the need for collaboration huge, and some States do a good job, some States don't do a good job

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.

the administration has chosen to eliminate the weatherization and State energy program that helps individuals across our country save on energy costs

I want to thank the ranking member for his remarks, and I endorse them.

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.

We are so happy to have your focus there. I think it is going to take both departments to really lead America forward in this really important arena.

I really think a blending of your knowledge on material science, energy science, water science, and the Department of Agriculture's abilities in production agriculture could be most interesting.

Unfortunately, once again, the President's budget request harms American leadership and our energy future, our competitiveness, our environment, our workforce, our consumers, and our economy.

Abandoning this research sends a blank check to China and our global competitors.

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.