We must clarify the existing law to guarantee that due process rights for every American are protected.

Well, you're right on an issue that is very close to my own policies, which is, if it's American taxpayer money that's being used to buy a bus, a light railcar, a streetcar, a locomotive, or a train set for BART in California or the Metro…

Thank you. We're all for geothermal. There's nobody on this side that's opposed to geothermal. We think it is a really good resource. In fact, in my own history way back in California, the first geothermal wells were drilled when I was on…

I suppose it's time to just finish up this debate, so I yield myself the balance of my time. A quick quote from Paul Thomsen of Ormat Technologies in committee representing the geothermal industry at the legislative hearing June 23, 2011…

May I ask the remaining time. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 3 minutes remaining.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Idaho will be postponed. {time} 1640 Amendment No. 20 Offered by Mr. Scalise The Acting…

It sounds good, doesn't it? Until the well happens to destroy the neighbor's well or until the well happens to destroy one of the many hot springs or geysers that exist in public parks, national parks. It sounds good until you begin to…

My good friend and colleague just asked a very good question: Why don't we have a good American energy policy? You won't get it with this bill. This may be the worst American energy policy I've ever seen. Oil shale, are you kidding me…

Mr. Tonko, you are so very correct about reigniting the American Dream. One of the dreams I have is to drive down Interstate 5 in California and not have my car knocked to pieces on the unimproved and the falling-apart highways. In America…

Thank you, Mr. Altmire, and thank you for the work that you've done for us in western Pennsylvania. Indeed, at one time, I know, when I was growing up, it was the center of the American steel industry and manufacturing there, and to the…

Mr. Tonko, thank you so very much, and thank you for your extraordinary experience in dealing with research and then translating that research into real things that Americans could make. Now, the great manufacturing center of America is…

We have challenges because of the fact that we are having these places as icons of America.