I urge my colleagues to swiftly confirm him as the next Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

The B reactor has finally been designated as a national historical monument.

Obviously if they can continue a case for now that's been more than a decade and continue to just make great fees off of the Department of Energy then why not continue that?

the United States has to be a leader of this.

Congress ought to be looking at ways to decrease the peak demand in addition to energy-efficiency.

I, too, want to thank you for holding this important hearing, in particular having Senate bill 443 on the docket today.

The situation facing the Hoh Tribe is dangerous and desperate, so it is important that we move as fast as we can on this bill.

I look forward to working with you to schedule a quick markup for this legislation, so we can help this group of people that we have a responsibility to help.

I know that you mentioned in your written testimony that you expressed your condolences to the people of North Dakota on the Red River who have basically faced this same challenge you are facing.

By transferring this land to the Tribe and taking land the Tribe already owns into trust, the Tribe will be able to move out of danger.

So having the ability to use whatever available land on your reservation for your own tribal economic sustainability is critical?

But the purchase of that property had been to give the reservation some sustainable development land. Is that correct?

These native peoples deserve to live in a place where sandbags aren't the norm, and it is our trust responsibility to take action.

Our bill was introduced by Maria Cantwell.

How do we actually stop them from dumping these assets?

So the data collection in this case would have been EIA's responsibility but shared with agencies like FERC is what you're saying.

I meant on this actual.

Yes. Thank you. There is a vote on.

The new authority would allow us... to freeze their assets.

Thank you, Madame Chairman.

But when you run speculators up from 37 percent of the market to 80 percent of the market, that changes the oil futures market in a very significant way, and not for the better.

I commend you for your efforts on behalf of natural gas consumers.

I hope we can find a way to effectively establish regulation transparency and then have regulators who care about their work so that we have a market that works.

I urge your support of this legislation that provides FERC with this critical consumer protection tool.

Thank you for this invitation. I appreciate the opportunity to provide some insight.