If you ever see me in a driverless vehicle, you will know that hell has frozen over.

Chairwoman Kaptur, ranking member Simpson and members of the subcommittee, it's been an absolute privilege to be able to address you here today.

These benefits have impacts beyond individual households to broader communities as well as particularly when we look at the program as a whole.

I look forward to hearing about your experience with the Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program.

Because he is the one that is going to get the benefit, it is improving the property that he is renting out and he is renting it out and making profit off of it. So it seems like there ought to be some type of cost share for the landlord.

I am just raising questions. Because nothing is as simple as we oftentimes make it. It is always very complicated.

As long as you can charge it.

I'd like to thank the Wyoming and the Idaho delegations including representative Mike Simpson, who has long been a strong advocate for both CAES and INL.

Our desire is to get as much money out into the program actually as possible.

I do not know anyplace in Europe that has a permanent geological repository. It is all temporary.

Politics has stopped us from solving this problem. And we need to just move on and get it done.

I appreciate all your testimony and all of you being here today. It is an interesting subject, one that we don't know a lot about, frankly.

Some of the work that--all of the work that you do is some of the most important work that we do in this government, and I appreciate the job you are all doing.

I would just say, if you have not been, Madam Chairwoman, down to the Everglades and taken a tour of it, it would be very helpful.

That is an interesting topic on itself and its challenge with DOE, especially when you have EM sites and the goal of an EM site is to clean it up and move on.

Every part of the country has a competitive advantage with something.

I don't think you can seriously talk about climate change without talking about nuclear energy.

I have enjoyed working with you the past several years and look forward to continuing that productive relationship in this Congress.