Al Franken actually said...

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

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

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.

Unfortunately it's been difficult for Congress to pass comprehensive clean energy legislation, even though this is prerequisite if we are go...