We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy that you've generated in your home through a solar panel or through other mechanisms.
Capitol Hill and the White House have their own institutionalized pageantry (think the State of the Union address), but when Dale Bosley, the marshal of the Supreme Court, came into the chamber on Friday to declare, "God save the United States and this honorable court, " it was hard not to feel a little bit moved.
Meanwhile, only 36% of the 267 LDP lower house members have their own home pages.
"The Republicans in the House have rejected their own speaker's proposal at this stage, " Rep. Xavier Becerra of California told reporters.
As Mr Easterbrook emphasises, most Americans have at least two cars and their own house, and they send their children to college.
I've told them about my family who have been here for a while, and how they have their own things - a car, a house.
But given their influence in the White House and the increasing likelihood that they have careers of their own, why not?
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Mr. Issa and House Speaker John Boehner have their own calculations to make.
As you can see above, it lets gamers assemble their own pizza and have it delivered to their house without ever putting down their controller.
Other major book publishers, like Random House and Scholastic, have launched their own iPhone apps before as well.
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The National Security Agency and other U.S. security organizations are known to have developed their own network-attack capabilities, but former White House cyber-security advisor Richard Clarke has warned that it would be dangerous for the U.S. to step up its own campaign against Chinese networks while U.S. safeguards against retaliation are so weak.
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Republican leaders have threatened to end talks with the White House and write their own balanced-budget plan, but signs of progress last week kept negotiators at the table.
Until now, Connolly said, Internet-savvy house hunters have had to discover the program on their own.
Successful U.S. candidates for the White House have understood that their mission is larger than their own ambition.
It may be better that big companies, which usually have good in-house intelligence and security services, should do their own snooping and influence-peddling and take the rap if caught.
Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives, meanwhile, have been working on their own immigration overhaul plan.
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And any Gold Star family who visits the White House during this season will have the opportunity to decorate their own ornament and hang it on that very tree for the entire holiday period in honor of their loved ones.
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In This House though, the Labour whips have as much trouble with their own side.
Some of the sickest patients may have to receive care at a friend or relative's house until the danger at their own home subsides.
But many of the cuts included in the House bill are unacceptable to Senate Democrats and Mr Obama, who have unveiled their own proposals to replace the sequester with spending cuts and tax increases.
And probably better to have in your own house, rather than over there, because showing people performing amazing feats with their bodies is one thing that television does really well.
With a big stimulus plan and plenty of social programmes on the agenda, the last thing they need is to have their post-election honeymoon cut short by the perception that they can't even keep their own house or, more accurately, their own Senate in order.
First, house prices have a bigger wealth effect on consumer spending, largely because more people own their homes than own shares.
Much of his concern was based on the law creating requirements that welfare recipients would not be able to fulfill and, as a result, have its own unintended consequence of causing welfare recipients to lose the aid they depend upon to feed and house their families should it become impossible to comply with the law.
"You have a 28-year-old leader who is trying to prove himself to the military, and the military is eager to have a saber-rattling for their own self-interest, " said Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
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