Guest ill be giving his speech on the floor of the United States senate. Tomorrows earth date and president obama is in new york will see many countries sign the top 21 agreement for 196 countries, 90 of the global admissions of the world will sign a commitment towards working together to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. I was in france during the negotiations. Im a strong supporter of the u. S. Leadership globally and in this country to dramatically reduce our emissions. Caller did you hear senator in half on the floor and those 192 countries going two countries going to be disappointed. How do you work with someone like that. Guest ive known jim ever since ive come to congress we came in the same year, 1987. He is a good person. He is just wrong on climate. Totally wrong. The way i answer that is, look, lets let the scientist determine what we need to do in order to keep our globe healthy. What can we do in order to protect our environment and future generations. Scientists tell us w
Commission. This subcommittee and clean air and Nuclear Energy is chaired by senator Shelley Moore capital of west virginia. [inaudible] i would like to welcome all of our witnesses today. A particular welcome to the alumnus of the committee, mr. Merrifield to tell me he began here 1986, i think. I appreciate you returning. As each witness knows you have five minutes for an oral statement and that we will take questions. We are here today to examine and exciting topic and that is advanced Nuclear Reactors. While Nuclear Issues are somewhat new to me, i am learning these technologies have the potential to make Great Strides in advancing Nuclear Technology. This is a topic that many of us are very interested in because Nuclear Energy is an essential component for all the above energy policy. Our Current Nuclear plants provide clean, safe, reliable, and Affordable Energy to power our economy while providing thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in benefits to local communities. They m
Alerted us to countries and countries all over the world to stop the faulty batteries, stop the use of these faulty batteries that had been used in the hoverboards and really to make sure that they were our challenge is a to lead in our environment and create a regulatory atmosphere where it can flourish and protect the peoples safety. Our regulated industries have experienced a series of accidents and incidents that have resulted in heightened attention scrutiny and skepticism about the safety of these modes of transportation. Public opinion is clear, there should not be any trade of yfeds we move products. And everyone has a part in protecting the communities and the environment living along these transportation routes while effectively advancing safety of the products and services that we all rely on. The national gas well leak in california last fall was the largest methane leak in u. S. History. This failure at this facility, one of the most critical for Energy Supply in the area
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our program. Thank you for sharing our commitment to holocaust remembrance. [applause] [america the beautiful] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] you can watch this event again later today on our website, www. Cspan. Org. This will mark the anniversary of the 1943 were soft ghetto uprising to protest deportations of jews who were there. Our road to the white house coverage continues today. Donald trump is in West Virginia and he will attend a rally in charleston, the state capital thislds its primary coming tuesday and we will have live coverage. Madam secretary, we proudly toe 72 of our delegate votes the next president of the United States. Former utah senator bob bennett passed away wednesday night. He was 82 years old. He had been fighting pancreatic cancer vermonts and he served three te
See which convicted child molesters are going to be recidivists. Most of them are. And im not willing to take the risk that our kids should be left alone with people like that. We have a National Sex Offender registry for a reason because these people recognize the danger that extends past their time of incarceration. Parents need to know about that and thats why we have this national registry, and schools need to avoid the danger. To be clear mr. President im not suggesting that a convicted child molester can never work again anywhere, but i am saying they shouldnt work in a school, and i think thats completely reasonable. Im shocked frankly that these organizations would come out against this, against this commonsense legislation. But the objection in fairness, some objection that comes from our side of the aisle as well. I have a colleague who i have all the respect in the world for, the senior senator from tennessee is a wonderful senator, and i agree with him on far more than i di