It makes sense that the government says how many numbers have been collected and how many have been queried.

Transparency is one of the foundations of democratic governance.

I have a bipartisan bill that would fix this, the Surveillance Transparency Act.

Recommendation 9 of your report echoes my bill.

We will do that either in the subcommittee or as the committee as a whole we need to be looking at this in anticipation of next year.

I love the idea of energy efficiency education for kids.

OK, I just wanted to make sure I understood.

Americans deserve to have that information in order to decide for themselves--and I think it would be very helpful.

But it's a mandate that's not so prescriptive that it allows the market to figure out how to meet that standard.

The Department of Transportation did a waiver on ours as a service for truck drivers.

We're going to have to go back to that.

My understanding is that Senators Shaheen and Portman will be incorporating this bill into their larger Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act (S. 1392).

So I think they can work very well. But they do have a lot of flexibility to, you know, they're not highly prescriptive.

the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act is exactly the kind of legislation that we need to make the energy sector more efficient.

I know--but no matter where it is held, that is problematic.

Transparency is clearly important. That was a major part of our report.

To me, that kind of legislative transparency is honestly more important than operational transparency.

In Minnesota we have an energy efficiency standard. Now it's called--you talk about having standards, but not mandates, right?