Now, in your time as Acting Director of the Loan Programs Office, have you received any political pressure from the White House to approve a loan your office deemed not qualified f...
Will this legislation, then, jeopardize future or current DOE loans?
There has been no showing of wrongdoing by anybody in this administration due to the Solyndra loan loss.
This is a hearing for politics. That is all it is.
the committee, under the leadership of my Republican colleagues, has been blundering around, crashing into walls, finding nothing.
It is a political statement rather than a serious policy proposal.
Instead, the DOE and Solyndra oversight have been designed to make cheap political points in an election year.
I see none of that happening today.
Now, I am a strong proponent of oversight, and I think that we do need oversight.
It is an essential tool in avoiding bankruptcy and avoiding seeing the company go under.
We need to act to reduce carbon pollution; and there are a range of options for doing that.