Fred Upton

At this point I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Latta), the vice chair of the subcommittee.

At this time I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden), the distinguished chairman of the Telecommunications Subcommittee.

It is important that we understand how that law has helped in responding to this epidemic and if there are areas Congress may need to reevaluate.

This is a global threat, and we need to work together--Congress, government agencies, and product developers--to successfully combat this epidemic.

It is not a drill. People's lives are at stake, and the response so far has been unacceptable.

People are scared. We need all hands on deck. We need a strategy, and we need to protect the American people, first and foremost.

Creating jobs and keeping energy affordable is a subject that should rise above partisanship. Today, we are giving the Senate yet another shot to try to put politics aside and American families first. We welcome the Senate to join us as we…

Today's hearing is an important opportunity to review the growing threat of antibiotic resistant infection.

The Federal Government has spent billions of dollars on the worthy effort of minimizing the impacts of mental illness.

Over the last couple of years, one in every five suicides has involved a vet.

I'd like to welcome Acting Surgeon General Boris Lushniak, as well as the mental health professionals appearing before us today.

Our delivery of mental health services must keep up with the impressive pace of research and innovation in the field.

This hearing is a natural outgrowth of this subcommittee's groundbreaking investigation of Federal programs addressing serious mental illness

The way that domestic violence has been minimized in the NFL and other sports leagues deserves investigation by this committee.

We hope that our ongoing work will educate the public about the many treatments available to address serious mental illnesses.

Since its enactment in 1970, the Clean Air Act has balanced the state and federal role.

It is critically important for this subcommittee to hear from state-level officials to more fully understand the implications of EPA's plan.

I am especially troubled by the prospect of a federal takeover of state electricity planning that is embodied in EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan.

EPA's top-down Clean Power Plan will give us less of both kinds of diversity.

Maintaining diversity, both diversity in our electricity generation portfolio as well as the diversity of strategies for meeting a State's electricity needs is critical to affordable and reliable energy.

If the States are truly the labs of democracy, then why assert the Federal Government over their energy planning?

The Agency's proposed rule for existing electricity generation is not an energy plan but rather it is a pollution control rule.

We must work to ensure that our regulatory and reimbursement policies encourage this iterative process and do not stifle innovation.

When we first launched the 21st Century Cures initiative in April, we had a pretty good idea that learning about the benefits and risks of a drug or device doesn't end when FDA initially approves or clears the product for use in certain…

This type of ongoing evidence development, collaboration, and communication must be facilitated, not hindered by any policies in place that do not ultimately benefit patients.