Brian Schatz actually said...

"we are in a major, major hurry because the solar industry in the United States is at a halt."

"the authority is vested in you, and there is nothing inappropriate about you being more engaged in the process."

"How do we institutionalize these efforts so that the entire Defense Appropriations Subcommittee can get behind this as a national security imperative and not have it swing back and forth depending on ..."

"You're just going to have increasing severity and frequency of severe weather events, both, you know, domestically and internationally, and we sort of need to contend with that as a strategic question..."