I would like to add a caution to follow up on Senator Stabenow because, as we've discussed, one of the concerns that we've heard from the CAP agencies has been around the clarity of rules governing the program.

My concern is not so much that there be those adjustments, but that whatever is available is transparent to the public so they can get that list, so they know what they're buying, just as if they go out and buy a refrigerator they know…

I would argue for longer than 3 years. I think that it's very important.

The Building STAR program... will create a significant number of jobs, save money on utility bills, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

As you all heard, because of our unique situation in New Hampshire, we have a lot of individual dwellings.

I fully support the concept of offering rebates for the use of proven energy conserving technologies.

We think your suggestion for a transformer rebate fits perfectly with the rest of Building STAR's provisions.

One of the things that we talk about in that report is exactly what you both said about building a system that can deliver results.

I am pleased to see your enthusiasm for programs like the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

I want to thank you for the work that you and everyone at the Department are doing and recognize the difficult challenge that you and everyone in government is facing right now as we look at the limited resources we have and the amount of…

I really wanted to just stay around this morning to, again, recognize and appreciate your support...

I would hope that we're not going to have a policy in Washington that comes in and supersedes what has been carefully put together by the local folks in New Hampshire.

I hope and I appreciate the leadership that you are providing to say to those countries in the Balkans that if they can achieve the alliance's criteria, they will be welcomed as members of NATO.

I think it's important, and what I'm hoping you're going to tell me is that you appreciate the differences between our forests in the East and the forests in the West.

I was concerned, in talking to folks--the staff at the White Mountain National Forest--to learn that their actual funding for last year was down 15 percent.

I think it's very important that we integrate women's issues, this commitment to empowering women, more fully into all of our foreign policy.

I had the opportunity to visit Kosovo in February of 2010 on their Independence Day.

We think is important so that we make use of biomass for both.