We want to do better.

the energy policy decisions that we make today will have a real and direct impact on whether we can prevent the worst impacts of climate change in the future.

Chairman Upton has followed that tradition. He has allowed the minority to control how we spend our budget to meet the needs of our members.

They want Congress to establish the rules of the road so they can plan for the future and make the appropriate investments.

We can't have a conversation about America's energy policy without also having a conversation about climate change.

Regulatory certainty is vital and the climate legislation would revive that certainty.

When future generations look back on this time, they won't care whether we enacted my preferred approach or your preferred approach.

We talked about the NRC and the filter vent issue and how that is going to create new challenges.

I wish I could stay here to hear all the witnesses.

I commend her for her leadership.

It is important that this safety deadline does not slip as others have in the past.

The Commission has an obligation to ensure that the reactor could operate safely before it is allowed to restart.

By all accounts, Chairman Macfarlane has ushered in a new era of collegiality at the Commission.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has to curtail its output of its Browns Ferry nuclear reactors in Alabama during the summers of 2010 and 2011 because the temperature of the river used for cooling waters became too hot.

NRC didn't detect the flaws in the generators before they were turned on. That raises important questions.

For years, scientists have warned that climate change will bring more extreme weather and flooding, more heat waves and droughts.

Safety should be the Commission's top priority, and I urge the Commission to approve the NRC staff's recommendation to require filtered vents as soon as possible.

The Government Accountability Office has made recommendations, some dating back years and years, and they failed to be implemented. Well, it begs the question: Why is this acceptable?

Assistant Secretary Strickling, NTIA has been a model of transparency and accountability.

Improving our health care system, both private and public, requires pursuing dollars that are wasted or diverted, dollars that add to our costs, but don't improve health.

Oversight of BTOP and BIP began as soon as the ink was dry on the Recovery Act.

It is critical that the administration implement the provisions of the law that set up the Public Safety Response Program.

I may not agree with the chairman's conclusions, but I commend him for his diligence.

The projects funded by BTOP and BIP are transforming communities across the country.

Without these investments, some Americans would be excluded from today's digital economy.