Face in their lives. Today, i thank you for this opportunity, because i would like to describe to you my agenda. How it would play out in the lives of two hypothetical people from detroit. A Small Business owner operating a auto bill operating an , and a youngop Woman Working at the front desk. As we see, the challenges we face is a result of washingtons failings. Lets call our Business Owner david. A owns a franchise of National Automotive repair company. He has 10 employees. In the past, david never considered himself a political person. He never thought his life was impacted much by what was happening in washington. Lately, his costs have been soaring. When he looked at his books, it was clear why. The cost of equipment. Outdated trade restrictions are preventing his franchise from finding products that are at a competitive price. Washington continues to tax what he invests in modernizing his equipment, despite the fact that our economy needs businesses like davids to integrate new
Guess who was on that Defense Committee that i got to work with . Barry goldwater. John tower, one of the great minds. Gary hart, democrat, one of the smartest people i ever worked with. People who had been basically given their limbs in world war ii. So it was a great experience, learning about threats and systems and spending and reform and all that. And then six years in i was able to get on the Budget Committee, which is what i always wanted to be on because i learned i havent told the story when i ran for the state senate, i said there were two things we shouldnt do. We shouldnt raise our pay because i wanted the legislature to be parttime. The second thing is i wont vote for any tax increases. So republicans win the majority and they decide to raise taxes, and raise their pay. So i turned the pay down, which i came to learn later most people thought i was nuts. The other thing is they wanted to raise taxes, and i said i am not voting for it, and they said i was irresponsible. So
Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will feature the areas history and literary community. Whitney kent are special feature on portland with a history of lobstering industry. We begin our special feature. Over here is my gps and radar. So and thought it helps us figure out where we are. I dont mark my traps with the gps. I i kind of do it by feel. Look at that bad boy. Its a
I ask our guests to take their seats, please. The subcommittee on energy and power will now come to order and the chair will recognize himself for five minutes for an opening statement. First of all, welcome, mr. Secretary. Its great to have you here. And todays hearing is going to examine the department of energys management and Mission Priorities under the leadership of secretary rick perry. Im very pleased to welcome this morning for his first appearance before the subcommittee. It performs essential Nuclear Security and National Security missions. It plays a central role in ensuring the nations Domestic Energy security and sorting americas Strategic Interests in the international markets. It performs challenging cleanup operations to address its vast environmental and Nuclear Waste liabilities and provides key energy data and supports foundational science and Technological Development to advance the benefits of all forms of energy and Energy Delivery to ensure the longterm security
Hi, everybody. Im jimmy, im the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thanks for coming. Thanks for everything, really. I appreciate it. Well, for those of you who were with us in primetime tonight, welcome back. After another evening of bigtime basketball, game three of the nba finals between the Golden State Warriors and cleveland cavaliers, this is the third time these teams have matched up for the finals. And as we learned last year, anything can happen. A player could turn into a werewolf. We dont know. We really just dont know. By the way, one thing we know is they jack up the ticket prices this time of year. Courtside seats for game three, in cleveland, went for as much as 20,000 a pop. You know, usually to be able to afford that you have to have a baby with a player. [ laughter ] thats serious money. Tonights game as i mentioned was in cleveland, where of course they have very dedicated fans. I think i did a lot of research. I believe these two win the best tshirt contest f