Proven sources are fossil fuels, oil and gas that work to provide transportation fuels, but also for electricity.

They want to be an exporter.

I like wind and solar. I fully support countries like Uruguay and Peru and Chile that are going for more renewables.

But then in conversations at the summit, we really started thinking more broadly about the Western Hemisphere and thinking about hemispheric energy independence.

But what we see in Venezuela, due to the El Nino and weather patterns that have changed, and a drought, low water levels, they are having to ration electricity due to the hydroelectric dam not having water levels necessary to provide…

It would be a huge game changer for the quality of life in some of these Third World countries.

Mr. President, to Members of the body on both sides of the aisle, I appreciate the effort to produce a bipartisan national defense authorization bill. I think our committee did a good job in coming up with a bipartisan bill, but as a body…

Easter Seals makes a difference around our country for so many people, so thank you for what you do.

Thank you, Judge Poe, and thank you for your obvious passion about this issue and making a difference.

I'm also very grateful that I have four sons that have participated in the Boy Scouts of America.

this rule will affect nearly a thousand employees, cost the university over a million dollars a year to comply, which I believe could lead to destroying jobs.

Thank you, Judge Poe, and thank you for recommending this hearing on such an important topic.

the regulation will have on the Boy Scouts in South Carolina, which makes such an important difference of the lives of the young people of our State.

So that anybody making from about $23,000 could get a raise to over $23,000, everybody between 23 and 47 could get to 47 and it would cost you $265,000?

As the gentleman from New York just indicated, in 1938,-- 1938-- Congress established 40 hours as a normal work week.

the overtime salary threshold has been allowed to erode so badly that today a worker earning less than the poverty threshold for a family of four still makes too much to be automatically eligible for overtime pay.

last month the Department of Labor took a long overdue step towards addressing income inequality by restoring and strengthening overtime protections for millions of Americans.

Zero. Is that right, Dr. Bernstein?