I want to thank you for holding the hearing because, as we move down the road, hopefully with the energy bill...

Thank you for your leadership in introducing the Valles Caldera National Preserve Management Act to ensure the long-term protection of one of New Mexico's most magnificent natural areas.

I am a big supporter of ARPA-E, for example. I mean, I am a big believer.

The significant benefit of using electricity to fully or partially power our vehicles, when it comes to oil security, is easy to see.

Today we are looking into the issue of how to accelerate deployment of electric vehicles...

The President has talked about having a million electric vehicles on the roads by 2015 in this country.

Moving in the direction of an electric drive, vehicle fleet makes a great deal of sense.

The manmade disaster unfolding in the Gulf provides an obvious reason to reduce our reliance on oil.

Congress mandated that the FCC create a National Broadband Plan to address one of the most significant infrastructure challenges of our time.

How close are you to getting a total cost and time estimate for Sandia's portion of the B61?

Dr. Miller, your testimony refers to advances in computing to millions of trillions floating point operations per second or Exascale--are you working with the DOE's Office of Science computing program on this?

I am concerned that in the administration's section 1251 report (on funding), much of the planned funding increase for weapons activities do not come to fruition until the second half of the 10-year period.

The NIF became operational in March 2009.

I take it then that you feel no constraint in looking at any of these options?

I don't think there is any doubt in terms of how we answer that question. It has left Native American students behind.

That is really unacceptable. If you have made the conclusion that this person is not a good leader in one school, what makes you think they are going to be a good leader in another?

Tribal education is crucial to sustain the culture and traditions of our Native peoples.

American Indian youth have to endure unacceptable disparities in services and outcomes.