Greg Walden

Removing regulatory barriers to innovation is one of the most important duties of this Committee.

This bipartisan effort underscores one of the key goals of the Energy and Commerce Committee: helping American entrepreneurs and established businesses expand to create jobs for American workers and help improve the lives of consumers.

Today, we will hear testimony about the draft bill, the SMART IoT Act, to support the development of the Internet of Things here in the United States.

The Internet of Things has tremendous potential. We must work together to make sure that America benefits from that opportunity.

Since January 2017 over three million new jobs have been created in America.

I believe the four bills today align with those priorities.

Part of our job at the Energy and Commerce Committee is to explore ideas and issues that have the potential to radically alter the way Americans work and live.

Good morning and welcome to our subcommittee hearing where we will discuss legislation to reauthorize certain Department of Energy (DOE) environmental cleanup projects.

I appreciate the chairwoman's holding this hearing and her leadership on all of these issues.

I pointed out we are not Venezuela.

Decisions to not make such investments deprive communities of the benefits gained from environmental improvements.

It is well past time for reform.

A clean environment and strong economy are not mutually exclusive.

This legislation reflects the Committee's goal to implement reforms that will more efficiently preserve and improve air quality.

A clean environment and a strong economy are not mutually exclusive.

This regulation makes it very difficult or prevents the sharing of patient information necessary to deliver effective and coordinated care.

I have heard from my hospitals in Oregon who are very supportive of what we are trying to do here.

As I have stated before, substance use disorder is a medical illness and we must treat it that way.

Removing the stigma of addiction is one of the most important things we, as Members of Congress can do.

Substance use disorder is a medical illness, and we must treat it that way.

This clearly should have identified Sav-Rite, considering your own distribution was 36 times higher than the threshold you set.

So the initial threshold, as I understand it, set by McKesson was 8,000 pills a month.

Over the last few years, the Energy and Commerce Committee has conducted multiple investigations, enacted major bipartisan legislation, and helped authorize historic levels of funding to help those battling this epidemic in our communities…

This Energy and Commerce Committee is leading the national fight to combat the opioid crisis.

We have tough questions for you today, but we ask you these questions in order for us all to find solutions.