I thank my distinguished colleague and chairman for his remarks and observations. We look forward to working with the committee to achieve some of these things and to achieve ultimate success with him at the end of the day.

Mr. President, I rise to talk about two issues. First, I will talk about the pending business before the Senate, which is the FAA reauthorization, in a moment. I certainly want to commend my dear friend and colleague, the distinguished…

Great. It seems like we have made progress, and we look forward to working with the industry and with you in achieving the goals.

I think some of the best energy that we can create is one that we don't use in terms of both cost for consumers, the consequences in terms of energy usage, and reducing pollution.

So I hope that that is an effort in which we are working with the industry to try to get to certain standards that both can help consumers save money, as well as save energy.

thank you for your incredible continuing service to this country and, for that fact, to the world, for what you're doing in the foundation.

It's pretty incredible.

I can't make decisions that are intelligent, I can't act as a fiduciary for the 9 million New Jersians I represent here.

Are these national secrets, as well?

What is wrong with getting this--this is transparency? That I can't know the macro number of communities that--public entities that applied? It's ridiculous. Ridiculous.

When he signed it, he declared that the plan would, quote, ``be implemented with an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability.''