It is crazy to think about living in a modern society where one must constantly worry about whether the lights are on.

These proactive blackouts are simply not sustainable.

The bottom line is that we need to make sure that our utilities and government regulators are taking an all-hazards approach.

I have asked that my name be added as a cosponsor to H.R. 2271, so thank you very much for your testimony.

I was chairman of the committee when we passed and signed into law Leader Steny Hoyer's School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act.

I am in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Upton moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with instructions to report the…

Here is the beef: Tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the enactment of 21st Century Cures, a bill that passed this House at 392-26. In looking back at that legislation now, 3 years later, we have made wonderful strides in finding the…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. The vote…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank the Democratic leadership for, I think the first time this year, allowing our side to actually have a substitute to a major piece of legislation. And I thank our leadership, because that…

I have served on the Health Subcommittee for all my days on the Energy and Commerce Committee, and we have seen firsthand the different families impacted by these awful diseases, whether it be Alzheimer's or sickle cell, cystic fibrosis…

I seek time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized for 5 minutes.

I do rise in opposition to the amendment. I would like to make a couple of points. According to the Office of Personnel Management, OPM, the FEHB program, the Federal Employee Health Benefits program, is, in fact, the largest…

Earlier this year, the President, speaking at the National Farm Bureau Convention, called for legislation regarding agriculture immigration. And he acknowledged that the ag community, in his words, ``needs people to help with the farms.''…

I thank my good friend and I thank, too, Mr. Quigley, who just spoke, as the two of us are the bipartisan sponsors of the Great Lakes Fisheries Authorization Act, and we are glad that it is part of this package. And I rise, obviously, in…

I would urge the chairman not to politicize the issue.

Michigan has been a leader, actually, in terms of increase in its percentage of renewables from where we were 15, 20 years ago and to where we are headed.

We are also leading the world in carbon emissions reductions, and we didn't need a top-down Federal mandate, or Waxman-Markey's cap-and-trade.

I would urge the chairman not to politicize this issue. We owe it to our constituents to take this seriously and work together.

In Michigan, we are making great progress in reducing emissions from the power sector. Electricity is affordable.

While I don't agree with the proposals like the Green New Deal, if the majority is pursuing these kinds of radical transformations of our country's energy system, shouldn't getting infrastructure built as quickly and safely as possible be…

We want to get something to the President's desk. We need to take regular order to make sure that we do that with more than just one hearing but make sure that we really do the process.

This is a really important issue. You know, drug prices impact every family.

We now have a drug that is going to, I think, work, and that drug--I saw a story--I am going to put this in the record--this is a story in the U.K. where this new drug for SMA in fact is being denied, which is really unfortunate.

I actually stopped a markup--I think it was a full committee markup--just so that we could spend another day to make sure that everybody was on board.

I thank Mr. McHenry for his leadership on this, and for his co-sponsorship. I want to particularly cite Steny Hoyer, not only as a great friend, but as one who really helped shepherd this to the floor today. These are not easy. In fact, I…