it is and so we have sent letters to federal regulators at the federal energy regulatory commission and to the president of the california iowa so the grid operator asking them just to publicly identify the names of all of the generators that had unscheduled outages or were unavailable when called upon to. provide power to the state. we just want the names so that we can do our own investigation into whether or not these power plants went down for legitimate accidental reasons or whether they went down and run style intentionally to create this. artificial shortage because one thing that happens in the immediate wake of these rolling blackouts is prices in the wholesale market of course skyrocketed so in some parts of the california market to over $3000.00 a megawatt hour which is a massive increase so. that california markets plagued with problems it's not the result of california has increased reliance on renewable energy as the primary immediate triggers were actually the failures of natural gas power plants amazing that they pay up to 3000 dollars per megawatt hour right now but the

the federal energy regulatory commission, which i managed to not write opinions about, came back to me during my clerkship with justice stevens. it was an interesting case about the power of the agency to order electric companies to share lines with other electric companies and how much they had to do and what they couldn't do. in any event, the point of the story is he was doing his first draft and he kept coming in every morning. i was at my desk ready to get the draft. i said it's taking me a little bit longer than i thought. i remember for several days saying that's totally great, thank you so much. but it was clear to me that he was not only trying to make sure he understood the facts, laid them out to understand it, but he was delighting in this notion of how energy had been sold before, how and why congress enacted a lot of changes. this was not just to try to -- this was fun. we made ferc fun and made us all learn that you just all -- it's not just a job. it's a privilege. so, it was kind of this also notion of just the humility involved in that. this is something i try to brin

in one in particular the case where the federal energy regulatory commission came back to my during my clerkship with justice stevens. and it was actually a really interesting case about the power of agencies of electric companies to share with other athletictric companies. and he was doing his first draft. and he kept coming in every morning, and then pour over it buzz it's going to be complicated and i i remember for several days saying that thosy. thank you so much. it was clear to me he was actually not only trying to understand the facts but he was delighting in it, that this notion of how energy had been told before, how congress enacted a lot of changes. this was fun, so he made us all learn that where,gon, it's not just a jobp, it's a privilege. so it was also the notion of just a humility involved in that and i think this is important is to not be above rolling your sleeves up, writing the first draft, making sure your reasoning and arguments make sense zp the case on west law, which he was known to do. another thing that strikes me in the same vein of each case mattering is h

dams around my district which would short circuit the public licensing process at the federal energy regulatory commission. it is a blatant attempt to legislate the removal of these dams. wherever your for or against moving the dams, this sets a dangerous precedent by rolling become the long standing protections and due process to the licensing process. both sides should be concerned about that amendment. republicans offered amendments to lower the cost of energy. we offered amendments to develop innovative new technologies and reduce permitting delays. democrats refused to let those amendments be debated or voted on this house floor. the democratic amendments we are debating will not result in reforms to the permitting and licensing process so we can recover from the covid pandemic. i urge my colleagues in oppose these amendments and the underlying bill. and i reserve the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from colorado is recognizeded. the egette: i yield to gentlelady from pennsylvania. ms. wild: i have an amendment at he desk. the speaker pro tempore:

the hearings before our energy subcommittee last year we heard from the federal energy regulatory commission, or ferc, from the members of ferc that our energy grid is being attacked each and every single day by state actors or their entities. former energy secretary perry started to address this important issue by creating the cyber security and energy security emergency response office, or ceser. he further enhanced its stature by making its leader an assistant secretary. we agree with those decisions, and this legislation would help elevate the importance of this issue while putting congress' bipartisan stamp of approval on these executive actions. h.r. 362 would simply amend section 203-a of the department of energy organization act by establishing a new assistant secretary position responsible for cyber security and emergency response issues. the department of energy is the lead agency for ensuring the cyber security of the electric grid and newly created assistant secretary would have jurisdiction over all energy emergency and security functions related to energy supply, infrastructure