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Answer. >> rick perry also faced a confirmation hearing to service the next energy secretary. joe machen announced support for perry. >> i believe rick has the experience and tenacity to serve in the cabinet. >> the top democrat mocked perry. >> in case you may have forgotten, you once called for the abolishment of this agency. i suspect that now, having had a chance to learn about the importance of this department, you have a very different opinion. >> perry told senators he regretted calling for eliminating the department of energy during the 2012 campaign. perry tried to take on a potential...

Candidacy. so, times have changed, perhaps. democrats don't have the same power that they had in the last congress, so we'll see how this goes. but, to give you a flavor of how things can change for the nominees themselves, rick perry, former governor of texas, was today asked about critical views. he fell on the sword about saying the department should be abolished, changed his mind there, and then had an answer knowing there were members on the committee who wanted to talk about climate change. here's how he responded. >> i believe the climate is changing. i believe some of it is naturally o...

Addition to things he's much more familiar with, an oil and gas business so big in texas and he served as texas' longest serving governor there, three term. the other thing that got a lot of attention today is the way he address what had he knew would be concerns from democrats about climate change. there is that strong link between drill sxgt environmentalists. this is what governor perry said when asked about climate change and what makes the biggest difference in that. here's how he responded. >> i believe the climate is change. i believe some of it is naturally occurring but some is caused...

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