"Through the gentlelady I would like to urge that we have a hearing on the risk premium which DOE and OMB are charging to the nuclear industry for loan guarantees post-Fukushima and post the Wall Stree..."
"I want to commend our Subcommittee Members, Scott Tipton and Paul Gosar, who are spearheading the effort to clear away these bureaucratic obstacles."
"It is truly mystifying that a nation suffering a prolonged recession... would adopt a willful and deliberate policy of obstructing construction of these inexpensive and innocuous generators."
"This simple and commonsense solution means vast quantities of hydroelectricity, without a single new dam, and at a cost to the government of precisely nothing."
"That is what this Administration is currently blocking, while all assuring us that they are really very sympathetic of this cause."
"It is my hope that today's hearing marks the death of a political movement, however. It is time finally for the 'stop the monuments movement' to end."
"It is time, finally, for the Stop the Monuments Movement to end."
"A majority of this House is now on record rejecting the Stop the Monuments Movement--it is time for this Committee to reject this movement as well."
"Fifteen Presidents, both Republicans and Democrats, rejected the movement and used the Antiquities Act to designate more than 100 national monuments."
"Forty-nine years ago in September of 1962, President Kennedy issued an urgent call to the Nation to be bold."
"I think it is well past time to move ahead."
"This is not a partisan issue. It should not be a partisan issue."