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Them with wisdom, courage and strength for the living of these days. Give them grace to understand the world we cannot see or touch , comprehending that eternal issues are at stake. As you care for their physical needs, provide also for their soul needs. Help us all to remember that you are the source of our strength. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty a...

Also hear from an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and head of nuclear institute. Hearing expected to start in just a moment. Chairman is about to sit down. We should see the gavel come down here in a moment. Live coverage on c span3. Good morning and welcome to our hearing legislative proposal to advanced the use of Nuclear Energy. I want to thank all of our witnesses that advance and ill be introducing each of you before your fiveminute opening statement, but we want to thank marvin fratel for the great job he did at the Nuclear Energy institute and i think its plan to go ...

Of course, mr. Chairman, todays bill is simply a discussion draft and we will need to hear from the nrc commissioners, themselves, before moving into a legislative process. But i look forward to todays hearing and i look forward to testimony from todays experts of mostly need for the changes outlined in the bill as well as the Practical Implications if these changes were, indeed, enacted. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I yield back the balance of my time. Gentleman yields back. This time i recognize mr. Kizinger for five minutes and if some others want some of your time, you might consider yielding....

This is our twiceayear book fair where we have 60 dealers from all over the west coast to come to exhibit. We use sort of to differentiate ourselves from what might be like a book fair at a school, because if we just say book fair, people dont necessarily what it is. But what we sell here isnt necessarily old, a better definition might be old and collectible but there are many relatively modern books here for sale. Some of the specialties that dealers have, Childrens Books are very popular, cook books, cowboys, indians, gold mine, world travel, specially china and japan but all over world trav...

Look at india, we look at pakistan, the relationship is incredibly important. Particularly as the changing mission in afghanistan is the role of pakistan and india in stabilizing the region is incredibly complex and important. Its an honor to welcome ambassador olson to the job. I understand this is your first month on the job, so looking forward to hearing the testimony. Looking forward to working with you and looking forward to furthering the relationship between the United States and south asia and stabilizing the region. So thank you. Thank you so much, dr. Bera. And the chairman would lik...