"Ultimately, this issue is about fairness."
"Today, our country is on the precipice of a health provider shortage, impairing our ability to meet the increasing demand for services, especially in primary care."
"I would like all of those effected by hurricane Irma to know that we are thinking about them and we are doing what we can to hasten the recovery efforts."
"To really make a big change in air quality, we need to address how we manage our public forests."
"I appreciate your holding the hearing on these important issues and the long overdue reforms needed at the FDA."
"I want to focus on this air quality issue, especially as it relates to wood stoves and what is happening in the West."
"We have to change this policy."
"So we have to do better as a country."
"Thank you, Chairman Burgess, for holding this important hearing to consider long overdue reforms to FDA's inefficient and outdated framework for regulating over-the-counter (OTC) drug products."
"We have proven time and again in the committee, we know how to legislate in a bipartisan way to get good things done for the American consumers."
"They cost us hundreds of millions of dollars a year."