"I am concerned about if we think we are going to get reliability simply switching over to gas."
"I am very concerned about the reliability of this."
"Instead of dealing with this deforestation and forest fires, Congress has been spending the last 10 years fighting coal."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's been a good cost-effective source of energy in Iowa and creates great jobs."
"We are upwards of 36, 37 percent of our electricity in Iowa generated by wind."
"I have been fighting for a strong wind energy sector in my State since I've been in Congress."