David McKinley

It is about making sure that we create great jobs in Iowa.

I completely agree that we are never going to get to the point where we can depend completely on wind and solar.

How can anyone in good conscience say that we are trying to not pick winners and losers here in Washington?

I am not opposed to wind and solar. I think it is unique. I think it's something that makes it truly part of all of the above. I am willing to support that.

So if that were correct, and I don't disagree with you on that coming from a coal State, but if that is correct, then why are we having policy that is moving us in that direction?

I want to have more facts. The engineer in me says I need more facts.

I am a huge skeptic of driverless cars and I am not buying this one iota yet.

So is it bureaucracy that is holding it up? Why don't we have more?

Everyone in Washington is interested in renewables. Why something like hydro would go 7 to 10 years or longer, as compared to solar and wind?

Thanks to Congressman McKinley, we built a bridge in his backyard back in 1996.

I would like to welcome everyone to today's important hearing on advanced materials and production.

I would ask unanimous consent that we could introduce into the record a letter from the Association of General Contractors of America and their concern for the infrastructure and modernization of our regulatory reform.

We can't get the permits to get those pipelines built.

It has been something that means a lot to me as a construction industry and I spent, again, 51 years in it.

The anti-coal fervor that the Obama administration put in place; 83,000 coal miners lost their job.

We have seen our coal industry collapse.

We have just gone through 8 years, we have seen a loss of baseload capacity across this country and we are going to have to rebuild now after 8 years of a war on coal.

Absolutely, we have got to have reliable baseload, and that could be a combination of nuclear, I think coal should still be in a mix and can be, and of course natural gas.

I'm a little concerned about lack of global standards, is cost. No one has mentioned cost up here.

I don't see anything about third party certification for public safety, putting public safety first overriding competitive pressures.

As one of just two licensed engineers in Congress, this is an intriguing process that we're going to undergo.

They all agree that we are still very vulnerable.

I could--any hostile country--and he said as a matter of fact I could take 10 engineers from U.C. Berkeley and I could shut down the electric grid between Boston and New York within four days.

This issue has come up literally every year since I've been in this committee for the last 6 years and I keep being told that everything is going to be fine, that we have got things under control.

Am I supposed to feel good in West Virginia, then? I can't buy a car, but health benefits are going to improve around the country?