Customers of all public water systems, large and small, wealth and disadvantaged deserve safe affordable drinking water.

The patent system plays a crucial role in promoting innovation. It provides an incentive to inventors to make costly and time-consuming investments in research and development of new inventions.

four million Americans reached out to the FCC demanding strong network neutrality protections.

I would urge support of this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

the EPA has provided tremendous leadership to understand, address, and mitigate the effects of climate change, and Congress has not been a partner in those efforts.

A clean environment is not a luxury.

The President's fiscal year 2016 budget funds the EPA at 8.6 billion, an increase of more than 450 million over the fiscal year 2014 enacted level.

Cuts to the EPA budget translate into extra burden on our States, our local, and tribal governments.

I think there is a false dichotomy that often gets put forward, that somehow, in addressing climate change, we are going to have to undermine our economy.

The budget includes significant funding for Superfund and brownfields cleanup.

The fiscal year 2016 budget would also invest in our Nation's aging drinking water infrastructure by providing over a billion for State revolving funds under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

one of the important aspects of net neutrality is ensuring that the FCC stands ready to protect consumer privacy