In my district, that means Olympic Medical Center, the hospital where I was born, could face, could lose $47 million over the next 10 years.

The American public is relying on us to bring down the costs of pharmaceuticals, and the time to act is now.

Cutting reimbursements actually exacerbates that shortage by dramatically reducing the funds available to retain and hire healthcare professionals and purchase new medical equipment.

The United States must do its part to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

the reliance of India and China is putting the globe at risk? It is not the United States because we are already decreasing our CO2 emissions.

We need a working majority of Democrats and Republicans who are going to come together to get a bill that will--a slate of bills that will get us to this 100 percent clean energy in 2050.

We need to be focusing more on what we are going to do in the oceans to be able to increase the phytoplankton content so that we can increase their CO2 capture.

It matters little to the global environment what the United States does to decarbonize its economy.

I got to tell you, I am really disappointed that it's taken us seven months to have another hearing on this topic.

During that hiatus, during that period of time--seven months--215 people died yesterday from substance abuse.

I know all those corn growers, as you might imagine, very well.

I respect that, but you saw the list, 86,000 mine jobs, coal mining-related jobs were lost because of those 1,500 regulations...

If we don't like something, why don't we change the law? If we have a problem with 1975 CAFE standard, change the law, not whine and complain about it.

I think that process is not very transparent, and I think that is a big part of the problem we have here.

We need to regain control, I believe, of this process, instead of whining about what the agencies are doing...

I appreciate your moving forward on examining legislative reforms that can help to restart this process.

The costs to the American taxpayer to pay for the federal government's delay in opening the Yucca Mountain repository have more than doubled to $35 billion since 2009.

The Federal Government has been prevented from completing the licensing process for a permanent repository.

I would hope that you all would continue that.

Maybe you need two pipelines going side by side or close together, or maybe you don't, but the Commission ought to be able to look at that.

Earlier this year, Secretary Moniz, former Secretary Moniz, came out with a statement that he was saying that we just don't have enough battery backup in the long term.

I appreciate the Commission's work on executing the rulemaking process for the Promoting Closed-Loop Pumped Storage Hydropower Act, which was my bill from last session.

You are the chairman of the most powerful committee in Congress. Your party is in control of the House. But then you went into the candy shop, and you left with a stick of gum.

I was really struck by a really wise member of the U.S. House, Majority Whip Clyburn, who told me a story about his district.

To make sure that we understand, I don't think there's a person on this panel that I hear or in Congress that wants to see the mercury levels increase or cause problems.