For the upcoming fiscal year, a testimony from the secretary, jennifer granholm, live coverage here on cspan3. The chair will recognize himself for a fiveminute Opening Statement. Welcome to the hearing to review the department of Energy Performance and fulfillment of the statutory responsibilities and to examine the departments fiscal year 2025 budget request to congress. Welcome back to the committee, secretary granholm. The department of energy has National Security responsibilities to protect Energy Security and oversee the Nations Nuclear weapons program. They conduct an overseas taxpayerfunded research and development, providing loans and grants to help commercialize energyrelated technologies. These hearings are essential to ensure that the department is taking to its core mission and is a responsible steward of taxpayer resources. These hearings are essential. Members will also have an opportunity to examine the department of energys expanded budget request as this year they ar
Commerce, science and transportation committee, topics included critical mineral supply chains, manufacturing of Semiconductor Chips, workforce shortages and Rural Broadband access. The hearing runs two hours and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, the Senate Commerce committee will come to order. I think my colleagues who have been in this room for many hours already today doing double duty today on aviation hearing and very important conversation about the chips in science act, which are committee played a big role in, needless to say are committee has been working diligently on a lot of transformational policy but while we are waiting for our colleague here i think i will thank senator wicker again for his work on chips in science act. People may not remember but this committee, dont know how many were processed. It was in the hundreds. Might have been in the 300s but i definitely believe a regular order process is good for the institution, good for the debate abou
Himself for a fiveminute Opening Statement. Welcome to the hearing to review the department of Energy Performance and fulfillment of the statutory responsibilities and to examine the departments fiscal year 2025 budget request to congress. Welcome back to the committee, secretary granholm. The department of energy has National Security responsibilities to protect Energy Security and oversee the Nations Nuclear weapons program. They conduct an overseas taxpayerfunded research and development, providing loans and grants to help commercialize energyrelated technologies. These hearings are essential to ensure that the department is taking to its core mission and is a responsible steward of taxpayer resources. These hearings are essential. Members will also have an opportunity to examine the department of energys expanded budget request as this year they are requesting 51. 4 billion. Since fiscal year 2021, the budget has increased by about 12 billion, about 30 increase. After three years o
The critical thing and we should visit when we have more time. Let me just say the reports about because way are incredibly disturbing and i cant count on the investigations but we take every threat seriously and investigate to the fullest wherever we think theres some incredible allegation that a company has done an end run around your export controls. We need different tools, im supportive of the guard act which would and the restrict act which would codify our itcs authorities. We need that to have a comprehensive approach to go after connected apps. We would need resources additionally to do that. I think we need Additional Resources around enforcement to do exactly what youre talking about. Candidly we need the threat is different today. The threat from china in 2023 is different than the cold war threats of decades ago. It is technology and a. I. And it is moving fast so i would welcome a broader discussion with you around how we modernize what we do and how we properly fund what
Welcome to the georgetown dialogues. I am the Vice President for Global Engagement here in georgetown. We are the lead organizer for this weeks events. I want to welcome you to our historic hall. And those following online around the world. For the first couple of sessions in our weeklong conference. The first on the u. S. President ial election and the focus on how it is seen from abroad. In the second on social inequality is a complex global challenge. What are the georgetown global dialogues . Around this time last year, we began to explore prominent examples. And students in the wider community. On challenges facing humanity. Intellectuals already engaged in global conversations. Through articles and books and all kinds of appearances. Please welcome them to georgetown. It is a bit unusual to have this community in washington. That brings us to our theme. It sounds presumptuous. But we have arrived at a global impasse. Now is the time to think together. Think about the catastrophe