Including joel sabat, ron batory from the federal railroad administration. Ray martinez, administrator of the Safety Administration and heidi king from the national Highway Safety traffic system. The fix of the american act, better known as the fast act is responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System including fmcsa, nhtsa and fra. Todays hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of the fast act. And to identify issues that this committee should consider as we prepare for a surface transportation reauthorization. The fast act established the infraGrant Program. This and others such as build grants formerly tiger grants are critical to improving our nations transportation infrastructure. I hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on improving the infrastructure and how intra, and bill grants are being utilized. As they reauthorize the fast act, i plan to work with cantwell and other members on both s
China is a partner with us. We exchange students, exchange faculty come all for the betterment of scholarship and for research. Not directly involved in those sordid discussions but it bears, we may be able to play along the way we might think about how we can be helpful to someone. I will add one more point because its important. Theyre making a lot of judicial changes. They established a special is ip core to your ip cases. This is a national court, not local. Its a national court, very much looking through it as an experience or judicial reform, greater amount of transparency into the recordation of their opinions, allowance of our discovery and maybe even greater damages or towards along the lines for ip rights. Those are positive changes were looking forward to. I think theyre working very hard on. I think it is a positive step. Out of are basing office weve been working with the ip court in the last six months they been established. Doing training for the judges and holding faire
So i certainly hope they would be but i have no confidence as i sit here right now that they will. Senator nelson when, mr. Secretary, when you look at a map like this, a map of syria that i assume you handed out, somebody did thats a mess. And maybe it is the only solution is the solution of a political exit for assad so that we can go after these extremist elements. By the way, i had to leave the committee to do an interview on cnn, and the whole focus that they wanted to jump on was your statement earlier in the hearing that we had only trained up 60. But i pointed out to them what you said was the vetting is very difficult and in fact we are vetting some several thousands additional and the vet is a lot more tore tuesdayous because you certainly dont want to have a guy trained up and then you ends up aiming his gun back at us. In iraq, do you think that this new Prime Minister has the capability of getting out of his shiite mold and does he have the capability of bringing all the s
Pge. That is just ridiculous and think pge alleys putting this forward should think about what it makes them look to the public. Let me get to the other important aspect of the ordinance ballot measure and that schnookler issue. I have done work on clean power sf for 11 year jz a big part is knocking on door squz calling people on the phone and i explained this to thousands of people and the number 1 comment and get from people i have to convince is, i got the thing from pge and see in their advertising that they are the greenest utility in the country because they have over 50 percent Green House Gas free electricity. The reason that pge is able to get away with that is they claim Nuclear Power is Green House Gas free and clean. Green house gas free it isnt true. Anyone who knows the Energy Industry knows that a Nuclear Power plant because [inaudible] a lot of other inputs, even given Nuclear Power plant produces from 15 percent up to fifen 0 percent of Green House Gas emissions over
As close as they can in real time. We do that by arranging the energy with the grid operator. The idea of firming and shape sg you produce a specific amountf Renewable Energy and that energy is delivered into the grid but you can using all the resources in the grid shape it . Into a profile that supports your consumers demand. The same amount of Renewable Energy is produced from that product as from the product content in category one product and the product conitant cat tent 3. Renewable yeents are merely documentation that a given amount of Renewable Energy is generated and delivered to the grid. Okay. So, then just going back to my question, for category 3 that is the only category where potentially we would go outside of the state unless it is on the boarder and delivered within california but that is the category where potentially we could purchase Renewable Energy credits . The category 3 are sort of the most liquid, they are the most easily traded. It doesnt have to be a out of