We actually have legislation to try to promote these startup activities, Startup Act 2.0, which addresses the very issues you talked about as well as the issue of talent.

I am committed to trying to make this policy work, at the same time to reduce the frictions that are causing it problems.

It is all about the beer.

I agree. Well, let me ask Ms. Burkhalter because I am over my clock here.

I think we really need to work here in the Congress on having a clear, objective methodology that everyone can understand around the world.

If we keep raising the cost of electricity, don't you think that will cause some concern or some diminution in the advantages of going to an electric car?

Sleepless nights for Saudi sheiks. In my part of the world, you give Saudi sheiks sleepless nights by looking at turning coal into gas.

This is a big issue in my congressional district, out in Loudoun Valley all the way out to the Shenandoah Valley.

It was not the members of Congress who made that decision, 250 tons was the law that they wrote.

Am I interpreting you correctly that while a mining company might have had the right to extract coal, there is nothing in that original permit that allows somebody to put carbon back into the ground?

What happens when people cannot afford to heat their homes?

Simply put, coal powers America.

In reality, the Clean Air Act calls for that 250 ton standard and they have unilaterally on their own changed the law.

burdensome and unreasonable regulations that are hurting the American economy and hurting American jobs.

What sometimes is forgotten is that if we make our energy costs so high by unreasonable regulations, that a company has to send their jobs--either they close down and somebody else in another country starts producing that product, or they…

I will tell you that I am very concerned.

If you think coal is ugly, wait until you see poverty.

I am a sponsor of the Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2011.