for instance, nissan north america is a borrower. and it's owned by a japanese company but it is a u.s. corporation. >> thank you. >> we have a second panel which is secretary chu. i would suggest we go ahead and thank mr. allison for his testimony and go ahead to our second panel unless there is any burning reason not to. mr. allison, thank you very much. we appreciate your being here and your testimony today. why don't we see if we can ask secretary chu to come in so we can hear his perspective and ask him some questions.

companies for instance nissan north america is a bar where and it's owned by a japanese company but it is a u.s. corporation. specs before. >> we have a second panel which is psychiatry chu and i would suggest we go ahead and thank mr. allison for his testimony and going it to the second panel unless there is any reason not to. >> thank you very much. we appreciate your being here in your testimony today. why don't we see if we could ask secretary chu to come in so we can hear his perspective and ask him some questions. >> [inaudible conversations] >> mr. secretary, thank you for being here. welcome back to the committee. as you know, we just received testimony from herb allison and out his report reviewing the department of energy loan and guarantee portfolio, and we would be anxious to hear any thoughts you have on that same subject and then i'm sure the senators will have questions. so go right ahead. >> there we go. thank you, chairman, remember mikulski and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the the part of energy efforts and to grow americas clean

companies for instance nissan north america is a borrower, and it's owned by a japanese company but it is a u.s. corporation. >> thank you. we visited panel which is secretary chu, and i would suggest we thank mr. allison for his testimony to go to the second panel unless there is any reason not to. thank you free much. we appreciate your being here and your testimony today. why don't we see if we could ask secretary chu to come in so we can hear his perspective and ask him some questions. [inaudible conversations] >> mr. secretary, thank you for being here. welcome back to the committee. as you know, we just received testimony from mr. allison about his report reviewing the department of loan guarantee portfolio, and we would be anxious to hear any thoughts you have on the same subject and then i'm sure senators will have questions, so go ahead. there we go. thank you, chairman bingaman and schakowsky and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the department of energy efforts to strengthen the loan programs and to grow americas clean energy economy. as part

for instance, nissan north america is a borrower. and it's owned by a u.s. company but -- it is a u.s. corporation. >> we have a second panel which is secretary chew and i would suggest we go ahead and thank mr. alison for his testimony and go ahead to our second panel unless there's any burning reason not to. thank you very much we appreciate your being here and your testimony today. why don't we see if we can ask secretary chew to come in so we can hear his perspective and ask him some questions. >> thank you for being here. welcome back to the kefment as you know we just received testimony from herb alison about his report, reviewing the department of nrnl loan guarantee portfolio. and we would be anxious to hear any thoughts you have on that very same subject and then i'm sure senators will have questions. so go right ahead. >> thank you, chairman. thank you for the opportunity to discuss department of energy's efforts to strengthen our loan programs and to go on grow america's clean energy economy. as part of our commitment to be responsible sturets, th