House Proceeding 04-21-09 on Apr 21st, 2009 :: 2:46:10 to 2:49:10
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Dan Burton: 35% of your utility bill. well what a novel thought.

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Speech By: Mark Green

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Mark Green: if we're able to utilize free fuel sources, fuel source that comes from the sun and the wind and you could eliminate that cost and drive the costs down and be smart about the technology, being smarter about the partners that we're engaging with. los alamos national laboratory,

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Mark Green: our research institutions, moving forward with coming up with new technologies that are ultimately bringing down the costs of renewable energy and making it more resourceful and making it more of a reality. we are making it happen. i heard a few of my colleagues concerned about rural parts of the country that how if we move forward with the strong

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Mark Green: renewable energy generation plan in the united states, how it would impact them. well, i come from a rural state. and i come from a state where the rural electric cooperatives are participating in our renewable portfolio standard, the equivalent of our electricity standard that we're talking about. just the other day there was a new facility that was going to

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Mark Green: be built in a rural part of new mexico in the northeastern part of our state, creating up to 120 to 140 construction jobs, not including that we're also going to be creating a real workin laboratory, a working environment for our students to go and take advantage of

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Mark Green: learning how to install these resources, these large panels and how we're going to move that power, but teaching the students of how they can take advantage of jobs into the future. it can work. we made it happen in new mexico. we worked with our colleagues in western states. we work with colleagues across the east and to the west, working to make sure we were

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Mark Green: implementing best practices. it's amazing what happens when you get new ideas and good ideas together. and you lean on the perseverance of the american people. when it comes to energy, the united states has always been a leader and we need to be a leader when it comes to being smarter the way we are

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Mark Green: generating and moving power. i heard from my good friend, mr himes, talk about the importance of building standards and how the community can come together to make a difference in our homes. this last week, i was home. and there's a with the youth corps that has come together and are going to

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Mark Green: be building a new home for the habitat for humanity program. it's going to be a green home and students getting together working with builders to learn how to build our buildings with these new innovative ways and being smart about the way we are doing things, ultimately, lower utility bills, being able to send their kids to school. it's so exciting and you get so

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Mark Green: passionate when you talk about what can be done. and through the leadership with speaker pelosi, with the