Jared Polis actually said...

I would hope that the committee would, rather than invest in the past, invest in the future.

I think this will be an excellent line item to cut, rather than give more pork to the oil and gas industry.

If we can increase it a little bit, it will help fund national labs, like the National Renewable Energies Laboratory.

This is a line item with an expiration. It is a dead end in the sense that our fossil fuels will be depleted.