Them with wisdom, courage and strength for the living of these days. Give them grace to understand the world we cannot see or touch , comprehending that eternal issues are at stake. As you care for their physical needs, provide also for their soul needs. Help us all to remember that you are the source of our strength. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell we will soon begin consideration of Bipartisan Legislation that can support american jobs, improve Airline Safety and help passengers, all without raising taxes or fees on travelers. The f. A. A. Reauthorization act before us is the result of a Collaborative Committee process. It shows whats
Also hear from an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and head of nuclear institute. Hearing expected to start in just a moment. Chairman is about to sit down. We should see the gavel come down here in a moment. Live coverage on c span3. Good morning and welcome to our hearing legislative proposal to advanced the use of Nuclear Energy. I want to thank all of our witnesses that advance and ill be introducing each of you before your fiveminute opening statement, but we want to thank marvin fratel for the great job he did at the Nuclear Energy institute and i think its plan to go on and look at other challenges at the end of this year, so were delighted hes here. He served as neis president chief executive order since 2009 and has long and distinguished year advocating for the Nuclear Industry. Nuclear energy is an integral part of our industry policy. The Current Fleet roughly 100 operating Nuclear Power plants safely and reliably generates about 20 of our nations electri
Of course, mr. Chairman, todays bill is simply a discussion draft and we will need to hear from the nrc commissioners, themselves, before moving into a legislative process. But i look forward to todays hearing and i look forward to testimony from todays experts of mostly need for the changes outlined in the bill as well as the Practical Implications if these changes were, indeed, enacted. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I yield back the balance of my time. Gentleman yields back. This time i recognize mr. Kizinger for five minutes and if some others want some of your time, you might consider yielding. This will be fairly quick. Mr. Chairman, i want to taunk you for holding the hearing. I want to thank each of the witnesses for being here today. Its an important topic. As weve heard, Nuclear Power generates about 20 of electricity in the United States and in illinois its over 50 , including 60 of the nations carbonfree electricity. These plants are high performing, consistently having the highe
This is our twiceayear book fair where we have 60 dealers from all over the west coast to come to exhibit. We use sort of to differentiate ourselves from what might be like a book fair at a school, because if we just say book fair, people dont necessarily what it is. But what we sell here isnt necessarily old, a better definition might be old and collectible but there are many relatively modern books here for sale. Some of the specialties that dealers have, Childrens Books are very popular, cook books, cowboys, indians, gold mine, world travel, specially china and japan but all over world travels, anything with maps, say like captain cook. Anything done by him is very popular. It depends really on the dealer. Were all individual businesses so we all represent what we like or what we think is interesting or valuable. This is a fun, small row book fair to do. The camaraderie of getting to see old friends out a semi regular basis. Being a bookseller, we are all recluses back home and this
Not much more than an 18 month process. How did you do that . Well i started right away as you point out. I left the fed on saturday and monday it was at brookings working on the book. I have lots of material. The Federal Reserve let me see my emails because i managed by email. I had dozens and dozens of email every day. It was very useful because you could go back and put a see in real time what was happening and what you are thinking it i also had daily news clippings and other material. I had a wealth of material and i could sit down and bang out a draft. I should also say, i had some help from skidmore who is a pet federal affairs person at the fed who took a year off to help me with the process in the research. I got a good start and had it done within about 14 months. A decade more or less when some of the most dramatic Economic Times in our lifetime, if not on our nations history, you probably have time to reflect much on your life during that decade, certainly reflect on econom