Randy Weber

That's a pretty substantial backing bipartisan bill that we would argue, known as the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act.

I want to thank you for your role, and any way we can help with that, we certainly want to do that.

We would argue that we need to be very intense and focused on our national security, and this is one way that if we're in the lead, nuclear speaking, then we can help with nonproliferation.

H.R. 4084 is a bill that we passed out of this committee.

I would say--70 percent of Americans were not in supportive of that deal, that deal was struck.

I'm glad to hear about the report of natural gas actually replacing coal in the marketplace or leading--having more of a market share.

Do you think we can get that done in 30 days after their EIS is approved?

Is not the right of the American people to know what's being done with their taxpayer dollars?

I urge adoption of this commonsense, bipartisan legislation. I appreciate my colleagues' help. I yield back the balance of my time.

I appreciate the gentleman's kind remarks. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Loudermilk).

How much time do I have left? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 12 minutes remaining. General Leave

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry), my colleague, for organizing this Special Order. Mr. Speaker, it is absolutely important that the American people need to learn about the President's proposal and what impact it is going…

I'm going to end by saying--quoting one of my favorite speakers, Ronald Reagan. You know, Reagan said somebody who comes along with a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I do want to say also that I thank the witnesses for staying on topic to the issue at hand.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Steer, in your exchange with my good friend Eddie Bernice Johnson from Texas, you got pretty exuberant one time, and you said there's 25 billionaires involved.

It is an absolute honor to work with fellow Texans to establish policies that keep America globally competitive, support innovation in our economy, and actually promote national security goals.

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of both joint resolutions, which will block the Obama administration's so-called Clean Power Plan, a regulation, I will add, that was never authorized by Congress, that…

Eddie Bernice Johnson is co-authoring the bill with us.

I'm concerned that we actually have too many programs which can neither succeed, nor can they fail, and therefore they tend to stagnate.

from the get-go there has been a decision made at EPA to veto this project.

That's the juror to the judge. Judge, let's give him a fair trial and then hang him.

I would argue that in this case it seems apparent to me that the EPA has acted as judge, jury, and executioner in killing this project.

It's not--we would--I would argue, see if you agree, that it's not necessarily EPA's job to go out before you bring them something and to tell you, hey, don't bother bringing this to you because we're not going to approve it.

How long can they sustain that?

In the 1,200 page study that Congressman Perlmutter refused to read...