Brian Bilbray

It is absolutely essential that the Internet is available and that broadband is available to bridge that education gap in Third World countries.

I personally spent a lot of time in Latin America working on certain problems they have down there.

What can Congress do to help with the negotiations with other countries to ensure a strong position that the Internet remain free and open without the harmful international regulations stifling it?

Of course they are thrilled. They are getting fed taxpayers' money to do things that they would be doing anyway.

Because we have them going on right now where the whole eastern, east of the Mississippi, if not east of the Plains, is going to be provided by service three times of what the minimum that we are requiring here.

So in other words, you were fighting the last war; didn't look at the fact that there was a new technology coming on that was going to be available.

I think history has proven that because Congress pushed it, made them look at new technology, it was aligned.

I have always worried that experts--what is the line they always say, generals always fight the last war, not the next one.

Let me assure you as a regulator, the Manhattan Project would not be legal under today's laws.

I appreciate the chance to be able to talk about your part of the deal, and that is make our Tax Code fair, equal, and rational, and right now, it is not.

My attitude is clean coal is as logical as safe cigarettes.

Mr. Ranking Member, let me say this quite clearly as somebody who was a regulator more than I was a congressman, how many times have you heard we need a Manhattan Project for energy independence?

To say that clearly as somebody that would tell you is working on stuff like greenhouse gases, we do not embrace some of this technology as the U.N. Council on Climate Change said, who got the Nobel Peace Prize along with Vice President…

The barriers to nuclear power are not scientific. They are political and they are regulatory.

I think the credibility, Mr. Neal, Congressman, of the program has been severely hampered by what basically appears to be Congress picking winners and losers based on political agenda's or misconceptions of environmental benefits.

I think that is a legitimate argument to be held at this time. I think that in all fairness, you need to choose either to be engaged in the activity, trying to give an incentive, but if you do that, the incentive should reflect reality not…

I think that Tax Code should at least be equal, if not question the logic that maybe we ought to go to a BTU based credit somewhere in the future that reflects true energy that the consumer is receiving and the country is getting the…

This is where we are trying to get our Tax Code to reflect good science, not inappropriate politics.

I wanted to address 1149. It is a bipartisan bill that basically says that when you have one fuel like cellulosic ethanol that gets a tax credit, and then you have another fuel that is algae based fuel...

You have been brave enough to stand up on energy issues that were politically incorrect, pointing out the great shortfalls with ethanol and the great opportunity of nuclear power.

This is a place that both sides of the aisle should be able to cooperate on.

Unfortunately, in those 10 years, we made a lot of progress but the bad guys have made more progress.

I think we are even giving grants to States for homeland security and States are refusing to implement the 9/11 recommendations.

Congress does have the option to go back and revisit this and modify the law to allow or to require that every able-bodied person in the United States be required to contribute a portion of their salary, $100 to $200, to guarantee this…

The breakdown in those family units are creating crises not just for the individuals in those families, but also the community at large.