"How are we going to fund these roads and bridges? We have a $700 billion backlog in water and sewer projects in this country."
"And we need to work with the water users there to make sure that they understand what is going on here between the two federal agencies."
"I do not see us, frankly, building an awful lot of new dams in the West for increased storage."
"Well, I would advise you to do something like that, because it would be helpful to this Committee--because then we know--we are also looking at five years on, if we start this project--because a lot o..."
"If you look at amount of imports in energy over the last decade, the current system we have has placed America at an enormous risk."
"This significant underinvestment in energy research and development by the private sector...makes government support for applied energy R&D critical for our future competitiveness and economic prosper..."
"The United States has world-class innovation capacity, a unique culture of entrepreneurship, well-developed capital markets, and the finest scientists, engineers, and workers in the world."
"Another issue that is kind of cross cutting, I guess, but a key challenge for energy systems of the future is the potential for development of hybrid systems."
"How complicated are we making this?"
"Last thing I want to touch on with you is that Congress funded the first three energy innovation hubs in fiscal year 2010."
"One of the things that this committee is always looking at is not only, when we approve something, what it means in the current fiscal year but what it means in future fiscal years."