Ron Wyden actually said...

"I want to hear my government say, this is what we're doing to go gangbusters into a very exciting kind of field."

"Isn't it fair to say that this country is missing the boat on energy storage."

"I think we are lagging significantly in this energy storage area."

"Let's do this. I hope that we'll get a favorable response to the letter I sent Secretary Chu with respect to the vehicles, the Brammo motorcycle that we hadn't gotten a response to that."