my florida colleague, mr. mack, the chairman of the subcommittee on western hemisphere is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair. i also would like to thank the secretary for being here and making herself available to questions from the committee. i want to go and continue to explore the keystone xl pipeline. but i first want to just for point of clarification for everyone, we would much rather, as a policy in the united states, buy oil from our friends and allies in canada than we would from venezuela. would you agree with that? >> yes. yes. and we do buy, as you know, a lot of oil from canada. >> if we had the option to stop buying oil from venezuela and get more oil from canada, that is also a policy that we would pursue, wouldn't it? >> well, obviously we would rather buy oil from friendly countries. and we are doing everything we can to diversify our oil supply, including producing more oil here in the united states, which is all to the good. >> so why the -- why the flip-flop on the keystone xl pipeline? >> i

mrs. bono mack for food and february 17 and mr. campbell for today and the balance of the week. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requestions is -- the requests are granted. under the speaker's announced policy of january 5 2011, the gentleman from from colorado mr. lamborn is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. lamborn: permission to address the house for 60 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. lamborn: thank you, mr. speaker. america has a long history of religious freedom. in the 17th century colon nists fled what would become the united states of america in semple of religious freedom. congress drafted the first amendment ensuring the free exercise of religion. throughout the 20th century, the supreme court has upheld the rights of individuals to practice their religion according to the dictates of their own conscience. in 2001, president bush established the office of faith-based and community initiatives to encourage faith-based programs without changing their mission unquote.

mack. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i agree with senator baucus's initial comment whether this should be in this package. let me talk about boiler mack for a moment. boilers, industrial boilers consume and use conventional fuels. mact is maximum achievable control technology, which is an effort to reduce the amount of pollution going into our air from industrial boilers. it seems to me that every time there is a regulation that is proposed to deal with cleaning up the air from our polluters, there are those who say that they cannot afford it, and it will result in job loss. and i think that begs the question. we can have clean air and we can have job growth. the results of the clean air are well-known. we require a review as to the cost benefit of the regulatory structure. it's a requirement. there is peer review that gives us information as to what clean air regulations cost, and the benefit to society. last year alone, the clean air act was credited with preventing 160,000 premature mortalities. 86,000 hospital visits

should not even be having this discussion and including the boiler mack legislation that's written in this legislation. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i think there are still some issues outstanding, though, on this matter. one affects especially in my part of the world the northwest because we use a lot of biomass in our boilers. my understanding as of a docket from february 1st, so i think this would come after the revised rules, that the biomass materials are still not listed as fuels. now, if you're in a plywood manufacturing plant like one i toured in medford recently, they have three boilers, they use the scraps from the pie wood in a very efficient system to help generate the power they use and they told me when i was there that because of the uncertain at the of a million or two apiece and they have three of them. the way they run their plant is not at the peak efficiency, which is how epn measures their emissions but they go up and down as the material goes through. so they're not convinced they could meet the current rules on the books and now with the revised rules not including biomass materials, it could mean

mack, an hourlong program where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. this week sociologist eric klinenberg in his book going solo the extraordinary rise and surprising appeal of living alone. mr. klinenberg analyzes the impact the trend has on business, politics and culture and predicts significant social change for the country as a result. he talks with cecile was just kim bling digit director of american university's center on health, risk and society. >> host: how did you first get interested in the topic and then how did you decide how to go about looking at? >> guest: the first book i wrote was about a heat wave in chicago where more than 700 people died in just a few days, and one of the really disturbing things about the project is i learned hundreds of people died alone, and because so many people in chicago were living alone and aging alone and when that book was over i realized i learned about something i hadn't expected to fight and then i have a lot more to learn. so a research foundation reached out to me and asked me if i would be interested in pursuing that question further. why were so many people aging alone and getting isolated? and i started looking at soci