"if it is based on merit, why were 23 of the 27 companies who received money rated as junk status by Fitch and Standard & Poor's."
"isn't it true in his report that he said, 'serious systemic technical and management problems exist at the Department of Energy'?"
"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?"
"We have wasted billions and billions of hardworking American taxpayer money on some green dream..."
"If it wasn't your political buddies, it had to be incompetence."
"This isn't science; this is a basic business model that has failed dramatically..."
"I don't come here as a Republican; I come here just as an American."
"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."
"Such a mandate cannot exist within a free society."
"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."