Marcy Kaptur

This budget request also returns to the Trump administration's seeming obsession with funding only early-stage research and development.

I have lived long enough to know what it was like to be energy-dependent and now to be 90 percent of the way to independence.

I also wanted to ask you that your budget request cuts research for carbon capture, utilization, and storage by nearly $100 million.

Are you having difficulty finding qualified civil servants to fill your vacancies?

I hope that your inquiry leads you there.

Rep. Oberstar complaining all the time about why can't we get those solar panels up there at the Department of Energy?

I remember when I worked for President Carter and I wasn't on his energy team, but he wanted to put solar up on the building.

There is nothing like seeing and believing.

I would want to encourage you to think about the building envelope better reflecting what you do.

I care about poor cities. I spent my life trying to rebuild places in poor cities that need new value.

I am so disheartened to see that the budget request proposes to eliminate the Solar Ready Vets Program.

We have also heard repeatedly from senior Department officials and our national labs that the Department's workforce is changing.

Your budget proposes deep and arbitrary cuts that threaten progress on addressing one of our most pressing challenges and that is climate change.

This budget request, in my opinion, does neither. And I am concerned that this is simply sprinting toward a cliff or toward failure.

I have long said we must have a credible, reliable nuclear deterrent, but we must do so cost-effectively and responsibly.

While sustaining the nuclear deterrent is a national priority, it must be done in a cost-effective, responsible manner.

Frankly, this delay is unacceptable, and I hope, Mr. Secretary, you can rectify it for this next year.

I would urge you to consider somehow with--you are scientists. You are not necessarily communicators.

I think science has trouble communicating with the general public.

I was completely fascinated. I felt like I was in a new age, I thought 'I am really in the 21st century.'

To those ends, the American people deserve full transparency. The President must take steps to de-escalate this highly volatile situation in a most ungovernable part of the world. Let us rigorously pursue, with our allies, turning back…

In sum, the Energy and Water division of this bill invests in innovative programs to yield future opportunities and jobs. Our focus is on ensuring future economic prosperity. We underpin national security, and we bolster economic security…

This bill regularizes the workforce, addresses the very serious issues of heat illness prevention and decent lodging, and also has other necessary provisions that demand our support. We must address the conditions of these workers. They…

I urge my colleagues to vote for this continuing resolution, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Climate change poses an existential threat to my region.