When the EPA came out with their rule on new source performance standards, you cited a number of examples to show the EPA's standards are feasible.

We want to make sure that things are--these viable, that people can actually do them.

You are aware that the partially funded Kemper Project is $3 billion over budget?

I am not sure that the EPA is actually following the law on this.

The Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives... issued a report this month stating that the Boundary Dam project was twice as expensive as alternate generating methods.

HHS and SAMHSA are similarly in denial. You are so out of touch with understanding their own failures that it causes greater pain to millions of American families.

I agree wholeheartedly. That is the way we should look at this.

I hope you will take another look at this because I see people here that really should not be telling you whether or not a program works.

We want to be engaged but HIPAA laws keep us from doing that.

I look at this and I must admit this looks like the fox guarding the henhouse.

But the key should be getting care.

The hubris shown by HHS is downright insulting and callous to the millions of families and individuals suffering under this broken system.

We want to help in this committee, this Congress wants to help, but we can't help you if you are not even willing to admit there is a problem.

I think this committee would like to have that information.

On rollcall No. 64 had I been present, I would have voted aye. Stated against:

Today we convene the first meeting of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in the 114th Congress.

Last February, when public health officials needed to decide what strains would go into this year's seasonal flu vaccine, the FDA bet on the wrong predominant strain.

While this season's vaccine has lower-than-usual effectiveness, CDC is still recommending vaccination for everyone 6 months or older.

In other words, the American people were stuck with a vaccine that wasn't going to work for nearly 4 out of 5 people and nearly 9 out of 10 seniors.

I think we are all frustrated, we need to be speeding up this process and the science.

I think the members remember in 2009 where, in the spring of 2009, we did decide it was important to go forward with a monovalent vaccine.

What I am concerned about is, we want to break through, if there is some bureaucratic hurdles, this committee wants to help.

But here in September, a decision was made for the World Health Organization to change this for the Southern Hemisphere.

But you could do that fairly quickly during that--the issue of the Swine--from 2009.

America is experiencing a severe flu season with an unstable predominant strain that could result in one of the deadliest and costliest flu seasons in recent memory.