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

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

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.

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

I am very disappointed that TSA refused to provide a witness for today's hearing.

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

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

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

We should confront these issues now to modernize the Part D benefit, keep drugs affordable for seniors and address misaligned incentives that drive up costs.

We know that a lot of surveys show seniors like Medicare Part D, like a 90 percent approval rating.

I am all for going after these like I was for going after those people that did the pop-up ads.

One consistent concern I hear about from my constituents in Oregon as I hold town halls and other meetings is the high cost of prescription drugs.

This hearing continues this committee's important work on bringing down the costs of prescription drugs for seniors, frankly for all Americans, and patients across the country, but especially seniors in the Medicare program.

Nothing brings us, Democrats and Republicans, together faster or stronger than I think this issue.

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, but I am not opposed to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Oregon is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I agree with my colleague across the aisle, Mr. McAdams, that ISPs should be able to block unlawful content, and I support his amendment. In fact, even when the FCC imposed the heavy-handed title II regulations, it recognized in paragraph…

I would also point out, actually, that the bill would regulate 5G. We had a vote in committee to prevent that from happening, and every Democrat on the committee voted to regulate 5G through this legislation and give the FCC that…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, although I am not opposed to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Oregon is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection. {time} 1000

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, even though I am not opposed to it. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Oregon is recognized. There was no objection.

Again, I support this amendment to require the GAO to look into ways to promote deployment of broadband to our most rural and underserved areas. It is a very worthy subject and one on which I think we can find some really broad bipartisan…

May I inquire as to how much time remains. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon has 2\1/4\ minutes remaining.

I thank the gentleman for his comments, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. I again thank the gentleman from Utah for bringing this amendment. I guess my suspicions were right: It is merely restating what is already in the 2015…

I appreciate both my colleagues' comments, but the nationwide numbers of investment obscure what happens in our smallest investors, among those that are out there, like Joe Franell in Eastern Oregon trying to build out. What we do know is…

Oh, my gosh, Mr. Speaker, in its current form, yes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Walden moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1644 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce…

This amendment is actually pretty simple, and Members have a clear choice today on the floor: Are you for taxing the internet or not? That is the question. As we have discussed at the Energy and Commerce Committee and again on the House…