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 encourage my colleagues to support Congressman Cartwright's bill establishing a clearinghouse which will assist schools in identifying existing Federal programs available to help schools initiate, develop, and finance energy efficiency…

I, too, would like to congratulate Ms. Esty of Connecticut. This is an important bill. I salute her persistence. With that, I urge my colleagues to support it, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question…

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

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I wanted to come down and rise in opposition to this bill, and I wanted to get on the Record because I predict that there will come a time when there will be another financial crisis…

I want to thank my colleague for pulling us together this afternoon to talk about this important development that the EPA has taken to address climate change, to reduce pollution across the country. I want to start by thanking the EPA. I…

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

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…

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

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 millions of young people were having problems affording the coverage--health care coverage.

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

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.

I see that as progress.

It seems to me this notion that if a trial lawyer has a positive opinion of the proposal, that somehow that should taint, undermine, or eliminate the concerns that the broad public has about seeing this kind of proposal.

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.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Dr. Woodcock. You are one of the best witnesses we get up here and I appreciate your testimony.

So you have sameness issues now that are kind of initiated from the innovator brand side of the equation.

I will be interested to hear testimony that backs those kinds of assumptions up because I am skeptical of them, as I think you are, and certainly Congressman Waxman has indicated his skepticism about that.

Again, I want to thank my colleague for his support of this reform effort, for joining us as an original cosponsor of the Government by the People Act. We think there is real momentum here. We have 140 Members of this body now that have…

I appreciate it, and I will follow up on what you just said. There is another quote that I would love to read from Senator Warren Rudman, a Republican from New Hampshire, who was a force here on Capitol Hill when he served. He said: Money…

I thank my colleague. Before we wrap up, I want to ask him and my colleague from California as well to comment on the kind of response they are getting as they talk to their constituents about this kind of reform. We are all very familiar…

I want to thank my colleagues for joining me here this evening to talk about this critical issue of the influence Big Money and special interests on our politics and the way we govern here. Professor Lessig has gotten a good shout out--and…