I hope so-called controversial riders will not be added in the subcommittee or committee.
We have $24 billion in subsidies for oil and gas over the next 10 years.
I am for doubling energy research, but that costs about $5 billion.
I want to thank Secretary Moniz for being here today, and also Senator Feinstein.
This is a major decision that Congress has to deal with and that the administration needs to deal with.
But it would require new legislation, would it not?
I think basically the administration has done something that other administrations have done for things they think Congr...
I would add that Senator McConnell has said to the Republican Caucus that he hopes we move rapidly on appropriations bil...
But I am not convinced that we have the authority to use it.
I think you are correct to try to address it in the budget, and we need to take sufficient time to deal with it.
It seems to me that Senator Feinstein has raised some issues we need to pursue.
the holy grail of clean energy research, because if you can actually figure out how to make a commercially viable use of...
I think the answer is there is zero, unless we can use the USEC money, right?
The taxpayers are going to want to know from us why we are spending $500 million to $800 million a year on something whe...
If anybody thinks they have 60 votes to put something controversial on the bill, they can offer it on the floor.
We are in a swivet in this country and the world over climate change and the need to produce carbon-free electricity.
I want to thank Senator Menendez for beginning that. I think it is critical.
Some of us here in the Senate are in the results business, and a lot of us are on this committee.
