I am all for reducing the corporate tax rate. We are not competitive with the rest of the world.

There needs to be a reduction. I hope that as we address that concern, we will keep in mind four questions.

This year's deficit is going to exceed $700 billion, that is 7 years into an economic expansion.

We ought to be on a trajectory where the debt is not rising faster than the economy.

Should we continue to cut the budget for the IRS? We cut it by 20 percent. Should we continue to cut it, knowing that for every dollar we cut, we lose four or five bucks?

I would just reiterate how important it is, I think, for us to return to regular order, to hold hearings, bipartisan hearings like this.

I do not mind paying more taxes if it will erase the deficit. I just do not want you to waste my money.

Another critical role is to help protect public health and try to ensure that all Americans can pursue life, liberty, and happiness; and luckily the two are not mutually exclusive.

We never say, I want to work in a partisan way; we always say we want to work in a bipartisan way.

We don't need to scrap our environmental standards to provide a nurturing environment for American innovation and economic investment in carbon sequestration technologies.

Whether the Congress adopts it or not is not my business, that is your business, but some sort of policy structure like that is necessary to achieve liftoff.

One of the most important roles for our Government... is not to create jobs, but to create a nurturing environment for job creation.

ever since President Trump announced that the U.S. would exit from the Paris agreements, I have been concerned that America will cede opportunities to lead the world in technological innovation that could both fight climate change and…

In a carbon constrained world, the market share for coal will drop dramatically without carbon capture and storage.

I think they have me outnumbered, don't they?

Do you believe that NRG would make the same decisions today based on this Administration's policies?

One of the things that is very helpful is for you to help us develop consensus.

If we do not continue to press for an innovation agenda, if we do not continue to deploy plants, we will lose that advantage to other countries.

It is refreshing to have a hearing that looks at solutions to climate change, as opposed to a hearing that fuels the debate over the science of climate change.

If carbon capture and storage is deployed in a carbon constrained world, that in fact coal can have a bright future.

I believe, as I have said, there are real benefits to CCUS.

I think one of them dealt with the CSRs. I think one may have dealt with restoring cuts to marketing. I think a third dealt with reinsurance. Another one was to speed up the 1332 reviews.

We should be all about regular order. If folks have a good idea, let us have a hearing.

Heritage is the gift that keeps on giving.

I think that is a good thing to consider.