In my view, energy workforce development is about collaboration and establishing closer partnerships between labor, our STEM objectives, the national laboratories, industry, and academia.

If you ever see me in a driverless vehicle, you will know that hell has frozen over.

These benefits have impacts beyond individual households to broader communities as well as particularly when we look at the program as a whole.

Some of the work that--all of the work that you do is some of the most important work that we do in this government, and I appreciate the job you are all doing.

It is endemic across the Federal establishment, it is just more comfortable to be in the capital complex.

Chairwoman Kaptur, ranking member Simpson and members of the subcommittee, it's been an absolute privilege to be able to address you here today.

I read your written testimony last night and several of the innovative programs you're rolling out this year.

Not all commercial waste. The waste from the Nuclear Navy is destined for Yucca Mountain if it ever opens.

Nuclear modernization demands a substantial and sustained amount of funding through the NNSA.

I look forward to hearing about your experience with the Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program.

If we don't do it now, we are only going to be falling--we are going to fall behind our adversaries.

Because he is the one that is going to get the benefit, it is improving the property that he is renting out and he is renting it out and making profit off of it. So it seems like there ought to be some type of cost share for the landlord.

That is what community colleges are so good at is when an industry or business wants to move into the community and they need some people and some skills, you will find that those community colleges have the flexibility to develop the…

All we need is a big 302(b) allocation. That has always been the challenge, and it is not just from this administration.

Reliable, affordable energy sources are essential to our Nation's continued economic growth and national security.

Electric cars is not the answer. It is a part of the answer.

Are there any ways for us to measure success of the program?

I would just say, if you have not been, Madam Chairwoman, down to the Everglades and taken a tour of it, it would be very helpful.

If you are going to tax somebody for a purpose, and for a need, and you still have that need, why not spend that money on that need?

Part of the reason we hold oversight hearings is so success stories can be shared with a wider audience, perhaps leading to improvements in more locations.

There are too many people in this world who think, hey, I can just plug in my car. This energy comes out of the ethos somewhere, and that is not true.

But what I do is struggle with what it is.

We have heard about the benefits of the program, this committee has obviously limited resources, we all do.

I support Oak Ridge just as much as Mr. Fleischmann does. He supports the Idaho National Lab.

I am just someone who is trying to, if there are Federal opportunities, I am working hard to try to let people know about those.