I will bet that half the constituents in West Virginia don't have jobs. They are turning to that for solace.

How are they supposed to address it when they know--the mayors talk--they know they are selling drugs in the Post Office parking lot.

They have no resources from the Federal Government for help on this.

This has got to stop, this idea coming from the Beltway, you all sitting back here.

If Washington would just get out of the way, in many regards that the American people are more than capable of creating their own opportunities through innovation and ingenuity.

I believe that is the case because it is the one area that the Federal Government couldn't figure out how to regulate.

We can't throw water on the campfire of American innovation and ingenuity.

How much Federal resources are truly being allocated to this issue?

I don't see any daylight between you and me on this subject, particularly as it relates to reliability.

I am very concerned about the reliability of this.

I think we can do a better job.

I am concerned about if we think we are going to get reliability simply switching over to gas.

I want to see us spend more research dollars in defining the ways to make gas more reliable.

I think a lot of us would agree Al Gore's book talks about 25 to 30 percent of the anthropogenic global warming is contributed from the deforestation around the world, 25 to 30 percent.

Instead of dealing with this deforestation and forest fires, Congress has been spending the last 10 years fighting coal.

Unfortunately, Peter Welch is not here and he and I have been co-chairing, for the last 5 years we have been co-chairing the Energy Efficiency Caucus.

I am curious about how we might be able to incentivize, or what are the advantages or incentives that might be necessary to develop microgrids in some of these little communities that we have.

I think Federal support for R&D, I really do believe that is really, really critical

I want to see, I would like to understand more about how that would work in rural areas.

Markets should review the economic and market factors driving base load generation into early retirement.

It's been a good cost-effective source of energy in Iowa and creates great jobs.

I have been fighting for a strong wind energy sector in my State since I've been in Congress.

We are upwards of 36, 37 percent of our electricity in Iowa generated by wind.

I admire Congressman Rothfus for addressing this legislation to try to bring some kind of commonsense approach to how we take care of this.

I know its intention, but I know also there are unintended consequences that can happen when you go through this legislative process.