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.
Barton questions the motivations behind energy policy decisions.
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May I inquire how much time I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.
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.
The allegation that we made, the Republicans, is that you're discriminatory against us--against the Republicans.
It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.
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