Discrimination is simply wrong. This bill takes us a major step towards equality in America.

It is important to first understand the context for this specific policy issue within Raytheon Company business.

They have written to, express our support for the religious-exemption language found in section 6, section 3(a)(8) of H.R. 3685, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, being considered by the committee today.

It's probably appropriate to note here that we have received a letter from the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, that I'd…

I think it would be really helpful in terms of seizing an opportunity to make sure everybody has clear guidance.

Do you think that would benefit your company?

My belief is this is a very modest target. It is ambitious but easily achievable because there are an abundance of alternatives.

I have proposed creating within that organization a program to provide low cost financing to do energy efficiency retrofits up front.

I think of it that way, and then I look at the McKinsey study that you cite in your testimony that says that we could close this entire gap, the 2020 goal, with just energy efficiency.

And finally, I am 13 seconds, one reason why it makes sense not just to use the McKinsey study and invest in efficiencies, but do to cap and trade, is to unleash the creativity of the ideas that will attack carbon dioxide and other global…

He implemented the CAIR regulation and lowered the sulfur cap by 70 percent.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair.

The standards set in this bill as an economy-wide cap... affects only a modest number of entities in the United States.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate all of your testimony and particularly getting to the nitty gritty of the allocations.

If we move to do two things, increase our use of plug-in vehicles and green up the electric grid... we will have very significant impacts.

Well, I want to really emphasize how much potential carbon dioxide savings are here.

I believe transportation is about 60 percent of the carbon dioxide, and personal vehicles are about a third of that.

the funds that flow overseas when we purchase energy, and those funds that go to Venezuela, that go to Saudi Arabia.

If you will, to go at least 30 miles on electricity, that we would reduce 70 to 80 percent of the carbon dioxide produced by personal vehicles.

I think that will dramatically drive change.

the increase in the allocation for renewable energy and energy efficiency is something that we have worked hard on on this committee.

One of the questions that I think it is worth wrestling with is whether we should have a coherent national strategy to reduce our importation of oil.

This bill can be reduced to a series of fairly clear choices. It is a choice between clean air or dirty air.

Well, certainly I and many members of this committee would love to work with you as you dig deeper into those numbers and identify those barriers, how we might overcome them and go further in that effort.

Isn't that demanding? And we could actually bridge that entire factor with energy efficiency alone if we really applied ourselves to it, a strategy that actually pays us back.