John Sarbanes

The majority's insistence on scheduling the markup of this bill for the same day as the legislative hearing is unfortunate and undermines regular order.

For too long, Republicans in Congress have been more interested in attacking EPA than supporting the important work the Agency does to protect human health, and safe drinking water should be a bipartisan issue.

I have been working for many years on this idea of looking in nontraditional places for people that can help meet some of the shortages we have.

So this demonstration project that Adam Kinzinger and Congresswoman Capps have proposed I think could make a tremendous amount of difference.

I come from the perspective that there should be a right to know there.

I think many will say, maybe genetically engineered, I get that.

It is in strong contrast to some of the proposals that we have seen in recent years--for example, the proposal to turn Medicare into a voucher program, which completely upends the basic principles upon which the program is operated for all…

It is gratifying that you are approaching it as much based on the reams of data that Medicare has at its fingertips as you possibly can.

Just wanted to take the occasion to thank the chairman for his service on this committee and in this House.

Takata, as I understand, has agreed to the recall, at its expense, with respect to both driver-side and passenger-side airbags within the regions where there is high absolute humidity.

You do not yet know the root cause of the defect or the problem with the deployment of those airbags with respect to that regional recall.

President Obama has decided to act and fill the void left by this very same Congress in hopes of mitigating some of the most devastating effects on climate change.

I want our researchers and scientists to have access to the funding necessary to make discoveries; I want our companies to operate in an environment where innovations can flourish; and I want patients to have access to safe and effective…

I'd like to note that I intended to vote in support of the Waters amendment to H.R. 4413, the Customer Protection and End User Relief Act, when it came up for a vote earlier today. Amendment No. 5 Offered by Ms. Moore The Acting CHAIR. The…

I urge my colleagues to support Congressman Cartwright's bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

It disrupts the situation where millions of seniors were falling into the donut hole and not being able to cover that with the out-of-pocket expenses that it represented; so, we are beginning to close that donut hole.

It disrupts the situation where there were millions of people who were discriminated against based on preexisting conditions.

There is no question that the Affordable Care Act represents disruptive change--OK?--but disruptive, I think, in a very positive way, on balance.

And it disrupts most significantly a situation where one out of seven Americans were being left out of health insurance coverage to the detriment of those individuals and their families but, really, to the detriment of the productivity of…

It disrupts the situation where millions of young people were having problems affording the coverage--health care coverage.

Also, I would like to note that a recipient under this bill is considered not to have a, quote, established business relationship with the sender, end quote.

It takes away your ability to be sort of preemptive in the way you are doing some of the enforcement, it sounds like.

I see that as progress.

I think this is the least absurd proposal to come forward from the FDA I have ever seen.

The American public would say it is worth some additional cost in the system to make sure that we are protected.