David Thomas: “I rise also to talk about this part of our energy bill, which I think is very important. In many ways, the energy…”

“I rise also to talk about this part of our energy bill, which I think is very important. In many ways, the energy portion of it touches more people than any other part. Of course, everybody relies on electricity. That is what we are talking about here. I appreciate the comments of my friend from Idaho, who expressed his concern. Many of the concerns he expressed, however, are the same concerns we worked together to try to remedy, and indeed we have made some changes that reflect the things about which the Senator from Idaho talked. I agree that the process is not quite the way I would have had it. I wish we would have had more time in committee. Nevertheless, we took a bill, and I think we have made it better and we have had it on the floor, and by no means is it perfect, nor does it complete all the work that needs to be done in the electrical area. But there is no way you are going to complete that now. We need to get started and to be moving. Further improvements can be made. I oppose the motion to strike, and even though the reliability-- which is important--would remain, I think it is very important that we continue to move forward with making some changes in our electric policy.”