On the recordSeptember 17, 2013
Is it the view of the Senator from New Hampshire that the amendments that have been offered--the bipartisan amendments--take her bill, the product of all those negotiations, more than 3 years' worth of work, and actually make the bill even better? I look at some of the amendments, particularly the one offered by the Senator from Georgia and the Senator from Colorado--the Isakson-Bennet amendment--and I realize we know more in America about the kind of common energy-efficient products that one might use, whether it is a toaster or something else around the house, than we do about the actual house itself. So we have two thoughtful Senators coming together and they have worked with a whole host of commercial building interests and they are going to make it possible, in my view, to save a lot of energy that will result in savings for homeowners and other Americans. I would be interested in the Senator's take on the various amendments that have been filed because I think those amendments take the very fine bill she and Senator Portman have and make it even better.
