We have a choice to make.

That is what this Administration is currently blocking, while all assuring us that they are really very sympathetic of this cause.

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.

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.

I have to compliment my Republican colleagues on their discipline, but after weighing these relentless and very serious allegations of lawbreaking and inappropriate politicization of the loan guarantee process, I am unconvinced.

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 Street reassessment.

if you want to waste American taxpayers' dollars, let us talk about the oil industry at record high profits getting $41 billion worth of tax money from taxpayers.

We know we will never have a hearing on the oil industry or the nuclear industry in this committee.

This 42 percent drop this year is as a result of the Chinese intervention in this marketplace.

if we are going to reexamine whether or not that is a good investment after Fukushima, after the earthquake near the North Anna Plant, let us have that hearing, because I think that money is in jeopardy if you are really concerned.

This was not knowable in 2009. This was not knowable in 2010. This was a market intervention.