Steven Chu: “Today's hearing is part of the same anti-clean energy, anti-progress agenda that Republicans have been pushing for the…”

If I look at other countries and how they are borrowing from our playbook--we have a long history of funding our research and development through our national labs, through our universities, and even in some companies.

I cannot guarantee that everyone who is fracking is doing it that way, but certainly what appears to be is that a lion's share of the people are doing it responsibly.

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.

This budget helps reduce our reliance on oil by developing the next generation of home grown bio fuels and by accelerating electric vehicle research, development, and deployment.