Political Quotes

“I first wanted to thank the committee chairman and the subcommittee chairman for working closely with me and the people I represent in a very rural part of Oregon to carefully craft this to take care of some very important needs of our rural electric co-ops, our munis and others. The thing that concerns me is, if we go into conference with this title completely gone, then we have lost some of the guarantee that you and I have worked out to take care of some of the issues in the Northwest, and that is of deep concern. The other thing is being a Westerner, I watched what happened in that market out there. And, yes, I am against fraud and I am against manipulation and all of that. I think our version of this bill brings out a pretty heavy sledgehammer. We do not need to bring out the MOAB and destroy the whole market. I think what we can do here is, we are directing FERC carefully in what to do and giving them the guidance that they need to stop the manipulation and the round tripping in the market. And I believe what we are doing makes a lot of sense. Mr. Chairman, I support the gentleman's version of this legislation, and I urge opposition to the Dingell amendment.”