I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Maryland will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Ms. Hanabusa

Where do you think we are going to get this money? Do we just print it over at the Treasury?

I want to thank you again for holding the hearing. And I am going to apologize to Mr. Royer and Mr. Erby right up front for the false promise that the American government has made to your companies.

There is simply no--and all the hand waving in the world cannot erase the fact renewable power is very, very expensive.

A good chunk of that money, nearly $14 billion last year, according to CBO, is spent offsetting the cost of renewable energy tax credits.

As Congress considers the President's call to extend these subsidies, I hope these choices are the subject of thorough and open debate, taking into account the hardworking American taxpayer and the hardworking American electricity rate…

You are wrong. I mean, the article says 40 percent of the funding, 4.3 billion went to 36 wind farms.

I think our average taxpayer would say that is a pretty darn good investment, especially since the price of their energy is so low.

But the taxpayers and ratepayers in my district don't.

I couldn't agree with you more and I see it in my children's textbooks that they bring home.

As we evaluate these subsidies, it is important to remember that the President promoted them as not only central to his effort to fight global warming but also as generating jobs that would drive America's economic recovery.

It just makes sense; it makes you feel very proud.

I want to thank Chairman Ryan for yielding 3 minutes to talk about such an important subject as the health care of our seniors. You know, the other side of the aisle wants to play pretend. Let's pretend that we have a program sustainable…

I want to welcome everyone to this afternoon's hearing to gain a better understanding of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's approach to procuring data for weather forecasting.

NOAA's 'tough choices' have resulted in placing nearly all of its eggs in a single basket: satellite systems fraught with a long history of major problems.

We all recognize three things about NOAA and weather forecasting in the future: First, recent severe storms have reaffirmed that we need to focus limited NOAA resources on preventing the loss of lives and property.

I think the gentleman from California just said what this is all about: The IPAB is about cutting expenditures for our seniors on Medicare when they need their health care. The IPAB is no straw man. It's a health care policy bureaucrat's…

I want to thank the chairman of the committee for giving me the opportunity to speak and the gentleman from Virginia for giving me the opportunity to cosponsor this bill. The gentleman from Virginia, of course, is from the southern end of…

As a physician, you know that buried very deep in the President's 2,000-page health care bill was the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, an unelected, unaccountable 15-member rationing board appointed by the President for the…

we are eating our seed corn. That is my great concern about our budget for research.

Welcome to today's hearing entitled 'An Overview of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency Budgets for Fiscal Year 2013.'

The Subcommittee on Energy and Environment will come to order.

I have little confidence in EPA's ability to conduct trusted, quality science in this area.

America is tired of government folks coming up and saying that a budget increase of five percent is a tough choice.

I am afraid we are not making tough choices.