This past summer, two-thirds of the country experienced severe drought, causing crops to wither and spurring the earliest corn harvest in 25 years. At the same time, the water levels in four of the five Great Lakes has plummeted due to…

First of all, I want to commend Mr. Waxman and thank him for leading us on the subcommittee in such a profound and effective way, leading the minority on the subcommittee and also on the full committee. Mr. Chairman, this is much to-do…

My Republican colleagues, you know full well that this bill would never become law. It would die before it even gets to the front door of the Senate. Yet here we are in front of the cameras hoping to score more political points before we…

Can't we all just get along?

I would argue that the $2.4 billion that goes to the big five oil companies in tax breaks every year could be better spent.

I can assure you, Mr. Chairman, that most of the farmers across this Nation will disagree with that position as we have witnessed the worst year of record temperatures, drought and crop loss in modern American history.

I would argue that the facts would indicate that those industries actually have been not hampered but aided and helped.

We can do it and make money and create jobs. We can do it cleaner and more efficiently than anybody else in the world.

This hearing, Mr. Chairman, gives us an opportunity to discuss the many different initiatives that President Obama has put in place to help us come closer to reaching this goal.

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman. A very interesting panel so far.

Unlike the simplistic Sarah Palin 'Drill, baby, drill' Romney-Ryan energy plan, President Obama has put forward a comprehensive energy policy.

I think that is an incredibly positive development.

Let us talk about China and the Obama administration in terms of sending checks to China.

To spend this much time on a bill using these resources, I hope that it is not just about symbolism.

this bill is not aimed at producing not one job for the American people or it is not aimed at moving our country's energy policy forward not even one iota, one scintilla.

in my 20 years in this Congress, I have never seen nor heard of anything that is so shallow, any legislation that appeared before any committee in the Congress that is so shallow, so ill-informed, so misplaced than this piece of…

I just cannot believe that if this bill passed, it kind of reminds me of a gag rag that we are muffling or gagging the voice of the American people as it relates to our environmental leadership.

climate change doesn't just affect your constituents in Kentucky or my constituents in Illinois. We are living in a global environment and climate change affects all of us.

This would be laughable if it was not so serious in that we are wasting precious taxpayer dollars on this shallow non-productive hearing on this bill that I guarantee you will not see the light of day.

There certainly is a tremendous rate of activity taking place, particularly in the shale resource-prone areas in the United States.

while Democrats under President Obama's leadership have put forth a truly all-of-the-above energy agenda, it appears that my Republican colleagues are once again taking their cue from one of their most influential leaders, Sarah Palin, and…

However, you testified that domestic oil production is actually the highest it has been since 1998.

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank again all of the NRC commissioners for your attendance here today.

Mr. Chairman, back in May, my office was notified that the NRC was recently honored by U.S. Black Engineering Information Technology Magazine as one of the government agencies considered most supportive of the engineering departments of…

I don't see the solution to these issues. I don't see that being eminent and overnight, reality, because it has to do with access to healthcare.