let us know what we can help, and if you have thoughts on those bottlenecks.

Kudos to you all for doing it, shame on us for not.

From your lips to God's ears.

All of us in this hearing, yourself included, are entrusted with looking after the public interest.

What are you telling consumers who are sitting there saying, I need a response, you got a 50 percent surge in consumers?

We have had 18 months of pretty good, pretty bipartisan hearings, with a recognition that climate is an emergency.

We do not have time on this committee to make things up.

For people to sit here on this committee and say the deployment of clean energy is driving up the cost of power are living in fantasy land.

We have the opportunity to act. We have the opportunity to lower power prices. We have the opportunity to make the world cleaner.

John Lewis was a legend. He was also just a man. I knew the legend, but I was only just getting to know the man. And I guess I just hope we remember both, because somehow the legend feels unattainable. On our best days, none of us are half…

In 1896 Svante Arrhenius hypothesized that carbon dioxide pollution would trigger a greenhouse effect. Since then, we have emitted 1.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide, and it has gotten hotter. In 1987, the Reagan administration crafted…

I appreciate my colleague from Virginia. I greatly appreciate his service on the committee and his expertise in all matters of data integrity, and normally I defer to you on everything, but this one is kind of silly. Look, we all know you…

I claim the time in opposition to the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Illinois is recognized for 5 minutes.

The scientific consensus could not be clearer. Climate change is an imminent threat to our health, our economy, and our national security, as well as the health of our forests.

I want to applaud all your hard work in ensuring a funding increase of $2.5 million, for a total of $22.5 million last fiscal year.

To totally misquote Shakira, the math don't lie, and it is imperative that our lips don't either.

Five hundred and fifty billion dollars a year really does distort those markets.

If you distort markets as much as the International Monetary Fund says our markets are being distorted, we cannot fall back on this lazy assumption that efficient markets will allocate the capital.

If we are not going to take those barriers away, then why are we--why bother innovating?

It would take a particularly sadistic boss to cut someone's salary by 50 percent and then give them a 6 percent raise and ask for praise for the raise.

We have to stop delaying. That is an excuse.

1 year ago Saturday, five people lost their lives and many more were injured when a gunman entered an Aurora, Illinois, warehouse and started shooting. At the vigil for those victims, I made it clear that, if we want to stop people from…

If I get elected 8 more times, fingers crossed, I will have as much experience in this line of work as I do in the energy sector.

This is going to be a huge economic cost, and I think we all need to reach out to our cities...

the best way to predict the future is to create it.