my colleague and i, senator wyden, screamed loud about that situation and said we wished the ferc, the federal energy regulatory commission would have acted a lot sooner on that issue, and that if they would have acted in basically taking away the market-based authority that enron had, you would have saved a lot of jobs in the northwest. you would have saved a lot of industries. a lot of people lost their jobs, their retirement, their home over those high energy prices for electricity. thank god the result is we were able to pass new legislation, creating federal crime for anybody to manipulate natural gas or oil markets. i should say that ferc has used that authority over the last several years to recoup millions of dollars of violations by industry officials who continue to perpetrate the same kind of scheme of going in to the futures market and holding positions in the futures market and then going and taking physical supply and being able to affect the physical supply and demand. so this is something that is amazing to us from the west coast. and i know my colleagues, senator feins

ferc simple, when there isn't a disaster happening, which has been an opportunity, but dittman there isn't one we are working on what sorts of data might we aggregated have times so we can respond faster. >> thank you peery is there any area where he may need, chris's halgand legislation to streamline consolidation and make it more efficient, anything like that? you or anyone else can -- >> if i could respond quickly to the last question about innovation, one of the things we are learning, none of the tools were available back during katrina, twitter, facebook, so here we are five years we think what is the next five years so i would say whatever solutions we are working towards we need to be careful not to tie the one particular application or technology because it's changing so rapidly. i think in terms of the help we need i think just holding this hearing is really great because it raises the prominence of these issues so people began to think about them and begin to work around them. we are having great success working in collaboration with fema and others administrator fugate ha