they are extremely concerned with the impact that the Chu memo policies will have on consumer electricity rates.

This has nothing to do with science or with the economies. It has everything to do with a religious fervor on the radical left.

Is this not an ideological preference by elements on the radical left for wind and solar electricity above all other sources, regardless of the costs, and the costs are considerable?

There is no possible way anyone in his right mind would actually pay for this.

You have to hide the actual cost of this from consumers, and at the same time, you have to artificially increase the price of conventional electricity supplies that are vastly less expensive.

This is a battle of two very different visions.

So would it be fair to say that cutting the payroll tax without reducing the obligations that the payroll tax pays for is simply playing a shell game over which taxes are going to pay for those obligations?

We have to ask ourselves what were those policies? The Bush administration increased spending by over 2 percent, over 2.5 percent of GDP.

A year ago, we had one economist after another coming before this committee warning us that the federal government needs to get its finances in order in the next three to five years to avoid a fiscal meltdown that would dwarf the 2008…

Perhaps the reason the ranking member does not remember those days as vividly is because they did not last very long, and those policies produced one of the great economic expansions in our nation's history.

We ought to look at ways in which we can do a better job.