Alan Grayson

I also don't believe that we're doing nearly enough to ensure that we're pursuing the most promising approaches to achieve this goal quickly and effectively as possible.

Fusion energy has the potential to provide a practically unlimited supply of safe, reliable, clean energy to us all.

I strongly support the efforts of the Loan Programs Office to commercialize and deploy innovative new clean energy technologies.

I'm waiting for the moment that he, Ted Cruz, gets the nomination and then I will file that beautiful lawsuit saying that he is unqualified for the job because he is ineligible. Call me crazy but I think the president of America should an…

I think we should double our R&D budget everywhere on this topic.

My amendment would simply make the one- time audit required by section 13 of this bill an annual audit. A 2011 GAO audit of the Fed, the only independent Fed audit in its 102-year history, detailed how the United States provided at least…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 44, line 25, insert ``annually'' after ``shall''. Page 45, line 7, strike ``the audit'' and insert…

Why do we have a national lab system instead of taking the same amount of money and dispersing it through DOE to competitive grants open to everybody, presumably the best offeror?

The national labs are unique and irreplaceable. They must be a high priority in our budgetary decisions both now and in the future.

China is currently on course to overtake the United States in actual R&D dollars spent sometime in the next decade.

The United States invests more than any other nation in research and development, yet when you put that investment in context as a percentage of our GNP, it becomes much less impressive.

What we want above all is we want people to be able to reach their potential without being barred from that by discrimination.

When we talk about foreign affairs, we are not talking about necessarily foreign affairs, something removed from us.

It is our duty as human beings to fight it, to make sure that we stand with others who are being oppressed.

However, our electrical system is under constant stress from severe weather, malicious acts, and age.

We as a society are increasingly dependent on the services electricity provides, and the electric grid has quietly become the basis of our modern lives.

USA Today recently reported that physical and cyber attacks on the power grid occur about once every four days.

If the agreement is implemented, do you suspect or do you think that there is a significant risk that Iran will cheat on the agreement and develop a nuclear weapon secretly?

But let me give somebody else a chance. Mr. Red, is there any reason why Brazil can do it and the United States can't?

This policy, signed into law twice under President George W. Bush, requires an increase in the production of biofuels.

The sheer volume of America's oil use means we are constantly furthering global climate change and its disastrous effects.

This amendment is identical to other amendments that have been inserted by voice vote into every appropriations bill considered under an open rule during the 113th and 114th Congresses. My amendment expands the list of parties with whom…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 62, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,212,000) (increased by $2,212,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

My goal is very simple: To see that this bill not become an excuse even inadvertently for the tragedy of war in the name of saving the lives of animals.

I think it is important to state as a principle explicitly in this bill exactly what we are doing but also what we are not doing.