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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

This is deja vu all over again, as for the umpteenth time the majority party is trying to jam the Keystone XL pipeline through this Congress despite the fact that President Obama has made it pretty clear to all who will listen that this…

I remain a strong critic of EPA's proposed rules for new and existing coal-fired power plants...

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…

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.

I want to specifically commend you for the legacy that you are working to establish at the Department of Energy...

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

To paraphrase Elvis Presley: let this body return this bill to sender, return it to sender, address unknown, no such problem, no such home. Mr. Speaker, let's send this bill back to committee where it can go through regular order, and we…

This arbitrary mandatory 30-day deadline would unnecessarily fast-track the DOE to hastily make a decision on export applications, regardless of how complex the application may be. The result of this ambiguous 30-day deadline may…

I want to thank the ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Pallone, for his leadership and for his positive contributions to this entire institution. Mr. Speaker, I am here to oppose H.R. 351 because, once again, it is a proposed…

Again, I wanted to return to the floor because the thought occurs to me, as it should to all of the American people, that we should consider the impact of this bill, the impact of LNG exports, and the impact that it would have on U.S…

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this first-class hearing, and I want to thank the panelists for being an all-star panel of witnesses.

I thank the ranking member. Mr. Speaker, I strongly oppose this bill, and I strongly disagree with this abhorrent process that the majority side has undertaken in order to hastily bring H.R. 3 to the floor after only 1 hour of debate and…

This bill is about seizing power away from the American people by seizing power away from our duly-elected President. It will prevent the thorough, sober consideration of complex issues that could have serious security, safety…

On a prior rollcall vote on H.R. 37, I inadvertently voted ``aye,'' and I would like to be recorded as voting ``no.'' ____________________

John Dingell has not only been a true friend of mine and worked with me, helped advise me, but John Dingell is the kind of legislator, I call him, and a lot of others call him, the Lion of the House.

Mr. Chairman, I want you to join with me in wishing everybody happy holidays.

I want to also take a moment out of my opening statement to commend the one man who has probably affected my life more than any other legislator in my service in the Congress, and that is John Dingell.