 And I want to thank the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus for hosting this important event. We are – look, what we're really doing is we're coming out of what future anthropologists will call the fossil fuel age. Renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are becoming cheaper, more widespread, and easier to apply in use. Not only a good idea to turn these technologies, it's our moral duty. I'm excited to be a member of Congress and have a front row seat as we transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable and sustainable energies. The earth is finite. Fossil fuels are limited. We need to be circumspect of this as we work to innovate a way of reliance on destructive and carbon-intensive energy technologies. Americans make up only 6% of the world's population, but you know that we consume only one third of the world's total energy. This proportion would be even more out of balance if we weren't already employing energy efficiency technologies in this country. I believe one of our greatest jobs in the Congress is to make sure that we start the inevitable transition toward a cleaner and cleaner future. Economically, environmentally, and morally speaking, it is essential that we enact and sense policies to incentivize the adoption of energy efficiency. If we push ourselves to transition to products that preserve our climate, create jobs, reduce manufacturing costs, and lower energy bills, we will be able not only to sustain our standard of living, but also to stimulate growth far into the future. That's why I've introduced several bills to encourage the use of renewables and energy efficiency products. There is the Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act. This is an act that ecologists at K-12 public education institutions are operating in deteriorating buildings. 43% of schools indicate the poor condition of their facilities interferes with the quality delivery of education. While there are already numerous federal initiatives available to help schools become more energy efficient, these programs are not aggregated in one place. So we have busy school administrators who don't have the time or really the resources to find all of the federal programs that support school energy efficiency. The My Partisan Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act provides a coordinated clearing house for schools to help connect them with those federal programs and financing options. We have a lot of widespread support for that act in the Congress. There's the Nonprofit Energy Assistance Act. Nonprofit companies are reliant on the bare bones donations and grants that they have coming in. They're living hand to mouth and they have trouble investing in upgrades. They have trouble doing long-term projects of any kind. But energy retrofits and energy efficiency upgrades have been tough for them. These organizations include churches, boys and girls clubs, YMCA's, 2900 non-profit hospitals. But the thing is with them they're at a terrible disadvantage. Because they are a non-profit it can be benefited from tax credits that promote energy efficiency. The Nonprofit Energy Assistance Act is a cost-neutral wide-artisan bill that would provide financial grants to non-profit organizations to help make the buildings they own and operate more energy efficient. The language of both the non-profits and the school energy efficiency bills are currently included in the Big Energy Policy Modernization Act package that is currently in conference. And I don't mind telling you that the Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act did pass the last Congress that got stolen from the Senate. We have a good reason to believe that these things will move going forward. And third and finally the job creation through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act is another one of our bills. I'm a big believer in bringing back manufacturing in this country. Manufacturing creates families sustaining good-paying jobs. Inefficiencies in the industrial sector are vast and they can occur at every stage in the production cycle. Because of this the industrial sector more than any other sector has the most to gain from efficiency upgrades as it accounts for 40% of the $1.2 trillion in wasted energy that could be saved across our economy. The job creation through Energy Efficiency Manufacturing Act would authorize a $250 million grant program that would provide funding to state programs that finance energy efficient retrofits and renewable energy use. Ladies and gentlemen I'd like to thank all of you for coming to the Hill today helping inform us of the important groundbreaking work that you're doing. I look forward to working with you to promote policies in Washington that facilitate and encourage the work that you already have underway. Thanks so much.