Ed Markey: “I thank the gentleman from California, and I compliment the gentleman from California on his fight on this issue because…”

“I thank the gentleman from California, and I compliment the gentleman from California on his fight on this issue because we're right down to something, which is one of the greatest political frauds of all time being perpetrated here on the House floor. It is a monument to the political cynicism of the Republican Party that we have such a bill out here on the floor today. It is a tribute to the control that the fossil fuel and nuclear industry now has over the Republican Party. We have a bill out here on the House floor which purports to make sure that the program which gave loans to Solyndra is ended. {time} 0950 The name of the bill is No More Solyndras, meaning no more Federal loans to these speculative energy projects, which could ultimately wind up taking money out of the pockets of American taxpayers. That's what they say they are doing. No more Solyndras, meaning end that program. But what does their bill do? Well, their bill says no more Solyndras, but it should be amended to say the only $88.4 billion more for nuclear and coal no more Solyndras act of 2012, because what the Republicans do is that they grandfather in all of these applications, $75.6 billion for nuclear, $11.9 billion for coal, 88.4 billion for nuclear and coal. Now, it will be one thing if they were saying, ah, but we have made a determination that the solar industry, the wind industry--that's risky. But the nuclear industry, oh, that's just the safest industry ever-- except for one thing.…”