Tom Udall: “thank you so very much. I first wish to ask my colleague from Vermont a little bit about some of the things he said that…”

“thank you so very much. I first wish to ask my colleague from Vermont a little bit about some of the things he said that I find remarkable. We are still in a very fragile recession. The economy is starting to grow, but it is not strong enough, and we could slip back. So what has happened is, we have these--what we call in this language--tax extenders. What we are talking about is jobs, isn't it? We are talking about the idea that we can have a clean energy economy; that over the last couple years this has been the fastest growing sector, and we have a production tax credit for wind, we have a section in the Treasury Department's 603, and those provisions create jobs. I just wish to ask the Senator, it seems to me, at this particular time, we have the potential to grow the American economy, but we have to get off the dime because these things expire on February 29--in less than 2 weeks.”