Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here today to consider the nomination of Dan Brouillette to be the secretary of energy. He currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who believes that you have done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would
Done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. We do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. Hopefully the introductions do not consume our full morning, but we certainly welcome all the good comments. So senator cassidy. Madam chair, what a wonderful way to t
Monday morning here in moscow this 25th of november a welcome to the program life. With this update for you so 1st off and if theres one thing doesnt like losing the internet giants formally launched a legal challenge against the u. S. Defense department after rival microsoft beat the firm to clinch a very lucrative data contract the decision surprised analyst sue thought amazon had a in the bag but the road is about more that money is explained. Amazon and White Christmas oft 2 giants that have changed the way we experience the world. Yes warm and fuzzy ads to appeal to our pockets over the Holiday Season but it turns out the real money that goes softer is the pentagons own given the u. S. Military spent over 600000000000. 00 annually its unsurprising theres a battle for the big contracts so head to head and microsoft have been vying for the pentagon prize of 10000000000. 00 over the next 10 years the contract in question is for the judge by project and ambitious event that would allo
The morning here in moscow this 25th of november welcome to the program live from the World News Center its this update for you hope you stay with me too for about 25 minutes or so as we go through it so if theres one thing amazon doesnt like to start with it appears that thats losing the internet giants formally launched a legal challenge against the u. S. Defense department after rival microsoft beat the firm to clinch a very lucrative dated contract the decision surprised. In the bag but the route was about more than money taylor explains. Amazon and White Christmas oft 2 giants that have changed the way we experience the world. Yes warm and fuzzy ads to appeal to our pockets over the Holiday Season but it turns out the real money that goes softer is the pentagons own given the u. S. Military spent over 600000000000. 00 annually its unsurprising theres a battle for the big contracts so head to head and microsoft have been vying for the pentagon prize of 10000000000. 00 over the next
The monday morning here in moscow this 25th of november welcome to the program live from the r. T. World news center is kevin though in with his update 1st not just mentioned in those headlines a whistleblower is casting doubt on the way the International Chemical weapons watchdog handled last years alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma you may recall it made so many headlines that a leaked internal email now from an unnamed employee at the o. P. C. W. Claims the organization cherry picked and misrepresented facts in its official report released by wiki leaks coincides with the o. P. C. W. s 5 Day Conference in the hague which starts in a few hours time will be across but. Correspondents easier for us he goes down of a morning what is this o p c w stuff a claim that in a bit more detail. Well kevin 1st of all just to. Just to not misrepresent anything myself the o. P. C. W. Meeting in the hague they will not be discussing this whistleblowers at least this is not on the age