Fred Upton

Certainly, oversight of federal agencies is a very important responsibility for this committee, especially for the NRC.

Energy efficiency is not only a bipartisan issue, but as your presence here today demonstrates, there is bicameral interest as well.

Effective regulatory management of resource development is crucial. Excess restrictions cost jobs and revenue, but inadequate oversight and regulation could turn a State's residents against resource development.

Most agree that for policy decisions to be fair, they have to be made at the appropriate level of government.

Unfortunately, this issue was ignored in the Affordable Care Act, but continuing to ignore it is no longer an option.

Continuing to ignore it is no longer an option.

Real reform will mean that doctors no longer have to wonder whether they will face substantial fee cuts and that our nation's seniors will not have to wonder whether they will be able to see their doctors.

The current SGR system has caused uncertainty among physicians and threatened access to care for our Nation's seniors.

Manufacturing, and not just auto-related, is still extremely important to our economy producing $70 billion in output in 2011.

I am very pleased with the resurgence of manufacturing.

I really want to welcome Mr. Saxton and thank you for all of the good work JELD-WEN is doing in Vermont.

I appreciate the role that your ranking member has well, Ms. DeGette.

If they are no longer needed, they need to be eliminated. If they are missing the mark, they should be revised.

It is hard to believe that the time has already come to revisit the satellite TV legislation.

Oversight has a number of important purposes, but one of the most significant is ensuring our federal programs are working properly and efficiently.

Oversight has a number of very, very important purposes, but one of the most significant is ensuring that our federal programs are working properly and efficiently.

We have a tradition of doing strong oversight in this area and we are well aware that this has been a very tough flu season.

Technology is changing this industry at an astonishing rate, and we must work to ensure that our laws keep pace.

Our job is to create an atmosphere where they can do so in a way that respects the investments of the companies.

It's hard to believe the time has already come to revisit the satellite television legislation.

Given that the United States has the world's largest coal reserves and is the largest producer of coal, it should remain a critical contributor to a diverse electricity portfolio for decades to come.

The idea that electricity from coal is no longer needed because we have more natural gas is misguided.

The president's energy strategy is the exact opposite of an all-of-the-above approach and would limit our energy choices, jeopardize jobs, raise energy costs, and threaten America's global competitiveness.

I want to applaud both Chairman Whitfield and Senator Manchin from West Virginia for their efforts in authoring a workable bipartisan, and bicameral, alternative to EPA's proposed rule.

The President's energy strategy is the exact opposite of an all of the above approach, and would limit our energy choices, jeopardize jobs, raise energy costs, and threaten America's global competitiveness.