Evidence of this is the bipartisan support represented by the co-sponsorship of this legislation by Wyoming Senator John Banasso.

I sincerely appreciate your solid leadership in moving this important legislation forward.

I think she is an extremely good choice by the President, and this is emblematic of the choices he has been making generally in his nominations.

I want to strongly recommend Florence Pan for this important position.

Preventing these kinds of hurricane-related shortages is an achievable goal.

Absent Congressional direction, the political process will make it extremely difficult for states to abandon existing less environmentally preferable coal fired and other units.

Just the thought that foreign agents are hacking into our control systems is obviously alarming

We have come to believe that these provisions do not provide sufficient protection against computer attacks.

It is up to Congress to set national energy policy.

We thought in the 2005 energy bill that we had dealt with this to a significant extent, but obviously, I think history has demonstrated that we did not do all that needed to be done.

Both the recent Republican Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Joe Kelliher, and the current Democratic Chair, Jon Wellinghoff, have indicated that they believe they need stronger authority to deal with cyber threats and…

Chairman Bingaman and other Senators on this Committee should be commended for their work on enacting Section 215.