal government's role in Chesapeake Bay partnership.

As Congress careens toward passage of a massive rewrite of our Tax Code, we ought to look at the process that got us here. This tax bill has seen no hearings, no expert testimony, and absolutely no honest efforts to build bipartisan…

I want to echo Congressman Cummings' concern about making sure that naloxone is available in a way that it should be.

I want to ask you, sir, if my mother was a heroin addict, would I have done the same thing?

the challenges of Puerto Rico are very different than the challenges in Houston and Florida.

What we need to talk about is capacity and what is the capacity of the infrastructure to reach how many people.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the Hydropower Policy Modernization Act of 2017 because it weakens States' rights to protect their own water quality. Under the Clean Water Act, States have the right…

A lot of the motivation for the Affordable Care Act was to begin to kind of turn our healthcare system towards prevention.

Nobody denies the challenges of repairing the collapsed energy grid of Puerto Rico, but I submit to you that most of the challenges to turn the lights back on in Puerto Rico are neither natural nor geographic. They are manmade.

The actual death toll not of Hurricane Maria, but of Hurricane PREPA has not been properly disclosed by the government of Puerto Rico.