Peter Visclosky: “I appreciate the chairman yielding and would join him in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. We just had a vote…”

“I appreciate the chairman yielding and would join him in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. We just had a vote earlier in the Chamber adding $79 million to this program. But setting that particular vote aside, as I have mentioned several times, while I have great trepidation about people at the Department of Energy talking to each other and the Department not having the same vigor, if you would, that they have for ARPA-E, instilling that in other research centers, it does appear that this is a successful program in its infancy. We certainly ought to make sure that it has a chance to show that it can be successful over a limited number of years--they are talking about 3. My emphasis with them is to distill that same effort across the Department of Energy. So I would join my chairman in opposing the gentleman's amendment.”