Jeanne Shaheen

I fully support the concept of offering rebates for the use of proven energy conserving technologies.

I would argue for longer than 3 years. I think that it's very important.

My concern is not so much that there be those adjustments, but that whatever is available is transparent to the public so they can get that list, so they know what they're buying, just as if they go out and buy a refrigerator they know…

I'm certainly willing to work with the Department as we figure out how to do that.

I would like to add a caution to follow up on Senator Stabenow because, as we've discussed, one of the concerns that we've heard from the CAP agencies has been around the clarity of rules governing the program.

One of the things that we talk about in that report is exactly what you both said about building a system that can deliver results.

I am pleased to see your enthusiasm for programs like the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

I really wanted to just stay around this morning to, again, recognize and appreciate your support...

I want to thank you for the work that you and everyone at the Department are doing and recognize the difficult challenge that you and everyone in government is facing right now as we look at the limited resources we have and the amount of…

I think it's important, and what I'm hoping you're going to tell me is that you appreciate the differences between our forests in the East and the forests in the West.

I would hope that we're not going to have a policy in Washington that comes in and supersedes what has been carefully put together by the local folks in New Hampshire.

I was concerned, in talking to folks--the staff at the White Mountain National Forest--to learn that their actual funding for last year was down 15 percent.

I hope and I appreciate the leadership that you are providing to say to those countries in the Balkans that if they can achieve the alliance's criteria, they will be welcomed as members of NATO.

I think it's very important that we integrate women's issues, this commitment to empowering women, more fully into all of our foreign policy.

I had the opportunity to visit Kosovo in February of 2010 on their Independence Day.

We think is important so that we make use of biomass for both.

I think we are all very excited that you are at the Department of Energy. It is really encouraging to see some of the steps that are being taken.

Thank you, and we appreciate that we are now over the hump in terms of getting the ARRA money out.

The settlement negotiated between the FTC and Fairbanks Capital Corp. was appropriate given the under-capitalization condition of Fairbanks Capital at the time.

I share my colleagues' gratification at the outpouring from not only the United States, but from the rest of the world, to try and respond to this tragedy.

Finally, one of the things that is a big issue in New Hampshire, because we have a higher-than-usual percentage of individual dwellings, both homes and commercial buildings--and so, our energy costs are very high.

What more can we do to help businesses like Warner Power and some of the other small- and medium-sized businesses to commercialize those technologies that they're working on?

I think this other issue may have been raised by others, as well, but we have a number of small- to medium-sized businesses in New Hampshire that are doing very innovative things when it comes to new energy technologies.

I want to begin by echoing what you heard from Senators Kerry and Lugar, our thanks for your being here today.

I believe FERC is taking it up and plans to resolve it.