"I think there is just kind of a thirst for being smart about what we do."
"Do you have any aspect of your efforts that is related to vampire electronics, that is, that so many of our electric appliances utilize energy when they are not in use"
"But in terms of a lot of these technologies around saving energy, and a lot of them around greenhouse gases, and understanding kind of how for what we invest we get back, even if it has multiple dimen..."
"I would love to echo the concern about the standards in which one standard really looks at, the LEED standard looks at energy conservation at the point and therefore discriminates against wood, where ..."
"I have to say I am guilty of leaving my cell phone charger plugged in behind the dresser day in and day out, and I would love to have a version that shuts off when I unplug my phone."
"Let us say we have a million people buying homes, and by increasing the down payment from 5 to 10 percent, we proceed to have 10 percent fewer families--or I think the range you had was 7 to 15, but I..."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you all for your testimony."
"We cannot allow the mistakes we made with mortgages over the last 10 years to drive us down the road."
"So I was doing a little back-of-the-envelope number here, and I think you found in the vicinity of a 0.02-percent increase in the default rate."
"I am just concerned that given the light of the type of studies that have seen vast transfers of wealth to working Americans through home ownership, I mean, Mr. Kling, you may be throwing the baby out..."
"I want to start with Mr. Larsen's comments that exchanges provide greater information to consumers; one-stop shopping where consumers will be able to compare a range of plans."