It would completely eliminate ARPA-E, an agency that has already demonstrated incredible success in advancing high-risk, high-reward energy technology solutions.

I am deeply disturbed by the Trump Administration's proposed budget for the Department of Energy.

For me, the Endangered Species Act is working, despite many attempts... to undermine it at every turn.

99 percent of listed species have not gone extinct. That is an amazing record.

I am not sure how the President expected Congress to react to his Presidential budget request for the Corps for fiscal year 2018.

Bipartisan industry leaders like Norm Augustine and Bill Gates have repeatedly called for tripling this agency's budget.

Innovators like the ones supported by our ARPA-E program are key to advancing America's energy economy.

Do any of you think that Kim Jong-un would give up his nuclear program in order to get that 10 percent of his GDP back?

I have raised a number of concerns pertaining to how the Endangered Species Act is implemented.

Because our goal, the political--if you want to be a good politician, you just slam the table and say we want a democratic North Korea and we will settle for nothing less.

Unless we pressure China, we will only be able to annoy or punish the North Koreans but not force them to change their behavior.

The other approach is country sanctions, 10, 15 percent tariff on everything coming into the United States from China.

Do any of you predict that North Korea would not have at least one ICBM able to hit Los Angeles with a nuclear weapon 10 years from now?

I support virtually every piece of legislation to tighten the screws on North Korea.

I have long said that there is an entire body of scientific knowledge that should be considered.

We have had to contend with non-native species issues in California for years.

I think that the--it doesn't really make sense for us to be funding big companies to help them move through the licensing process, which is basically a federal process, so we're giving grants to people to help them deal with the federal…

Instead of going about the regulatory and trying to stamp out the use of CO2, we're going to find it's much more effective for mankind to find useful purposes for CO2.