Thank you, Chairman Loudermilk, and Chairman Weber, for holding this hearing today.

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.

Keep in mind, that the average age of a high voltage transformer in the United States is approximately 38 to 40 years old.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has a vital role to play in ensuring the health and safety of the American people.

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?

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

So if the renewable fuel standards were--could be in effect, then you wouldn't have that problem anymore, right?

there's traditional corn that I think will be around for a while due to the political nature of this country.

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