Ed Whitfield: “I have one more speaker and he will be closing. Other than that, I have no further requests for time.”

Cumbersome red tape in our regulatory process forces ratepayers to pay more for safe, clean nuclear power.

The RFS was also supposed to provide a means for significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but a growing number of scientists and environmental advocates are saying otherwise.

The third goal of the RFS is to boost rural economies, and here we can say that the program has delivered on its promise.

However, most of this trend is due to sharply increased domestic oil production--something that few imagined was even possible during the Congressional debates over the RFS.