"As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy, I have spent this Congress focusing on basic research that can benefit our nation by enabling technology breakthroughs."
"I hope that by exposing DOE's misconduct in this case, we can prevent this kind of inappropriate action in the future and preserve scientific integrity and transparency at the Department."
"this lobbying effort--apparent lobbying effort to subtly yet firmly dissuade the Senate was inappropriate"
"I hope you get the pictures, if there are some, of your grandchildren back."
"the process has been attacked, and I think we're seeing that today."
"Do you have an opinion that the goal to squash the Senate action is inappropriate?"
"There is some inappropriate behavior going on, as one of my members over here said earlier, and we want to make sure that that stops."
"I think we need some cooler heads to prevail, and I think we need some logic to prevail."
"I would note that there's probably about the same amount of outrage from the Democrats over Hillary Clinton's dumping of a bunch of emails and destroying evidence in a federal investigation."
"natural gas development has the potential to drastically change the geopolitical landscape of the region for the better."
"the democratic Jewish state was on the verge of reestablishing relations with Turkey."
"energy has emerged as a key incentive that can help resolve the Cyprus problem."