How are we all going to work together to pull this team forward using energy and its infinite capacity to lead us forward to help heal this wound so that we don't throttle economic growth anymore in this country.

I think we are at the beginning of a revolution in agriculture in this country because of climate change.

Right now, we have over 10.5 million Americans still unemployed, many working full-time for poverty wages and people who literally have dropped out.

But I have greenhouse producers I represent using 1946 boilers.

We do not have systems that ration water, use it most efficiently and are able to integrate the energy and water demands of modern food production.

This country needs a strong Department of Energy.

My job is not only to do the appropriation for the energy and water appropriations bill, but it is to help make you the most successful secretary of the Department of Energy that we have had.

We have to be more thoughtful in how we preserve that Mall because it would be a shame not to protect the investment.

We are putting hundreds of millions of dollars into fixing up America's front yard. That is the National Mall.

It is a big problem around this country.

We are going to use the appropriated dollars to go after poachers, to work on demand reduction both here in the United States and in other countries.

It is my understanding that the United States has banned commercial importation of ivory for decades, so what we are talking about here is not restricting illegal commerce and endangered species but banning anyone from selling an item that…

There are no sacrifice zones on the National Mall.

We are rapidly approaching the September 2015 deadline to determine whether it warrants listing or not.

I am concerned about making things illegal or valueless that had value when they were originally purchased.

Would it not be better to use the appropriated dollars to go after the poachers and stopping the illicit trade in ivory?

We need to work together to come up with a plan so that we know what we are doing to attack these invasive species.

Well, I need to thank you for the work that you did up around Ketchum this last summer.