Gene Green

Well, obviously, we need to work with EPA on that because I know their issue is not reliability, but it is our issue.

Texas will lead the Nation in nonhydro-renewable energy power. And that is what worries me.

Reliability of transmission electricity is the backbone of our economy.

We passed a bill through the House that doesn't deal with FERC but deals with EPA and the Department of Energy.

I was hoping, over the last few months, we had a kind of vacation from efforts to attack the Affordable Care Act.

The report goes on to explain that this improvement is thanks to the part of the reforms in the Affordable Care Act.

Thank you for having this hearing.

There are certainly shortcomings in the Affordable Care Act both in policy and implementation.

I don't know of anything in the last 6 or 7 years that the President has said 'you have a free pass to come to our country.'

Securing our borders has been a challenge for decades.

I hope to do what is good for our country.

I have never not voted in my 20 years-plus in Congress, voted for expansion and more money for Customs and Border Protection.

EPA does have the authority to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act.

The issue of climate change is one of the most important issues we should face as a Congress.

The landmark health reform law has enabled 8 million Americans to enroll in exchanges, 6 million to gain coverage through Medicaid and CHIP.

the essential first step is to have access to health care.

I understand--but my first question is if the witnesses could give us some specific changes or reforms in the Affordable Care Act.

I, along with my colleague, Congressman Gingrey, have introduced the ADAPT Act, which is a follow-up on the GAIN law from last Congress.

Why would we want to have opinions issued that are not available for others to benefit from given that we are placing transparency on a pedestal?

I applaud the committee for its 21st Century Cures Initiative to examine what steps are needed to harness scientific knowledge, and accelerate the pace of the new Cures.

According to the report recently by the WHO last month, the antibiotic crisis is bigger and more urgent than the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.

The work being done at NIH and through the country at research universities like my hometown school of Rutgers University, has to be properly funded.

The American taxpayer, the rate-paying consumer and licensees are all entitled to the best possible management and administration of regulatory activities.

A broken immigration system is the best tool available to a would-be trafficker.

Texas is a major crossroads in the United States for human trafficking and forced labor.