we will have a public hearing on june 15th in kansas skitcity, kansas. we intend to finalize the rule by november 30th of this year. i thank you for the opportunity to serve as a witness at this hearing and look forward to your questions and discussion. >> thank you. ranking member and i are going to defer our questions until the end. we go to senator burns. >> thank you chairman and thank you ms. mccabe for joininguts us. we know you are working hard in this area so i appreciate that. i appreciate your testimony. i believe this is not only an economic issue but a national security issue as well. this committee does have a history of working together across the aisle on security and good governance matters and i look forward to working with my colleagues on this important topic. clean and renewable energy is a topic that everyone in the united states can get behind. and over the years the rfs has proved successful at driving innovation and effective options for consumers at the pump. and as many of you may know iowa leads the nation in bio fuels creation