players in this race has occurred through the loan guarantee program, that's a proposal that senator domencici and i made as part of the act. at its core the loan guarantee program is intended to allow the government in the case of new technology development and deployment to take on risks that the private investor cannot. mr. herb allison has just published a useful report with some recommendations for managing the program going forward. and many of us. are -- many of these are similar to approaches that senator mikulski and i have incorporated to the clean energy deployment legislation, the seta legislation that we reported from the committee. we'll be having a hearing on this report by mr. allison when we return after this next week's recess. i will have some questions for the secretary about his, about the allison report and the state of the loan guarantee program when we get to questions. again, thank you, mr. secretary, for coming. we look forward to your testimony. let me also just mention before calling on senator mikulski, i appreciate the technical assistance that your staff and the