Let's set the scene. It is a sunny day in northern California.
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Barton describes the initial optimism surrounding a solar energy company before its failure.
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It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.
I don't want to speak for the Department of Energy, but the draft legislation allows, without going through the appropriation process, funds generated by using this facility for private purposes to be used for maintenance of the facility.
I am a little bit skeptical if we are doing this simply because we don't like natural gas power, we don't like coal power, we don't like nuclear power, because that would be an added cost that somebody's got to bear.
Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the pending legislation before us. I believe it is very important that we show that we do want to address this issue, and I think the Goodlatte-McCaul bill does that in a humane way. Now, we have this…





