Last night, exploiting the Solyndra case, this House voted to cut the DOE loan guarantee program. This is a shortsighted mistake that will undermine our ability to compete in the global energy sector.

I am saddened that a company in which both the Bush and Obama Departments of Energy saw such promise has filed for bankruptcy, causing the loss of more than 1,000 high-tech jobs.

Republican leaders have made the laughable accusation that the President is engaging in class warfare. What President Obama is actually doing is ending class warfare, the relentless war on the middle class. Since 1983, over 80 percent of…

If Texas were its own country, it would be the eighth biggest polluter in the world.

I also wanted to reemphasize something I heard you say earlier, that there was actually a Congressional mandate in 1990 to do this.

Clearly, we are witnessing the most anti-environment House of Representatives in American history.

I want to thank you so much, Mr. Deutch, for organizing tonight's Special Order. Today, President Barack Obama clearly restated the U.S. commitment to negotiated peace and protection of human rights. In his remarks to the General Assembly…

It is high time that the Environmental Protection Agency continued in what has been a bipartisan tradition of protecting our environment.

I want to congratulate you on an impressive record, and again, any implication that the EPA is looking just to maintain in place or even propose regulations that are redundant and any way not necessary to your mission is just not true.

I would just like to suggest that the gentleman from Pennsylvania I think made a very good argument that when we negotiate trade agreements, that environmental concerns ought to be part of that.

Without a doubt, if this rule is delayed or, God forbid, killed in any way, there will be more premature deaths, more hospital admissions, more people getting sick because of increased levels of everything from mercury to soot, to arsenic…

The sign you have there says that poor conditions of their schools interfere with students' learning. So we are also depriving our children of that sense of pride that will motivate them to be good students, to learn, to be ready to take…