I think zeroing out the weatherization program is a big mistake.

What matters is executing on the mission and putting together the team that can best achieve that.

A credible nuclear deterrent is essential for our own national security and for the security of allies around the globe.

The question is whether they are willing to do it.

I am hopeful that we can work together, Republicans and Democrats, House and Senate, and the administration, to enact a fiscal year 2021 Energy and Water appropriation bill by the start of the new fiscal year.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

We don't have a Columbia River anymore. We have a series of pools the fish now have to swim to.

I support the administration's position with regard to the potential sale of the PMAs, and as always will execute the will of Congress.

Everything you do is as important to national defense as defense is.

I would like to yield my 5 minutes to Mr. Calvert, who has a defense hearing at 3:00.

If you want to see some real energy, come up to where I live, and, you know, it has a lot of geothermal because it used to be over the hotspot of Yellowstone.

And just to clarify, when CO2 goes into the atmosphere, does it stay over the place it was produced or does it go around the world?

Whatever you do, do not fill in that tunnel. That is a $16 billion tunnel and we are going to store all the studies that have been done on Yucca Mountain.

I think that is one of the highlights of our cleanup program.

It is just not working. People have got to get out of their niches and start looking at what we want to do in the future.

I think Congresswoman Kaptur said last year that this is the biggest infrastructure bill we have.

Better collaboration between DOE and NIH can be a win-win for both agencies and both missions.

You might not understand this, but Representative Newhouse and I are really good friends.

It is just kind of a strange budget, but we will work with you and we will get it done.

I am a strong supporter of nuclear energy and its role in providing reliable noncarbon power.

I hope you know that those Republicans and Democrats are a little flustered by what is being proposed here.

I would just like to know why there is a benefit to it, and if there is a benefit to it.

As was made clear at last week's hearings with Secretary Brouillette, the budget request for many of these programs is not as robust as most of us on this Committee would prefer.

What you do is vitally important to this country and the people of this country.

I can't believe that--or I can believe the savings that will come from not having to refuel these when you have life-of-the-ship reactors.