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

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.

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.

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.

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

I certainly understand why a power plant or a company that is exercising its best efforts to try to make transitions and take steps to meet environmental standards... expect to get some protection from liability and other exposure.

I guess I share Chairman Waxman's, I guess, anxiety that this might be overbroad.

The genocide of more than 1\1/2\ million Armenians by Ottoman-era Turkish authorities is an undeniable fact of history. In 1915, the Armenian nation which had resided in Anatolia for thousands of years was subjected to an organized…

Policymakers should strive considerably less to create a single, specific, concrete industrial policy for the future of U.S.

I am very supportive of it and we want to avoid looking back from the future...

I want to commend the administration and you and other Cabinet-level officials for the commitment...

I am concerned about the fact that Maryland, I think, is one of the, well, Baltimore has been found to have one of the highest levels of smog on the east coast.

I am very, very interested in the potential of these Tier 3 Tailpipe Pollution Standards, which are coming along to address pollution in our area.

we have heard another witness testify today.

The importance of Tier 3 is very large to States like yours and others that deal with smog.

I will commit to you that I am going to make this a project of mine to find out the answers to those questions that you are raising.

I commend you for bringing out attention to Section 6 of the act that is under review here today because I agree with you that it creates a dangerous, it is a dangerous development to start putting aside the concerns about the science in…

I have heard endless testimony on this question, and I have gotten pretty comfortable with the idea that there is substantial number of situations in which there is nothing preventing the industry from developing.

This week, we're marking the second anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. I wanted to take a few minutes to speak to a number of groups that have benefited from the health care reform, a reform which I strongly supported…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I actually rise with some significant concerns about the IPO on-ramp provisions of this bill. I'm concerned because there already is exempted from the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements about 60…

The Chesapeake Bay is a national treasure.

Ultimately the health of the Bay will depend on reaching a tipping point where the 17 million residents of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed... develop good habits.

One of the things that we are glad to see is that there is an ambition now to collect metrics on a more regular basis, in terms of the health of the Bay.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for having this hearing, and I also want to thank the Ranking Member for bringing Jim Seay to the panel today.