 an important topic and I know you share the view with me, renewable energy and energy efficiency technology play an instrumental role in improving America's energy independence and reducing carbon emissions. What's more, renewables are without doubt our future. As a possible woman, I think one of our biggest jobs in Congress is to help facilitate and expedite what I regard as an inevitable transition away from fossil fuels. And we all know the oil and gas in that industry is not going to go down without a fight. It's essential that we make common sense policies that incentivize us to use the cleaner, more efficient fuels and products to protect the environment, create jobs and lower consumers energy bills. As a result of that, we've introduced a raft of legislation and I'm going to talk about four pieces of legislation right now. Number one, the streamlining energy efficiency for schools at it. Eight through twelve school districts spend billions of dollars on their energy bills every year. And while there are several federal initiatives already available to help schools become more efficient, these programs are spread across the federal government making them hard for school. Busy, heavy school administrators define them. And what the bipartisan streamlining energy efficiency for schools act does is it provides for a coordinated structure for schools to help them better navigate the available federal programs and financing options. In other words, it comes up with a website where there's one stop shopping for busy school administrators to find federal help in school energy efficiency program. This is a bill that has unanimously last Congress out of the house on a voice vote because it makes so much sense and everybody can get behind saving money on energy. And we hope to see this enacted into law this Congress as well. That's number one. Number two, the non-profit energy assistance act. Non-profits are frequently unable to surmount the front end costs of energy efficiency retrofits and they can't take advantage of energy efficiency tax credits why? Because they're non-profits and they don't pay tax. Non-profit energy assistance act would provide financial grants to non-profit organizations and help them make the buildings that they own and the ones that they operate more energy efficient and this is a cost-neutral bipartisan bill as well. Again, reaching out across the aisle on the basis of saving money for everybody, it's a universally accepted principle. Number three, the job creation through energy efficient manufacturing act. Now the industrial sector in this nation consumes 225 million dollars worth of energy every year. Projections show that annual energy consumption growth in the industrial sector will outpace growth in the commercial residential and transportation sectors combined through the year 2040. So the job creation through energy efficient manufacturing act would mobilize a 250 million dollar grant program that would provide funding to state programs that find energy efficiency retrofits and renewable energy use. And finally, ladies and gentlemen, the prepare act which is a vast scope, let piece of legislation that we're very proud of, despite tremendous expansion of renewables and energy efficiency markets, extreme weather events have become more intense, more threatening to agriculture, infrastructure, ecosystems and ecosystems and indeed human health. This past year the GAO high risk report was found. For the second time, the federal government is adequately addressing the fiscal exposure caused by extreme weather events. The prepare act is a bipartisan bill that protects our nation's assets. Remember as a federal government we own a lot of things and it is incumbent upon us to properly husband these assets and protect them and that's what the prepare act does in the face of ever increasing threats from collective change and from extreme weather events. It's a bipartisan bill that protects our nation's assets and citizens enormous risks posed by extreme weather, by improving federal agency planning and preparedness at no cost to the taxpayer. Now I plan on reintroducing this bill in a couple of weeks. Several organizations here have already endorsed several of the bills that I've mentioned here this afternoon and I do appreciate it. And if anyone else will be willing or interested to lend their support to any and all of the rest of these bills, please come see me and my staff. Where's my staff? Raise your hand. There we are. There's Dan Jeremy here in the corner. God thank you so much. Thank you Congressman.