Bill Flores: “I would like to see rural America have just as much access to capital and technology as my constituents do that live in…”

Right now I am hearing many complaints from small businesses that they can't give their employees back to work, and they would love to have them back on their payrolls.

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

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.