Steven Chu: “I do believe hydropower is proven technology. It is clean.”

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

Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, he felt that ARPA-E was the most effective use of government resources he has seen in a long time.

Today's hearing is part of the same anti-clean energy, anti-progress agenda that Republicans have been pushing for the last 21 months.

They've made this Congress the most 'Do Nothing' Congress in history.