John Spratt: “We are the Budget Committee, not the Energy Committee, and it is not our job to draft energy bills.”

simply giving away pollute-for-free allowances to certain industries does not work.

I ask unanimous consent that before concluding that members who did not have an opportunity to ask questions of our witness be given 7 days to submit questions for the record.

Let me get something clear. There are a hundred and three operating nuclear reactors, commercial reactors in operation generating spent fuel waste.

shouldn't we stop creating new programs, now agencies, new commissions and new discretionary spending?