Abundant and clean energy while here in our communities. While we spend tax dollars on less viable options. I would like to ask favorable consideration on the bipartisan hydro amendment to be offered very shortly. With that, i yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. Without objection, the amendment is withdrawn. For what purpose does the gentlelady from oregon rise . I have an amendment at the desk. The clerk amendment offered by ms. Bonamici. Page 27, line 13 after the dollar amount insert reduced by 9 million the chair the chair recognizes the gentlelady from oregon. Ms. Bonamici i rise today because of the power and potential of water and in support of a bipartisan amendment that im pleased to offer with my colleagues from pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman, our amendment would increase funding to the department of energys Water Power Program by just 9 million, a small price tag that will yield a huge return. This increase is offset by an equal amount by the Departmental Administration account. The modest increase will support hydropower and the development of innovative hydropower technologies. Development of these new technologies can offer the United States a chance to lead the world in an he merging area. Marine and hydro Kinetic Energy from waves, current and tides unlike the sun and wind, do not stop, is an exciting frontier. Oregon state university, university of washington and university of alaska fairbanks are using federal funding from the Water Power Program to support the program and Research Activities of the Northwest MarineRenewable Energy center which will provide entrepreneurs a domestic location to test devices along with other technologies rather than traveling to scotland. Without continued federal investment, europe will remain the leader. When fully developed, wave and Tidal Energy Systems could generate a significant amount of total energy used in the United States. As congress promotes technologies to lower our energy bills, we must embrace new solutions. With this modest increase, the Water Power Program can do that while continuing to support a federal investment in conventional Hydropower Technology. I urge bipartisan of the bipartisan amendment and i reserve. The chair the gentlelady reserves. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seeks recognition . Mr. Perry i rise in favor of the amendment and the chair the gentleman claim time in opposition . Mr. Perry i do claim time in opposition although im not object jectsing. I rise in support of the amendment and see it as a reasonable bipartisan approach and agreement, which has seen favorable consideration in this house in the past and as i said just recently, hydropower is the most reliable, affordable and Sustainable Energy source and seems to me while we spend money time and energy on unproven resources, this is one that has stood the test of time it is one of the beginning of sources of energy, not only in the United States but around the globe. This is one that we know. This is one that is in every community. This is one that is clean. It doesnt create too much noise for people. It doesnt hurt fish. All it does is produce power without doing anything else. Its hard to argue why we wouldnt be in support of this program. With that, i urge my colleagues to vote in support of this amendment. And i yield the balance. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentlelady from oregon. Ms. Bonamici i thank the gentleman from pennsylvania for his cosponsorship of this amendment and again this is a modest increase in the Water Power Program that supports Hydropower Technology as well as new and Innovative Solutions and i urge support of this bipartisan amendment. And i yield back. The chair the gentlelady yields back. The the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from oregon. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it and the amendment is adopted. For what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee secretary recognition. Mr. Cohen i rise to offer an amendment. The chair the clerk will offer the mr. Simpson i yield to the gentlelady from ohio. The chair the gentleman yields. Ms. Kaptur i want to invite the gentleman from alabama to ohio. I want you to see part of the new Energy Sector. It does involve clean energy. I support fossil based research but i also support coal and tidal energy and wind and biofuels geothermal, all of them because we need them. New investment in clean energy in our country in 2013 totaled 37. 7 36. 7 billion. The leading company in solar is a u. S. Born company, born in ohio, called first solar. You mentioned nonproductivity. Their stock is sold on wall street. They benefited early on in that companys life by photo voltaic research beginning back in the 1970s and 1980s at the u. S. Department of energy. Its incredible to see the future being born. And im hoping alabama can take advantage of that kind of technology. What concerns me and one of the reasons im on my feet at this point is because they have competition from china. The first and Second Companies in the world being subsidized by the chies these Chinese Government are in tough competition with the u. S. Born company. And we cant ignore the fact that Global Venture capital and private equity in new investment in clean energy increased from . 4 billion in 2004 to 4. 4 billion in 2013. The question is where is that going to be invested . In our country or someplace else . So i would just say weve made tremendous progress in an all of the above strategy, renewable sources now account for 23 of all Electricity Generation globally. Thats amazing progress. And were learning how to work in conjunction with the earth. Who would have guessed that ethanol would now consume 10 of what you put in your tank . People said you cant even get to 1 . Now theyre looking to 5 . Its unbelievable whats happening in to 15 . Its unbelievable whats happening in these fields. I appreciate the gentleman wanting to be responsible, i think we are being responsible in providing an all of the above bill including new Energy Technologies that will help our country in future generations so we no long ver to be dependent on imported energy. Which i believe is our chief vulnerability. I rise in strong opposition to the gentlemans amendment. The chair the gentleman from alabama. I rejoice with the gentlewoman from ohio that theres a company thats making money. We should always be about American Companies making money. But theyre making money that dont need a subsidy from the government. We have, id like you to come to alabama. Where coal miners are losing their jobs. Because we have a war on coal in this country. We give lip service to all of the above and the administration has a deliberate policy of attacking coal as a means of energy for our country and putting people out of work. So id invite you to come and see the suffering of our people because of that onesided strategy. Were going to attack coal but give money to alternative energy. Theres something wrong with that i understand the gentlewoman wants to stand up for a Great Company in ohio and id love to come see it because i think an all of the above strategy is good for america. But were picking winners and losers with this money. And the administration is picking losers by attacking coal as a source of energy and a source of jobs for our american people. So i would hope that we would care as much about those coal miners in West Virginia and kentucky and alabama ms. Kaptur and ohio. As ohio as we do about the Energy Programs were subsidizing. No one is subsidizing coal miners. No one is sub diesing families that have lost their means of living. But were going to subsidize other companies. Maybe theyre doing good things maybe theyre not because we have a lopsided understanding about how to do things in this country. Let the Energy Sector go. Let oil and natural gas and coal go. Look what weve done to the prees of oil and the price of gas. Just over the last year. Because they have innovated on their own. They dont need the government to innovate for them. They need the government to get out of their way. Does the gentlewoman want to respond . Ms. Kaptur ohio is a major coal producing state and weve had more coalfired utilities shut down in ohio than almost any other state, i identify with what the gentleman is saying and frankly i think we as a country have to be much more responsive to our miners and to coal country u. S. A. I represent the largest coal shipping port on the great lakes, i fully appreciate what youre saying. I support that industry from the day i got here, i supported researching Clean Coal Program and continue to do so so i just want you to know that. We dont disagree on harming any sector, we need them all. Reclaiming my time, i would just say i wish we could put money into that program like we did into this. I yield back. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from alabama. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair the noes have it. The gentleman from alabama. Pursuant to clause 6, rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment of the gentleman from alabama will be postponed. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. The chair the clerk will report the amendment. The clerk amendment offered by mr. Mcclintock of california, page 21, lines 5 and 6 after each dollar amount insert reduced by zero dollars. Reduced to zero dollars. Page 22, line 3, after the dollar amount insert reduced by 691,886,000. Page 22 lines 20 and 21, after each dollar amount insert reduced to zero dollars. Page 57, line 11, after the dollar amount insert increased by 2,954,660,000. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 223 the gentleman from california and a member opposed each will control five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california. Mr. Mcclintock this amendment is similar to the other one, but it requires all companies to fund their own research, rather than taxpayers subsidizing it to 3 billion. It doesnt affect funds set aside for Nuclear Waste disposal or National Defense projects. For too long weve suffered from the conceit that politicians can make better investments with tax pay money than investors can do with their own money. Its this con seept thats produced a long line of scandals best illustrated by the solyndra fiasco. It doesnt even benefit the common good by placing these discoveries in the public domain. Any discoveries although financed by the public, are owned, lock, stock and barrel by the private companies that receive these public funds. Public cost, private benefit, this is nothing but corporate welfare and thats what these amount to. My amendment protects taxpayers it gets government out of the energy business. Last year, when we debated similar amendments we heard of all the Technological Breakthroughs financed by the federal government from railroads to the internet, we heard promises of future breakthroughs from this massive expenditure of public funds and i freely recognize that if you hand over millions of dollars of public subsidies to a private corporation, perhaps in ohio, that corporation will do very well. Some of these dollars might even produce a breakthrough that will then be owned by that private corporation and then it will do extremely well. But would the advocate what the advocates of these fail to consider is the dilemma between the seen and unseen. We see the company that makes out like a bandit. What we dont see are the sacrifices that struggling families and Small Businesses must make as these taxes are taken away from them. You dont see Small Companies struggle by having to compete against their own tax dollars given to corporate competitors by a doting friend in government. Making investments based on the highest economic return of these dollars. Politicians using other peoples money make investments based on the highest political return of these dollars. Thats the principal difference between Apple Computer and solyndra or between fedex and the post office. These public subsidies in effect take dollars that would have naturally flowed into the most effective and promising technologies and diverts them into those that are politically favored. Dollar for dollar, this minimizes our Energy Potential enstead of maximizing it. For example, hydraulic fracturing has revolutionized the fossil fuels industry and offers us the chance to be energy independent. After the oil embargo, the federal government spent . 5 billion on oil and Gas ProductionResearch Much of it on shale production and a accomplished nothing. The government lost interest. Private investors renew interest and began producing the technologies used in todays boom. Public investment failed miserably. Private investment succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. In short if the technology is promising it does not need our help and if it isnt our promise if it isnt promising it doesnt deserve our help. In either case we have no business taking from the earnings of struggling families and Small Businesses to pay the research and Development Budgets of big corporations. I reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from idaho seek recognition . Mr. Sitchson i rise in opposition to the amendment. The chair the gentleman is recognized for five minutes in opposition. Mr. Simpson i rise to oppose this amendment. Hydraulic fracking has been going on for 40 or 50 years in this country by the way. We have worked tirelessly to reduce goth spending. The bill already cuts Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy programs by 266 million below last years request and 1. 1 billion below the budget request. The fossil and nuclear Energy Programs you see targeted increases of 34 million and 23 million respectively. The increased fossil Energy Targets advanced research that will increase the efficiency of advanced turbines during Electricity Generation. The increased Nuclear Energy will support security upgrades for the yid National Laboratory to protect the nations Nuclear Energy materials and a range of Nuclear Security programs at the n. S. A. , Homeland Security and other federal agencies. Though any colleague asserts the amendment would keep the government from intervening in the private markets, these apply to these applied Energy Programs are strootiegic investments. I appreciate the desire to reduce the size of the government, agree with him. This amendment goes too far by eliminating the investments we need to make for our future. I oppose this amendment and ask my colleagues to oppose it also and reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from california. The gentleman reserves. The gentleman from california. Mr. Mcclintock thank you. Mr. Chairman i would simply respond to my friend from idaho that hes right to point with pride to the fact that the Appropriations Committee has reduced ie eere spend big 16 . Hes certainly on the right track. Hes just moving a little slowly in that regard. We want to help him by doing what is right and restoring to the private investors the responsibility of using their own money to research and develop these Energy Breakthroughs and leave the federal government to doing what it does best and that is staying out and letting the private sector succeed. The chair the gentlemans time has expire this egentleman from idaho. Mr. Simpson mr. Simpson i yield back. The chair the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. Those in favor say aye. Pose pez. The noes visit. Mr. Mcclintock spi ask for a recorded vote. The chair the pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further pr seedings will be postponed. This clerk will read. The clerk electricity reliability 1,870,000. Fossil Energy Research and development 600 the chair the clerk will suspend. For what purpose does the gentleman from idaho seek recognition . I move that the committee do now rise. The chair the question is on the motion that the committee rise. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The motion is adopted. Accordingly the committee rises. The speaker pro tempore mr. Chairman. The chair mr. Speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union having had under consideration h. R. 028 directs me to report it has come to no resolution thereon. The speaker pro tempore the chairman of the committee of the whole house on the state of the Union Reports that the committee has had under considera