You can't fix the problem until that basic question is answered.

America is on the verge of becoming an energy superpower. Not only do we possess more energy than any other country, but we are capable of using that energy to accomplish great things. Perhaps most important of all to manufacturing states…

May I ask how much time remains? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan has 16 minutes remaining.

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

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

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

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

It is not often in life that you get a second chance, but, today, we are here to offer the Senate a second chance, a second chance to stand up and say ``yes''--``yes'' to these American energy solutions that, indeed, will help create jobs…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I rise this afternoon in support of yet another very important health bill advanced by our Energy and Commerce Committee, H.R. 594, the Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education Amendments of 2014…

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

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