Jeff Bingaman: “let me ask this of my friend: The way I read his amendment, it says any State--this provision does not apply to any…”

“let me ask this of my friend: The way I read his amendment, it says any State--this provision does not apply to any retail electric supplier in any State that adopts or has adopted a renewable portfolio, energy portfolio program. Am I correct that a State that is one of the white States on this map, that they do not have a program right now--if they decide to adopt a program which says instead of going to 10 percent, we will go to one-tenth of 1 percent by the year 2020--that certainly is a renewable portfolio program in every sense of the word--they would be out from any other requirements because they will have adopted a program, a renewable portfolio program under his amendment and, therefore, our effort to move them in any meaningful way to use renewable power would be thwarted? Would he agree with that?”