"I was there when we wrote the first provision in an appropriation bill in the late 1990s to move the Department of Agriculture into fuels."
"I also wanted to ask you that your budget request cuts research for carbon capture, utilization, and storage by nearly $100 million."
"Rep. Oberstar complaining all the time about why can't we get those solar panels up there at the Department of Energy?"
"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."
"This budget request also returns to the Trump administration's seeming obsession with funding only early-stage research and development."
"I want to thank the ranking member for his remarks, and I endorse them."
"I also wanted to say in terms of methane digesters, many of our large animal facilities can't find a methane digester that doesn't break down."
"the administration has chosen to eliminate the weatherization and State energy program that helps individuals across our country save on energy costs"
"I have also always believed that it is less costly to spend money on nonproliferation to prevent the spread of materials and preventing other countries from securing them."
"These cuts are divorced from reality."
"this budget request is simply sprinting toward failure."