tax credit and that will help incentivize the deployment of offshore windmill farms off of maryland or delaware, new jersey or north carolina, all the way up to maine. what we've learned is wind production tax credit doesn't get the job done, and nobody's going to build a windmill farm off of any of our coasts in the united states until there's an investment tax credit that will help out. senator snowe and i have offered legislation that provides for an investment tax credit, 30% investment tax credit, and it would inure to whoever deploys the first 3,000 megawatts of electricity that are generated off of our shores. so it's not one year, two years, three years, four years, but it would basically, first come, first served. if you get your windmill farm out there and producing electricity, whoever comes up with the first 3,000 megawatts, you get the tax credit. would you just give us some reaction to that in terms of whether that seems to make any sense, whether that's consistent with where the administration wants to go? as it turns out, the cost of that is just i think a couple billion dollars

to extend the wind production tax credit and that would help incentivize when the forms of maryland or delaware, new jersey, north carolina, all the way up to the state of maine. if the credit does not get the job done, nobody will build a windmill farm off the coast until there is a tax credit that will help out. senator snowe and i have offered legislation that will provide a credit to whoever deploys the first 2,000 megawatts of electricity that are generated off our shores. it would basically be first come first serve. you get your windmill farm out there and producing electricity. who ever comes up with the first 3,000 megawatts you get that tax credit. give us reaction to that in terms of whether that seems to make any sense. as it turns out, the cost of that is a couple billion dollars of year. it is not a heck of a lot of money. >> i would be happy to talk in more detail about that. there are different ways to do these things, but we agreed we want to make sure that we are preserving, after a comprehensive tax reform, a set of well-designed special incentives for improving our use of re

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or south to florida. we can accommodate virginia, maryland, delaware, pennsylvania and new york and still have room for the district of columbia. yet, in all this vastness, we're less than a million people. a few weeks ago we just tipped the needle of one million residents. i might say, mr. president, we're not sure we're happy about that. some of us wanted to be under a million in population. some kind of like being a million. it's a big debate in our state. should we be one million or less. nevertheless we lack the investments for roads by ourselves. montana couldn't support the interstate highway system. we don't have the people. with more than ten million visitors annually and with the majority of our truck traffic originating and ending out of state, we rely on the federal program with good reason. it is in our common interest, the interest of montana, the interest of all those folks who transport across our state, the interest of those who visit glacier park, yellowstone park. it is the common interest. i'm here to say, mr. president, the more we keep our eye on the ball, it is a transportation bill

maryland, in virginia and delaware, horses are brought here, and we shout video of them early this morning, about 70 of them they have here now are brought here from farms, horses that have been neglected orome way. many are brought here in emaciated conditions. many of them near death. considering the plight of these horses the fact they're being rehabilitated here they have down right lucky compared to many other horses in this country. there are literally hundreds of thousands of them over the past decade brought to slaughterhouses in the united states for the purposes of human consumption. horse meat is still considered a delicacy in parts of japan. considered a delicacy in parts of europe. to stop that in the year 2007, congress passed legislation which banned horse slaughter in the united states. but it turned out to be a law of unintended terrible consequences. here is cathy guillermo from the people for the ethical treatment of animals. >> when slaughter of hours ended in the united states that meant for horse not an end to slaughter. what it meant it was they were crammed into small trucks. slipping and sliding in their own waste. crammed together with horses they didn't know, bi