Political Quotes

“Let me first thank you and thank the chairman and the ranking member who have done an extraordinary amount of work developing this bill, everything from the nonproliferation work and the security and modernization of our nuclear weapons enterprise, the renewable and nuclear support programs, the energy labs, and their support of the Office of Science at DOE. I know the committee has worked very hard. I rise tonight to offer an amendment which at the conclusion of my remarks I will withdraw, but I wanted to take this opportunity to say a number of things. One is that I have traveled with the chairman and other members of the committee over these many years to many of our national energy labs. And in particular, I have focused on the nuclear weapons enterprise, but I rise today in support of and wanting to thank the chairman and the ranking member for their support for the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub in Philadelphia. The administration had asked for an appropriation. The committee in its work has decided to go well beyond that, and I want to thank the chairman publicly. Even though it is in Philadelphia, I don't rise in a parochial sense. I also thank you for your support for the other labs. The Pittsburgh lab, for instance, is where the work was done that has enabled us to tap the Marcellus Shale. These labs are so vitally important.…”