I am also told by my staff that this particular pipeline has complied with every State and Federal environmental review and all the various permitting requirements.

We need to move electricity from where it is generated to where it is consumed.

If you are going to have a nation that grows and an economy that grows, we are going to need more transmission lines.

Whatever your energy needs are, America has it.

I have been on this committee 30 years. I missed the memo apparently where it said we were trying to gut Medicaid, destroy the program.

Well thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am glad to be a part of the first oversight hearing.

Our national debt is about $20 trillion, give or take a trillion or two.

If you divide 325 million into 20 trillion, you get about 66, 67 thousand dollars that every American owes of the national debt.

Mr. Speaker, I rise for two reasons today. First, I honor the life of my father, Larry L. Barton. He died on this date, December 7, 1996. He was a World War II veteran and a B-24 Liberator navigator. He was based in Italy and flew 40…

I believe I could trust Mr. Harper and the State of Mississippi to guarantee the catfish I eat, if it is not in Texas, if I don't catch it myself, is safe for me to eat.

Mr. Speaker, the Affordable Care Act failed because it was a one-sided, partisan, and close-looped system. This bill, the 21st Century Cures Act, will succeed because it has been done just the opposite. Chairman Upton, Diana DeGette, Frank…