Steven Chu: “Ultimately going forward, solar energy is a great resource in the United States, and we need to learn to exploit that.”

As President Obama has said passing a clean energy standard is a vital step that Congress can take to broaden our clean energy market.

If I look at other countries and how they are borrowing from our playbook--we have a long history of funding our research and development through our national labs, through our universities, and even in some companies.

If we can develop this technology in the United States and build these reactors with American workers, we will have a key competitive edge.

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