"Many people look at what we are doing or not doing in Washington and say, those guys don't get it."
"We have air quality and water quality laws because the last 100 years, the people and their representatives to Congress have decided that the market wasn't working."
"I don't see why you couldn't reopen the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act and say unless the Federal Government can show failure, then the State should be preeminent."
"I think it is--although you are outnumbered, it certainly doesn't mean you are outmanned, so to speak, because of the issue."
"All three would be good committee members. So if you and I don't do a good job, we are probably going to get booted."
"I want to compliment the non-committee congressmen and women that are here. They don't have to be here."
"the medical device review process at the Food and Drug Administration in my opinion has become overly burdensome, unpredictable and inconsistent under its current leadership."
"The issues that we are discussing today have the ability to harm our sick, inhibit innovation and stifle domestic economic jobs and growth."
"I believe we need to take steps to put privacy back into the personal realm and take it out of the consumer marketing opportunity realm."
"Thank you, Madam Chairwoman."
"If you have Joe Barton and Ed Markey on a bill, you pretty well covered the political spectrum not only of this committee but of the Congress."