Chuck Fleischmann

The Department of Energy is so critically important to our great Nation and to our future.

I look forward to working together with you and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to move forward a budget that will strengthen our national security and advance our energy independence.

Again I want to thank the Ranking Member for supplementing my comments. And I think, General, this shows the great concern over several states in a very nonpartisan way about the Asian carp incursion.

Thank you again for appearing before us today and for a substantive hearing.

I continue to support ITER. ORNL does a tremendous amount of work in that endeavor.

I was with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island last night at a dinner, and he was very positive in his support for reprocessing.

I fully support a robust funding for nuclear energy and all that it entails in that department.

I strongly support the primary missions of your department.

Historically, Mr. Secretary, I have been a big supporter of the Federal student aid, particularly the Pell Grant Program.

It is imperative, in my view, that we continue to support public-private partnerships to close the skills gap.

Isotope facilities, we're talking medical isotopes, scientific isotopes, defense isotopes, manufacturing isotopes.

The fastest smartest supercomputer in the world. We have beaten the Chinese and our other competitors.

We will be able to take more data than ever before, analyze it faster than ever before.

I think this is probably one of the best Federal investments I've seen in my congressional tenure.

I want to thank this distinguished panel. It's great to be with you all today.

I represent the great DOE reservation at Oak Ridge and all it does.

The dying ember that is the Democratic majority in both Houses once again seeks to burn the American people. $80 billion for the IRS, and they champion it. I will stand with the hardworking American people of this Nation. Democrats, you…

I would continue to wholeheartedly oppose the use of aborted fetal tissue for experimentation, and that is my personal position on that.

We have requested funding for 300 more Border Patrol agents and we have requested funding for full-time case-processing personnel.

The crisis at the border continues to dominate the headlines in part because of the Administration's plans to repeal Title 42.

Continuing the dialogue that we had on a bipartisan basis before the Easter break, sir, I think will be important in the weeks to come.

In all due respect, Mr. Inspector General, a recreation, your words, is--and in my words--a staging, a restaging.

With the Title 42 public health authority being lifted next month, I fear that the surge that follows will completely overwhelm our border security and immigration capabilities.

I am deeply concerned about some of the most recent border security and immigration actions by this Administration.

This was a patchwork system from the inception, created years and years ago. It was politicized.