Steven Chu: “I'm excited about the prospect of improving DOE's clean energy research development and deployment efforts.”

We believe that that ATVM loans, for example, the loans to Ford and to Nissan, saved or generated many, many thousands of jobs.

We believe it is an issue of great public importance that the Administration has chosen to restrict religious freedom for millions of Americans.

The loans we give are for American jobs, and we are very clear about that.

Whether the investors are Republicans or Democrats did not enter into any decision as to whether we were going to fund the loan.