Political Quotes

“before I get to the topic that I want to spend at least the lion's share of the next hour on, I want to respond somewhat to the commentary from my friends on the other side over the last hour and really agree with them on a whole lot of issues. As the cochairman of the bipartisan Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus here in the House, which has over 218 members, a majority of the House belong to our bipartisan caucus. Congressman Mark Udall of Colorado is the Democratic cochairman, and I am the Republican cochairman; and we are working together to advance many of the initiatives that they have talked about as quick as we can. I do think that tremendous energy now is put behind the goal of becoming energy independent as soon as possible in this country. Last night, Congressman Udall and a bipartisan group that I participated in met for about 2\1/2\ hours with Vinod Khlosa about this issue of cellulosic ethanol and what potential it has in this country for transportation. Earlier today I participated with Congressman Inglis of South Carolina, who chairs the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Caucus here in the Fuel Cell event we had in Cannon Caucus. Just a few days ago we had the Renewable Energy Expo here, which Congressman Udall and I participated in.…”