Thank you, Congressman Garamendi. Thank you for your comments and for your leadership in your native State of California on so many different levels in pressing this point. Your observation is that there's a great deal of economic…

And part of what we need to be harvesting. That's why I have a small wind energy tax credit that I think we can install here in the House Chamber. But part of what we've done with the Recovery Act has increased dramatically the amount of…

I welcome the President's budget submission, which will mark the first time since 2009 that the House, the Senate, and the President have all submitted budgets. It's an encouraging development, but the larger question is whether Congress…

Indeed. Well, the cheapest electron is one that we don't have to use. If we just double American energy efficiency, we can cut carbon emissions 22 percent by 2020--and, by the way, that would save American consumers $327 billion a year…

Thank you, Congressman Tonko. I appreciate your comments. I appreciate your leadership on this issue before and after you joined Congress. And I like the notion about thinking outside the barrel.

I appreciate the comments we just heard on the floor from my colleague from Tennessee talking about Dr. Hansen's retirement, a gentleman who has faced a great deal of criticism, including many from this Congress, because of his forceful…

This bill represents the lowest common denominator. I am extremely disappointed that it does not prevent the unnecessary cuts of the sequester and that it fails to fund many programs that are vital to Oregon and the Nation. At this point…

Thank you, Dr. Bera. I appreciate your focus on this and pointing out that this is something that shouldn't be a partisan issue, doesn't have to be a partisan issue, and it is in fact a success story that has made a huge difference in the…

I want to thank my colleague from California for being here this evening, for sharing the time, allowing me to speak with him. And I must say how excited I was that a friend who actually had a rewarding career was willing to jump into the…

This week, we begin the Republican charade of pretending to balance the budget in 10 years, without a hint of how it really is possible. They intend to repeal ObamaCare, which was the central issue in the last campaign, where you will…

I think this is a very important concept that the committee should consider as we move forward.

I appreciate continuing this process of trying to dive into the Tax Code and the implications, and I appreciate the balanced presentation here.

I find it interesting that we are having this hearing today when the American Society for Civil Engineers is putting out its update of its scorecard.

I am voting against H.R. 803, ``The SKILLS Act,'' because it significantly limits the important role that community colleges, labor unions, and local community leaders play in assessing workforce needs and delivering important workforce…

I think MedPAC has over the years served us very well.

We are overpaying some of the very low-performing Medicare Advantage programs.

I am voting against H.R. 890 because it, just like nearly identical legislation brought before the Ways and Means Committee last year, is based on partisan charges that have been widely discredited by independent fact checker. It would…

I oppose this legislation. In Congress, we continue to talk past ourselves on how to get to fundamental financial sustainability. If flexibility is necessary for some agencies, then why not provide all of them with the necessary…

I hope that we stop defending east Germany from western Russia.

Rather than having an ongoing debate to minimize to try and get in the way of health care reform, we should be accelerating it.

As we wait for the Congress and administration to deal with how to do business differently for defense, for health care, for the Tax Code, we can take a break today as we welcome over 750 men and women from every State in the Union who are…

We have a nuclear arsenal that is going to cost about three-quarters of a trillion dollars this next 10 years, and much of it is directed towards the threats of the Cold War and the former Soviet Union, long after that ceased to exist.

I represent a State, Oregon, where we have made a commitment to the Federal Government to reduce our Medicare spending 2 percent a year over the next 5 years.

The costs in the long run are as egregious as anything that we are facing with other entitlements, and we really have not talked about how we are going to cope with that.

We all agree that we want the United States to have unparalleled military might and the ability to protect and defend this country, but I think most of us would agree that we are spending too much for the wrong people to do the wrong…