thank you for the opportunity to submit this written testimony in support of S. 1774, the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act.

We need to continue to move this legislation forward.

The committee will meet this morning to consider 4 nominations.

I want to, hopefully, carry on that tradition at the Energy Information Administration.

We need to find ways to make the data in forecast that EIA creates more readily available to its stakeholders including the Congress, the public and others.

There's no question that Mr. Norris is superbly qualified to continue his service in this critical regulatory responsibility.

I would love to get the Energy Information Administration to promote best practices in data collection and management by all of our State and Federal partners.

I've got, sort of, 4 basic ideas, I think, that guide my efforts at the Energy Information Administration.

When any of our States privatize an existing toll road, it, of course, shifts the responsibility to operate and maintain that toll road to a private entity and gets a cash payment in return. Under existing law, these privatized toll roads…

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