I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois will be postponed.

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 to even show up in person or even send…

This bill that we are considering is not only unnecessary but it would also turn a good program into a bad program.

I oppose disrupting this program by moving it from EPA to DOE.

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 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.

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 subcommittee to get them to come here and…

I am concerned about Puerto Rico because their electric grid was in pretty bad shape even before.

I am amazed at the breadth of the tragedies that are occurring, even as we speak, in Puerto Rico.

I simply smell a rat here. I really smell a rat.

It is over a month now that Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and Maria shattered their lives and devastated their livelihoods.