The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1420 to amend the independent energy act to promote Energy Efficiency via information and computing tech nollings and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from illinois, mr. Rush and the gentleman from michigan, mr. Upton, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. Mr. Rush i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h. R. 1420. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Rush mr. Speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from illinois is recognized. Mr. Rush mr. Speaker, i want to thank my friends and colleagues on the energy and Commerce Committee, ms. Eshoo of the great state of california, mr. Kinzinger of my home state of illinois, for working in a bipartisan manner to bring h. R. 1420, the
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order we are meeting to examine an issue that effectively weve been at a stalemate for quite some time. What we should do with used nuclear fuel accumulating at the Nuclear Reactors. At a starting point we should recognize that Nuclear Energy is an important part of our countrys electric generation. I believe its a vital part of our mix. The large reactors not landscape provide reliable admissions free power to communities across our country. Our Nations Nuclear industry is critically important but it also faces a number of challenges and one that impacted the first reactors began operation and Nuclear Waste disposition. Beginning with the passage of the Nuclear Waste policy act of 1982 congress attempted several times to address the backend of the fuel cycle. In an effort to resolve an earlier stalemate the federal government was supposed to begin taking title to use fuel and moving it to a repository at Yucca Mountain in nevada beginn
Hudson. I am the director of the center for political military knowledge. Today we are honored to talk about an important report, important subject, congressional efforts to oversee the Nuclear Security effort, more specifically a report copies of which are outside by the partnership for secure america and the Arms Control Association on empowering blueprints for a new generation. I want to welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier if people can silence any cell phones you might have, that would be very helpful. The work we have been doing with the association, we collaborated with two organizations the last year and doing three events on the hill congressional briefings on Nuclear Threats and tools of the trade, encountering the threat and the global Nuclear Security architecture. The report and presentations we gave in congress, the Macarthur Foundation. The agenda for today, we have 3 presentations that will discuss the importance of congressional Nuclear
All right. This hearing will come to order, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good afternoon, welcome to todays hearing. The future of electricity delivery, modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank all of our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but i have read history about what it was like when we first started building the electric grid over a century ago now. I dont think we could have imagined the technologies that we would use to power or homes and businesses and hospitals and everything today. And i think the challenge is different, you know, back then the real challenge was just extending power itself throughout every corner of our society, and there was a challenge which was that those providing power knew they could make money in the cities in well Populated Areas in places with a lot of business and commercial opportunities, but it was not as p
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