Representatative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), chairman of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight, and Government Spending, questions John Woolard, president and CEO of BrightSource Energy, about using political influence in order to receive $1.6 billion from the Department of Energy loan-guarantee program during a May 16 hearing:

Yet another example of Obama green energy cronyism at work ... giving billions of taxpayer dollars to companies that later failed -- many of them run by Democrat donors.