Jim Jordan

I wasn't implying anything with my questions, I was simply trying to get at how the Department of Energy made their decisions.

Mr. Secretary, how about Steve Wesley, Mr. Secretary, who bundled a half a million dollars for President Obama in the 2008 campaign? Did that have any influence on your decision to give a $465 million loan guarantee to Tesla, the company…

Mr. Secretary, did the fact that Michael Froman, Deputy Assistant to the President, investor in Solar Reserve, did that in any way influence your decision to give Solar Reserve a loan guarantee?

I don't come here as a Republican; I come here just as an American.

This isn't science; this is a basic business model that has failed dramatically...

There is no way in heck anybody could have looked at these if it was their own money...

If it wasn't your political buddies, it had to be incompetence.

We have wasted billions and billions of hardworking American taxpayer money on some green dream...

I think I will put my money on a horse that I think can win.

Do you think the American people might see a pattern if 30 percent of the folks were bundlers for the President?

What do the American people have to show for DOE's use of their money? A disgraceful portfolio of loans and loan guarantees.

The Department of Energy's budget authority went from $23 billion in 2008 to $69 billion in 2009 when the Secretary took over.

The accommodation is nothing more than an accounting gimmick.

The Administration is treating the First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion as nothing more than a privilege arbitrarily granted by the government.

Such a mandate cannot exist within a free society.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

You have to practice your faith a certain way... this is fundamentally what is at stake here, the heart and soul of what America is about.

Doesn't this just get, this ruling, get to the very heart, the very foundation of what America is about?

The President is concentrating the power of appointment in the Executive Branch alone.

Congress should refuse to accept the legality of these appointments.

The President by his own words has acknowledged that the reason he appointed these individuals had nothing to do with the only justification the Justice Department offered in support of his exercise of power.

Even President Bush, who my friends on the other side of the aisle assailed for taking unilateral executive action, refused to provoke a constitutional crisis by making recess appointments while the Senate was meeting regularly in pro…

The President must think that the rules he and his Senate Democratic colleagues developed to hamstring President Bush do not apply to him.

But never before in this country's history has a President made a recess appointment during a time when the Senate was not actually in recess.

This is about employees, union members, not having their money taken from them and used against the very person they may want to see in office.