I'm pleased to be able to convene this hearing, and it's the third in a series of hearings that we are holding on early ...
To be honest with you, there are a lot of folks who think that the stimulus money wasn't spent very well.
I hope today that DOE can provide its response to Vehicle Technologies Program related management concerns.
I do support the important role of Congressional oversight, that is, it is an important check in our system of checks an...
I would like to state at the outset that I am strongly supportive of advanced vehicle technologies if the government rol...
Its importance and timeliness is magnified significantly by the fact that the President has proposed a new $1 billion ma...
I think that we should not just act as partisans in our oversight. We should act as the eyes and ears of the American pe...
What I don't support and will not support, and I think others should not support, is using Congressional oversight for s...
We should always remember that we are spending taxpayer money.
I hope that that is the sentiment of everyone who sits in Congress, to be honest with you, that we don't use Congress fo...
The President recently identified outsourcing and foreign investments as a major issue we should be considering.
without government subsidies, without government mandates, these electric vehicles would not--would fail in the marketpl...
Maryland is a sequester-stressed State.
So the lack of funding would impact, say, a school district like Baltimore or Prince George's County or even one of my r...
These Federal agencies... will unfortunately be gutted if the sequester goes forward.
it's really the impact on our economy both today and in the future.
Do you think it would also sap the energy of reform that--I don't want to put words in your mouth.
So now, particularly after 4 years of reform efforts, and let's face it, there were some tussles with the teacher associ...
