Steven Chu: “Nuclear power is clearly a clean source of domestic energy that the American people support.”

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

We think that research, development, and demonstration of those advanced biofuels is something very much in the interest of the United States.

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.

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