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committee on president trump s proposed 2018 budget for the department and its agencies. this is an hour and 40 minutes. good morning, everyone. the committee will come to order. i apologize for the delayed start. hopefully we will have an opportunity to hear from the secretary and learn the president s views for the department of energy. secretary carry, i want to welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan confirmation in the senate. while it took us a bit longer than we hoped to get you in this role, we re glad to have you at the helm. we look forward to helping you get a full complement of folks there at the budget department as well. the budget approach takes a different approach this year than we ve seen in the past. this is portion of the department that falls outside the scope of our committee here. the administration has also requested robust fund frg the cleanup of nuclear waste left behind by our country s cold war legacy. the budget request ....
than we hoped to get you in this role, we re glad to have you at the helm. we look forward to helping you get a full complement of folks there at the budget department as well. the budget approach takes a different approach this year than we ve seen in the past. this is portion of the department that falls outside the scope of our committee here. the administration has also requested robust fund frg the cleanup of nuclear waste left behind by our country s cold war legacy. the budget request proposes deep cuts to research and development for energy and science. it also proposes to phase-out innovative programs that have had demonstrated success. i understand what drove this proposal, but i m also concerned by certain parts of it. the united states is the world leader in science and energy. we like it that way. we want to keep it that way. and at the core of that is the work done at our national labs and universities by the men and women who dedicate their careers to fur ....
clean air permits unfairly that plant can be fined and sued by others for doing so. one regular says go another says stop. that plant has to decide whether they want to acquiesce in a power shortage may be a blackout or break the permit for just a few days maybe a few hours. i have a bipartisan bill with representative doyle in green to fix this in the energy package we re working on. this is not about a company running roughshod over environmental laws. we re talking about days or hours in a crisis. the other week ferc and nerc endorsed our bill, secretary chu told me he s very supportive of the idea. the bill has passed this committee three times now and whole house twice. and 112th 113th congress. can i count on your support in the 114th congress? will you be supportive of the bill like your predecessor? mr. olson, you ve asked this question before and let me say the answer is basically yes. i know our d.o.e. staff worked with both sides on this and we re quite com ....
i think it s completely crazy we re doing substantive work on the 17th of december. i can t imagine we re holding real conferences here right the week before christmas, but we are, but that s because there s so much to talk about, and i m so glad to have you all come. thank you, thank you all for being here. my name is john hamre, i m the president at csis. i wanted to say special thanks to julio friedmann who is a friend. we have known each other for many years. he s fortunately in town serving in government more directly. he s a government guy, he s out at lawrence livermore labs but we re so pleased he can be here leading at a crucial time when we need to be thinking through a lot of important issues. for a very strange reason, recently i have been doing some personal reading on the history of philosophy, and i was recently reading about thomas robert maltous, a british cleric who in the early 18th century who was a very provocative philosopher because he had very d ....
A capacity crowd filled a meeting room of the Sugar Land branch of Fort Bend County Libraries on Saturday to hear environmental advocates call for the closure or conversion of ....