Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"Should disbursal of these stimulus funds be contingent on development of the standards and protocols?"

"If we don't have the standards and protocols in place, we spend it, but we don't have the systems."

"It was just last week that Secretary of Energy Chu cited the lack of standards and protocols necessary to allow different systems to communicate with one another as the biggest roadblock in the advanc..."

"The consumer will manage what we can measure."