Order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good afternoon, welcome to todays hearing, the future of electricity delivery, monetizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank all of our witnesses for joining us today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as i can tell but ive read some history about what it was like when we first started building the electric brig grade over a century from now. I dont think we could have imagined the tech elegies that we would use to power homes businesses and hospitals and i think the challenge is different. The real challenge was just extending power itself to every corner of our society. There was a challenge that those providing powers knew that they could make money in cities and well Populated Areas and places with businesses and commercial opportunities, but it was not as profitable to take it into the countryside into the hill country of texas for example. The government made a ba
We have to make sure jonathan can get across the finish line. He wants to run a sub sevenminute mile. David unbelievable energy. Coach dermitt. We want to tell Jonathan Jonathan is. Back to you guys. Were here with barbara fin began a special finyingian, a special ed teacher. Youve run the marathon before. Tell us how it was today. It was beautiful. Weather is perfect. Brooklyn has the best crowd. Lafayette street is amazing, the energy on that street. It was a great everything is organized. Its great. Reporter any challenges on the course . You said you had run this one before. Right . Barbara it was pretty smooth. The course was great. You mean like was there any obstacles . Everything was smooth. Everything flowed. There were some obstacles during the course, some construction on the pulasky bridge and queensboro. They cleaned that up. Reporter youre a special ed teacher in new york city. Your children out there supporting you, cheering for you . Barbara yeah. They cant handle the c
Charter school advocates want more recognition and funding from the city. The groups took its concern to the steps of city hall. [music] Jennifer Hudson performed during the rally in brooklyn. [music] reporter teachers parents, and students marched across the brooklyn bridge, ending up on the steps of city hall. The group wants new york city mayor bill de blasio to be more supportive of expanding Charter Schools here. Every school should be the same across the board. Were here today to right whats been wrong for so many years. Reporter whats been wrong . It has not been the same playing ground for everybody. Reporter she has two children in a charter school. I love it. Its amazing. I think im really challenged. I want to be a scientist. Reporter the Bronx Borough president joined the cause saying Charter Schools in the city need more funding. Reporter Charter Schools have to go to the Business World and raise money. Theyre doing that in order to fill in the gap between the amount of mo
Be important for the Republican Party writ large, but more specifically, how to deal with some of the internal changes occurring within the party. And you talk about the party becoming again a party of aspiration. What do you mean by that . What are you to that conclusion. People talk about republicans and conservatives as being angry all the time. If you look at the television and watch whats happening with the candidate and donald trump, they sound really angry. If you dont know what it is or it is they dont have that many conservatives and their families. They just know what they see on tv. They see the guys yelling and screaming and they say i guess they hate people. When i became a conservative in my 20s, it was because they realized i was brought up in a liberal family. I realize conservative ideas of the best ideas for lifting people out of poverty. 2 billion people which Free Enterprise ideas 1970s. Its incredible what happened world and of conservatives themselves can shout th
Be important for the Republican Party writ large, but more specifically, how to deal with some of the internal changes occurring within the party. And you talk about the party becoming again a party of aspiration. What do you mean by that . What are you to that conclusion. People talk about republicans and conservatives as being angry all the time. If you look at the television and watch whats happening with the candidate and donald trump, they sound really angry. If you dont know what it is or it is they dont have that many conservatives and their families. They just know what they see on tv. They see the guys yelling and screaming and they say i guess they hate people. When i became a conservative in my 20s, it was because they realized i was brought up in a liberal family. I realize conservative ideas of the best ideas for lifting people out of poverty. 2 billion people which Free Enterprise ideas 1970s. Its incredible what happened world and of conservatives themselves can shout th