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
Test. Test. Test. And part of that reason is because of the research that is going on at our National Labs. And im going to, again, ask paul to share with you, just because hes fresh out of seeing some of this and has to do with the Battery Storage. And the progress being made on Battery Storage is really fascinating. And ive always said that Battery Storage is the holy grail. If were able to get to that point where we can use our renewables, solar and wind in particular to power these batteries that have long time storage, and what were finding now is that the the elements that are being used to create some of these batteries are not Rare Earth Minerals and theyre elements that we have right here in the United States, so were going to be in control of our future substantially more on the Battery Storage if you just kind of give them a glimpse of whats going on here and i think thats pretty exciting stuff. So a couple of examples, the complex, r d business, beyond lithium ion batteries
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,
A massive protest are backing the streets of thailands Anti Government demonstrators all important needed. Like minister said a lot. And three bcm. During the elections. The stories of war. On friday. This effort when third here in korea life from full time teaching them sean went into so much for joining us. We begin with the National Rail strike entered its third week on this monday with operations running at seventy to eighty percent normal. This tehran rail operator has announced plans to hire hundreds of workers to fill the gap. It refuses to budge. Especially after police raided its umbrella Office Acting cia reports on the ongoing dispute doesnt really strike rumbled into the spirit. On monday the union is holding firm in the aftermath of a police raid on sunday the Korean Confederation of trade unions. The Green Umbrella Group threatened not to protest he meets he quickly caught on the construction of the commission in response to sundays be hundreds of riot police raided the t
Stamped the stores in georgia at one time. Once i knew that her state of over twenty firsts here in korea life from school and keeping them from unpaid so much for joining us. We begin this evening with the revelation of fresh evidence of illegal electioneering by the nations spy agency the prosecution has uncovered more than one million additional twitter messages by agents of the National Intelligence service. I couldnt see her smile the allegations that the National Intelligence Service Medal in elections last year by posting political comments in favor of the conservative ruling party and twitter and other websites are piling up the prosecution announced thursday that the half confirmed the nations spy Agency Posted an additional one point two million politically slanted weeks the aim of influencing last years commentary and president ial election according to prosecutors all of the annuity found co star in violation of the election law and nis law that bans agents from intervene i