Frank Pallone

These are vital programs for protecting human and environmental health, while also creating jobs and improving the economy.

EPA's work is critically important to protecting the health of our communities and our environment.

I am disappointed that, once again, the budget eliminates funding for this critical program.

I especially appreciate EPA's plans to help communities integrate climate adaptation policies.

A clean environment is essential to public health and to a strong economy.

I think we are looking at, if we start in May, sometime late summer, early football season that we have a resolution.

I released earlier this year a discussion draft bill called the Viewer Protection Act.

I know that Mother Nature's wrath visits the New Jersey coastline with some frequency.

The SANDy Act has a number of common sense proposals to improve access to communications in a disaster.

This bill will prevent viewers' TVs from going dark, while also ensuring consumers of mobile broadband benefit from the incentive auction as soon as possible.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and also Ranking Member Eshoo. And thank you to all five commissioners for testifying today.

I wanted to personally thank you for leadership in addressing this spike in pirate radio stations.

I wanted to publicly thank you for coming up to my district right before that last major snowstorm.

I am pleased that NTIA Assistant Secretary Strickling is committed to comply with the ideas behind the DOTCOM Act even if it isn't signed into law.

But the members of this subcommittee have made clear that this transition cannot take place without measures in place to keep ICANN accountable for its actions.

I think the opportunity here for improvement on behalf of patients in the system is huge.

One of the reforms that I believe may be among the most crucial is our shift away from paying for volume and towards paying for value.

Ever since the passage of the Affordable Care Act our nation's health system is in the midst of unprecedented reform and MACRA has accelerated many of these improvements.

I am especially interested in the potential for telemedicine in the new system.

MACRA put in place a dual track system for providers.

I'm so incredibly proud that this body was able to work together last year to finally come up with a solution that both repealed the SGR and put our health care financing system on a path towards rewarding value over volume.

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act has been bipartisan from the start.

I am so proud that this body was able to work together last year to finally come up with a solution that both repealed the SGR and put our health care financing system on a path toward rewarding value over volume or quality over quantity.

It is critically important that we get it right, no less than the future depends upon it.

I would submit that this is disruptive, the MACRA is disruptive in the payment system space and it is disruptive by design.