I am very glad one of the four key pillars you outlined is housing. With a lot of folks I have been pushing to fix housing first and I think we need to that.

I appreciate efforts at consultation, getting out input. However, having said that I think having a major announcement and a major committee hearing today with the complete lack of detail that we have quite frankly was a big mistake.

We are very excited about the nuclear--expansion of nuclear.

I have not seen the country more ready to embark in a new direction, but it has to be a direction that makes sense to them, with clear and defined goals.

But, Mr. Furman, do you agree with Mr. Jones that, under the current law that we are reviewing right now, the current draft, that the biomass definition--or do you say, Mr. Jones, the wood products--is not as clear as it could be.

It is a critical part of making sure that we are allowed to make our contribution to the solution.

It's important for us to ask questions about how any standards we do set will ensure equity among the various regions.

But, in terms of what you're saying, the contribution of carbon--I mean, obviously, that doesn't exist with hydro.

We need to take steps to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

I've never really understood why existing hydro, in this debate, is not given more credit as a renewable energy source.

As a Senator who's represented oil and gas, which is tough these days, I have to hear my colleagues say to me, 'We don't want an oil and gas facility anywhere near us.'

The program itself within Government, within Treasury and elsewhere, really has no clear rationale or clearly defined mission.

To the casual observer, it really seems like decisions are made on the fly about giving particular companies particular amounts of money.

It is important in terms of how firms that get this money use it, whether they use it properly, whether they abuse it in any way.

There is no overarching strategy or model that we are using with this huge amount of taxpayer funds.

I don't want anyone making a decision without great public knowledge and taxpayer understanding.

I want to thank you personally, Mr. Wamp, for your tremendous leadership and a lot of the very positive accomplishments of this subcommittee last year.

Well, we are going to see that that decision isn't made behind closed doors without public attention.