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many women in new hampshire, you got to tell senator maggie hassan and senator jeanne shaheen to oppose the biden build big government bill and stop it in its tracks. we've all been through a lot in the past two years, haven't we? a global pandemic, social unrest, divisive election. the tragic day in our nation's capital. and over the last nine months, a new administration intent on transforming our nation into a european welfare state with more government and less freedom. but today i want you to be encourage, because i am. as i travel around the country, i've never seen the level of enthusiasm that i've seen in the american people. i truly do believe our freedom -- if we go to our neighbors and friends, i think we can stop this build back better nonsense before it is passed into law. we can stop the massive increase in government spending. we can stop the higher taxes, but it's going to take all of us to do it. but i have faith. i have faith in the american people. i've traveled all across this country. my opinion of people of this country went up, not down. i encourage you to reach o

portman: first of all, it's always great to be on the floor with my friend jeanne shaheen and talk about something positive. we've been at this over a deck cade which is to encourage more energy efficiency. this is the ability of us to save energy by not using it. it's therefore sort of energy found. it's also an ability to improve the economy because it creates more jobs and makes us more competitive globally by having lower energy costs. think about the businesses in your state. the competitive nature of business today is that you really are competing with the europeans and the japanese and the chinese and so on. if you have higher energy costs and you're not energy efficient, you're not going to be competitive. but if you're competitive, it adds jobs, makes the economy stronger. so the way i look at it, if you're interested in lower emissions and a better environment and at the same time you're interested in a better economy and creating jobs, then energy efficiency is the low-hanging fruit. that's the thing we can all agree with. and i applaud senator shaheen because she's been patie

we are fortunate to also be joined by a current staffer, the legislative director for senator jeanne shaheennew hampshire, who serves on the appropriations committee. she has been a fellow in the office of senator mark udall. in addition to her legislative experience, she has a phd in chemistry from the georgia institute of technology. we are excited to hear her insights from staff perspective about this process. the way we will organize this panel is that franz and anne have a presentation they will jointly present, after which we will have some time for a panel discussion that i'll lead. then we will turn it back to you to ask questions. please, don't forget send us those -- don't forget to send us those questions. with that, i will turn it over to franz and anne for the presentation. zach: thanks -- franz: thanks a lot. anne and i worked together on this question of ways to responsibly use earmarks and look at the issues that were important to congressional members and staff. much of this presentation looks at a lot of those topics. i thought i would first of all touch base on one of the