My opinion is that the congressman has gotten his marching orders from either the hot fusion crowd or enemies of Taleyharkin in his area of research (he has several in the fiels of cold fusion research). Frankly I don't know if there is anything to his research but it looks like it is being halted by accusations and investigations.
The movie is CHAIN REACTION. Obviously big oil/vested interests yanking on the Perdue chain. Sonofusion predates Taleyharkin and the ITER crowd is trying to smother the whole field of LENR in the cradle, although it's 18 years old now. Once it was blimps vs fixed wing planes, now it's CTNF vs LENR. History goes in cycles, yes?