Hydropower's growth is 'stagnant.'

I do not want to cut you off

We can help answer those questions today and have the power to steer this ship in a positive direction.

There is vast potential for new hydropower facilities throughout Louisiana and the rest of the country.

I commend you and thank you for recognizing the need for some additional SBREFA panels, specifically Fish and Wildlife, which I agree with.

I would disagree with any suggestion that they are listening to small business. It is two very different things.

you all take positions that are outliers, in my experience, in terms of small business organizations

So, that concern is based on GAO being Congressionally based?

It has become much more challenging for the owner of a small firm to shift his or her time and energy and money away from growing a business in order to comply with over-demanding regulations, particularly those that have increased under…

I am going to continue working with all the committee members on a bipartisan bill to find additional ways to protect small businesses and ensure their voice is heard in the rulemaking process.

Today's hearing will delve into the topic of America's largest source of renewable energy: hydropower.

Mr. Speaker, I really want to thank the gentlewoman from South Dakota for her leadership in bringing this bill forward. Mr. Speaker, this bill is about restoring trust. This bill is about holding the IRS accountable. Here we are, in a week…

I thank my colleague from Missouri for bringing this bill to the floor and for his leadership in holding the IRS accountable. Mr. Speaker, I guess we should start with the question of who is attacking whom. When you look at the actions of…

Mr. President, I rise to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oilspill that took the lives of 11 men and devastated so many gulf coast communities. It was a horrible event, but I think it is very…

Mr. Speaker, 6 years ago on April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon exploded and resulted in the loss of 11 lives, destroying or disrupting many families, businesses, restaurants, and livelihoods of south Louisiana, which is known as the…

The Paris Accords--in the Paris Accords, the use of forests as carbon sinks has increased by 100 percent.

Empirically, though, it is true, those States that emit the most carbon have the lowest energy costs, those that emit the least have the highest, in some cases, triple, and if input--if your cost of energy is an input into your cost of…

if the Clean Power Plan rule raises energy costs, that will put our economy at a economic disadvantage relative to countries overseas.