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

The CLEAN Future Act is a 981 page bill with hundreds of billions of dollars in American taxpayer giveaways to countries like China.

It will decimate our energy security and leave us hooked on China for cheap solar panels and batteries.

The Democrat's Clean Future Act promises to remove good paying jobs, retrain workers, and relocate them to new cities.

Well, thank you, my friend and chairman, for holding today's virtual hearing.

This is such a win-win, one of the best things, probably, since sliced bread.

I am all about next-gen nuclear power, I am all about SMRs and thorium reactors and anything that we can do.

In order to reduce CO2 emissions as fast as possible we need to modernize the permitting process.

Those of us from Michigan know the immense importance of the Great Lakes, both from the environmental and the economic standpoint.

This 30 minutes is a tribute to our leader who is leaving us, Greg Walden, the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee and the former chairman, and, obviously, a good friend to everyone on both sides of the aisle. Knowing that…

I want to report some breaking news. Roll Call has just put something out online, it will be published tomorrow. And the headline is: ``Adulting might be alive and well in Congress. The retiring Lamar Alexander and Greg Walden show it's…

So, Mr. Speaker, this is a farewell for Greg Walden. He started off in public service serving as the youngest State house majority leader in Oregon's history before he was elected to the U.S. House for Oregon's Second District. He came to…

The key is to keep prices stable and affordable.

It would be foolish to bet it all on any one technology or energy resource.

I want to see us continue to lead the Nation, but I am worried about going the same route as California.

California provides a case study on a lot of different fronts.

It is a disgrace that so many people in this country have energy bills they can't afford.

Diversity is the key to our success, which is why I support an all-of-the-above approach to energy.

We should learn from the failure of the past and work together to make energy more affordable, reliable and affordable.

We must also make sure we are not leaving behind communities who have lost fossil fuel jobs.

I have always been a huge supporter of clean energy, but, obviously, issues like reliability and affordability are critical.

I have two remaining speakers, so I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 1715

May I ask how much time each side has remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan has 9\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from New Jersey has 9 minutes remaining.

I include in the Record a letter from the National Association of Home Builders in opposition to the bill due to the expansion of Federal building codes without meaningful provisions to safeguard housing affordability. National Association…

I would look forward to working with you, members of the committee, others in the industry, to help design programs and policies that might address what I think is a growing national security concern.