Part of our job is to provide oversight.

That is a great coincidence.

I think that is one of the fundamental reasons why you are seeing a significant reduction in the use of award-fee contracts in the Department of Defense.

We have had the hearings in this room before in talking about, among other things, cost overruns in IT projects.

We need to provide the leadership.

The Chinese are actually well ahead of us in terms of energy efficiency for the cars they are putting out on the road.

Some of my friends like to talk about putting a tax on carbon. I do not think there are a lot of people who are going to vote for that.

We need more nuclear. We need more clean coal. We need more solar, we need more wind, we need to create more biofuels.

If we are smart about putting together a piece of legislation that not only addresses security concerns that flow out of climate change...

God, it is great to be back because this is the best Nation on earth. It is the shining city on the hill. We can and must lead.

I think we would all acknowledge that we need every country, especially the major emitters, to begin reducing their emissions.

I think that is the worst idea in the world.

We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt.

I think this is something that we should be utilizing in all of the developments of offshore wind.

In 1975, we passed the first CAFE legislation.

I just want to say to our Governors, as a recovering Governor, welcome.

if we are interested in meeting our energy needs, nuclear has got to be part of it, wind has to be part of it, solar has to be part of this, clean coal has to be part of this, and conservation.

I believe that in the legislation that the House has sent, it is not a perfect bill, I am not here to say it is a perfect bill.