John Dingell

I thank you for your courtesy and commend you for holding this hearing. I particularly appreciate your keeping the hearing open for me.

Nuclear power is 20 percent of our baseline and 7 percent of our low-carbon power.

There is a potential for impacts to go well beyond the electrical generating sector and to compel you to make business decisions.

Is there a difference between what DTE has been able to do at several power plants in my district?

To our last two witnesses who commented here, Mr. Fanning and Mr. Earley, what you are really telling us is you need more time to see to it that the requirements that are imposed upon you will, in fact, work, and give you a solution that's…

I have been hearing that this would be a good solution to the problem, that EPA would not oppose that kind of step.

What you are telling us they are forcing you to make investments that are not in the best interest of your customers for a momentary gain...

Your big problem is you have ponding that is not being well done; you have a potential large risk to the population, right?

The Clean Air Act was not designed to regulate greenhouse emissions. I know what was intended when I wrote the legislation. I have said from the beginning that such regulation will result in a glorious mess, and regulation of greenhouse…

what Congressman Dingell was mentioning is perhaps we need to look at the impoundment problem and solve that problem as our most immediate concern.

Dear friend, you know, Harry Truman one time talked about he hoped he met a one-handed economist.

I think, then, that if we don't have to change it to be either subtitle D or C, all we have to do is just give the EPA the authority to regulate the ponding.

I think that is something to which we should look.

I hope that we will be able to use this hearing as a mechanism to move forward towards safety of our people from bad pharmaceuticals as we have done with regard to bad food safety, and I would hope my colleagues would work with me in a…

I commend you for having this hearing because it is a great opportunity for us.

For too long, Americans have suffered from unsafe pharmaceuticals coming into this country from foreign manufacturers and counterfeit drug operations.

I said Frank, that is a lot of hooey.

I would be willing to bet if somebody were to put movies down there at some of the points where these things are imported, we would find the same situation is going on.

I believe that we must impose severe penalties at least equivalent to similar violations relating to different kinds of products so as to discourage their continued operation.

Do you believe having this authority would discourage counterfeit drug operations from shipping their products into the United States? Yes or no.

Some have said it is as much as $75 million a year. I think it is rather more.

User fees in that regard both with regard to food and with regard to pharmaceuticals would ease your financial stresses and strains, would it not?

It seems that making drug companies less responsible would not help doctors.

I find it haunting as her lawyer hesitatingly admitted that her case might never have brought to court had a $250,000 noneconomic damages cap been in place.

the Affordable Care Act seems to have brought projected Medicare spending down.