Thank you very much.

climate change is real. Scientific evidence across the world, we think we are the only country in the world that doesn't--that has any internal disagreement about climate change.

I'm pretty certain we won't hear any of that today from the majority members and their witnesses.

Thank you all very much for being here. It's fun to have three economists and mathematicians.

Just in mild response, I am, I believe, heartened to know--that may be the wrong verb--but, at least, respect my friend and colleague from Alaska's notion or assertion that these terrible, inhumane hunting practices, which we have talked…

A quick response to the notion that the fears of inhumane practices are utterly false. In a Los Angeles Times story in 2012, the headline is: ``Alaska officials expand aerial shooting of bears.'' It goes on to say: ``The controversial…

The United States should simply not cede its leadership to our foreign competitors in the high-tech advanced energy sector.

Let's look forward. We seem to be looking backwards.

I believe the possible plan to halt the DOE's loan programs completely... is a spectacularly bad idea.

I hope that as Members of Congress we can have some foresight and can agree to support federal investments today into the clean energy technologies that our nation will need tomorrow.

I was fascinated by Mrs.--Ms. Katz's testimony, especially the--and I very much respect sort of the deep philosophical notion that we have this $18 trillion of federal loan guarantees, that it has all kinds of pernicious effects.

It's hard to borrow money as a small-business person. What I've learned in 43 years of running a family business is that banks only want to lend money to people that don't need it.

I appreciate the need to title these hearings with cool names like 'Making the EPA Great Again' and 'Risky Business,' but I fear that we're going to go down the road of Top Gun and Mission Impossible and Jerry Maguire, so I'd like to move…

Last week, Ranking Members Lipinski and Johnson and I sent a letter to Chairmen Smith, LaHood and Comstock calling on them to investigate President Trump's cybersecurity practices.

I think the real question for the majority is: What do you have against Secretary-elect Ryan Zinke? He is being given a brand-new rule and the keys to the castle. He has a clean slate to develop the playbook for a hugely impactful planning…

With respect, I quote Mr. McKinley: ``We have to do this for the people of West Virginia and around the country.'' And I agree, and this is why we need the stream protection rule. It is a commonsense approach to minimizing the impacts to…

What is most dangerous is, because of the lack of clarity regarding the Congressional Review Act's prohibition on similar rulemakings, the agency may never take future efforts to update and improve surface mining regulations. Even if you…

But this candidate has done so many things whose -- the constant lying, the interference with Russia, the mocking of those with disabilities, the profound disrespect for women. I just couldn't be there to celebrate his inauguration.

I'm not willing to say he's illegitimate, I don't know. I mean, right now, he's certainly legitimate enough to be sworn in on Friday.

My experience is almost everybody in Europe is terrified of what the Trump presidency may mean, for just the U.S./NATO alliance.

I'm finding that my constituents in northern Virginia overwhelmingly support the decision not to go. They're very afraid of what he's going to do with federal employees. They're very terrified of what's going to happen to the Affordable…

I think we're going to hand out over 400 tickets to my constituents who want to come.

It seems to me that Donald Trump is very much an outlier, even in terms of the Republicans that I know and like.

Well, if I look at how Donald Trump did in my district, which is about 20 percent, I think that if there was a poll in my district, I think they would overwhelmingly tell me to stay home.

I think, actually, there was a symbolic importance to my members of my constituents to say I'm not coming.