Regulatory relief is essential to a strong economic recovery and boosting job creation.

Our goal has to ensure America remains the leader in medical innovation.

I must say that I am disappointed with the Executive order's results.

Today's hearing is the latest in a series on how good spectrum policy can expand wireless broadband, promote an interoperable public safety broadband network, create needed jobs, and reduce the deficit.

I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado, Cory Gardner, the sponsor of this legislation; and the gentleman from Kentucky, Ed Whitfield, the chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, for moving this legislation along. Madam Chair…

I do want to thank you for including the language of the Sunshine Reform bill that Congressman Shimkus and Congresswoman Eshoo and I have put forward.

The communications and tech sector is one of the largest drivers of our economy.

If it looks like the FCC is prejudging an issue and justifying predetermined outcomes after the fact, the agency looks political and the public loses faith in its objectivity and expertise.

Consistency and transparency not only produce better decisions, they help create confidence and certainty that will promote investment, innovation, and jobs.

We look forward to hearing your perspective on the health care needs and the barriers that currently prevent them from properly navigating the health care system.

Our goal should be to craft an effective bill that ensures another community doesn't experience a spill.

Pipelines are the safest method of transporting hazardous liquids and natural gas.

Pipeline safety is an issue I take very seriously.

We also have to focus on preventing pipeline safety failures before they happen.

For years, pipeline safety has been a topic that enjoys bipartisan cooperation and produces very effective legislation.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

The circumstances surrounding this administration's rush to pull the plug on Yucca are alarming as much as they are disappointing.

We will do what we can to rescue the Agency from the ditch that some have driven you into.

Developing a safe, permanent storage site for spent nuclear fuel is indeed essential to energy security as well as our national security, and that is not and should not be treated as a partisan issue.

Prolonging onsite storage would add to the taxpayer burden by increasing the substantial liabilities that DOE has already incurred.

Consumers have been paying into the Nuclear Waste Fund since 1983 with a promise of something in return: a permanent place to send the spent fuel away from the reactor sites.

Two weeks ago the committee reported out legislation that will help lower health care costs by enacting real medical liability reform

Despite those tools, the interoperable network still remains elusive.

I share Ms. Eshoo's enthusiasm and Mr. Walden's as well by putting together a bipartisan plan that really gets to the finish line.

I commend my colleague, Mrs. Blackburn, for leading the charge on this issue.