As the U.S. Government prepares to meet the challenges that are sure to come, we must ensure that our response and recovery mechanisms are strong enough to handle catastrophes ranging from a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico to an earthquake…

So when you have 168,000 cases, does that mean you have 168,000 payments?

Why the delay? I guess that would be the first question.

Mr. Chodos, is there a redundancy between the two agencies in terms of trying to help victims of disasters?

Now our Republican colleagues make plenty of claims about this race, but they are handicapping is highly suspect.

We are burning through our savings in other words, our reserves, faster than any other country on the planet.

That horse is owned by a syndicate of the richest international oil companies in the world, and OPEC.

We have two percent of the world's proven oil reserves. We produce 11 percent of the world's oil on a yearly basis, and we consume 25 percent of the world's oil on a yearly basis.

That horse is owned by the American people, in partnership with researchers, investors, and companies developing new technologies to produce energy from wind, solar, geothermal, hydropower, biomass, and other renewable sources.

Markey, Hon. Edward J., a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts.

But in this context the faster we burn down our reserves is the more power in the marketplace, those that have massive reserves for the balance of the century will have in terms of influencing the price in the market, since they work as a…

We consume more than any other nation.

Rather than a blanket of roses at the finish line, the winner gets much more valuable prizes; lower unemployment, and lower energy prices for American families.

The old horse, the one that has been running flat out for decades, is Drill-Baby-Drill.

I want to express my appreciation to you for holding this hearing on this occasion, on the 1-year anniversary to the Health Care Reform Law.

But the truth is our Republican friends have taken a terrible risk; they have bet it all on just one horse.

The reference in the title of this hearing to 'Harnessing American Resources' is appropriate because we are in a horse race, Mr. Chairman.

In this committee alone, the scorecard on 'All of the Above' stands at seven hearings featuring Drill-Baby-Drill and zero on clean energy.