We need to make sure that the options for energy generation in America grow and become more flexible, not less flexible.

You need a balanced approach that covers supply, demand, energy policy, security, climate, manufacturing.

I'm very concerned about how we have this tendency to pick winners and losers within the industry.

I want to make sure that coal is not sterilized as a valuable energy resource.

I think having that clarity will allow you to do, then, the long-term resource planning.

I think it's pretty clear that Congress does not need to pick between energy resources. Rather, we need to pick all of them, and proceed accordingly.

S. 1759 and H.R. 3750 would interfere with fulfillment of a long-deferred federal trust responsibility owed to the Hoopa Valley Tribe.

the bonding authority for tribes to be able to issue bonds to be able to finance these kinds of projects is also critical to the development of sustainability.

The aid that has been made available has been not only underwhelming but almost non-existent.

I have been very disappointed with how the Act has been implemented so far.

I appreciate the courtesy to my schedule.

The aid to Indians and Natives nationwide to help them develop the likely huge energy resources on their lands... has been not only underwhelming, but almost non-existent.

We have a situation up in the State of Alaska right now.

much of what we had hoped was going to materialize from that 2005 Energy Act, when it comes to the Indian energy title, we haven't seen.

There is certainly a recurring theme that each of you have raised.

I have been disappointed in how the Act has been implemented thus far.

the electrical grid needs a major overhaul in this Country.

I don't want to be argumentative, and I want to get Dr. Metcalf's perspective on this.

I wish that I could tell you that every Alaskan who receives a Permanent Fund dividend understands and appreciates where that money has come from.

A State like mine, where our cost of living and our energy costs are already through the roof, the threat of something that would cause them to escalate further--

As we look at the impact throughout the Nation and the regional disparities, to use your terminology, the discussion gets really important.

One of the informal analyses that we've seen has suggested that the bill's direct cost per household in Alaska could be 22 times higher than that in New York.

Yet your dividend that goes to each household would be the same in Alaska as New York, and if I'm paying eight bucks a gallon in Alaska and I'm paying two bucks in New York----

When discussing the importance of climate change, one of the underlying reasons that we should move forward is from a national security perspective, because it will allow us to reduce the amount of oil that we have to import.

When Alaskans ask me how much cap-and-trade legislation is going to cost them and my best answer still is, 'A lot, I think,' that tells me that we're not yet on the right track.