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Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said in a Tuesday interview that the United States “can’t compete with China to make solar panels and wind turbines,” and that the government should no longer subsidize green-energy programs.

Stearns, who had initially supported a Department of Energy program that provided low-interest loans to green-energy corporations, said he was “hugely critical” of how the program had been handled, specifically the Obama administration’s approval of more than $500 million in loans to the now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra.

“I think the administration is putting taxpayers’ money at risk in areas that are not creating jobs,” Stearns said Monday in an interview with NPR.

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