FFP applauds the Committee for advancing the discussion of a national RES, which FFP wholeheartedly supports.

The CNMI is the only U.S. jurisdiction that does not have ownership of the submerged lands three miles off its shores.

The Bingaman RPS proposal would establish a national renewable energy floor but allow states to exceed that floor if they so choose.

I commend you for this important legislation.

This is not the sole solution to global--to climate change and to carbon, but it is a major component to it.

Thank you for your attention to H.R. 934, a bill that conveys certain submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which I introduced on February 10, 2009.

I wanted to preserve the terms and conditions that were negotiated between the CNMI government and the federal government under the Proclamation while, at the same time, gaining control of the submerged lands around the Mariana Islands.

We ought to be requiring that they do adopt these best practices where there's general agreement that these are best practices.

Well obviously at least it strikes me at first impression that we ought to be requiring that they do measure those types of issues.

ACLI thanks Senators Kohl, Bingaman and Isakson for their bi-partisan sponsorship of S. 2832, the Lifetime Income Disclosure Act.

You were known as someone who was fair, someone who allowed openness and the ability to speak.

I think when we talk about efficiency we're going to have to be analyzing whether we invest more in rail or do we invest more in roads?

I think this is an excellent nomination by Barack Obama.

We need to look specifically at how we really weigh in, in a big way to remedy the situation that we have right now.

We may not be able to do it in one year, but boy, maybe we can do it in four years and have a specific plan to do that.

I see my time has expired. Thank you again for your service and I look forward to working with you as we continue to make the case to the American people with three or four or maybe even just two quick bullet points about why we have to be…

I think is really critical.

I really had the feeling that this one clearly does.