Greg Walden: “The urgency of the crisis demands an urgent response, and the challenges facing our communities demand action now.”

I have no other speakers on this legislation, so I urge its passage, and I yield back the balance of my time.

We need to make sure it is getting to the right places.

I have no other speakers on my side of the aisle. It is good legislation, bipartisan. It should become law. I urge its passage, and I yield back the balance of my time.

It does not give me pleasure to be here today to say what I am about to say. I am really frustrated. The Energy and Commerce Committee, which I am the ranking member and former chairman of, we worked most of this year on legislation to ban…