A conversation and then towards the end of the hour we will open it up for questions and answers from the audience, so chairman eu grew up and kentucky, you served as a key adviser to senator mitch mcconnell, gave us a sense of how that background informs or doesnt inform you or approach more generally. Thank you for having me and the opportunity, its a pleasure to be here today, yes i did spend a good chunk of my youth and kentucky and also the opportunity to serve the Senior Center and party leader from kentuckian in the United States senate and sent mcconnell in terms of how that and firms my work at the commission, i cant quantify how much i learned from senator mcconnell just about in his work ethic and his discipline and his leadership style, his approach to governance, his approach to bipartisanship. And my working for him, most of the if not all of the legislative initiatives that i worked on, they didnt pass the senate with 16 post, they passed with 85 plus votes, oftentimes a
In lexington, kentucky. You served as an its a advisor to mitch mcconnell. Give us a sense how that background informs or doesnt your approach at approaching policy. Absolutely. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to be here today. Yes, i did spend a good chunk of my youth in lexington, kentucky, and had the opportunity to serve the senior senator and party leader from kentucky in United States senate, senator mcconnell. In terms of how that informs my work at the commission, you know, i cant quantify how much i learned from senator mcconnell just about his work ethic and his discipline and his leadership style, his approach to governance. His approach to bipartisanship. Ofmy working for him, most if not all the legislative initiatives are worked on, they didnt pass the senate with 60 votes. They passed with 85 plus votes. Often times, and were talking substantial legislation on the energy front, multiple form bills, multiple highway bills. These are consequential pieces of legisla
Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test declines in employment rates especially among less educated men and women. We have a relatively low Unemployment Rate today, but we still see in the form of very weak Earnings Growth and very low Labor Participation rates among the less educated, sort of greater structural problems in the economy that, at least in some way, he lated to the decline of manufacturing employment and theres been evidence on that. Okay. Also, as i mentioned, the loss of manufacturing production has led to the loss of research and development, which has longer term implication dollas for theh of the u. S. Economy. So, to conclude, my main point is, is that claims that automation primarily cause the relative and absolute decline in manufacturing employment are just simply at this point in time not supported by the evidence. Im not saying that automation played no role, right . Certainly automations have. But theres no prima facie eviden
Power system in the northeast and mid atlantic due to increasing Winter Weather events, including the bomb cyclone. I would like to start by calling on the Ranking Member to give her opening statement. Thank you, chair, and good morning to everyone. Im sure that senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people may know, a 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska, impacting co kodiak and parts of the Pacific Northwest with tsunami warnings that were issued for activities that were expected, and those warnings for tsunami waves have been recalled but no doubt im sure the senator is dealing with lots of things this morning related to that and other issues. So, impa want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker, for being here and many of the staffs that people have here that were glad were back in operation. So we look forward to hearing from all our witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid. And its performance. Last year, secretary perry
Im sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people noah 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska with northwest warnings issuesed for activities that were expected the warning for the tsunami waves have been recalled and no doubt im sure the senator is dealing with lots of things related to that. I want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here and the staff people that are here and blade we are back in operation. So we look forward from hearing all of the witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid and its performance. Last year, secretary perry and the staff viewed the liability of the fuel mix and i was relieved when i saw the staff report in august which i thought was balanced. It carefully distinguished between reliability and resilience and introducing Renewable Resources rgs synthetic i inertia and frequency response and resilience metrics needed to be developed. Unfortunately, secretary perifiled the report as a