Defense department. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Mr. Louis bremer to the assistant secretary of defense special operations. We thank everyone for being here today. Briefly say who these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the admissions that theyre nominated for. Mr. Abend, youre presently the southeastern adviser to the u. S. Customs and Border Protection and you have extensive experience leading the investigations part of the Inspector General offices for the federal Housing Finance agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban development. Youve been former secret Service Agent with in the winter of the 2015 council of Inspector General award for excellence. Mr. Hansell, you are currently an associate director of the Boston Consulting Group in its north American Public sector, having previously served as the special assistant to the president for National Security affairs and a senior director for national threats, transnational t
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
Bows. Sir . Reporter youre exactly right. Everyone thought the hong kong protest issue was settled last week. Controversial bill was suspended. People left the streets. Now it is back, bigger than before, this is pushback against china and their influence in hong kong. Nearly two Million People of hong kong took to the streets on sunday demanding a number of issues. First of all release of people who had been arrested last week, punishment for police who ordered the use of force, resignation of hong kong leader lam and that secretary of state mike pompeo will raise the issue with president xi at the g20 next week. We see what is happening, unfolding in hong kong. Were seeing people of hong kong speak about things they value. Reporter the protest revived of a joshua wong, a prominent activist leader rallied the crowd after being released from prison. He was serving a twomonth sentence taking part in 2014 protest. It is time for us to the ability to step down and she will face two millio
More pressure by. On the situation by pulling further out of the g c p a way one of the major problem seems to be all say the fact that on the one hand the u. S. Is offering negotiation some sort of dialogue and the iranians are responding by saying how can we stop talking with you when you go joe. Through and so theyre saying that. Sanctions to this degree is a kind of Economic Warfare theyve been weaponized. Well i think iran has a point here i mean the trumpet ministrations approach has i think failed iran is less willing to talk than they were when Donald Trump Took Office they are not changing their behavior in the region that the trump ministration is concerned about the europeans and other parties to the j c p a way are sticking by the g c p a way and not coming on to the trumpet ministration side so the trump policy is failing i think their offer of talks is somewhat disingenuous the way to get back to progress is for the United States to rethink its policy and eventually retur