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partners, llc firm focused on the commercialization of clean technology and an operating partner at alamancellc, a private equity from investing in the early and mid-state clean technology companies. in july 2008 ms. mcginty step down as secretary of defense of an apartment as chair of the pennsylvania energy development authority, where she helped bring more than $1 billion in new investment and creating some 3,000 new jobs. your service in pennsylvania ms. mcginty chaired of the white house council of environmental quality under president clinton and under the environmental advisers to then senator al gore. please welcome kathleen mcginty. kathleen. [applause] good to see you again. >> thank you very much governors and for hanging in there, the tail end of this very good session that you have had and to governor barbour for hosting us all, thank you very much. his vinnie fine seven malkin we have had. i wanted to share i guess especially in light of the tremendous expertise here all of you, many of you governors, governor switzer for example have tremendous expertise in things energy and c

i am pleased that the staff walked through the alamance, and i hope everybody does go ahead and correlateces that are in there because it gives you a sense of what is going to have to happen to achieve actually much of what there is a consensus amongst people on the committee on both sides of the aisle. i think the bill we have before us is a start in that direction but it would be unfortunately handicapped if we were to adopt this amendment and i strongly urge its rejection. >> mr. linder. i support the ryan amendment to strike the government run plan for kleiman treat by the conversations we have heard over the last several months about choices and options for the american people. the american people don't make these choices. their employer does and let me tell you what these employers are going to do. this government-run plan was priced at 8% of your payroll. if you are not providing coverage for your employer you pay 8% to the payroll for the typical small business pays 11 to 14% of the peril. about two weeks ago i had to friends of my office to have both had been ceo's of fortune 100

partners, llc firm focused on the commercialization of clean technology and an operating partner at alamance llc, a private equity from investing in the early and mid-state clean technology companies. in july 2008 ms. mcginty step down as secretary of defense of an apartment as chair of the pennsylvania energy development authority, where she helped bring more than $1 billion in new investment and creating some 3,000 new jobs. your service in pennsylvania ms. mcginty chaired of the white house council of environmental quality under president clinton and under the environmental advisers to then senator al gore. please welcome kathleen mcginty. kathleen. [applause] good to see you again. >> thank you very much governors and for hanging in there, the tail end of this very good session that you have had and to governor barbour for hosting us all, thank you very much. his vinnie fine seven malkin we have had. i wanted to share i guess especially in light of the tremendous expertise here all of you, many of you governors, governor switzer for example have tremendous expertise in things energy and