with me on the podium is our chairman of our steering and policy committee, rosa delauro, who has been a champion of an infrastructure bank which the president mentioned a few minutes ago. we need to facilitate efficient private sector investments in infrastructure. we need to compete from broadband to energy systems to ports. we need to outbuild with an infrastructure bank we will be able to outbuild. a partnership between the public sector and the private sector. clean energy. clearly that is the future. that is the vision we have of an america that has pow -- that powers itself by clean energy. we need to invest in clean energy to create jobs and make america competitive in the most important new economic segment. china is doing that. europe is doing that. america is and must do that and is doing it as a result of the bill that we passed, the american recovery and reinvestment act and we need to continue on that path. currency reform. under democratic leadership, we passed a bipartisan bill that sought to level the playing field by holding accountable countries that manipulate curre