John Sarbanes

Mr. Sarbanes mentioned the issue of cost shifting and why it was so important to get the Affordable Care Act done

Congressman Ryan's budget plan includes the revenue from that tax in his proposal.

The ultimate fate of the ACA was in question really until this election was over.

So just anticipating the kind of legislation that we would need to pass here, it could be pretty simple, right?

So fixing SGR is really getting rid of SGR.

Congratulations on the work in Maryland. I know you and Governor O'Malley and others that are a part of this effort...

I just want to emphasize that from the beginning of this process, obviously a State looking at it without any peers having undertaken the process, without CMS and others having, you know, fully gotten into it yet, you could look at it and…

Thank you for your tremendous work on this. It is incredibly exciting actually what you are doing...

I agree with him, and that is why I think he probably should consider being the commission chairman.

The FDA still has not provided the key timeline information requested by the committee more than a month ago.

I pledge that we will get to the bottom of this so we can ensure that this outbreak, things like this never ever occur again.

So claims that under President Obama oil production on Federal lands is down is false.

The argument that that is the case is not supported by the facts.

There is a lot of rhetoric on this topic. I sat through many, many meets of the Natural Resources Committee.

The task, the charge, the responsibility of the Commission to kind of keep its eyes open as these imports are coming in

Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Mr. Scalise's claims are incorrect.

I thank the chairman. As the gentlemen are aware, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, NHTSA, has been working on a public-private research program known as the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, or DADSS…

Adaptation ought to be looking ahead, using the models figuring out what the most likely scenarios are in terms of effects of climate change

I applaud the EPA's efforts to tackle this issue. But, as you can see, there is a fair amount of resistance to it from some quarters here in Congress.

The programs we're talking about today... have improved the lives of citizens around this country, creating jobs, heating homes, and providing resources to this Nation's energy innovators.

Somehow, it seems to me, having sat on this committee for many years, that the Republicans only came up with their vehement opposition to a government role in green energy when President Obama was elected.

I think this partisanship is what our constituents are sick of and what they would like to see eliminated.

I think we will probably only hear complaints and opposition to President Obama's programs.

I think that Congressman Lipinski's bill is a terrific opportunity to focus us generally on these manufacturing issues.