It seems like an extreme exaggeration, then, to reach a conclusion if 1 percent of the EPA's budget was eliminated, that that would equal 100 percent of all new technologies and research like the catalytic converter.

So those documents would be easy--could you provide those to the committee because I would like to see how they are actually using those dollars and how we are tracking those.

the 5-year OCS leasing plan that Secretary Salazar recently unveiled I believe would reinstate by regulatory policy the moratorium in the gulf.

If there is a bill that comes through our committee on reforms of NRC rules, I would ask each of you if you could within the next 30 days individually provide us your views on legislative changes that you feel would be useful in this…

I support it.

That is how you read the bill, as well?

Mr. Waxman suggested that that is picking winners and losers.

we need to diversify our fuel portfolio, and that has to include biofuels.

I came here under a different impression. I thought we were all getting together so we could figure out solutions here. I'm kind of stunned actually.

Because there's fraud, eliminate biofuels. And so we need to have the discussion more about how do we correct the fraud.

Its consequences have been very, very significant, so therefore it is significant. And that's what we're trying to do here today.