let me say just, spend a few minutes speaking about renewable energy, because i know both byron dorgan and bob bennett were champions of this, and it's true whether i'm in billford, utah or whether i'm anywhere throughout north dakota and see a great potential for wind energy in those states. when i became secretary of interior, i walked into an office on january 21, 2009, where there was no attention and no focus on renewable energy at all. notwithstanding legislation, which we had all authored together make sure that renewable energy became part of that american portfolio of energy. nothing was happening. nothing was happening. no permit had been issued. knock was going on in solar, in g geosolar for the plans of the country. the leadership of steve black and bob, director of the blm and so many others who have helped us, we have made that a huge priority for the united states of america, and we have permitted 29 projects up to this point in time. of large scale solar, wind and geothey were many projects on the public balance of the united states. and some of those projects are not o

byron dorgan, your former boss, said it's david versus goliath. how do you get your perspective heard? >> well, the good news is it's fairly open reception for the other side of the story. i mean, the drum baeat on the other side is a self-interested drum beat. given what happened in the financial crisis, let's not forget, began on wall street, and was essentially created by wall street's reckless gambling in investments and trading. and resulted from the deregulation over the prior couple of decades. so i think that the financial crisis and the economic damage it's done to this country and still continues to do to this country has made people much more receptive to listening to those who are bringing an informed perspective, public interest, in the other side of story. >> we're going to see jamie dimon, head of jpmorgan chase, testify before congress today. what impact does the loss that the company had, because of risky trades, have on the american public, or the system? jamie dimon and others have said, look, it's internal housekeeping, we deal

secretary salazar is introduced by byron dorgan, co-chairman at erin fox. >> chairman, she was vice chairman of one of the committees in the senate for some while and i've worked with her and admire her and thank you very much coming to be with us today, senator. it's my honor now introduce the next presenter. in north dakota we have something that mergeded with the democratic party -- it did. what's so funny about that? we thought it was a pretty good thing at the time. so it became the democrat npl. non-partisan league. the old non-partisan league said we'll stick, we'll win, and it has a saying, the office seeks the man. so if ever that were the case, it seems to me, the job of interior secretary surely must have been seeking ken salazar. he has been an extraordinary secretary, and cabinet official. i had the opportunity, as did senator bennett, to work with ken salazar when he was in the united states senate and i know his background. it's extraordinary. he comes from colorado, a family that farmed and ranched. one of eight children. all eight kids went and got a college degree. i won't

i know former senator byron dorgan went in and talked to president obama early in his administration,think you ought to go jobs. the economy is going to be important and president obama said, we're going health care. because if we go health care, it will be a generational move, help generations to come and move the dime when it comes to health care costs. one of the first shows i did on msnbc when i was hired back in 2009, i pulled out my wife's health care bill, wendy and i, i pulled out our health care bill and showed how much our prices and income, our premiums had gone up over the last five years. and i made the correlation, how do middle class families keep up with this? how do you -- you know, 20% increase every year. that means your rate's going to double in five years. okay? and so how can american families handle this? how can small businesses handle it? the best way to handle it is to get everybody covered and to get everybody into the system, to get a greater pool and it's going to give us a chance to bring expenses down and get better outcomes. you know, the other thing th

let me say, spend a few minutes speaking about renewal energy because i know both byron dorgan and bob bennett were champions of this. it is sure whether i am in wilford, utah, or whether i am anyway throughout north dakota and see the great potential for wind energy in the states. when i became secretary of interior i walked into an office on january 201st, 2009 when there was no intention and no focus on renewable energy and all. notwithstanding legislation which we had all of the together to make sure that renewable energy became part of that american portfolio of energy, nothing was happening. nothing was happening. no permit had been issued. nothing was going on, solar, geothermal, or in wind energy for the united states of america on the public lands of the century. under the lead of steve black and the director of the blm and so many of the people who held this we have made that a huge priority for the united states of america. we have permitted 29 projects up to this point in time. large-scale solar, wind, and geothermal projects on the public lands of the estate's. some of tho

with that, it's my honor to actually introduce former senator byron dorgan, who will offer a few remarks start us off. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's nice to see all of you here and to the provost at the gw university one of america's great universities, thank you for coming to this energy summit. two years ago i was chairing the senate panel that funded our energy projects or public energy projects, in this country, and the ranking member of that panel, senator bob bennett, and two years later we worked together again at eric fox which proves bipartisanship isn't really dead, at least outside of the senate. [laughter] and today we have put together an energy forum that asks the question in the keynote address, what is ahead? what is ahead of us in energy policy? and second a panel that asks about tax incentives, what does the future hold for tax incentives, which determines what kind of incentives we provide for certain kinds of energy production. senator bennett and i will take a couple minutes each to frame the discussion and then we will have senator mur

he was introduced by senator dorgan byron. >> well, let me say thanks to senator broe cows can i. she is, i think a great credit to the united states senate. i was chairman and she was vice chairman in one of the committees for a while and i have worked with her and admire her and i thank you for coming today. it's any honor now to introduce the next presenter. in north dakota we have something called the non-partisan league which then merged with the democratic party, but it used to have -- [laughter] >> it did. what is so funny about that? so it became the democratic n.p.o., non-partisan league. the old bumper sticker used to say we stick, we'll win and another that said "the office seeks the man." >> the job surely must have been seeking ken salazar. he has been extraordinary as secretary and cabinet official. i had the opportunity as did senator ben et to work with ken salazar when he was with the united states senate, and i know his background is extraordinary. he comes from almosa, colorado, a family that's farmed and ranched one of eight children, all eight kids went and go

so with that, it is my honor to actually introduce former senator byron dorgan who will offer a few remarks to start us off. thank you very much. [applause] >> well, thank you very much. it's nice to see all of you here. to the provost and gw university , one of america's great universities thank you for partnering with us for this energy summit. two years ago i was chairing the senate panel that funded our energy projects public energy projects in this country. and the ranking member of that panel was senator bob bennett. two years later we worked together again which proves that bipartisanship is not really dead at least outside of the scent. [laughter] and today we have put together an energy form that asks the question in the keynote address is, what is ahead? what is ahead of us an energy policy. second a panel that asks about tax incentives the future for tax incentives which determines what kind of incentives to provide for certain kinds of energy production. senator bennett and i will take a couple of minutes each to frame the discussion, and then we will have senator murkowski and