Consumers deserve to know the actual cost of what they are paying for, and this measure does so.

The Chair is delighted that at this hearing of the Water and Power Committee the Ranking Member has had an epiphany on free markets.

Is this a cheap form of electricity? Is this a good investment for our taxpayers?

My bill pulls the plug on this program before taxpayers end up holding the bag for these projects.

I just wanted to underscore the point you made, that these are fixed costs, as opposed to the ESA costs, which are volatile and steadily mounting.

I find it disturbing that you would come here and make that kind of representation.

This Administration's underlying agenda is to promote a so-called 'green transmission system'.

All of this discussion about changing the process is simply averting the responsibility that we all have to follow that process.

Record unemployment, record increases in energy prices. Why don't you develop the vast reserves we have?

I would like to just test out a theory that I have evolved over the last few years since I arrived here at the Congress.

Why not just say no more borrowing, except by extraordinary majority vote of the Congress, say three-fourths of the Congress, for a single object or work?

The point is when we look for more oil we find it. The problem is that we have been prohibited even from exploring vast tracts.