Greg Walden

Addiction doesn't understand politics. It doesn't understand income. It doesn't understand race or where someone's from.

I believe they are laboratories for American innovation and new ideas.

Local communities are the laboratories of American ideas and innovation.

Despite the numerous benefits of hydropower, the greatest impediment facing its growth is the regulatory process.

This hearing is a crucial step in the energy subcommittee's efforts to modernize our Nation's energy infrastructure.

One of the many advantages of living in Oregon is the plentiful supply of affordable, reliable, and clean hydropower.

The electricity generated from hydropower allows for a diverse energy mix, which in turn increases our Nation's energy security and reliability.

In my home State of Oregon, hydropower is one of the largest sources of electricity generation.

This hearing is a crucial step in the Energy Subcommittee's efforts to modernize our Nation's electricity infrastructure.

Hydropower is great for homeowners as well as job-creating businesses.

It is a false choice that we can't have both a clean, safe environment and a regulatory process in place to ensure that investment in clean energy remains a cost-competitive option.

Another critical step is regulatory reform.

So the first step forward is to provide sufficient funding to modernize our infrastructure.

Hydropower provides zero-emission base load generation that can help our country meet our energy goals and commitments to the global community made in the Paris Agreement last year.

As I've stated before, my objectives at the committee are to put consumers first in all that we do.

The CBO said that there would be twice as many people taking Obamacare insurance as they're actually are.

Part of that process is giving committee members and staff the opportunity to work closely together to draft a bill that reflects the concerns of our constituents and reflects our mandate from voters to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Reports that the Energy and Commerce Committee is doing anything other than a regular process of keeping its members up to speed on the latest developments in its jurisdiction are false.

This critically important FDA user fee reauthorization process is in good hands with you at the helm.

I think it makes a lot of sense. It is a piece of the puzzle, it is not the whole puzzle.

Thank God for the investigative journalists that blew the doors open on this.

What a broken system. What a broken system up to that point.

So who had the power to investigate?

I want to just ask our Olympians again to make this clear, you don't think you have ever competed in a clean Olympics; is that right?

The millions of clean athletes around the world who push the limits of physical and mental exhaustion, who sacrifice so much, don't they deserve a similar commitment from those responsible for protecting the integrity of their sport?