I introduced a bill earlier this year to investigate the feasibility of developing 50 megawatts of hydropower from the Diamond Fork Project at the existing dam.

I will be leaving in about an hour, but we will have someone take the chair at that point.

Nobody's been stronger in the Senate than Senator Lautenberg.

Senator Alexander and I and others are putting together an electric vehicles piece of legislation.

My colleagues will remember last year that the Red River flood fight went on for nearly a month.

It's a great privilege, but there are other things I wish to do.

But in a broader sense, do you feel like the reduction in funds in the fossil energy account reflects less attention to and less interest in that area of energy?

I think the construction of the bridge was around $60 million.

We have a significant need to do the research to try to evaluate how we build electric generating plants that are going to capture carbon.

We are going to have a challenge of reconciling the overall budget request to the subcommittee because we are not going to have a half-a-billion-dollar cut for water projects when this subcommittee completes its work.

I would guess the consensus of this subcommittee will be to re-prioritize the funding in the series of accounts in order to avoid a one-half-billion-dollar cut in water infrastructure funding.

But that is true of almost everything we invent. It migrates very quickly.