I will uphold the tenant that it's voluntary participation in the markets.
I think we need to get this on the record.
It's, kind of, a teeter totter here.
I just want you to know we're going to do everything we possibly can to see if we can get you confirmed before the Congr...
I must also add, with regard to grid security, I've participated in the Electric Sector Coordinating Committee.
We don't want any more Enron scams in the Pacific Northwest.
I want to make sure that you will support policies that keep the locus, keep the place, of Northwest electricity decisio...
I want to do everything I possibly can to advance those kinds of policies.
It is important that we tackle this in a bipartisan way, because the reality is that natural gas, particularly because o...
The American people deserve an upgrade on that kind of approach. They deserve a bipartisan alternative.
Congress has a key role to play in ensuring that the journey that we have started...does not get derailed.
I would certainly encourage you to actually look at these externalities seriously.
I just think it--is it not ironic that it took a U.S. Senate investigation by Carl Levin to provide the facts that led t...
Does this disturb you? Do you think there needs to be some change in these practices?
That is just a fundamental fact of that case that you are presenting as too big to jail.
Does this not indicate you are just asleep at the switch?
But, more fundamentally, is there a revolving door policy that bans people who have worked as regulators from then going...
There is something fundamentally wrong with it, apart from safety and soundness, which is essentially a monopoly control...