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Part of that agreement? >> i do. because you look at mayors and city councils and city governments, they've been this charge of producing the electricity for their rate payers. we've always had to do and it we'll continue to do it good to see you. thank you for being with us. >> come to austin. we'll go eat some franklin barbecue. >> austin has that slogan. keep austin weird, right? you're just outside of austin. do you share that slogan? >> yeah. we're 30 miles north of austin. we say austin, their slogan is keep austin weird. we say austin, keep your weird. come on down and eat some barbecue...

So that doesn't impact our deal at all. we're paying the same amount per kilo watt hour in year one as in year 25 and his decision doesn't imfact rate payers in georgetown at all. >> so weigh the factors for me between price of energy, availability of energy and impact on the earth? when you made this decision, where did those three factors, how did you piece them together? >> well, first and foremost it was a business decision. and you do have the ability to make sound decisions. that's what we have been able to do. ours was a no brainer. we'll provide the cts over 25 or 30 years. it is wind ...

For a reason, that is deconstruction, the pay the progressive left runs. if they can't get it passed they are going to put it in some sort of regulation in an agency. that's all going to be deconstructed. >> what does that mean to both or either of you? deconstruction. >> they are going to be doing this. they are going to be rolling back the administrative state. and i have to say, look, the concerns about climate change are legitimate, but there is concerns about the jobs and about the economy are also legitimate. remember when president obama said his plan for cap and trade would cause elect...

The concerns about climate change are legitimate and the concerns about jobs and economy are legitimate. remember when president obama says his would cause rate toads sky rocket. so he didt by executive order. in my home state of wisconsin, 60% of our electricity is generated by coal powered plants. this rule was like a dagger aimed at the heart of the manufacturing base of the state. the state public service commission estimated this could cost rate payers as much as $13 billion. so this is part of the balancing act here. yes, we can care about the ploont but don't be indifferent what this me...

We can do that through reconciliation. i believe the plans that people are now signing up for will be their insurance plans for 2017. there's nothing we can do today that would impact that. now, pre-existing conditions, we have talked in the republican conference about having, if you want to call it a high-risk pool that protects insurance companies and the other race payers from some very large increase because of the unknown surrounding pre-existing conditions. we recognize. we've got to deal with that. but i think the way to deal it and it's not set in concrete would be something like a hig...