Great. Thank you. This committee has previously established that NRC has enough funding to complete and release the SER in our February 28, 2013, so we are not going to allow you to commingle this financial debate based upon other…

John Shimkus, a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois, opening statement.

If major financial institutions can call someone and ask about an improper payment that is outside their area within 12 hours of the payment being made, for the life of me, I don't understand why that is not a good system to help us…

I think the best way to get out of this mess is to just owning up to when there is problems and also bragging about the successful deployment.

The original mission of the Department of Energy was to decrease our reliance on imported crude oil.

The States are by no means junior regulators or the minor leagues of environmental protection.

The states are by no means, 'junior regulators' or the minor leagues of environmental protection.

Some people might suggest states lack the will to enforce their laws or they are reluctant to pass anything serious. I think that answer is not fair.

I think history shows the states have generally acted first on matters before the federal government has stepped in.

State regulators have every bit the same educational background, expertise, desire to protect the environment, and sense of professionalism as any employee at the EPA.

Some people might suggest that States lack the will to enforce their laws or that are reluctant to pass anything serious. I think that answer is not fair.

States are by no means junior regulators or the minor leagues of environmental protection.

I do think people shop around based upon dollars and cents and based upon their return on dollars, they will make decisions.

I am still a capitalist, competitive model folk. I do think people shop around based upon dollars and cents.

My frustration with the health care delivery system is, they are kind of left out.

Are there any commercial scale CCS power plant projects going forward right now in the U.S. that aren't receiving government funding?

the administration is gaming the system to say that, because we have government subsidized power plants at millions of dollars, that it is commercially viable, is fraudulent, and it is very disappointing.

But commercially viable also talks about the cost and benefit, and the capital investment, and the risk assumed in the cost for selling the commodity product.

Does EPA believe it is appropriate to rely on government subsidized demonstration projects to show that a technology is adequately demonstrated?

The Ukraine, once a model for democratic transition in the Eurasia region and the world after the Orange Revolution, has been experiencing significant backsliding in democracy. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe found…

It's good to come down for morning-hour, especially today, to hear my colleagues come down and thank staff and people who've been important in their lives, especially in their careers. Jason Altmire, what a great job he did thanking his…

Will this turn out to be the Jekyll or will this turn out to be the Hyde, and I don't think we really know yet, unfortunately.

I also come down in support of H.R. 6582 and want to address the small duct, high velocity system provisions in this bill. But first let me talk about my friend and colleague, Russ Carnahan. The Carnahan name in my neighboring State of…

On October 1, the nation of Georgia successfully elected a new Parliament and then underwent the country's first peaceful transfer of power via an election since independence. I commend President Saakashvili on his leadership in that…

In this era of budget crises and entitlement reform, to think that we wouldn't do some simple steps to get a handle on waste, fraud, and abuse is unbelievable.