Mr. Binz has an impressive 34 year career in energy policy. If the Senate confirms him we think he will be a fair and impartial judge and further the public interest within the FERC's authority.

We're going to need the help of the members of this committee to rebuild. We look forward to working with you on that.

I hope the Committee will recognize these worthy goals, see fit to promptly and favorably move this bill forward in the process.

I think the Bennet-Isakson approach would do, is to look at something very simple, which is people going at this important moment to buy a home and going to get a mortgage, to get that energy savings cranked into the mortgage underwriting.

What I hope people will remember when they hear people say, the government should not pick winners and losers, is that we already have a tax code that is full of that, full of decisions that have been made about winners and losers.

the most important players in the system, the people who provide the care for all of us, are not only not the beneficiaries of the system that you describe as so opaque but are, I think, the victims of it too.

But even then, Doctor, the best that people can do is maybe figure out what they have been charged--maybe.

I am out of time, but I think Mr. Brill had a comment.

Later today, Senator Grassley and I... are going to introduce legislation to open up the Medicare database.

It just seems impossible that we do not know that answer.

I think we should ask again. If the IRS will not do it, I think we need to do it.