The right to clean energy is an unfair, regressive tax on residential customers.

I look forward to today's hearing to examine the challenges and opportunities to modernize our electric grid.

The CLEAN Future Act would impose harsh new Federal mandates for electricity generation and socialize the cost.

I thank the gentlewoman for doing this, and I am sorry to sort of jump people in line, but we are in a committee markup, so I have to get back. Mr. Speaker, I have to say that my friend, Paul Mitchell, grew up the eldest of seven kids…

I thank Elissa, again, for organizing this time for many of his friends that would like to say a few words tonight and push him forward to get to that finish line and come back. God bless you.

I am very pleased, actually, to see legislation that I am leading with Representative Doggett on the list.

January 6 is going to haunt this institution for a long, long time. No, it was not the joyous day on Capitol Hill with our constituents celebrating the start of a new Congress and a new administration. COVID came first, then this. So…

If it had not been for the brave Capitol and Metropolitan Police, men and women that day, who knows how many of our heads would have been swinging on those gallows.

I look forward to continuing a close working relationship with her, our former Governor.

Nearly five months later, we still don’t have the answers to the basic questions.

We need real reforms, strong lead agencies, timelines, real certainty to encourage project developers to take the risk.

I believe that Congress and the Department have an opportunity to work collaboratively to improve cyber response and harden our Nation's critical energy infrastructure.

It's nice to see a fellow Michigander once again at the helm of the Department of Energy, and I look forward to continuing a close working relationship with you.

The U.S. has also reversed a decades-long trend of rising imports and dependence on the Middle East.

We need to know what happened last week with Colonial and certainly appreciate your willingness to provide us answers.

It is also imperative that we get a handle on the supply chain, or we are going to end up in the same position that we were in before America's shale energy revolution.

We are now self-sufficient when it comes to natural gas, which has helped the U.S. reduce its greenhouse gas emissions more than any other country.

I introduced the Securing America's Critical Minerals Supply Act to increase the domestic supply of critical minerals and alternatives.

the CLEAN Future Act contains billions in subsidies and mandates in an attempt to push EVs on the American public, whether they are ready for them or not.

I confess that I have concerns that the CLEAN Future Act puts the cart before the horse by mandating electric vehicles.

We will also examine what's at stake with the Biden administration's Executive orders attacking American energy production and manufacturing.

We are not just talking about a few people's livelihoods. We are talking about entire communities who could be harmed by a 'transition' to lower paying jobs.

I think that we share similar views on the need to address climate change and certainly the benefits of clean energy.

Jobs in fossil energy, mining, and manufacturing provide meaningful, family sustaining work for millions of Americans.

We became net energy exporters. Today, as a result of the shale revolution and the rise of natural gas production, we are also leading the world in carbon emission reductions.