Ed Markey

The Secretary recommends a 6-month moratorium on permits for new wells being drilled using floating rigs.

You and the others who have worked on this report deserve our gratitude for serving our country so ably in a time of national crisis and for giving us a blueprint for preventing another catastrophic spill.

Instead of tracking the oil that is still staining Gulf beaches, the Republican leadership of this Committee is still tracking the changes made to a two-year-old report.

This is worse than misplaced priorities. This is a dereliction of duty of this Committee to the citizens of the Gulf of Mexico.

To say that this Committee's oversight has been underwhelming would be charitable.

This Congress has voted 148 times to preserve or provide giveaways to the oil industry.

Unfortunately, this Republican Congress has acted like the BP spill never occurred.

Two weeks ago, Hurricane Isaac hit the Gulf of Mexico.

The drilling moratorium directly impacted the lives of thousands of individuals in the Gulf of Mexico.

It shouldn't take the threat of subpoenas to get cooperation from an Administration that boasts of openness and transparency.

I just disagree with that 100 percent. I just think if we are going to have a loan guarantee program and Solyndra is going to be criticized, then we have to criticize the United States Enrichment Corporation as well, and we should find a…

It is about job creation, and we have always operated in a bipartisan basis here.

So one of your overall goals in the Chu memo is to reduce cost?

It just seems like, you know, you can't have it both ways. You can't believe in Darwinian capitalism on the one hand, and then over here say, 'No, we want a Socialist system,' and then within the Socialist system say, 'Now we don't have to…

Governor Romney's proposal is. He has been very clear. He wants to raise taxes on the wind industry if he becomes President, even though it will kill 40,000 jobs.

The production tax credit for wind expires on December 31st this year. And the Democrats want to extend it.

The reforms in Secretary Chu's memo are anything but radical.

In contrast, the Republicans' approach to the grid resembles Chinese central planning from the 1970s.

Republicans actually have just two approaches to solving any problem this Nation faces.

The main event is Friday, when Republicans roll out their No More Solyndras Act on the House Floor.

They have made this Congress the most do-nothing Congress in history.

Taking greater advantage of energy efficiency, demand resources, and clean energy, while at the same time reducing cost to consumers, requires a transition to a more flexible and resilient electric grid, and much greater coordination among…

Today's hearing is part of the same anti-clean energy, anti-progress agenda that Republicans have been pushing for the last 21 months.

Can you do the arithmetic here? Nothing plus nothing equals nothing.

The Chu memo has nothing to do with electricity generation, nothing.