The standards which are in the House and the Senate bill, I take it, are adequate as far as you are concerned in the energy bill to achieve the authority that you need to make mandatory these standards, reliability standards?

Can you refuse, then, to certify an RTO?

FERC indicates it is not a clear authority to assure reliability, but the regulations which have been issued, the orders which have been issued by FERC, suggest otherwise.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

That would be helpful to us, I believe.

Would that be helpful if we could learn that to see how well prepared we are, if we could perhaps ask the CDC, for instance, to make some kind of spot check assessment as to what percentage of recommendations have been adopted?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Buying a home is the single most complicated financial transaction that most Americans will ever undertake.

I have argued for quite some time that consumers need more certainty and more transparency in the homebuying process.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much for holding this hearing.

I think it is important that we are looking at these reforms.

I have joined with colleagues for some time in indicating that consumers need more certainty and more transparency in homebuying.

His answer was, that is correct.

We cannot blur that responsibility. We have got to focus it so that we can hold folks accountable if there are failures.

My major concern has been and continues to be, where will the principal responsibility for analyzing foreign intelligence rest?

I am not satisfied with what I understand the answers were.

that is troubling to many of us.

So that it is not limited to development testing, so that operational testing will take place on this 2004 system?