Tim Murphy

It is not being fully informed, correct.

It is not a crime but it certainly is not an up-front way to do business.

It is important to adhere to scientific information because the implication is not only what happens to Yucca Mountain, but this impacts the credibility of the NRC on many issues of licensing.

Even those exceeding what the estimates are that the bill would actually provide health care, an equal or double that amount may lose health care.

According to the administration's own estimates, its regulations are going to force half of all employers, or as many as 80 percent of small businesses, to give up their coverage in the next 2 years.

I think it is extremely valuable if you could report to this committee on that very specific issue.

We see estimates that are not 9 million people will lose their benefits, but as many as 30 million, 40 million, 80 million.

Its regulations are going to force half of all employers, or as many as 80 percent of small businesses, to give up their coverage in the next 2 years.

The dance the Department of Energy is doing that is thwarting that law, adding new standards that are not in the law, is also quite clear.

It is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work--work with us, not over us, stand by our side, not ride our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it, foster opportunity and not…

I would like to engage in a colloquy with the gentleman from Alabama about some concerns about the Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Standards, known as CFATS. The Committee on Energy and Commerce has voted by more than two- thirds to…

Simply put, the Administration is acting in violation of the law.

The Medicare and Medicaid systems in my mind are so hopelessly outmoded that the old tool, when everything looks like a hammer, everything--when the only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and all Congress knows how to do is…

Back in the 1990s when I was a State Senator I authored and we passed into law, actually got bipartisan support, a Patient Bill of Rights Law, and much of that was dealing with at that time the problems of managed care, where we found out…

No one disagrees that those who violate current regulations should be vigorously prosecuted and held fully accountable.

Here is the situation: Here is coal. We have lots of it in this country. Unfortunately, it is dirty to burn.

I want to make sure that we have accurate information here and we are not simply exporting a problem to have it reimported in the air and in products.

I am concerned also about unstable landfills that could cause slides and disrupt communities, et cetera.

I can't imagine that all that you are going to do is cost someone $4 a month, a giant factory.

The danger is that a worldwide company that has operations in more than one market is going to be taxed twice on its income.

I dearly hope that we come up with solutions and means to pay for those, because we all on both sides of the aisle want a cleaner environment, but also want jobs to function for these things.

What we have here is a health care bill that indeed does have a few pages and some parts that we all agree on and we want to work on those together. However, there are also thousands of pages of other problems and tens of thousands of…

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House…

But we have to recognize that the constant stress of battle wears on our soldiers and has own effects which last long after the bullets stop flying.

We need special programs like this. They're effective, they're cost efficient.