Bobby Rush

I also support supplying Caribbean partners, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with LNG in order to help them rebuild their energy infrastructures in a more sustainable and efficient manner.

I believe a more worthwhile topic of discussion should be centered on shifting geopolitics based on the American energy landscape, as a whole.

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

There are very modest tax cuts for middle class and little or no tax cuts for the working poor.

So all told, this tax bill is badly skewed to wealthy Americans.

Ripping young children away from their parents in order to exhort money for a wall is both evil and inhumane.

The silence by so many Republican Members of Congress, in light of so many misguided, asinine, and un-American decisions by this administration is both shameful and telling.

The largest tax cuts from the bill... go to the highest income Americans.

Who is the Republican trickle-down tax bill designed to benefit mostly?

Either my Republican colleagues endorse and agree with this policy of separating families at the border for political gain.

Unfortunately, Mr. Chairman, I cannot sit here as if this is business as usual when we are currently facing a tragedy that is taking place as we speak at our southern border.

I want to direct my question to Director Turpin, and I mentioned in my opening statement I previously ordered an amendment on H.R. 3043 that would direct FERC and Federal resource agencies to convene a negotiated rulemaking within 90 days…

While none of the bills previously passed out of this subcommittee have done anything to address this issue, the minority side has offered an approach that would address this critical concern.

I remain very leery of supporting any approach that would make FERC the lead agency over the licensing process and would require Native Tribes, the States, and Federal resource agencies to pay deference to the Commission.

Mr. Chairman, any potential changes to this process must include a balanced approach that protects the rights of Federal resource agencies, States, and Native Tribes to impose conditions in accordance with modern environmental laws.

However, the process for how we license these projects is too important for us to get it wrong by making changes that could lead to negative unintended consequences.

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding today's hearing on improving the hydropower licensing process.

I support the discussion draft, authored by Rep. Flores of Texas, which would simply direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to support the availability of high-assay low-enriched uranium.

I support the discussion draft offered by Mr. Flores of Texas which would simply direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to support the availability of high-assay low-enriched uranium.

I believe nuclear energy must play a vital role as a source of safe, reliable, low carbon power.

I subscribe to an all-of-the-above energy portfolio, even as we move towards a low carbon energy economy.

Today we will be examining the state of electric transmission infrastructure.

In your opinion, is Order 1000, as constructed, the best way to increase the deployment of these types of low-cost, clean energy resources?

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Administrator Pruitt, I must say unlike my colleagues, no, thank you, no, thank you, to the policies of the Environmental Protection Agency under your tenure.