A robust EPA will make communities more resilient.

If we continue to ignore climate change, increasingly severe disasters will become the new normal.

While we cannot undo the damage of these storms, we can work to ensure that the Federal Government is diligently working to aid recovery and not making it harder to get the job done.

Hurricane response and recovery deals with human tragedy.

Reducing funding to the Superfund program will not make cleanups happen any quicker.

Our job this morning is to better understand who, in the context of environmental concerns that bear on public health, is engaging in the tough work to help speed recovery.

Today marks the third hearing our committee has held to examine the response and recovery efforts for the hurricanes that ravaged our communities along the Gulf Coast and our island territories in the Caribbean.

I look forward to a thoughtful discussion.

This hearing will also examine H.R. 44, the Muhammad Ali Expansion Act, sponsored by our colleague Congressman Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma.

I want to draw attention, first of all, to page 17, line 23, of the bill because we have heard from those who oppose it that somehow this could adversely undermine the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Fish and Wildlife Coordination…

I thank Chairman Burgess for his continued leadership on MACRA, as well as Ranking Member Pallone.

Most importantly, APMs finally reward providers for all the things they have always wanted to engage with patients on.

MACRA has already proved to be a success.

We share the frustration the minority has expressed today about the inability to have the administration's people confirmed by Senate and in place so we would have somebody that could give us the administration's perspective on these…

In my mind, Energy Star is fundamentally an energy program and belongs at DOE, but I understand that many participants in the program are happy with EPA.

Our committee's energy focus is not limited to energy production and delivery--we are also very interested in policies that promote energy efficiency.

What a concept. Amazing we have to pass legislation to fix something like this.

Doing more with less is always a win for consumers, for manufacturers, for jobs, the environment, and for the economy overall.

I certainly disagree with this approach, but I do believe that the program could be improved upon and now is a great time to kick off that dialogue.

I reserve a point of order against the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's point of order is reserved. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from South Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes in support of his motion.

I appreciate the gentleman's sincerity. We work well together on lots of issues. He has also voted to use this Prevention Fund for other purposes in the past, as have I. We don't touch the Prevention Fund for 2018, and there is $400…

I would point out there are about 50,000 kids that Mr. Green may be voting against today in the Houston area if this goes down and we can't get this over to the Senate and work it out with them. Twice he has voted to cut the Prevention…

To respond. Mr. Speaker, my friend, and she is my friend from California, obviously was not aware of the fact that it was her party, her leader, who asked us on three occasions to delay bringing this to the floor, including you could look…

Before I call on my next person to say something here, there are 17,000 children in Mr. Pallone's district and 14 health centers that, if he votes ``no,'' he will be voting against. By the way, the offset he recommended, people who are…

Wow. We are fully funding CHIP for 5 years. We are fully funding our community health centers for 2 years. We are taking care of programs for our citizens who have diabetes. And the pay-for that they are objecting to most is we are asking…