I reintroduced legislation to create a clean energy and sustainability accelerator.

This is a great example of American ingenuity.

We need to develop the entire supply chain of a bunch of products, but this product in particular, since you raised it.

It is also imperative that we get a handle on the supply chain, or we are going to end up in the same position that we were in before America's shale energy revolution.

We want them earning the kinds of wages or better that they earned when they were mining coal.

I believe that Congress and the Department have an opportunity to work collaboratively to improve cyber response and harden our Nation's critical energy infrastructure.

I support yours and the ranking member's desires to make these things permanent, certainly dealing with the issues around accountability that we need to do.

Let me throw out one name--I guess it is actually, technically, two names: Dodd-Frank. My friends on the other side wrote a massively expansive bill that did turn over all of that authority to come up and promulgate rules out of whole…

It's nice to see a fellow Michigander once again at the helm of the Department of Energy, and I look forward to continuing a close working relationship with you.

Nearly five months later, we still don’t have the answers to the basic questions.

We believe that increasing the number of mental health providers able to care for our Nation's seniors is an important priority.

If we focus on what unites us, and we provide a positive message for our youth and a positive vision, we would just get a lot farther.

This sort of clean energy accelerator, a clean energy bank, if you will, it is a hugely promising strategy.

Funding these demonstration projects is such a pivotal step in getting there.

Hydropower is not just a big portion of our existing zero-carbon energy supply, but a great source of zero-carbon power.

This administration is clearly--I mean, you are in this position, fighting for Hanford, and I am new to this position.

Key, a key tool in the toolbox to save money, create jobs, reduce our CO2 emissions, win, win, win.

I would disagree with that, and so would the President.