"it is highly unusually and wholly unacceptable that we are now in the month of November and the administration witnesses have been allowed to repeatedly thumb their noses at requests made by this subc..."
"I think it does not do us well for us to continue to accept these refusals to come before this subcommittee, to continually accept this restraint and disregard for this subcommittee."
"I can only imagine the howls and the growls and the threats that we would have heard from your side of the aisle if former EPA administrators, Gina McCarthy or Lisa Jackson, would have simply refused ..."
"I support H.R. 3477, the Ceiling Fan Energy and Conservation Harmonization Act, and I strongly oppose the Energy Star Reform Act of 2017."
"I appreciate the effort of Mr. Latta to maintain the development of energy efficiency appliances through Energy Star by preventing the need for class action, something he and I worked on."
"I oppose disrupting this program by moving it from EPA to DOE."
"This bill that we are considering is not only unnecessary but it would also turn a good program into a bad program."
"I hope this will not be a 'one and done' hearing."
"It is over a month now that Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and Maria shattered their lives and devastated their livelihoods."
"It is my hope that this hearing will shed light on what additional steps need to be taken quickly to restore power."
"More than six weeks after Hurricane Maria initially made landfall, nearly 70 percent of Puerto Rico and 80 percent of the U.S. Virgin Islands still lack the power needed for basic everyday services."
"Hurricanes Irma and Maria exposed the vulnerability of the Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands electric grids to extreme weather."