Proposals such as BACPAC have potential to reward quality, achieve savings, and strengthen the sustainability of the Medicare program.

The statements earlier today by Ms. McCabe that the increased cost of about $8.5 billion is going to lead to lower utility bills I found fairly incredible.

What am I supposed to tell Mildred Schmidt who lives next-door to you or lives next-door to me, how is she going to deal with this issue?

low-income families and households have lost 13 percent of their income between 2001 and 2013.

I am really concerned it is a dream, an ideological dream, because I don't see how they are going to cut back.

We heard over the years that the more EPA regulations create jobs. For every million dollars in regulations, it creates 1 1/2 jobs.

Now I am hearing this is going to save money for the consumer.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Mr. Murphy, for holding this hearing today focusing on this growing epidemic.

if we can intervene early in pregnancy, that throughout that pregnancy we might be able to have some behavior modification

Prescription drug and heroin abuse has steadily increased.

I would really like to spend more time back in that first because that issue of spreading salt we know is doing damage.

So where do you think the EPA may come down on that issue?

the bill proposed by Representative McKinley would run us off this road and drag us into a dark and dangerous detour where almost none of the protections of the new EPA rule would survive intact.

Bottom line, this legislation provides certainty while the December ruling left the industry still scratching their heads.

For 35 years, Congress has been wrestling with how to handle fly ash.

This draft legislation guarantees that every state must, not may, must have a Coal Ash Permit Program.

I think we are going to have to have more conversation about that.

It is a draft legislation, draft piece. We are going to be working with this, and we are going to make some other modifications, I am sure, to it.

If I can get to three questions, I would like to handle it that way. I am still somewhat troubled by the preamble, about the possibility of a slip, that there could be some consideration as a result of that.

I will be the first to tell you that I--do I think climate change is occurring? Absolutely. I think it is.

I thought that when we came here, the hearing was the ensuring a secure, reliable and modern electric system...

I hope someone has seen the light with that, but the--I am confused a little bit about the regulatory burden

How can we weight--what are some--what would be some factors or--that we might be able to weight so that a small community putting in will be given better consideration than a larger communities?

I think we are seeing more and more people working part time. They are underemployed.

I don't think there is the will to do that. I think that many of us here recognize that the EPA has helped lead the way for clean air and clean water.