Greg Walden

The idea of selling off Bonneville Power Administration's electricity transmission assets and abandoning cost-based rates is broadly rejected by practically every Member of the Pacific Northwest Congressional Delegation.

Thanks for your leadership at the agency.

The breadth of DOE's responsibilities is impressive, Mr. Secretary.

I would like to understand how DOE could more effectively support innovation, how it can help bridge the gap between the lab and commercial development while minimizing taxpayer risk.

Our committee has done much to help get lifesaving treatments patients.

We need to look from one end to the other of everything related to healthcare, Madam Chair, not just drugs.

I hope we can continue to work across the aisle on common sense policies to address the rising drug costs.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I want to join my colleagues in recognizing the loss of Robert Pear and expressing our condolences to his family and friends.

We are obviously very concerned as we go down this path what are the unintended consequences.

I am told 36 percent of domestic chlorine production is manufactured using a totally enclosed process that does use an asbestos filter.

And, again, we all want to make the world safer. And for those who are suffering or who have lost someone, you are in our hearts, and we want to do the right thing here.

At a 50,000-foot level I join my colleagues in wanting an end to mesothelioma, cancer, and other pulmonary diseases precipitated by asbestos.

To the families suffering with these diseases right now and those who have lost loved ones to it, I sympathize with you and the advocates of this bill, I recognize the tragedies you have faced, and understand you want a solution once and…

We want to get it right for our consumers, we don't want to snuff out innovation.

The obligation is on our shoulders to be as refined and targeted as possible.

I want to echo the sentiments of my colleague Rep. Rodgers who outlined the vast benefits consumers get from the use of their information online.

I believe the FTC is the right agency to enforce new privacy law with appropriate safeguards and process improvements to ensure strong, consistent enforcement.

We cannot lose sight of the tremendous benefits consumers get from the use of this data: access to top-tier journalism, affordable and quickly delivered products, telehealth and research initiatives, and much, much more.

But, you know, we really don't want our salmon to glow at night and so we need to keep after this.

It has been going on a long time, and we are making progress, but we know there is a lot more work to be done.

Thank you for stepping into this and trying to clean up this mess.

It is time to do it again and get the Senate to put it on the President's desk.

Yucca Mountain is the cornerstone of the Nation's nuclear waste disposal and we need to move forward again.

At least the President put out a budget, unlike our Democrat majority that punted on the issue of a budget this time.

This is an important hearing, and I am pleased that we are beginning this process on a bipartisan basis.