mr. waxman: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. waxman: today i rise to commemorate the lives lost in the tragic shooting rampage on the streets of santa monica and santa monica college. chris, marcelo,

mr. waxman: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. in discussing this legislation. i rise -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. waxman: i have a number of concerns about h.r. 1919, the safeguarding america's pharmaceuticals act of 2013. it's a bill designed to improve the integrity of our drug supply chain. unfortunately, this bill falls far short of achieving that goal. throughout last year, members on a bipartisan, bicameral basis, engaged in extensive discussions on legislation to protect our drug supply. during those months of discussion last year and at the health subcommittee hearing this past april, we repeatedly heard loud and clear from f.d.a., the national boards of pharmacy and many others that if we want a secure drug supply chain, we will ultimately need an electronic interoperable system that tracks each package of drugs at the unit level, and it involves the entire supply chain. this kind of a system would enable us to identify ill legitimate pro

mr. waxman: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. waxman: today i rise to commemorate the lives lost in the tragic shooting rampage on the streets of santa monica and santa monica college. chris, marcelo, margarita, lost their lives. we take a moment to honor them and make a promise that we will remember them. i want to express my condolences to the victims' families. your losses are lang's -- los angeles' offices -- losses and we grieve with you. there were many wounded and we wish you wishes for a speedy recovery. i also commend the heroic actions of our first responders. without their fearless response, many more lives could have been lost. we thank these first responders who arrived on the scene and bravely protected us all. our nation expresses its gratitude. we are losing too many of our fellow citizens to gun violence. we must stop this cycle. my colleagues in congress must come together to enact commonsense reforms, including comprehensiv

mr. waxman for 30 minutes. mr. waxman: today, the speaker of the house, not the presiding officer at the moment, but the speaker of the house, john boehner, made some irresponsible remarks about climate change. he was asked about the reports that the president is prepared to act to protect the planet and future generations from climate change impacts. and here's what the speaker had to say, quote, i think this is absolutely crazy. why would you want to increase the cost of energy and kill more american jobs at a time when the american people are still asking where are the jobs? clear enough? end quote. well, i could not disagree more strongly with speaker boehner. presidential action to protect the climate and future generations is absolutely essential the house is controlled by leaders who deny the science and are recklessly ignoring the risks of a rapidly changing climate. the house has become the last refuge of the flat earth society. that is why the president must act, using his existing authorities under the la

mr. waxman: mr. speaker, i rise today as a member of the state climate caucus to urge the house to act on climate change. last month, scientists recorded atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide at more than 400 parts per million. long-term consequences of this are going to get worse in the future, where we are already seeing the mediate impacts today. the philadelphia "enquirer" has reported on the sea level rising along the delaware bay and spring season coming earlier to the philadelphia region. i would like to, mr. speaker, ask that these two articles be put into the congressional record. and just last month, the natural -- the national resources defense council released a report on the cost of climate change showing the federal government spent $100 billion on disaster relief last year. that's more than we spent on education, transportation or even nondiscretionary spending on health. and yet, not only does the republican majority in the house refuse to address climate change, they are activ

mr. waxman, for 45 seconds. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. xman: i support this amendment. we have seen natural disasters from drought to heat waves to floods affecting farmers from coast to coast. we spend billions of dollars on crop insurance subsidies to cover the cost of these. this amendment expands and improves the usda environmental quality incentives program to bring support to farmers to adjust to a climate, it adds climate mitigation as an eligible eqip program expense, i think it makes sense and i would urge my colleagues to support it. the chair: the gentleman from california yields back. the gentleman from oregon is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. blumenauer: i appreciate my friends joining me, the crux of this issue is who is going to get the benefit. there were over 300,000 contracts, 92 projects, took 20% of the money. this amendment would target it for those of far greater number, most of the large confined animal feed lot operations manage on their own. the rest of them can. focus it for people who need it the most, not have a

mr. waxman: mr. speaker, this last week the international energy agency came out with a very important report about climate change. they said that if we don't soon, we're going to see extreme weather events, droughts, hurricanes, all sorts of flooding. real serious problems for our children and our grandchildren. but the important thing in this report is if we do act now we can avert some of those horrible consequences that will face our children and especially our grandchildren. i want to urge the congress to take this report seriously and let us start acting to protect future generations and this planet. we only have one atmosphere, we share with everyone else. let's not pollute it so the carbon emissions and greenhouse gases continue to heat the planet and cause climate problems that we're already witnessing today. let's move. it will help our economy, as well as our environment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek r

mr. waxman into the record.'m happy we are having this hearing on drug abuse in the united states and of glad we can work together in a bipartisan manner to tackle this problem. i want to welcome our witnesses today. this hearing provides an opportunity to discuss action we can take two and a crisis truly destroying lives across the country. my constituent, peter jackson tragically lost his 18-year-old daughter to sematech while visiting family, unless us and offered her and oxycontin tablet that belonged to her uncle recently died of of cancer after taking the tablet while drinking, emily went to sleep and never work. she died from respiratory depression. she stopped breathing. while emily's story of dying after taking a single oxycontin tablet may be rare, dead from the abuse and misuse of prescription opioid drugs are not -- prescription opiate drugs were involved in 16,650 overdose deaths in 2010. accounting for mark to them from overdoses of heroin and cocaine combined. .. >> there actions under way to comb

mr. waxman to the record. >> i'm happy we are having this hearing on drug abuse in the united state and i'mglad we can work together in a bipartisan manner to tackle this problem. i want to welcome madrassas today. this provides an opportunity to raise awareness and discuss action taken take to end a crisis that is truly destroying mites hurting families and communities across the country. i can switch back to peter jackson tragically lost his 18-year-old daughter emily to this epidemic while visiting family and on and oxycontin tablet. after taking the oxycontin tablet while drinking, emily went deep and never woke up. she died from respiratory depression. she stopped breathing. what emily's story at dying after taking maybe extremely rare, dutch and the abuse and misuse of prescription opiate drugs. prescription opioid drugs were and six in six of the 50 over does deaths in 2010. accounting for more deaths than overdose of heroin combined. it's a 313% increase over the past decade. in addition to those tragic deaths come other negative health consequences result from prescription abuse. i

mr. waxman, for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. today's hearing is the second time this year that this subcommittee has convened to examine issues surrounding the upcoming expiration of the satellite television extension and localism act of 2010, or what we call stella. re-authorization of stella involves interlocking communications and copyright law provision that is must be shortly addressed by our committee and the judiciary committee. as i stated in our hearing in february, because of the come flexity of this task, i start -- complexity of this task, i start from the presumption we should pursue a clean re-authorization. congress must complete its work before the law expires so consumers do not inadvertently lose access to programming. at the same time, i believe the re-authorization provides us an opportunity for members to learn more about today's video marketplace and assess whether laws and regulations are keeping pace. as we begin this conversation, we need to qur how we can continue -- consider how we can continue to ensu

mr. waxman into the record? >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you. i'm happy that we're having this hearing on drug abuse in the united states and i'm glad that we can work together in a bipartisan manner to tackle this problem but i want to welcome all our witnesses today. this hearing provides an opportunity to raise awareness and discuss action that we can take to end the crisis that is truly destroying lives, hurting families and communities across the country. my constituent, peter jackson, tragically lost his 18 year old daughter, emily, to this epidemic while visiting family. emily's cousin offered her and oxycontin tablet that they belong to her uncle had recently died of cancer. after taking the oxycontin tablet while drinking, emily went to sleep and never woke up. she died from respiratory depression. she stopped breathing. while emily's story of dying after taking a single unprescribed oxycontin tablet may be extremely rare, death from the abuse and misuse of prescription opioids drugs are not the prescription opioid drugs were involved a

mr. waxman into the record. >> so ordered. >> i'm happy we're having this hearing about drug abuse in the united states and i'm glad we can work together in a ipartisan man torle talkle manner to tackle this problem. y constituents peter jackson tragically lost his daughter to this epidemic. ter taking the oxycontin tablet after drinking emily went to sleep and never woke up. ily's story of taking an unprescribed oxycontin tablet is rare but misuse of the drugs are not. prescription drugs were involved in ,650 overdose deaths 2010. accounting for more deaths than overs dos of heroin and cocaine combined. this respects a 313% increase in deaths over the past decade. in addition to the other deaths there are other negative health consequence that results. for every overdose there was 10 abuse treatment emissions, 108 people with abuse or dependence d 733 non-medical users of those drugs. there are financial costs that will our health care system cannot afford. the direct health care cost exceeds $70 billion each year. researchers found that the abusers generate 8.7 times higher than nonabus