Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. The bill already cuts 43 percent in this account for energy efficiency and renewable energy. I don't really understand the gentleman from Texas, a lot of the things that he throws out there. If you look at where agriculture is going in my part of the country, where it is going is John Deere is on track to make a 100 percent ethanol-powered tractor. If I had said that to the gentleman 25 years ago, he would say: Well, I can't think about that. That can't happen. Guess what? It is happening. For the eight counties I represent, the rural parts of those counties, one-half of soybeans and corn go into making that fuel. We are very proud of it. We are very proud of it. It is renewable energy. In terms of solar, you say: Why do you need this? When solar first got started in my area by individual entrepreneurs-- okay, inventors--the Federal Government, the Department of Energy didn't even know about what they were doing. They took their technology to the Department of Energy. Now they laud what the people were doing. Guess what their problem was. It was getting financing and getting help to bring their technology forward because they weren't a big company, and they didn't have any of those angel investors like Texas has. Out where I live, the people have made it forward by their own creativity and hard work. We flew the first biofuel F-16 out of our National Guard base in Ohio.…”