Vietnamese opt and our hospital and i went to nutrong once a week to do red cross work. Watch American History tv, every weekend on cspan3. The Senate Energy Committee Held a hearing on the Global Energy out look. The executive tiff director of the agency talked about oil and Gas Production and the decreesable price of Renewable Energy and Cyber Security and a another of other issues, this is about an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning everyone the committee will come to order as we begin our first hearing what propositions to be a very busy 2008 id like to provide specific welcome this morning to our new member, senator smith. It is good to have you as part of the committee. I think you will find that this is a committee that does good work. We like to focus on policy and we like to do things in a bipartisan way every now and again. So looking forward to starting the new year off with that good foot. We dont have senator capito with us this morning but she is returning to our committee
I want to start with finance, first of all, the Digital Currency world. While we spend time talking about bitcoin, theres another that you guys have been looking into. Reporter part of this is the crypto boom and maybe the receding of said boom that has created a lot of confusion. It seems like bitcoin is a hot thing, and then ethereum and ether. Where i supposed to get into am this . Another one that has caught a lot of attention recently is ripple, so we wanted to take a hard look at ripple. One of the things we did is, in talking to the Banking Community because ripple says it is a banking solution they say you dont know what this is for. Xrp, the Digital Currency affiliated with ripple, the thing is sort of like, what is this going to be for . Theres still reason to be really skeptical. Carol it makes you scratch your head a little bit because we know the Financial Community says we are new to digital currencies, doing collaborations or looking at blockchains. We know theres activi
Carol and you succeed. I want to start with finance, first of all, the Digital Currency world. While we spend time talking about bitcoin, theres another that you guys have been looking into. Part of this is, the crypto boom and maybe the proceeding of receding of said boom that has created a lot of confusion. It seems like bitcoin is a hot thing, and then ethereum and ether. Where am i supposed to get into this . Another one that has caught a lot of attention recently is ripple, so we wanted to take a hard look at ripple. One of the things we did is, in talking to the Banking Community because ripple says it is a banking solution they say you dont know what this is for. Carol not so much . Joel xrp, the Digital Currency affiliated with ripple, the thing is sort of like, what is this going to be for . There is a lot of enthusiasm but theres still reason to be really skeptical. Carol it makes you scratch your head a little bit because we know the Financial Community says we are new to di
Skiers doping also in these competitions weve asked the International Olympic committee whether it will investigate those doping allegations we are awaiting a reply but a sports lawyer we spoke to told us its worrying that the i. O. C. Hasnt publicly commented yet on the issue. Whats interesting is you heard the outcry in the media about these allegations you havent seen any action by wada as it currently stands i dont see there being an investigation which you know is in the light of everything weve discovered with regards to the russian doping allegations is troubling everybody where there is a problem should be investigated we need to understand that the doping is in fact a global problem is raised by this documentary we need to understand that doping as happened and occurs across the world and that this is not an incident slated to russia that this is a global problem its a continuing problem and its something we need to address seriously right now even the greatest antidoping expe
Issue this week. I try. Carol and you succeed. I want to start with finance, first of all, the Digital Currency world. While we spend time talking about bitcoin, theres another currency that you guys have been looking into. Part of this is, the crypto boom and maybe the proceeding of receding of said boom that has created a lot of confusion. It seems like bitcoin is a hot thing, and then ethereum and ether. Where am i supposed to get into this . Another one that has caught a lot of attention recently is ripple, so we wanted to take a hard look at ripple. One of the things we did is, in talking to the Banking Community because ripple says it is a banking solution we talked to the Banking Community and they say they dont know what this is for. Carol not so much . Joel xrp, the Digital Currency affiliated with ripple, the thing is sort of like, what is this going to be for . There is a lot of enthusiasm but theres still reason to be really skeptical. Carol it makes you scratch your head a