I reserve the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has the only time remaining. The time of the gentleman from New York has expired.

Again, first of all, I appreciate my colleague, one whom I have gotten a chance to know. I look forward to working with him on some issues down the road. I want to take this time to kind of reject the premise that nothing has been done. In…

First of all, we really don't need a Paris Agreement to meet substantial changes in the carbon dioxide, or, as my colleague was speaking, she was really referring to the Clean Air Act and the four criteria pollutants that we have so…

Again, to my colleague, and I appreciate it. She has me at a disadvantage because I have a huge ag district, 33 counties in southern Illinois, more pigs than people. I have corn, beans, and the like, so we appreciate this; and we…

This is the perfect example of an amendment that, as we move something forward that might be able to be considered by the Senate and signed by the President, I think we would be very interested in dealing with. Although, I guess I am a…

We appreciate this amendment. A lot of these amendments are putting the cart before the horse. It would have been interesting to have these debates about resiliency and efficiencies prior to the administration going into the Paris accord…

I appreciate my colleague bringing that up. I taught high school for 4 years, so education is key. This whole provision of moving to the Paris accord was done without education of the Members of Congress. It was an executive branch…

It is, again, great to be here this morning. I appreciate Speaker Pelosi coming down and talking about bipartisan solutions and working together. Obviously, on this piece of legislation, I think the terminology was demanding a plan for the…

Bravo for our States and bravo for our communities. I think the only problem I have with the amendment is you seem to have to believe that the United States has to be involved in an international agreement for us to lead. We are the…

I will close after the gentlewoman yields back. I reserve the balance of my time.

I urge opposition to this amendment. Listen, in the transmission world, other than Texas, no State is alone. California is in the Western interconnect. So we have great support for States' rights, but decisions made by California will…

I will close after the gentleman closes. I reserve the balance of my time.

I will close after my colleague yields back her time. I reserve the balance of my time

I also thank Congresswoman Gonzalez-Colon and, actually, Congresswoman Plaskett. I was able to visit the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico during the last hurricane, and it was devastating. I appreciate the hospitality shown in difficult…

I didn't get a chance to come down during the debate on the underlying bill, and the committee, of course, raised this issue. The hope is that the President is going to sign a bill to go back into an agreement that he already decided to…

We wrestled with how to get Medicare. In fact, a lot of conservative Republicans got beat up quite a bit on this because we expanded in essence an entitlement.

Chairman Pallone was most angry about the donut hole provisions which we placed in there for budgetary--to make the numbers work.

The money that we are asking for does not turn one shovel of dirt.

Speaker Pelosi often says, 'show me your budget, and I will show you our values,' and I think that is true.

Speaker Pelosi often says, 'show me your budget, show me your values,' and I think that's true.

I still think that is very, very important because this 2022 debate is real.

the whole idea is to get this process moving.

thank you, Mr. Chairman.

President Bush got more votes in Nevada in 2004 than in 2000 after he approved the site selection.

As you know, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was tasked under law to evaluate the site and after litigation they were finally allowed to release the report, which said if used as designed Yucca Mountain would be safe for a million years.