Thank you, Madam Chair.

I would just like to know why there is a benefit to it, and if there is a benefit to it.

Everything you do is as important to national defense as defense is.

And just to clarify, when CO2 goes into the atmosphere, does it stay over the place it was produced or does it go around the world?

We don't have a Columbia River anymore. We have a series of pools the fish now have to swim to.

So, given that that is kind of the future, looking down the road, and that takes into account what we are doing with renewables and so forth and so on, would it not be important to develop new coal plants that are zero emission, if…

So, emissions and what they are doing in China and India and other places that are building coal facilities is as important, actually, as it is in this country, too, right?

Nobody mentioned fish. Nobody mentioned salmon that come back to Idaho that, if in the next 15 years something isn't done, they will be extinct.

Better collaboration between DOE and NIH can be a win-win for both agencies and both missions.

We are looking down through. There are some incentives we are looking at right now.

What you do is vitally important to this country and the people of this country.

If you want to see some real energy, come up to where I live, and, you know, it has a lot of geothermal because it used to be over the hotspot of Yellowstone.

Whatever you do, do not fill in that tunnel. That is a $16 billion tunnel and we are going to store all the studies that have been done on Yucca Mountain.

I think that is one of the highlights of our cleanup program.

I am just trying to make a standard across the Department.

I hope you know that those Republicans and Democrats are a little flustered by what is being proposed here.

To appropriately respond to these evolving and emerging threats, we must continue the modernization of the stockpile and its supporting infrastructure.

I think Congress has made its position clear over the past several years that some amount of funding for all stages of research is important.