Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to get back to the Klamath Basin for a second.

I would suggest the gentleman from Massachusetts read his briefings more carefully before he comes to the hearing.

It is absolutely no coincidence that, as the cheapest forms of electricity like coal are being replaced under these lunatic policies with the most expensive forms of electricity, that Americans' electricity rates are skyrocketing.

Congress and Congress alone has the constitutional authority to legislate.

Coal is one of the cheapest forms of electricity that we have available to us, and one of the most abundant resources of our Nation.

When executive agencies like yours write laws, execute those laws, and adjudicate those laws, they are short-circuiting all of these checks and balances that protect the freedom of our Nation.

Louis Brandeis once said sunlight is the best of disinfectants. And it seems to me that this Administration, which has become the most secretive in our history, is in desperate need of such disinfection.

But you are not executing. You are legislating. You are developing and imposing rules, and you are enforcing those rules.

So getting some of these projects moving and working together cooperatively has always been something that I have advocated.

I commend Congressman Bishop for his leadership.

Maybe Mr. Payne, can you offer any enlightenment on this subject?