Frank Pallone

I see no benefit to the consumer, the environment or the economy from regulating the efficiency of these light bulbs at this time.

I am inclined to agree that Congress did not intend to capture LED light bulbs in the 2014 rule.

I am concerned about any action no matter how well intentioned that might interfere with that success.

This bill authored by Representatives Ellmers and DeGette would exempt LED consumer light bulbs from new mandatory efficiency standards for external power supplies.

I thank my colleagues Renee Ellmers and Diana DeGette for their draft bill that would address this issue and benefit both the manufacturers and users of these products.

Simply put, the government should not be in the business of regulating the rates of private industry and that is a lesson that we learn when we look at failed governments of the 1980s in the past in terms of regulating private industry.

I think that there is a tendency to believe that we have done so much to build infrastructure and resiliency in all of our other systems. When everything else fails, amateur radio oftentimes is our last line of defense. When you need…

I hope that future hearings include ideas put forward by Democratic members such as Congressman Welch's Digital Learning Equity Act.

I have also heard concerns that as drafted this bill may result in significant unintended consequences.

I agree with the sentiment driving this bill. The commission should not be setting rates for broadband access.

Here we are again. It is a new year and a new session of Congress, but House Republicans are yet again up to their old partisan tricks. Today, House Republicans have chosen to spend the first week of 2016 attacking women's health with a…

I want to speak in support of the 9/11 health provisions that are in the omnibus bill that we will be voting on tomorrow. This is a major bipartisan victory. In our committee, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, we had the health portion…

I want to thank my nursing caucus co-chair, Representative David Joyce, for coauthoring this legislation.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

What is CMS doing to communicate so that they understand that they may be eligible for the subsidies?

Let us actually work in a productive, bipartisan way to make the Affordable Care Act work better instead of taking empty, meaningless votes to repeal it and take insurance coverage away from our constituents.

The ACA is clearly making a huge difference in the lives of millions of Americans.

What we are seeing from my Republican colleagues is not balanced oversight designed to improve the law.

Let's actually work in a productive bipartisan way to make the Affordable Care Act work better instead of taking empty, meaningless votes to repeal it.

I will believe it when I see it because I haven't seen it.

Instead of acknowledging any of these successes, my Republican colleagues insist on holding more hearings and debating more bills to undermine the law.

Because of the Affordable Care Act, 17.6 million uninsured people have gained coverage through the law's various coverage provisions.

As CMS will testify today, the ACA is clearly making a huge difference in the lives of millions of Americans.

Instead, the majority's efforts are simply designed to hamper implementation and undermine the Affordable Care Act, regardless of the facts.

We are here today for yet another hearing to attack the Affordable Care Act.