If anything, the credit crisis has made the DOE loan guarantee program even more essential.

RECEIVE TESTIMONY ON THE CURRENT STATE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM

We are actively planning for rapid national expansion by partnering with local contractors.

In 2008, Senator Bingaman introduced legislation to create a 21st Century Energy Deployment Corporation.

I believe this is a powerful tool for meeting our energy security needs.

Secretary Salazar, you are part of the new administration and part of a new hope for Native Americans.

The need for reauthorization and improvement of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.

I think the chairman is right-on in holding this hearing and proceeding on this.

I think we all want everybody to fully participate and we want to get people registered and give them that opportunity.

I cannot think of anything more important than having the military have the right to vote when they are serving overseas.

But we want to make sure that we have fair elections without fraud, and that is really the way to go.

I'm here, obviously perhaps, to urge the support and the passage of a national RPS.

If enacted, the majority staff draft circulated by the Committee would be a landmark step in the development of the United States' renewable energy economy.

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

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

A Federal RPS proposal, such as that proposed by Senator Bingaman, could easily increase rates in the Southeast by 5 to 6%.

Marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy is defined in the Tax Code, 26 U.S.C. Sec. 45.

This will lead to greater amounts of renewable energy than if the Bingaman proposal preempted state opportunities to promote renewable energy.