The SEC was not created in order to allow businesses to hide information and protect their profits.

I am delighted to hear you describe energy storage as the Holy Grail of energy.

the single strategy that these kids at DEFCON demonstrated is also what is described in Robert Mueller's report that the Russians did.

I want to shift to something that I think we may have a whole a lot of agreement on.

the method that the participants in your exhibit used to hack into the Secretary of State website was called a sequel injection?

Can you help me understand and this Committee understand why, if energy storage is indeed the Holy Grail of technology, we have a budget that drastically defunds our commitment to deploy the energy storage that we need?

The single strategy that these kids at DEFCON demonstrated is also what is described in Robert Mueller's report that the Russians did.

The Great Lakes Advisory Board plays an essential role in providing the EPA with the technical, environmental, and local expertise needed to carry out the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. This board is one of over 1,000 advisory boards…

In order to get the CO2 down to where we are all safe as a species, I kind of divide all of our universe of things we have to do--we don't have a choice about--we have to do all three of these, put into three buckets.

I am extremely proud to come from Illinois where the efforts that you have led, Mr. Sanders, through your ombudsman and through the Student Loan Bill of Rights, one of the best programs in the countries.

I often say that climate change is the existential threat to our species.

I would hope all of my colleagues will stop with this nonsensical argument that we have to wait for China.

I am really concerned, in light of that history, that the Trump FY 2020 budget request slashes our ability to do weather forecasting.

I think it's a 7 percent total cut. It's a $12.5 million cut in Mesonet funding.

I wanted to make that point, because your comment that share buybacks are good for U.S. companies presumes that only Americans own U.S. companies.

This is in response to the attorney general's claim that the President has constitutional immunity from prosecution. Mr. Mueller writes: ``We were not persuaded by the argument that the President has blanket constitutional immunity to…

What you have done is leadership distilled, and what we have done so far is shameful.

acting in response to polls may make you an effective politician, but it is the opposite of leadership.

over the last four decades, we have had a bipartisan consensus to do nothing. And that is shameful.

I have come to the conclusion that it is the laws of the United States that are holding us back.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 38, line 24, insert after ``centers'' the following: ``and appropriate campus faculty, such as…

It seems to me that the budget that you're proposing has a sense that exploration should be the primary mission of NASA rather than understanding the one planet in the universe that we know actually has the capability to accommodate human…

Those programs exist today not because of the Administration but because Congress insisted on keeping those programs going.

This has been near and dear to me for a long time, and I am pretty sure I am the only freshman Member of Congress who made a campaign pledge to restore the OTA.

Just last week we passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act, with its worthy aim: to ensure that this government represents the voices of all Americans and not just the privileged and powerful. Now, among the many reforms in H.R. 1, one would…