My heart is full of gratitude. That is the thought right now. To all of you, to my colleagues, to the staff, being the chairman of the house and conference committee, is the ultimate thing in congress. This is been the best. We have a whole other year ahead of us. Thank you for your service. [ applause ]. We have a lot of work to do. Go ahead and get started. State utility regulators have challenges. They have affordable electricity. They have this during this congress. They understand what drives the growing reliability crisis. This is from the entire electricity portfolio over an extended period of time. They have different retail choices. We are relying more on transitional organizations. This is due to environmental growing regulations and agencies. Fans will be on foster fuel generation, and market distortions. These factors are contributing to premature retirement for most of our reliable and most dispatched resources. As of the increased connected grid, they have a much wider im
After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
Comcast. Do you think this is just a Community Center . No. Its way more than that. Comcast is partnering with a thousand Community Centers to create wifi enabled lists so families can have the too they need for anything. Comcast supports cspan. Along with these other Television Providers giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. Julie su signed memorandums of understanding with interior secretary deb haaland and Environmental Protection agency chief of staff dan utecht at the Labor Department in washington, d. C. It focused on creating union jobs and a clean energy. And well hear from stakeholders on advancing these goals. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. I want to start the program with a warm welcome to the department of labor to witness our partnership across the federal government with the signing of two separate memorandums of understanding between the department of labor and department of interior and Environmental Protection agency. I am theresa acuna, Deputy Director of the
The vestibule where the cocaine was. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [applause] good afternoon, everyone. I want to start the program with a warm welcome to the department of labor to witness our partnership across the federal government with the signing of two separate memorandums of understanding between the department of labor and department of interior and Environmental Protection agency. I am theresa acuna, Deputy Director of the Good Jobs Initiative here at d. O. L. The Good Jobs Initiative helps support collaborations between these agencies as we aim to realize the vision of President Biden. And through the leadership of our respective leaders. This work and today would not be possiblefit were not for the countless people in each of our agencies who believe we can act on Climate Solutions and create good and equitable
Haaland and deputy interior secretary testified before the Senate Natural resources committee. The senators, most of whom are from western states, asked about increasing Domestic Oil Production in the biden administrations interior Budget Priorities for 2024. The administration is requesting 18. 9 billion from the department as an increase of 2 million from 2023. This morning, the committee will be discussing the president s proposed fiscal year 2024 budget for the department of interior and other items within his purview. Id like to welcome secretary holland, deputy secretary boudreau back to the committee as well as interior budget director, denise flanagan. I wanna thank you all for joining us this morning to set the scene. I think its important to note for contexts that the congress provide the department an additional 48. 1 billion in the last 19 months including 47. 3 billion and targeted investments to the bipartisan infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act and 779 million