Greg Walden

I want to say that we cannot lose sight of how anti-innovation H.R. 3 is. We cannot lose sight of how many cures will never come around as a result. These aren't my conclusions. They are, but they are also the conclusions of the…

So FDA needs to respond to the overall challenges of foreign drug inspections with more vigor.

Madam Chair, thank you for holding this really important hearing, because our drugs and drug ingredients more and more are coming from overseas, especially from China and India.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. And I want to thank Ranking Member Guthrie for yielding to me.

These plans are so complex, confusing and costly that even the Congressional Budget Office could not figure out the price tag.

A recent poll found that 84% of Americans are satisfied with the healthcare plans they're on.

More than 180 million Americans lose the health insurance plan they've chosen or bargained for.

When Washington politicians promise you something for free, you better hold onto your wallet.

Medicare for All would not only take away your health insurance, but also end Medicare as we know it.

We are on the cusp of dealing with that. And we fully funded Children's Health Insurance Program in the last Congress.

This is the committee that created Medicare Part D to help seniors get access to affordable prescription drugs.

I am not a fan of that complete government takeover. I am a fan of reform and of making sure we have the network in place.

So let's reject taxation and regulation that leads to economic stagnation and pursue practical policies of innovation, conservation, and preparation.

The deployment of our new nuclear technology to address climate change and to preserve our national security interests is an essential element in any real serious climate policy.

This is not the way to address global emissions.

Top-down energy policies are not working.

These are some of the top-down regulatory policies that some of us have been warning about.

We have invited our colleagues to work instead on bipartisan policies focused on the bottom-up benefits from incentivizing and deploying innovation that we can move into law.

We can have a cleaner environment and a strong American economy.

I still hope we will have a hearing on the Green New Deal sometime, since it is talked about by a lot of leaders of the Democratic Party.

I have serious concerns that we are not being informed of their actions until hours before an oversight hearing takes place.

As policymakers, our primary goal is to ensure that Federal resources are allocated responsibly.

My constituents from Bend to John Day and many others in rural parts of our country want access to the Internet.

I led the effort to implement the 9-1-1 Commission findings that set up First Net and did the auction in 2012.

I actually think it is postal fraud, because if you did that or I did that in a business and ran it through the mail system and then used the fund for a different purpose, I think I would--anyway.