"We cannot be so busy that we cannot address comprehensive energy and climate legislation, " he said.
There's no guarantee a conference between the two chambers would produce a comprehensive energy bill.
But homeowners often also do a more comprehensive energy audit that includes analysis of heating and cooling.
The first issue is controversial and comprehensive energy legislation that has been in the works for months.
Since the late 1970s the U.S. has avoided creating a comprehensive energy policy.
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We think that needs to be part of a overall, comprehensive energy package.
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The House passed a very strong and very comprehensive energy bill last year.
Yet without a comprehensive energy plan, plus uncertainty about energy tax credits and subsidies, what signals are we sending to investors?
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That's why we need comprehensive energy and climate legislation, and why this legislation has drawn support from across the ideological spectrum.
That's part of the reason why I've said that we need a comprehensive energy policy that sets us up for a long-term future.
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Two days after financial reform became law, Harry Reid announced that the Senate would not take up comprehensive energy-reform legislation for the rest of the year.
And comprehensive energy reform came up as a way of talking about and dealing with our investments in research and development and in jobs for the future.
We simply do not have a comprehensive energy plan.
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Would you accept that alone without comprehensive energy reform?
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You've got an independent in Joe Lieberman, you've got a Republican in Lindsey Graham, and you've got a Democrat in John Kerry that are working through a proposal on comprehensive energy legislation.
The United States has been a good friend to ASEAN and is actively involved in many of our projects, such as the Comprehensive Energy Partnership and the Expanded Economic Engagement of E3 Initiative.
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But of course to really get this right, to really free ourselves from the grip of foreign oil, to really preserve our planet for generations to come, we need a comprehensive energy climate bill.
They went over a comprehensive energy reform plan, and based on their study, they realized that they would be dependent on liquid fuels, but base load wise, they could be energy independent through nuclear power.
This loan will fund a comprehensive energy retrofit project that, when completed, will enhance quality of life for the residents, reduce energy costs, cut water consumption, improve indoor air quality, and create quality local jobs.
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Rather than simply subsidize production of current technologies, we need a comprehensive energy innovation strategy to develop, manufacture, and deploy riskier but more promising clean energy technologies that may eventually compete with fossil energy at scale.
The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive energy and climate bill, and there is currently a plan in the Senate -- a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans -- that would achieve the same goal.
Of special note were concerns expressed about the supranational mechanisms that would have to be created to implement, monitor and enforce the sort of comprehensive energy management scheme entailed in such a treaty and the "emissions trading" arrangement expected to accompany it.
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We increased the loan guarantees in the federal -- in our current federal budget deficit to build more of these facilities to strike that balance and also to create -- begin to create a market for cleaner energy sources through comprehensive energy legislation.
So I would say that this is mostly about coming through on a promise that he made to the American people that he would have a comprehensive energy plan that would include some increased domestic production of energy but also some big investments in renewable technology, as well as finding ways to promote efficiency and things like that.
At Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), we've developed comprehensive global energy scenarios, called "Dawn of New Age, " out to the year 2030.
To regain leadership in the global clean technology industry, the United States must enact a comprehensive clean energy competitiveness strategy that prioritizes major public investments in clean energy innovation, manufacturing, market development, education, and infrastructure.
These pro-growth solutions, such as Paul Ryan's sound plan to deal with the deficit, include tax relief for individuals, families and small businesses, a comprehensive American energy bill and real health-care reform that lowers costs and improves care.
But, again, if we incentivize, through comprehensive clean energy legislation, an economy that puts a premium on alternative energy like wind and solar, we're going to create a lot of jobs -- in the short term, in the medium term, and ultimately in the long term.
The nearly complete focus of the subsequent Congressional energy and climate debate on the primacy of carbon pricing may have ultimately prevented meaningful debate on how to optimize and extend the critical, comprehensive clean energy investments begun under to stimulus and enact a long-term investment strategy to strengthen clean energy competitiveness.
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