It is urgent to find effective ways to help Americans prepare for and finance their long-term care needs.

I think we really need to know what they're doing.

So to say today the Republicans have held exculpatory evidence for months, I am sorry to be incendiary, but that's a lie.

I just want to clarify once and for all the unanimous consent that we have on these documents.

I think that's a pretty incendiary statement, and I don't think we know.

Many of the emails that have been put in the record, interviews have not been conducted with the authors of those emails either.

In fact, it's the Department of Energy that's charged with implementing the statute that authorizes the DOE loan guarantee program, correct?

We need to have a full investigation. We need to have all of the evidence in the record.

But that approach only serves to ensure that half the story is told today.

The documents from the Department of Energy were not produced under subpoena.

That's not a real reasoned legal opinion, Mr. Chairman.

Let's not do this investigation piecemeal, let's do a whole investigation, let's get all the facts out there.

the President can't unilaterally make cuts, he can propose cuts, right?

It seems to me the point of this hearing was to bring a whole bunch of people in to testify as to their political beliefs about what the President should or shouldn't be doing.

No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes and to borrow money on the credit of the United States.

the Constitution places the primary responsibility for the Federal budget at Congress's feet, not the President, right?

Right here in Congress is where the rubber hits the road.

the only body that can actually make cuts is Congress when it passes those 12 appropriations bills, right?

I respect that they have this constitutional prerogative, but I am disappointed they will not answer our questions.

It is critically important that we understand a number of factors: First, whether the Bush and Obama administrations conducted due diligence on the loan guarantee.

Do I think that this bill will solve the root problems of the drug shortage crisis? No. But do I think it is a necessary first step? Absolutely.

Republicans in Congress are now dancing on Solyndra's grave, but they seem to have a case of collective amnesia.

We need to face reality and stop denying science. Climate change is real, and it is caused by man.

I believe that their testimony would greatly inform the subcommittee's investigation of the Department of Energy loan guarantee to Solyndra.

Last night, Republicans voted to block funding for clean vehicles, and they voted to take away funding for innovative renewable energy projects.