Bill Flores: “Mr. Barnes, in your written statement, you said that you believed that Operation Hire Our Guard could be expanded to…”

We as policymakers should also heed your comments regarding the fallacy of expanding pollution sources in China in order to meet our environmental objectives.

The point that I want to make is that finding a lasting solution to any of our economic, environmental, and energy solutions requires us to use nothing less than all of the tools in our toolbox.

We need to think about this beyond our borders and think globally.

The goal of this hearing is to determine how we can build a hundred percent clean economy with opportunities for a low-carbon recovery.