[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17027]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                   BUILDING FOR A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE

  (Mrs. CAPPS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CAPPS. Sequestration would be a huge blow not only to middle 
class families but also to our clean energy innovators and 
entrepreneurs.
  According to the Office of Management and Budget, sequestration would 
impose an across-the-board cut of nearly 10 percent to critical clean 
energy and innovation programs. That would mean a $148 million cut to 
the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy 
Program alone. These cuts would tremendously damage our ability to 
develop the clean energy technologies of tomorrow, technologies that 
lead not only to lower energy bills for our constituents but also to 
new businesses and middle class jobs. I see it every day in my 
congressional district, where cutting-edge companies like LaunchPoint 
Technologies and Transphorm use Federal funding to develop exciting new 
ideas that would otherwise languish on the drawing board.
  Mr. Speaker, the threat of sequestration and the fiscal cliff is very 
real. It's time for us to come together and pass a balanced package 
that continues building for a clean energy future.

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