Michael Burgess

We have to get it done, and so I appreciate all of you being here...

Don't tell me they don't want to do their job. If a Federal agency doesn't want to do its job, then perhaps we will have that discussion, but this is their job.

Fair statement, because you are not getting any credit at all right now.

It is clearly something that needs your highest attention and I look forward not just to your framework but we actually look forward to some performance on this.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Dr. Shuren, again, thank you for being here. You are going to hear today some concerns from people on the dais and from our subsequent panel, from patients and innovators.

Did you really think that asthma patients were blowing a hole in the ozone layer? I don't think so.

It was $16, $16.00 before, and this is what we have visited upon people.

I do want to enlist your aid in getting this problem solved.

The FDA has a role in helping us find a solution.

Knocking out the entire United States contribution of mercury, which means shuttering all coal-fired power plants, could have a devastating effect upon certainly Mr. Tsosie's constituents.

It didn't work. It didn't work, and as a consequence, we cannot buy the leftover Primatene in the pharmacy any longer.

If I may interrupt, that may be the case but we don't have them.

This is a poor reflection on the agency and one where our committee and you all need to work together and it is not happening.

Thank you for the hospitality you have shown to me and my staff on the two times we ventured out to the FDA during your tenure.

It is important to get the over-the-counter option back out there.

We need American jobs. We need American energy. This seems so straightforward.

I mean, it was his opinion that the part of the Energy Policy Act that prevented subordination was, in fact, violated, and that is my opinion as well.

I remain very uncomfortable. And I have to tell you, I haven't seen a poll done on this, but I think, broadly, across the country, people understand that this was not right.

I think solar energy has a place in the future of this Nation's armamentarium of energy sources.

Those choices come with a cost, don't they?

It allows the public to comment. Before the rule is put forward, it allows for the people to weigh in on it.

I am not quite sure we have delivered on the promise of the cost savings.

Cost is a consideration.

The transparency and accountability of the normal Federal rulemaking process has now been circumvented

Why don't we do that?