This coming Friday, April 22, is Earth Day. I had the pleasure this morning to be at Masonville Cove in Baltimore. This is the first national wildlife urban refuge that was established in the country. I was there with a class of young…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, how soon we forget. If the movie ``The Big Short'' made you mad--and I hope you have seen that movie--then what the Republican House leadership is proposing today should make you furious…

I think you are having a field day.

I believe that is a very flawed decision.

I think the American public would find that unacceptable.

I think it was right to do that.

I can't tell you how much confidence you give me in the Department of Energy's role in the environment portfolio, all of these innovations.

I want to support the DOE's investment in these sorts of activities.

We promised to rebuild and strengthen the decimated health system in West Africa, and America's word is its bond.

I believe that by allowing the ACP to shutter operations, we are essentially seriously further hindering our ability to readily provide domestically enriched uranium for national security purposes.

I want to thank the panel. This is a fascinating and sobering topic.

It is not helped by the fact that people don't really understand this product.

There is a little bit of a moral hazard dimension here in that you can imagine people saying, well, I don't necessarily want to step in now and be the guinea pig if it doesn't look like structurally the system is actually going to get…

First of all, let me thank the gentleman, Congressman Swalwell, of the Future Forum, for convening us around issues here in the Chamber and out in the country that are particularly important and critical for the next generation out there…

You can talk about the effect on the rules. You can just also talk about the effect on the enthusiasm for voting, period. If people are convinced that money calls the shots, then they are going to look at voting as just being asked to come…

I had the opportunity for about 18 years as an attorney to work with retirement communities, nursing homes, assisted living facilities in the State of Maryland and saw how critical the resource of Medicaid is for our seniors.

The legislation that created FirstNet was not my preferred approach. I favored construction from the bottom up, not the top down.

I urge support of this important bill. I yield back the balance of my time.

The new Federal environmental regulations could lead to rolling blackouts in Midwest by the summer of 2016, unless action is taken to boost reserve generating capacity.

I think Congresswoman Ellmers and Congressman McNerney share this perspective in what, for example, the Department of Energy might be able to do by establishing some sort of grant opportunities, programs, collaborative initiatives that…

Actually, President Obama this morning, at his press conference in Paris, spoke about how goals were set on where the cost of certain kinds of power generation would be.

There is, I think, bipartisan interest on this committee already reflected in some of the hearings we have held.

I too rise in support of S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act. This legislation will reauthorize funding to nonprofits that provide technical assistance to small public water systems under the Safe…

Again I want to urge my colleagues to support this important measure, S. 611. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I oppose H.R. 1737. The title of this legislation, the Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act, is misleading. The legislation is not about ``reforming'' the guidance of the…