If the goal of the ongoing series of hearings on President Obama's regulatory reform to ensure that that was the case, that regulations be simple, clear, and reasonable, I would be in complete support of these continued hearings.

The Republican majority supports regulatory reform and we have had hours and hours of hearings on this subject.

I have a three-word solution to help fix this Nation's job performance. American energy development.

The review process at the FDA is driving investment in medical technologies overseas as well as sending jobs overseas.

In the face of these challenges, the FDA and the generic pharmaceutical industry have come together with other stakeholders to negotiate a historic 5-year agreement.

It is estimated that over the last 10 years, the use of generic medications has saved our healthcare system nearly $1 trillion.

Brand name and generic medicines are simultaneously necessary and essential components of quality and cost-effective healthcare.

Yesterday, I introduced the Generic Drug and Biosimilar User Fee Act of 2012 based on this agreement with Representatives Pallone, Pitts, and Waxman.

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Did you weigh in with Jonathan Silver and tell him to restructure the loan?

I hope--sir, I'm asking if you can cite something for me and get back to us to show us where in the law it says you don't have to pay attention to the law?

So that was an option? That was an option?

I understand, but you can't give the money if they're not going to pay it back.

We have Treasury, OMB, people from Solyndra, and people from the White House who said the government is a crappy venture capitalist.

Conscience is at the core of Catholic teaching, you said, but slavery was not left to personal decisions and conscience, thank goodness.

This mandate stands in stark contrast to the stated purpose of healthcare reform expanding access to healthcare.

Do you honestly think that thousands of individuals and families in my district who could lose their health insurance altogether are really better off as a result of this rule?

That and I think, too, it teaches us the moral character of actions is determined by objective criteria not merely by the sincerity of intentions or the goodness of motives.

If you like your religion, can you keep it?

I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for his comments and in helping to lay out how we need to lay out America's infrastructure, clean up our environment and do this without raising taxes, borrowing, or buying more from OPEC. I now yield to…

I would now like to yield to the gentlelady from West Virginia, Ms. Shelley Moore Capito.

CBO's credibility should also be called into question for scoring the program as a saver.