Mike Pompeo: “I wanted to come down to support this piece of legislation. It's important to America and to the taxpayers to protect…”

“I wanted to come down to support this piece of legislation. It's important to America and to the taxpayers to protect them. I want to thank Chairman Stearns and Chairman Upton for letting me participate in this important investigation. Just yesterday, two facts that I think support us completely in passing this legislation. Yesterday, that conservative jewel, The New York Times, reported that Mr. Spinner, who was critical to pushing this loan guarantee through when the Obama administration was inclined to reject it but kept pushing and whose wife was counsel to the company, was reported by The New York Times to be the number 10 bundler for this administration. Also yesterday, we had a hearing in which we saw that America has the opportunity to become energy independent within the next decade if the Federal Government will just get out of the way and stop picking winners and losers as we have done with these Department of Energy loan guarantees for far too long. I'm confident that we can move away from this program. I'd urge all of my colleagues to support it. The conservative groups of the American Conservative Union, AFP, Americans for Tax Reform, Heritage Action, Let Freedom Ring, and the National Taxpayers Union have all submitted letters in support of this legislation. It's time to end this loan guarantee program, and we should do it today.”