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
And then. It is the way i negotiate. It has done very well for me over the years, and it is doing even better for the country. Me over the years, and it is doing even betterfor the country. And i do think. Look, heres the story. I have people say, make a deal, make a deal. They dont have the guts, and they dont have the wisdom to know that you cant continue with a country that is taking 500 billion, not million, 500 billion, with a b, every year, 500 billion. Somebody had to do this. It should have been done by president 0bama. And sleepy joe biden. It should have been done by other people, it should have been done by bush and clinton. Double bush. It should have been done. I am doing it. Let me tell you something else. North korea should have been done a long time ago. Im doing a lot of things that i shouldnt have to be doing. Go ahead, please. Beth rigby, sky news. President trump you, you have met our new Prime Minister, borisjohnson yesterday. You said he was the right man for the
As a mom i think about what would i do if i had to send my child to School Every Day alongside a field where i knew they were spraying pesticides but i didnt know when and i didnt know what. We require our kids to go to school why dont we require these companies to at least inform the parents or the School Administrators what theyre spraying when and where. So we started to ask questions like well what chemicals are they spray how do we manage runoff. Email to gary who is are asking him about it what we can do what how we could start a bill to get these Chemical Companies regulated so we can put a stop to it or at least find out whats going on this was a group of young people and they were saying gary cant you do something about this issue gary started meeting with representatives of the seed company as they deny the use of that which was a very potent herbicide thats questionable and banned in a lot of places theyve clearly said theyre not using the and i was like well can you get rec
A lot of places theyve clearly said theyre not using the and i was like well can you get records like how do we prove that theyre not using those laws for the records thats when everything started to get interesting. At the point that there was something going on the more i dug into it the more troubling it became. So youre telling me like you cant get the records so he goes im submitting freedom of Information Department of agriculture 600. 00 in like 3 months but we got a list of 22. 00 different restricted use pesticides many of those are banned in other states and other in other nations and above all there was actually in 3 different forms. These companies have lied to me personally and directly as a Council Member about a number of questions live misled me they flat out lied and as we went through the process of these Community Meetings we slowly put together this bill bill to 401 this is serious serious stuff that deserves our attention turns to be deserves we dont was now. Its a
Where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot weve seen example after example where weve had to rush children from a Public School to an e. R. Like the ones i work in across the state for severe area long problems we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants theres no question otherwise why would that the Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with why im a middle school was particularly egregious the state of Hawaii Department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this is been the case it doesnt monitor the air it doesnt monitor the water it doesnt monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work. As a mom i think about what would i do. If i had to send my child to School Every Day alongside a field where i knew they were spraying