John Spratt: “Let me get something clear. There are a hundred and three operating nuclear reactors, commercial reactors in operation…”

We are the Budget Committee, not the Energy Committee, and it is not our job to draft energy bills.

Failed Republican economic policies had brought the financial system dangerously close to a complete meltdown and had driven the economy into its deepest recession since the 1930s.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and rise in emphatic support of the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011. This bill, as befits its title, makes record investments in our Nation's military, authorizing $725…

Mr. Garrett. I thank the chairman and I thank the witness, Dr. Romer, for being here today.