Again, I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman. This has been so far a very exciting hearing for me.

this bill is important because it matches up the needs of an industry and a willingness and able workforce

The Nation is in need, waiting for it, and a Nation in need deserves a comprehensive energy bill.

this legislation can help to open new pathways to jobs, new pathways to careers, new pathways entrepreneurial opportunities for women, for minorities, and for our veterans

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of S. 535, the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015, and I want to join with my colleague, Mr. Welch, in congratulating all in the leadership: Mr. Whitfield, Mr…

I inadvertently missed rollcall Votes 151 and 152. Had I been present I would have voted ``no.'' ____________________

I want you to know that there is your analysis.

If this bill passes, then the Congress would be playing a sort of environmental Russian roulette in the health and welfare of our Nation.

I have about--this is about 10 to 12 pounds of analysis from the EPA and the regulatory impact analysis for the proposed carbon pollution guidelines.

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

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, Mr. Chairman, I just want to say it has been stated here so many times it is almost hurtful and harmful to keep hearing that the EPA doesn't have an analysis.

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

Yes, Ms. Hoffer, you have been the target of some pretty stringent remarks by the chairman...

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

States have a responsibility to promote the general health and welfare or low-income communities and low-income individuals.

I agree with him completely.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.