Angus King

If you're ever in doubt, the actions of Dan Coats last week are a demonstration of how these jobs should be done.

The grave danger in intelligence is shading the data to meet the perceived policy needs of whoever is in charge.

I think we can all agree that a disruption in the Strait of Hormuz would be a catastrophe of the level that we are talking about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve being important.

Oil prices in the future will always be the opposite of what you think today.

I think the creation of the Cyber Office is a positive one.

I believe research, basic research, is a fundamental purpose of the Department of Energy.

I really take issue with your statement about ARPA-E and energy research.

I wanted Maine to have the most stringent environmental laws in the country and the most predictable and timely environmental process.

I think the biggest concern is that the interpretation and the inefficiencies with federal agencies and their inconsistencies on how they interpret NEPA and how they allow, as they go through the process, are entirely different from forest…

I think that what some folks are concerned about is that this will be, kind of, a Trojan horse for opening up regulation of mining, generally, of any mineral, not necessarily a critical mineral.

So that is an opportunity that also has to be considered as we are looking for options here.

So if we are talking about legislative solutions to this problem, we should really narrow the focus to those minerals, not all import dependent materials, minerals, but those minerals that come from a source that is at risk for some reason.

I think ISO New England has done a very good job encouraging demand response and I think they've, I would commend them for pointing out dual-fuel is the economically correct approach but that the states oppose it so they're left with the…

I am gravely concerned about an exponential increase in the export of natural gas and LNG.

This Congress cannot repeal the law of supply and demand.

What happens if natural gas prices return to $6.50, $7.00, $8.00 per billion cubic feet?

But on the electrical transmission side, if it goes in at the rate base, the ratepayers are taking that risk.

I fear that we are making a lot of investments and a lot of bets based upon what could be an anomalous period of ultra-low natural gas prices.

But are they? The New England pipeline proposal was that the ratepayers of all of New England would take that risk.

There is rarely a silver bullet but there is often silver buckshot, which means a multiplicity of solutions added together will create a solution to the problem.

Well, I know it worked. I know it happened this winter, because I walked to the shore in my home town of Brunswick and saw on the horizon the Cousins Island oil plant emitting, you know, you could see something coming out of it and I don't…

We need to talk about electrical line capacity as well as pipeline capacity, but I think we also need to talk more broadly about alternative solutions.

I am absolutely delighted to be here today. I think this marks a milestone and an opportunity for us to accomplish something important for the people of this country.

Will you commit to me that you will faithfully implement the policies established by Congress and the funding that are established by Congress for this office?

Right now, there is no deterrence. We are entirely defensive and ultimately that is a losing strategy.