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Hence geothermal nuclear, they remain core and important parts of the department of energys technology program. That said, we have seen big fluctuations in Natural Gas Prices, that have come from a variety of sources. That is something that we have to take into account. We look at the importance of price when we look at Public Interest determination. They impact the price on consumers, on manufacturers, and a lot 6 the issues that you heard here on the panel. That is something were focused on. We think it is very important. But over time, as you look at our research and development program, in...

Thank you, mr. Chairman. Commissioner, welcome. I joined with other members of this Committee Last year on a letter to you after it was reported by the Inspector General for Tax Administration that more than 1100 employees had been awarded over a Million Dollars in cash rewards and more than 10,000 in timeoff awards. You made no commitments nor did you set any deadlines. And i know that youve talked a little bit about this already this morning. I just wanted, for the record to get you to speak clearly on this issue. It seems to me that its awfully hard to go to the hardworking american taxpaye...

Could get a green light to produce something make something, move forward with a project in the United States of america pretty quickly. Now were ranked 41st in the world in the dealing with Construction Permit category by the world bank. Were getting worse. Other countries are Getting Better. Germany, Something Like number eight. South korea is Something Like number 12. And capital is flowing to different places around the world and not coming here because of the time it takes to permit something. Yesterday i introduced legislation with senator mccaskill thats bipartisan, thats a balanced app...

Coming up president obama speaks about the murder of journalist james foley by member of the terrorist group isis. And later a discussion on the effect of russias intervention in ukraine on the global community. On the next washington journal elizabeth nebong of the Brookings Institution discusses the new report on poverty and how it relates to Current Events. Later, we continue our look at president johnsons vision for a Great Society with a discussion on the air quality act of 1967. Our guests are jeff homestead, a former e. P. A. Assistant administrator for air. And robin juni an environmen...

There are great quotes from now the cost talking about these mystical chess grandmasters. Once computers got better, we looked in the rearview window and said, this is just pattern matching. I had the chance to talk to gary and he was the world chess champion. Between intelligence. There are great quotes from now when he first became world champion, he played 32 simultaneous matches against the best chess playing computers and he won 320. 10 years later, ibm beat him in a pretty close match and now it is not even close. They asked how he would prepare for a match against a computer and he said...