It is because we don't manufacture the kind of steel here anymore to enclose nuclear reactors.

Let the American people hear what it is doing to manufacturing.

The elimination of coal as a fuel for new electric generation would have highly concerning implications for electricity prices, and for the economy, and job creation in general, as well as the competitiveness of American manufacturing.

I feel that expanding natural gas into vehicles will help our country not only because we are using a domestic product but the fact that diversity in auto fuels enhances our national security status.

This incentive auction, if it is successful--and I expect it will--will accomplish a number of goals that will benefit consumers.

Yes. That I think that's to his political advantage to do that, because then he gets to blame us, set up the 2014 elections by us being the bad guys.

But the reality is, as a Republican who my very core principles are, you know, lower taxes, limited government, to just take a solo tax -- or vote on a tax increase with not having everything else there to kind of, you know, give us the…

Most of us aren't going to support that. But I could certainly understand Tom's political strategy of trying to take it off the table, and then the president may get serious about dealing with all of the other financial problems we have.

Yes, that I think that's to his political advantage to do that, because then he gets to blame us, set up the 2014 elections by us being the bad guys.

Thank you, Mr. Walden, for your able leadership over the last 2 years.

The efficiency of spectrum use is so vital because spectrum is the lifeblood of the wide variety of wireless services that see ever-increasing demand.