mr. ritzal for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i will be supporting the gentleman's amendment, and i share a deep commitment to reducing our country's dependence on foreign sources of oil. indeed that's been a principle objective of my public service, and i do fully acknowledge and speak about this often, about the connection between our failure to become energy independent and the risk that we put our young men and women in, in defending our sources of energy. that, in my mind, is not in dispute when our money's going to folks like hugo chavez and the prince in the royal family in saudi arabia. some of that money in disputably ends unin madrass in pakistan, and that's the well spring from which many of the taliban fighters are really created, and end up fighting our young men and women. so i see and acknowledge the connection. my view is this -- it's that we've got this in the wrong, at palestinian mum, in the wrong agency. wrong department. it should be in the department of energy. this type of research. i believe we've unwisely