Jeanne Shaheen

In addition to appliance standards what are other areas where we should be focusing on in terms of energy efficiency gains to achieve the greatest savings?

I think it's helpful to have an alternative that's better.

I certainly appreciate your frustration, Senator Paul. I share it in some ways.

So if we were going to go forward and try and include energy efficiency as part of a clean energy standard how would you suggest we do that?

I think it behooves us all not to engage in name calling of those officials who are trying to carry out the work.

Can you talk about whether you see a role for combined heat and power and waste heat recovery systems in a clean energy standard?

The fact is our light bulbs, our current, old incandescent light bulbs are the most inefficient, one of the most inefficient appliances we have in our homes.

I thank Senator Harkin for his efforts over the years to try to move us to a biennial budget and a process that gets a budget done that makes a lot more sense and allows us to be a lot more thoughtful about how we are supporting programs…

I very much appreciated and am in agreement with your comments, that not only do we have to look at the spending side of our budget, and entitlements and defense are a big piece of that, but we also need to look at revenues and tax reform.

I think all of us here recognize how critical an issue that is for the country.

I think Pease National Guard Base is one of the places that you should look at very carefully.

I am very concerned about the backlog of restoration and modernization projects at the four public shipyards.

Perhaps you can share some of those technologies with the rest of us in government, so that we can be more efficient and more energy independent.

I know that Senator Collins earlier today raised the question about the backlog of restoration and modernization projects at the four public shipyards.

I would just hope, Secretary Mabus and all of you, that you will take those recommendations very seriously.

In New Hampshire we have a very significant defense industry that has been doing a lot of cutting edge research.

This program has been supported by congressionally-directed spending--earmarks--which are not likely to continue.

I appreciated everyone's expressed commitment, again, to the health and well-being of all the servicemen and women and their families.

I certainly agree with that, and hopefully, if we adopt a clean energy standard, it will include biomass as part of that.

As we draw down our forces in Afghanistan, the Afghan Government will need to be able to provide for its own security.

I hope you will look at programs like New Hampshire's and some of the other States that have been so successful.

I think you will get confirmed. I wondered, 'Hmm, why does he want to do that?'

I would just like to reiterate how important this program is. I think it's a model for the rest of the country.

The Department is committed to meeting the statutory obligations under title 10, which require an annual review of contracted services.

It was really quite amazing.