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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

we have seen our coal industry collapse.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

They all agree that we are still very vulnerable.

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.

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.

I think we all realize that through the CAFE standards it is going to have virtually no impact on the global climate change.