Bobby Rush

Low-income Americans, again, would benefit most from CPP

One of the foremost beneficiaries of the CPP is low-income communities

I want you to know that there is your analysis.

Mr. Chairman, I want to also thank you for holding this hearing today on what you have called the Ratepayer Protection Act for 2015.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I also want to extend my compliments to Acting Assistant Administrator, Ms. McCabe.

However, when you look closer at many of the entities that come before your commission, they do not have a very good diversity profile.

One of our top priorities in the CBC is to increase representation of African-Americans at all levels of corporate America.

I agree with him completely.

We ought to really have some hearing in the future on the status of these auctions as it relates to the minority and small business bidding process.

Success is in the eye of the beholder, and from my vantage point, my eyes, my constituents, they are an abysmal failure.

I must be quite frank, I sit here as an angry, black American male.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding this hearing.

I believe that it would be very helpful if the EPA provided States with guidance, technical assistance, and resources to help protect their most vulnerable communities.

I also would like to continue to engage your office on this issue to make sure that nuclear power is appropriately valued, due to its carbon-neutral emissions, in any kind of rule that is proposed.

Nuclear power must play a vital role in the Clean Power Plan, in that it allows States to provide zero emissions-based loan power generation that is affordable, safe, and reliable.

The goal of the Clean Power Plan is to reduce carbon emissions, while also ensuring that States can continue to provide reasonably priced safe, reliable electricity to its consumers.

The finalized rule gives new credit to all zero emission sources of energy, which not only includes renewables such as solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal, all of which I fully support, but also nuclear power generation.

I would like to commend the leadership of President Obama, yourself, for working to address this serious issue that impacts all of America.

I just want to thank you so much, you and your Agency, for all of the great work that you do in protecting the air, and land, and water on behalf of the American people.

Again, I am going to thank you, Administrator McCarthy.

A free and open Internet with unfiltered access is what I believe we all want.

Mr. Rush. Mr. Secretary, you have done such a remarkable job during your tenure in establishing the Minorities in Energy Initiative and the Jobs Strategy Council.

It is important that we demystify these processes so that all Americans can benefit from these extraordinary resources that DOE possesses.

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, I have a lot of questions that I want to cover, but unfortunately I do not have the time to do it all this afternoon, so I will be reaching out to your office to schedule a meeting where we…

So, Mr. Secretary, I say thumbs up to your agency, thumbs up to your plans, thumbs up to your budget.