It should be clear that environmental progress should not be an impediment to economic growth.

The FIRST RESPONDER Act would repeal the T-Band auction mandate and include strong provisions to address the shameful acts by some States of diverting 9-1-1 fees intended for the maintenance and upgrade to Next Generation 9-1-1.

I may be one of the few in the Congress. It is actually an amateur radio operators but I have seen them play a key role in emergency situations, too, when everything else fails.

I appreciate his work on this issue, and I know this has been a focus of his for a long time, going back to his work during Superstorm Sandy.

Yes, it is getting worse. Yes, climate change is impacting it. But we have got to do work to get our forest back in balance and get the excess fuel loads out and we need your help to do that on both sides of aisle.

at least the administration has put forward a budget each year. That is better than this majority has done that didn't even do a budget last year.

EPA has developed a strong record of success over the 50 years it has been in operation.

But we cannot talk about the importance of the resiliency of the 9-1-1 system, while turning a blind eye to the flagrant and obvious attempts to undermine the system's integrity and, dare I say, resiliency.

I am pleased to see the Administrator is continuing to emphasize the Portland Harbor cleanup.

The budget also integrates proposals that members of this committee have previously supported.

Good morning, Madam Chair, and welcome to all our witnesses and guests.

H.R. 19 contains about 80 or 90 percent of the Wyden-Grassley bill.

We agreed that we needed to cap out-of-pocket costs. We put that in our bill, H.R. 19.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon.

I think I have been in every one of the roundtables and hearings that you and your team have provided for this committee and other committees.

We support the elements of it, absolutely, including the notion of capping out-of-pockets and saving seniors money.

The most important thing to keep in mind across the issues that will be discussed today is the need for transparency and appropriate disclosures to consumers.

Congress could act. This House could move legislation to put into law certainty to protect people with preexisting conditions, in addition to the laws that are already on the books dealing with preexisting conditions.

Providing funding to essential health programs has been one of the priorities of this committee.

These provisions--that are now law--directly and positively impact the American people.

The Congressional Budget Office--independent, nonpartisan--that said, I believe 8 to 15 new medicines would never be invented because of H.R. 3, Speaker Pelosi's partisan drug pricing bill.

I look forward to hearing what the six companies before us today are doing to combat some of these issues, protect their consumers, and ensure customer satisfaction.

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On-demand abortions are not putting the safety of the woman as the highest priority.

I am especially interested in learning more from Mr. Estes-Smargiassi... about the impact the mandates this proposed rule will place on drinking water systems.