"Is there something that we should be doing here in Congress to make sure that we don't revert back to that old way of just following the ideology rather than science?"
"I think I particularly appreciate the fact that you sent people to the coal fields to understand the impact of what those regulations were doing when 86,000 coal miners lost their job during the Obama..."
"We owe it to the victims. But more than that, we owe it to the people-adults and children-who will be victimized in the future if we do not act now."
"It is time for Congress and the Department of Justice to shine light on these bad actors to protect the victims of this industry from exploitation and enslavement."
"I really appreciate the fact that the commissioner and Pruitt all are working together to try to find a secondary source on this--a supply."
"Thank you again for having this hearing on this."
"I just don't want anything to come in between the government or whatever and energy efficiency and Energy Star."
"I am a strong advocate of IV&V--independent verification and validation--that we've used in NASA and elsewhere where we have someone else looking at it."
"When you see a UL rating you know it's good. You know it has been done independently, and the same thing with FM."
"I really want to applaud the Department of Energy's efforts to refocus the narrative and the discussion about reliability and resiliency."
"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."