I think the more we can empower consumers to make the right choices to save energy, reduce emissions, and cut costs is a good thing for the country and for the world.

the Green New Deal was just evaluated to drive up electricity costs by 22 percent.

Congress bears some responsibility here. We write the laws that you get to administer, and sometimes we don't always get it right.

And lower emission rates, too, just to stick it into the record.

Due to my attendance at memorial services in Oregon following the untimely passing of Dennis Richardson, Oregon's 26th Secretary of State, I was unable to vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 104 and ``yea''…

You can't reduce emissions sufficiently only on the backs of developed countries because the bulk of emissions now are from developing countries.

For the past six months Paris has seen continuous protests that began over ill-conceived policies designed to meet obligations under the Paris Agreement.

The U.S. is still a part of the Paris Agreements--Paris Accords--and will be until 2020.

The Paris Agreement could not succeed since the agreement was a substitute for rather than the product of a domestic political consensus.

Regular people are taking to the streets to oppose heavy handed regulation and taxation that threatened economic prosperity.

We should not lock ourselves into a narrow vision of what is possible.

As the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, I enjoy the relationship and camaraderie I have with the Natural Resources Committee, and I want to thank the gentleman from Utah and my friend Mr. Grijalva, the chairman of the…

The reemergence of vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles, coinciding with undervaccination is a major public health concern.

The current measles outbreak showcases the problem of undervaccination.

There are important reasons for getting the measles vaccine.

The reemergence of vaccine-preventable diseases including measles coincided with the undervaccination as a major public health concern.

So it is a carrot-and-stick approach.

I believe we have a unique opportunity to address some of the most complex privacy and security questions of the day.

Thank you, Chair DeGette, for holding this important hearing today.

In the United States we currently enjoy an environment that allows small to medium-sized companies to grow, to raise money and compete and in large part because they do not have to come to the government to get their business plans…

I hope we can continue working together for the benefit of the American consumer.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. And to our witness, thank you for being here today and the work you and your team do around the country day in and day out to protect American consumers.

I think it is critical to today's conversation to note the importance of EPA's partnership and cooperation with the States and regions when it comes to enforcement.

One of the core missions of the EPA is one that I think we all agree with, for Americans to have clean air, clean land, and clean water.

So I think these are important partnerships that should be embraced and improved to ensure that we are working on environmental enforcement and compliance at all levels of government.