This is not an all-of-the-above strategy. This is an all-nuclear strategy.

We urgently need a new energy policy, and I hope the testimony today from Secretary Chu and Chairman Jaczko will help point the way.

We can do better. We need to do better.

Ensuring that our companies have an opportunity to succeed on a level playing field is a responsibility that only government can shoulder.

They say they are for an all-of-the-above strategy. That is an all-nuclear strategy to me.

But Japan is a highly developed country. It is technologically sophisticated as us and there is much concern in the U.S. that a similar accident can occur here.

I think we have a responsibility in Congress, not just you in your position but we in the Congress for our oversight and investigative purposes since we write the laws.

It should be obvious we need a new energy policy that promotes clean, safe, and affordable energy.

The Republican budget for this year, H.R. 1, would slash DOE's energy efficiency and renewable energy budget by 35 percent.

I welcome President Obama's goal of doubling U.S. exports within 5 years.

The Republican budget is the most sweeping and reckless assault on health and the environment we have seen in decades.

Well, if that is the best argument Chairman Upton can make for his bill, I think he is truly grasping at straws.

Administrator Jackson, you have a critically important job. Your regulations keep kids out of the emergency room, avoid birth defects in babies, prevent cancers that can devastate families.

The Republican Party in Congress has become the anti-environment party.

I don't think that is what the American people want. And if they find out that is what is happening, I am sure they are going to be very, very angry.

Chairman Upton said that EPA's greenhouse gas regulations would increase gasoline prices.

The President's budget is fiscally responsible, yet gives the Agency the resources it needs to protect public health in the environment.

So it is rather Orwellian, you have regulations dealing with motor vehicles that reduce the requirement that they use--reduce their need to use as much gasoline as otherwise would be the case.

Americans know that their family's health and quality of life depend on a clean environment.

Their anti-science, anti-environment agenda may be the will of the Koch Industries but it is not what American families want.

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