Thanks very much, Chairman, and thank you for yours and Ranking Member Murray's continued initiative and effort in this area.

If you're really doing health information exchange through a public facility that brings in all comers and isn't picked off by a particular private sector company to emphasize its own business, if it's truly across the board, then, really…

I rise today for my 113th ``Time to Wake Up'' speech on climate change. They say 13 is unlucky. I don't know what 113 is, but I do know what climate change is. It is very real. We shouldn't kid ourselves. And it is an urgent challenge for…

The conversation on this has been largely preposterous.

It is very regrettable, because I think the Clean Water Rule has been very effective.

Every pollutant regulation receives opposition. Every time, every member.

Madam Secretary, is it a novelty for there to be lively, even intense disagreements, in the internal agency deliberations?

Are there any activities that you can identify, any at all, that were exempt from permitting requirements before this final rule?

There is zero concern from the other side of the aisle about what any of that is costing.

Industry frequently talks about the costs of a rule. And when they measure the rule, they talk exclusively about the cost to themselves...

It is very real. We shouldn't kid ourselves. And it is an urgent challenge for our country and our world.

The junior Senator from Florida tells us, 'Despite 17 years of dramatic increases in carbon production by humans, surface temperatures [on] the earth have stabilized.'

The junior Senator from Texas proclaims that 'satellite data demonstrate for the last seventeen years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever.'

We are a downwind State, Ms. McCabe. It is our oceans that are acidifying because of carbon dioxide...

Industry has a long history of muddling the science and manufacturing false data and exaggerating regulatory costs.

We have Senators who deny that anything is happening, who say it is a hoax.

The denial comes in many guises, but, like a compass, all the denial points in the same direction: whatever helps the fossil fuel industry keep polluting.

I thank the distinguished Senator from Georgia. Climate Change I rise today in my series of ``Time to Wake Up'' speeches to bring attention to two of God's humblest but most useful creatures. Here in the high political majesty of the…

I am here today for the 111th time in my ``Time to Wake Up'' series urging this body to wake up to climate change. It is happening all around us, and it is happening right now, not in some distant future. The warnings of what is to come if…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Rhode Island. Climate Change

I have a recurring theme through these hearings with respect to health information exchange, and I've mentioned in prior hearings the concern I have that we have poured immense resources into the meaningful use support of information…

I share the frustration of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle with this situation.

The Gold King Mine Spill is and will continue to be an environmental nightmare for Colorado and other western States.

What we will not hear from our Republican colleagues is that, according to the GAO, there are 161,000 abandoned hard rock mine sites in 12 western States and Alaska.

Consequences will likely be long-lived and are already widespread across Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.