Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110316:08:57:00
It was created by congress after world war ii to design and produce and develop nuclear weapons. the atomic energy commission later turned into two other agencies, one that governed nuclear weapons, the other nuclear energy. then in the late '70s during our country's energy crisis, the two departments were combined once again into the department of energy. so the energy department doesn't just oversee america's nuclear industry today because nobody else wanted the job. the nuclear industry is why the department of energy exists at all which is why today's long scheduled house appropriations su...