Martin Heinrich: “But it was also an export project, and the reality is exports raise costs. They just do.”

We need permitting reform to put more electrons on the grid. It results in more jobs, and it's the one thing that can bring down the pressure on the cost of electricity and energy right now.

I would be very concerned if this were an engineered pathogen. I don't have any unique information saying that is the case. But if it were the case, that would be cause for alarm.

In the short term, what I'd really like to see is a hand-in-glove approach between Russia and the World Health Organization. That would tell us a lot.

Our whole premise as we approached this permitting bill was: How do we create a faster process, not lower the bar on standards.