Frank Pallone

I am concerned about the low flu vaccine rate for children.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to recommend that we all get the flu vaccine.

Under the current approval process for LNG exports, the Department of Energy has a tool to protect American consumers, and that tool is the public interest determination. The DOE has the ability to weigh the benefits and costs of…

I have heard my colleagues suggest that there is a delay in the DOE's approval of LNG export applications. For instance, on Monday night at the Rules Committee, Mr. Johnson indicated that the DOE has approved only five out of 38…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At this time, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green), who is the ranking member of the Health Subcommittee. (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to revise and extend his…

I would just ask that the Republican leadership begin to bring legislation to the floor that would actually make a difference for America, certainly addressing the economy and job creation and increasing wages, which are so important to my…

I have no additional speakers at this time, so I yield back the balance of my time.

I want to thank Congresswoman Capps for her work on this issue.

I think that these six public health bills are important. They all aim to address important public health issues within our communities.

Today is a sad day for this institution. Late last night, when Republicans failed to garner the votes for one extreme antiwomen bill, they flipped a switch and turned to another antiwomen bill. This attempt to restrict women's access to…

Once again, I listened to my colleague from California talk about the dangers from pipelines. These dangers are real. We have had many explosions over the years, including in my own district. I think this bill really puts at risk the…

As I mentioned during the general debate, I and my constituents witnessed and went through a few years ago, when I was in Congress, a natural gas pipeline explosion. It was devastating to the community. We had many people who lost their…

I do not, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. I am not going to read the whole thing, Mr. Speaker, but I did just want to make reference to some part of the Statement of Administration Policy's saying that the President would…

I really don't understand. I respect my colleague from Kentucky a great deal, but he seems to be arguing that we need the deadlines in this bill to hold Federal agencies accountable and ensure that they don't just somehow sit on the…

Some of my Republican colleagues just suggested that this bill would not waive any environmental requirements. For instance, yesterday, at the Rules Committee, the sponsor of the legislation indicated that H.R. 161 did not waive or alter…

And rise in opposition to this bill. Mr. Speaker, I listened to my colleague, the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, when he said that the likelihood is that we are going to have more and more pipelines constructed, pipelines…

For the first time, North Carolina was forced to take action and confirmed under oath that Duke Energy is violating State or Federal clean water laws or both everywhere it stores coal ash in the State.

Local organizations instead enforce the law with the result today that all three utilities in our State are cleaning up every water-filled riverfront coal ash lagoon they operate in the State.

My main point is this today, that Congress should not take away from the--should not take away the rights of the local communities to protect themselves from this dangerous coal ash storage.

If it turns out that ash does become more toxic and we find that States and utilities are not doing enough under the subtitle D rule to protect human health... would it be important for EPA to be able to pursue subtitle C regulation, in…

If coal ash does not become more toxic and implementation of subtitle D is effective, EPA would have no reason to pursue a subtitle C rule.

I expect we are going to hear from the second panel that legislation is needed to remove EPA's authority to regulate coal ash under subtitle C in the future.

There is no question that coal ash can pose serious risk when not disposed of properly.

I also wanted to start by congratulating my colleague from New York, Mr. Tonko, on continuing his role as ranking member of this important subcommittee.

I urge the FCC to do the same and to take its direction from Congress rather than bow to political pressure from the White House.