Today's hearing, examining legislation addressing cybersecurity and emergency response, will help us respond to some of the most urgent challenges to the reliability of our Nation's energy infrastructure.

In today's highly interconnected world, the threat of cyberattacks is ever present. So we have to be vigilant.

This is really important stuff for our country and those of us who have been briefed up on it know the importance of the work that's going on in our agencies and the security issues that are really before us.

Ask anyone who lives in or near communities with waste coal piles from abandoned mines and they will tell you that they can be a significant environmental hazard. They can leak acidic water into rivers and streams. They can sometimes catch…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing on the very important issue of public health preparedness for and response efforts to the seasonal influenza.

The bill before us today, the BRICK Act, makes commonsense adjustments to preserve small businesses and American jobs while still protecting the environment. This bill addresses the impact of regulations and policies aimed at brickmakers…

In a bad flu season, more than 50,000 people die, nearly as many as the Nation lost during the Vietnam War.

And so we need to look at what Federal issues are in the way of allowing that to move forward.

And our goal here is to put the customer first.

The internet's incredible ability to transform old ways of doing business is by now widely known.

I would concur with my friend's comments. I am happy to work on these issues involving spectrum. I know there are multiple uses around, and we want to make sure that those using these frequencies are not disadvantaged. I look forward to…

The ability of the internet to remove barriers is as easy to understand as it is to pull out your phone and order pretty much anything you want.

the sources of alternative fuels in the marketplace relies heavily upon the ability to bring down the cost per mile traveled

Customer demand has always driven changes in the retail industry.

the breakthroughs in fuels and vehicles can be done in a way that benefits consumers while also achieving environmental and other objectives

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, appreciate it. Appreciate your leadership on this and so many other issues.

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

We would welcome a bipartisan effort to do that.

We want to make sure this marketplace continues to grow and that we don't stand in the way with Federal policy.

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.

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.

I want to thank the chairman of the Environment Subcommittee, my friend, Mr. Shimkus, who has worked tirelessly--not just this year, not just last year, but probably since the first year he came to Congress--to try and find a permanent…

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