As this hearing is fully virtual, we had to address housekeeping matters. For this meeting, the or staff designated by the staff may mute their microphones when they are not under recognition and the purposes of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Numbers are responsible for muting an unyielding themselves, and if ive noticed that, i would ask the staff you. If you indicate by knotting, we will unmute your microphone. I remind everybody that the fiveminute club still applies. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next issue member until the issue is resolved. You will mean pain the talents of your time. At one minute remaining, the clock will turn yellow, at 30 seconds permitting, i will deadly tap the gavel that your time is almost expired. When your time has expired, the clock will turn red and i will begin to recognize the next member. In terms of speaking order, we will begin with the chair and Ranking Members and members present at the time the hearing is calle
Departments budget and clean jobs. This is two hours and 35 minutes. Welcome, everyone. As this hearing is fully virtual, we had to address housekeeping matters. For this meeting, the or staff designated by the staff may mute their microphones when they are not under recognition and the purposes of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Numbers are responsible for muting an unyielding themselves, and if ive noticed that, i would ask the staff you. If you indicate by knotting, we will unmute your microphone. I remind everybody that the fiveminute club still applies. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next issue member until the issue is resolved. You will mean pain the talents of your time. At one minute remaining, the clock will turn yellow, at 30 seconds permitting, i will deadly tap the gavel that your time is almost expired. When your time has expired, the clock will turn red and i will begin to recognize the next member. In terms of speaking order, we will begin
Your time. The clock will show how much time is remaining. One minute remaining clock will turn to yellow and 30 seconds remaining i will gently toss the gavel to remind members is almost expired. When your time has expired will turn red and i will recognize next member. In terms of the speaking or we will begin with the chair and Ranking Member of members present time is called, the meeting will be a or a Senior Member is not present at the time order. House rules require me to remind we set up email address which they can put in writing and at any of our hearings are markups. The address has been provided in advance. Im not myself for five minutes for my opening statement. The subcommittee will come to order. Let us begin ourfirst hearing on the fiscal year 2020 four department of energy. Thank you secretary granholm. I am so thrilled to have a fellow colleague with such a distinguished career as the news energy. The secretary jennifer granholm, a resultsoriented leader. I know with
Oversight of the department of Energy Research and development enterprise. Welcome, mr. Secretary. Were delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities so i hope we see you much more frequently from now on, and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make draconian cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs, most actually fared well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a subst
We are delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities , so i hope we see you more frequently and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs most faired well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a substantial increase in the International Fusion project which i advocated for as well. I went to visit that project a couple years ago,