Fred Upton

What was once believed to be unthinkable is certainly now within our grasp.

With the passage of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education in 1999, freestanding children's hospitals began receiving funds to support their pediatric medical residency programs. As a result, the number of pediatricians in the…

I, too, wish Dave Curson a warm welcome in joining this body. We have great Members on both sides of the aisle. I will say, from the Republican perspective, that I don't think any of us knew you before. We surely look forward to getting to…

I just want to remind all of us here that this committee has a very long tradition, even before John Dingell, of working with strong members to identify problems in this country, to expose that, and then coming back with legislation to fix…

The loss of innocent lives is tragic enough, but what makes this tragedy worse is the fact that it seems that these deaths and illnesses could have been prevented.

In closing, I know the hour is late. I would just urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan legislation. I, too, commend every Member that's had a role here and truly appreciate the staff to get this bill prepared and ready for us to…

I might just say we are prepared to close. If the gentleman from California is going to be the final speaker and is prepared to close, we can get to the amendments.

We have two speakers that are here, and we've got a couple that are in the queue that may or may not make it.

At this point, I will yield 3 minutes to the chairman of the Science Committee, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hall).

I'd just remind my friend from California that the Department of Justice tells us that there is still an active criminal investigation as to the Solyndra matter. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Pompeo), a member of the…

The advances in drilling technology that we will hear about today have accomplished more for the American people than all of the Solyndras and the other Federal stimulus giveaways combined.

No administration has talked more about technological breakthroughs in the energy sector or spent more tax dollars on failed attempts to achieve them than the current one.

This is an area of exceptional promise, but it is not without fragility.

It is one of the most exciting areas of technology with tremendous growth in recent years.

The American people would not be pleased to know we are subsidizing foreign projects at a time when millions of Americans are out of work.

EPA has no statutory authority to set America's energy policy, yet the Agency has embarked on a multi-pronged agenda to regulate coal out of existence.

We have to honor the victims and their loved ones by working together to ensure that such an attack can never happen again.

We were very conscious that the next terrorism incursion could come from within a chemical plant instead of on board an airplane.

Alaska and other States are blessed with energy but cursed with Federal red tape.

There is a tale of two energy policies to be told in this country.

I am pleased for the opportunity to personally relay the concerns that folks in southwest Michigan have regarding recent news reports of degraded performance of the Palisades nuclear plant in my district.

Over the last several decades, environmental quality has improved significantly, and our goal is to maintain that progress without imposing unnecessary burdens on our economy or the American people.

I believe there is a legitimate role for the Federal Government in funding basic research, but with bankruptcies starting to pile up, our message to the American people has to be clear there will be no more Solyndras.

And yet they were able to develop these new technological breakthroughs with private dollars and not government money.

The loan guarantee program, as far as we know, has not developed many technological breakthroughs at all that would benefit the American people.