Greg Walden

The long and the short of it is, the customer is in charge. And that's the way markets really work.

Customer demand has always driven changes in the retail industry.

One of the proposals that flowed from that is Congressman Johnson's H.R. 4810, with support from Congressman Guthrie, that gets things moving again at NTIA.

We need a better-funded NTIA to be able to aggregate that information with the data from multiple outlets across the States.

Energy and Commerce has long been leading the charge to close the digital divide.

As we continue our oversight of the agency, we should consider how its role should evolve given its prominence in communications and information policy.

The sharpest increase in drug overdose deaths in 2015 to 2016 was fueled by a surge in overdoses involving fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, and synthetic opioids.

This begins the process to try and turn off the access to these illicit drugs.

We want to be your partner in this effort.

Lawmakers must acknowledge the present. In 2016, opioid overdose deaths from both prescription and illicit drugs were five times higher than 1999.

Congress must learn from the past. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, or CARA, was an important milestone.

Each statistic is disturbing. Even more tragic, every number has a name.

No community is immune to the opioid epidemic. It's ripping apart the very fabric of our neighborhoods.

No community is immune from the opioid epidemic. It is ripping apart the very fabric of our neighborhoods.

Working together, we can help.

We can do a lot of work here to get pipelines and power lines and broadband going. But if we don't have the skilled workforce necessary to do the work, we got a problem.

I know I've worked closely with IBEW out in Oregon--Local 48 and 659, I think--and toured the apprentice operation there. It's very impressive.

Today's hearing exploring the 'State of the Nation's Energy Infrastructure' is another important step in our commitment to put the needs of consumers first.

Energy, truly the driving force in our economy and our country, and our hearing today is focused on ways to expand and improve and modernize our infrastructure.

I would like to touch on too when I did a series of town halls last spring we got some development underway or proposed in Oregon and some who tried to block this sort of development ridicule these jobs as temporary jobs.

I applaud President Trump for not only recognizing the need to improve all facets of our nation's infrastructure but also for demonstrating the leadership needed to push forward this major initiative for our country.

We want to make sure it goes to the right places for effective purposes.

It's a top priority for Members on every side in this committee.

Oxygen is becoming a real problem, and this is something that I hope the administration will act on expeditiously.

I border Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and California with my district, and I know this is an issue I've heard about out there.