Rick Perry

Streamlining permitting and modernizing our infrastructure will combine to revive our Nation at a time when it's sorely needed.

America is in the midst of this absolutely stunning energy transformation, and thanks to the President's policies.

Permitting reform is going to give businesses the confidence, the certainty, the freedom that they need.

The President's plan gives the Nation's Governors the power and the flexibility to prioritize infrastructure projects.

Washington, when they see a problem, it imposes these top-down mandates to what are uniquely local challenges.

Anytime that we can deliver LNG, for instance, whether it is sending it into Poland to that LNG facility up there, it sends the message to the rest of the European Union, you do not have to be held hostage by Russian gas.

And I don't think anyone would argue right now that nuclear energy is healthy. It is not. And it is not because of the regulatory burden that has been in place, the political burden that has been put in place.

What does it cost to build a system to keep America free?

We think small modular reactors, advanced reactors are the real way to the future.

We don't want to get to the point in the globe where the only people that have the technologies... are the Russians, the Chinese, and/or the Koreans.

I want to try to push the FERC and this country to take action so that we don't face that event in the future where people's lives are put in jeopardy or where this country's national security is jeopardized.

I can make the argument that if you lose those coal fields in the northeast and you lose the ability to have the power that they currently produce, you can never replace that.