Mike Simpson

When that was announced last summer, none of the BLM people that we had talked to knew this was coming.

It is hijacking something that we already do in communication.

I am not worried about the arts in New York, or the arts in Washington, or the arts in Los Angeles. I am worried about the arts in Salmon, Idaho.

What we need to do is find a plan where we can project 5 years ahead where we would like to double the investment in the arts and humanities.

I know Chairwoman Kaptur is very interested in these programs and so am I and so is this whole Committee.

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.

I am very excited about the plans for the construction of a second target station at the Spallation Neutron Source.

I was always taught that you kind of reward success and punish failure; and yet, you are all sitting here saying we are doing such a great job in ARPA-E, finding out new things, great job in sciences, we are doing such a great job in…

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

Nobody mentioned fish. Nobody mentioned salmon that come back to Idaho that, if in the next 15 years something isn't done, they will be extinct.

This is not a good situation. I believe Congress needs to do something about it, and I have several ideas I plan to discuss further with my colleagues.

To appropriately respond to these evolving and emerging threats, we must continue the modernization of the stockpile and its supporting infrastructure.

The President's budget request for the Department of Energy shows a strong commitment to enhancing our U.S. national security.

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

So, emissions and what they are doing in China and India and other places that are building coal facilities is as important, actually, as it is in this country, too, right?

So, given that that is kind of the future, looking down the road, and that takes into account what we are doing with renewables and so forth and so on, would it not be important to develop new coal plants that are zero emission, if…

The budget request includes $295 million to continue development of a versatile test reactor which will operate as an open access user facility for DOE national labs.

HALEU Fuel is required to operate most types of advanced reactions under development in the United States, but no commercial source currently exists.

I am just trying to make a standard across the Department.

I want to thank you, personally, and your Department for working with Governor Little and Attorney General Wasden to update the Idaho settlement agreement.

I think Congress has made its position clear over the past several years that some amount of funding for all stages of research is important.

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

I think that is the proper role of government, it is do those things that need to be done...

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

I know that you support the President's budget, and that is kind of what you have to do.