It needs to be. This issue were working on data, working on technology, and working on the systems issues are all critical. International partners are excited about working with us on, this and israel, which is so far advanced in these technologies is one that we are building up a stronger collaboration on. Can you talk about the Energy Storage at the department . The Energy Storage program is one that we have expanded. A lot of congressional interest in that support, which we appreciate, so we are working we have a battery hub, which is doing extremely well. It is centered at argon. Berkeley is the major partner. We recently put out maybe a month ago a report on hydro and pointed out in terms of storage we still have a lot of capacity for pump hydro in the country, which today is the most costeffective in the places where you can do it. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Yield back. The chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio for five minutes. I thank the chairman very much, and mr. Secretary,
But i do have some questions about how you suggest it would be implemented. First of all, it says it would be charged on a prospective basis. Your budget also says mortgages insured under that title under the previous fiscal year. Is this prospective or rhett owe active . Its prospective from when its enacted. But the fee will be assessed at one point in the year, at the end of the year. I dont think ive seen the text youre looking at. I believe thats whats been described. Its going to be on transactions Going Forward. Its not going to be going backward. It states the fee would be calculated based on mortgages that were insured under this title during the previous fiscal year. Thats right. If we started it tomorrow, the fee would be assessed after that one year. And its talking about going backward to capture everything after it was enacted. Also under your proposal it says small lenders i think would get hit with a pretty hefty fee because of the complexity of the formula. Will you ba
Tried to do in new york was to leverage shared Regional Service providers to try to ensure that districts were able to get the students the services they needed in a sustainable way. But certainly, i want to make sure our teams connect on that and talk through that because we certainly want to be in the position of supporting districts and serving students with disabilities as well as possible. Thank you. And my final comment is that i hope you will have a listening session in a rural area. We talked about that in my office, as opposed to just large urban areas like l. A. And d. C. Yes. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, senator collins. Senator casey. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Dr. King, welcome. Thank you for your testimony and your willingness to serve, and we appreciate that commitment. We want to commend and salute your family, as well, because when you serve, they serve with you, in one way or another. We appreciate the commitment your familys made to this high level of Public Servi
Employees. We work very hard on a variety of issues. One of which, of course, has been has been the way we wanted to serve our veterans one of our greatest accomplishments in this bill is what we do for them. Veterans Services Organizations came to me and many of the members right here this evening and said, we not only need funding to implement the reforms that were passed by the congress, but we also want you to do this year and a year in advance. We said, we dont do that. They said, you have got to do that. We are concerned with the dysfunction and delay as a strategy in washington that creates chaos for veterans and their survivors. Guess what . We were able to do it. For the First Time Ever we provided funding for this year and one year in advance veterans veterans can count on the disability check, their pension check, a check to help fund the g. I. Bill and that their health care we will be paid for. We also deal with the incredible problem of veterans backlog and put in the mon
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change their votes . If not, the ayes are 89, the nays are 11, and the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, h. Con. Res. 121 and h. Con. Res. 123 are considered and agreed to en bloc and the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table en bloc. The republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell could we have attention the attention of the senate. The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Mr. Mcconnell i want to take just a moment to speak on something that is an overwhelming bipartisan desire to achieve and this is to finish tonight. And theres no good reason not to. Were working to clear an agreement on our side to process the c. R. omnibus, the extenders bill, and tria tonight. Tonight. And as for right now, i can tell you were prepared to go forward on the extenders bill and therefore i would ask unanimous consent at the time determined by the majority leader after consultation