The National Trust for Historic Preservation appreciates the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources' Chairman Jeff Bingaman's leadership introducing S. 3300.

Providing visitors with opportunities to form their own intellectual and emotional connections with the significance of sites to be included in the Manhattan Project National Historical Park helps them understand its relevance to our shared national heritage. There is no better place to understand history than where it happened, and that's what national parks and the National Park Service do best.

These important incentives are doing exactly what they were meant to do--allow our nation to reap the significant energy, economic and environmental benefits.

I believe that the inconsistent approach that we've been pursuing has put the United States at a disadvantage in competing with China for a share of clean energy markets.

If policymakers have the foresight to retain these highly effective tax policies, this short-term investment will yield significant long-term benefits.

Stable, reliable and well-structured tax policy provides the framework that allows for this market-driven innovation.

I have always thought that there are three primary goals that we have as a country with regard to energy.

I think you ought to look at that, and I personally would support something that would cause the States to be more responsive during a recession.

Now that, to me, is a sign that this thing is broken.

Well, I guess what I am trying to understand is whether it would make sense, in this reauthorization that is contemplated here in the next couple to 3 months, for Congress and for the Federal Government to essentially say, all right, this is a block grant, but you have to spend a certain percentage of this block grant--each State has to spend a certain percent of it doing a certain set of things.

I am not defending the status quo. I am just--I am worried about how you do it.