David Loebsack: “we have to have a balanced approach here and that we have to tread lightly and that we cannot cut these programs to the…”

Net neutrality, obviously, is a very important issue with this committee--I think for the country, and I am really glad that we are taking action today or at least beginning that process.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this en bloc package, which includes my amendment to increase investment of distributed wind technologies and research within the Department of Energy's Wind Energy…

It doesn't serve any of us. It certainly doesn't serve any of us in the end, because those folks are the ones who are serving us, and if they are suppressed--if their voices cannot be heard--that stifles competition. It goes back to the…

After being in session for only 74 days so far this year, the Republican leadership has decided to send us home for 7\1/2\ weeks. That is thoroughly unacceptable to the American people. They expect us to do our job. That is not what we are…