I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting H.R. 1138, and I yield back the balance of my time.

So I will continue to say, Mr. Chairman, when it comes to addressing climate change let us take action. But let us be smart and pragmatic about it.

If anyone thinks it is too difficult to achieve, they should say so, and push for a different target.

It means pushing back on administration actions that take us in the wrong direction.

It is important to gather this information for the committee's future consideration.

So I will continue to say: Mr. Chairman, when it comes to addressing climate change, let's take action, but let's be smart and pragmatic about it.

We cannot hide from the mantle--and the accompanying responsibility--of being the greatest nation on Earth.

But it is important to gather this information for the committee's future consideration.

Without that national political buy-in on such a complicated policy that would affect all sectors of the U.S. economy, and people's daily lives, it is no wonder a new administration would change course.

We are federalists, especially on this side, and we believe in local control, local government.

I am not sure all of these actions will be viable or cost effective.

The issue here is how the Obama administration made expensive commitments that would bind U.S. action without broad-based support from Congressional policy makers.

While other developed nations may be 'staying in' the Agreement so far, they are not actually following through on their promises.

Only a treaty gets voted on by the legislative branch, and not even the House--the Senate.

I think there is going to be a lot more opposition than people think because de facto interim could be de facto long term.

What happens if we don't continue funding for Yucca Mountain and we go to conference with the Senate and they adopt their language for interim storage, which I view as inadequate?

I think it is $2 million a day that we are spending to do nothing.

The importance of this is that the DOE and our labs have done the scientific analysis and more ologists than I even knew existed from volcanologists to hydrologists.

It demonstrates that DOE can safely build--through this report, DOE says it can safely build and operate the repository in compliance with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Previous Congresses have already done the tough decision. They have already cast the votes for where the law is today and for us to at least finish this.

The Nuclear Waste Fund has around $40 billion currently on the books to finish licensing, construction, and operation of a geological repository for high level waste.

the simple task is is to support the President's request of $116 million for DOE and $38.5 million for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

If we can put a man on the moon, we can solve the climate problem.

Understanding--and the Reverend is here--and we are concerned about our brother, and we are supposed to be our brother's keeper.

Yes. By deploying technologies that reduce the CO2 output from fossil energy: high-efficiency/low-emissions technologies.