Most of us on the Republican side do believe that a robust domestic drilling program would significantly improve production.

I want to thank the gentleman from South Carolina for yielding. I've been in the House, this is my 28th year, 14 years in the minority and now I'm in my 14th year in the majority. I don't believe I have ever voted against a rule when I was…

I thank the gentleman from Nebraska for yielding. I am actually here to speak on Mr. Markey's amendment, the previous amendment. I do want to oppose the amendment of my good friend from Chicago, Mr. Rush, but I think Mr. Terry eloquently…

I will look at this with an open mind, but if I had to vote today, I would vote no.

I hate to be the skunk at the garden party, but every now and then I am.

the proposal that the industry and your department have agreed to doubles the user fees per year for the next, I think, 4 or 5 years.

I think it is better to have a third-party review than to have it sit on a bureaucrat's desk at the FDA and not get reviewed at all, but that is just me.

I am extremely glad that you are holding this hearing but don't ask this member to rubberstamp a doubling of a user fee.

in the new health care law that passed several years ago, there is a 2.3 percent tax on medical device companies, and it is expected to raise $20 billion over the next 10 years.

It is absolutely imperative, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Eshoo, that we really take this seriously.

This Utility MACT rule is the most expensive regulation that has ever been proposed on the American economy.