I always say nothing stops a bullet like an opportunity.

Simply addressing easy access to guns will not solve all the challenges in these communities.

This is not a town hall hearing where we are going to have a lot of rah-rah and a lot of--the applause meter is going to go up.

God is missing from our schools, and we have a lot to do with it, and I am asking you, when you go back to Washington, DC, send some money here and most of all put God back into our schools.

This epidemic gun violence is not just a law enforcement issue, Madam Chairman. It is a healthcare crisis in our Nation.

I want to thank you all for joining us this morning for this important hearing entitled 'Building a 100 Percent Clean Energy Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Building Sector.'

Tackling this issue are making our homes, our schools, and our business more energy efficient, will save money, put people back to work, and expand the American middle class.

This hearing is part of a series that we will be holding in this subcommittee and in other subcommittees to highlight areas where we can achieve significant emissions reductions in order to achieve a 100 percent clean energy economy by…

You can't lead where you don't go.

Let me begin by saying I certainly and clearly disassociate myself from the remarks of the previous speaker. I absolutely, wholeheartedly disagree with him and do not concur with him. Mr. Speaker, in 1999, my son Huey became a victim of…

It is way past the time for the Department of Energy to work within these contracts so that these good old boys networks are not the only entities receiving these lucrative, government-backed contracts.

I happen to disagree with that. I happen to think that when you set goals, when you set bold and aggressive action and milestones, it does force people to come up with innovation quicker.