I'm hoping to help you with the funding for these projects, by the way, because I think--well, we may not be around in the long term, in the long term, we're all dead.

I think the Department's made a significant mistake here. And I, for one, am not interested in shutting down these research projects.

we're going to hold some hearings. We hope the first one will be June 10, but we'll be making notice of when the hearings will be, on the issue of aviation safety.

I regret that a good number of your nominations are all being held up.

Our subcommittee will want to work closely with you and with your staff in the Department of Energy as we work through the markup of an appropriations bill going forward in the coming fiscal year.

It appears to us it's a $500 million to $1 billion that's a shortfall.

You can observe more movement in a glacier than in the Department of Energy on some issues.

I would hope that we would continue having NREL as the center of that research.

to see these contracts shut down in the middle of the contract on very important research, I think is not a smart thing to do.

Coal is my worst nightmare.

But, Mr. Babbitt, how could they be enforced if you put a co-pilot on a plane flying into Buffalo, New York in the winter with icing, who says on the cockpit recorder, 'I've never flown in icing and I'm very nervous about this?' That…

I intend to support all of you. I think you are well suited for the nominations that the President has given you.