Do not do that again, mr. Shanahan, or i will not take your name up for a vote before this committee. Cspan programs are available at cspan. Org, right on our home page or by searching the video library. And now Energy Secretary rick perry on President Trumps proposed 2018 budget for the Energy Department from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. This is about an hour 40 minutes. Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize for the delayed start, but hopefully we will have an opportunity to hear from the secretary and learn of the president s views for the department of energy. Secretary perry, i want to welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan confirmation here in the senate. While it took us a little bit longer than wed hoped to get you in this role, were glad to have you at the helm. We look forward to helping you get a full compliment of folks there at the department as well. The budget request for the department of energy ta
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize for the delayed start, but hopefully we will have an opportunity to hear from the secretary and learn of the president s views for the department of energy. Secretary perry, i want to welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan confirmation here in the senate. While it took us a little bit longer than wed hoped to get you in this role, were glad to have you at the helm. We look forward to helping you get a full compliment of folks there at the department as well. The budget request for the department of energy takes a different approach this year than weve seen in the recent past. The president has made a concerted effort to increase funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration to focus on our Nuclear Weapons program. This is a portion of the department that falls outside the scope of our committee here. The administration has also requested robust funding for the cleanup of Nuclear Waste l
Welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan conservation in the senate. It took us a little bit longer than we had hoped to get you in this role and we are happy to have you at the helm. We look forward to getting you helping you get a full complement of folks at the department as well. The budget request for the department of energy takes a different approach than weve seen. The president has made a concerted effort to increase funding for the nuclear. This is a portion of the department that falls outside of our community here. The administration has requested robust cleaning of Nuclear Waste. To offset those funding increases the proposed deep cuts to research and development for energy and science. It proposes to phase out innovative programs that have had demonstrated success. I understand what drop the proposal, but i am concerned by certain parts of it. The United States is the worlds leader in science and energy. We like it that way, and we want to keep it that
Asking our viewers, what do you think should be included . What should Americas Energy priorities be in the next four years . Republicans can call 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media come on twitter and facebook. A good wednesday morning to you. We are focusing on energy and environmental policy. We want to hear from you about your Energy Priorities in the next four years. Donald trump has called it an America First energy plan. He talked about it on the campaign trail. Here are the priorities he laid out in his speeches on the campaign trail. Oil,nts to promote shale natural gas and clean coal production. He wants to lift moratoriums on Energy Production and federal areas, both onshore and offshore. He supports the development of the keystone xl pipeline and wants to provide regulatory the energyor industry and lift regulations that hamper the development of new Drilling Technologies and resend the Obama Administra
Proponents argue this deadline is necessary to ensure timely consideration by d. O. E. , but given the departments track record, i find this arbitrary deadline to be completely unnecessary. In fact it could be detrimental to the ultimate approval of an export application. In light of recent events related to the jordan cove application in oregon, do you believe it makes sense to force d. O. E. To hastily make a decision on an application based on the final eis . We have consistently said we see no need for this. By performance. And as youve said, i think very correctly, there can be unintended consequences. The jordan cove, when that was rejected by ferc for nonenvironmental reasons, would have caused a problem with the bills as proposed. So, you know, we really should be having records of decision by ferc in this case or marad for an offshore facility because that is the complete set of information that informs our final judgment. I want to ask you about Climate Change and note that C