Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority.

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.