I'd like to begin by extending my sympathies to those who died or were injured during the plane crash at San Francisco Airport (SFO) this weekend and to their families.

Energy Savings Performance Contracts, also known as ESPCs, are truly a win-win-win tool for the Federal Government and the U.S. taxpayer.

I am glad the scoring has been brought up and maybe this is an opportunity that the Chairman and I and Ranking Member Maffei can work on to address and try and correct this because it sounds like there is agreement among the three of us…

Energy Savings Performance Contracts, or ESPCs, are truly a win-win-win tool for the federal government and the U.S. taxpayer.

One example we should be particularly proud of is the NASA Ames Research Center Project.

We have seen locally in the cities that I referred to, Dublin and Livermore, that having these types of contracts not only reduce the city's energy bill but the installation of the different types of upgrades that take place and the…

Not too mindless, that you and I, Mr. Broun, couldn't fix it.

I know these Contracts work because I have seen them work in my own district.

At the last hearing we heard from private-sector witnesses that although social media has allowed us to make great strides in how we respond to disasters or emergencies, the lack of uniform open-source data standards hindered the abilities…

In your testimony, you discussed FEMA's efforts to stop the spread of misinformation through its rumor-control website, and to me this sounds a lot like a website I use called Snopes.

This hearing is very timely because at the crash scene, we saw first-hand the role that social media can play.