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The rest of us are not willing to go along in changing the law.

That's your interpretation, but the lawyers said otherwise.

We want to know about these taxpayers' dollars that have been lost and how we can learn from this experience not to have it repeated.

We cannot afford to delay further action to tackle climate change if the long-term target of limiting the global average temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius is to be achieved.

It is time for House Republicans to stop dancing on Solyndra's grave and start getting serious about energy policy.

No, the climate is changing, and there is much compelling evidence to suggest that a large part of it is due to human activity.

Investing in Solyndra involved risk, but it was a risk that you thought was worth taking because of the importance of clean energy to our economic future; is that right?

You said publicly that you were going to set aside some loan guarantees for higher-risk projects, which you said were projects that had a default rate as high as 10 to 30 percent.

I believe in this oversight on the Solyndra loan guarantee issue. It is part of our job.

The agenda of congressional Republicans is clear: Do everything possible to maintain our addiction to fossil fuels.

We have 9 percent unemployment in the country. We began this Administration with 7.8 percent. I am not sure that is a record I would be proud of with all due respect.

Yes, but you and I both know that that is the result of----a 10-year timeframe that began 10 years ago, and what we are now watching is the Administration systematically shutting off our future oil development by these actions.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and all the while I assure he and anyone who will listen that I am very sympathetic of his plight and I am willing to do everything I can to help.

What is needed to convince this Administration that our people desperately need jobs, permanent taxpaying jobs?

How do these actions help the U.S. economy? How do they help Americans find jobs that they so desperately need?

your assurances that all of these anti-energy policies present a robust energy plan for America, that you are very concerned about job creation except when it comes to the 1.5 million jobs that we could create if you would simply get out…