"I agree with our ranking member of the full committee, Mrs. Rodgers, that China is a huge threat."
"Our legislation--we introduced it last year, we are reintroducing it this Congress--would commit significant resources to energy innovation."
"It is incumbent on this committee to use its broad jurisdiction over national energy policy to identify Federal solutions to prevent a disruption in vital energy services from occurring again."
"Climate change poses a real, ever-present threat."
"modernizing the grid and expanding transmission are important for reliability and resiliency in all the States."
"I totally disagree with what he just said about the CLEAN Future Act."
"I think that it is clear that if they were better hooked up to a national grid that there would have been a better opportunity to prevent this from happening."
"We just can't continue to rely primarily on fossil fuels while everyone else, including China, moves ahead with green initiatives."
"If we don't want to be left behind by China and other global competitors, we have to move towards a green economy."
"The answer is not to ignore the reality of the jobs and the creation of jobs that come from a green economy but to embrace it."
"the level of winterization put in place by producers is not capable of withstanding unusually cold temperatures."