Is it really appropriate to continue to keep charging the taxpayer for those research risks on the back of an old product?

I want to thank the witnesses for being here, for the work that you do, and for coming to try to address, as Mr. Duncan put it, some critical issues that our Government needs to address.

So that means the dollars actually going to cleanup are a fraction of what is appropriate.

Since 2011 EM has spent over $45 billion to try to address the cleanup responsibilities. And yet, we seem no closer to cleaning up these sites or reducing the department's environmental liabilities.

A significant portion of those cleanup dollars, some 30 to 60 percent for individual sites' budgets, according to testimony, is going to what's called minimum safety, or min-safe, work.

I went to the web page for the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity to look at the Equity in Energy program... says, 'site under construction.'

We have enormous opportunities sitting right in front of us to create a new energy--a new American industry to become world leaders in offshore wind.

I am proud to offer a bill along with my colleague Greg Stanton of Arizona, to help municipalities achieve their goals of lessening a carbon footprint.

Last month we heard from a panel of industry experts and business owners that they can't find enough workers with the right skill sets to fill the jobs that they need in a clean energy economy.

If it takes us hauling you in after people are telling us that they are rationing the lives of their children, how does this work?

The energy efficiency and clean energy technologies are critically important to ensure a livable future.