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“That is exactly right, Madam Chairman. We have worked so hard on this. This is going through the process. We always talk about the process. Before it comes to the floor, every piece of legislation should go through the process. We have fifty bills that have gone through the process in our committee, and most of them are bipartisan. It doesn't get any better than that. We didn't have any disagreement at all, until we got another piece of legislation they were trying to throw in that we had no jurisdiction over. We would love to help them if we could, but they shouldn't hold up this bill here. Hopefully, they are working out their differences in the other committees. I am sure they are. I am committed to working with you, as we have been working in the past year or more, to get this completed once and for all. It is something I know that we, as a committee, every Member in this Senate-- 72 are cosponsors--but, truly, the entire country needs. They need to have dependable, reliable, and affordable energy. They need that to be pragmatic and realistic, working with all the energies we have but demanding, through innovation--not elimination but through innovation-- a much cleaner result and a better environment for all of us. That is what we do in this bill. We tackle every part of it. I am very pleased to be working with you. I am as committed as you are to get this done before we get out of here. Thank you.”