biden s nominee to be deputy-energy secretary. the committee is meeting the committee is meeting today for both a business meeting and a hearing. we are going to begin by considering the nomination of david turk to be the deputy secretary of energy. i am going to start with my opening statement. then, i will turn over to senator barrasso for his. and then, we ll have hopefully one more ready to roll. i was highly impressed by mr. turk at our hearing last week. he clearly has a firm grasp on the wide range of issues facing the department of energy. he is going to bring a wealth of practical experience to the job of deputy secretary. he started his career working in the senate for our former colleague, kent conrad, who speaks very highly of him. he then worked on the senate-judiciary committee for senator biden. he held a series of national-security and foreign-affairs jobs in the house, in the state department, and at the national security council. he spent two years as depu
the committee is meeting today for both a business meeting and a hearing. we re going to begin by considering the nomination of david turk to be the deputy secretary of energy. i m going to start with my opening statement and then i ll turn it over to senator barrasso for his and then hopefully one more ready to roll. i was highly impressed with mr. turk at our hearing last week. he clearly has a firm grasp on the wide-range of issues facing the department of energy. he will bring a wealth of experience and he started his career working in the senate for our former colleague kent conrad who speaks very highly of him and then worked on the senate judiciary committee for senator biden. he held a series of national security and foreign affairs jobs in the house and state department and at the national security council. he spent two years as deputy assistant secretary in the department of energy and he has spent four years in senior positions at the international agency including
opening statement and then i ll turn it over to senator barrasso for his and then hopefully one more ready to roll. i was highly impressed with mr. turk at our hearing last week. he clearly has a firm grasp on the wide-range of issues facing the department of energy. he will bring a wealth of experience and he started his career working in the senate for our former colleague kent conrad who speaks very highly of him and then worked on the senate judiciary committee for senator biden. he held a series of national security and foreign affairs jobs in the house and state department and at the national security council. he spent two years as deputy assistant secretary in the department of energy and he has spent four years in senior positions at the international agency including the last 14 months as dr. brawl s deputy. quite simply, mr. turk has spent the last 20 years spent the jobs given him the practical experience in energy, national security and management that he will nee
Conditions. So peeking today. I am noticing wind gusts around San Francisco as high as 40 miles an hour. Nearby ventura county, 35 miles an hour at this hour. They will intensify later. San diego getting the worst of it today as humidity levels differ. Between 3 a 10 . It is extremely dry. The water vapor imagery gives you a sense of how dry it is. There is no moisture being allowed into the state of california because of the High Pressure ridge being so strong. It is staying put. It is right over us. Over Northern California and nevada. That is putting the wind in a clockwise rotation sending the offshore wind into Southern California and the santa annas. Behind high, we will get some smoke from Southern California up to Northern California. You may smell that in the air. We are have having a spare the air alert. Check out this new video. Any wildfire broke out last night. You can see the flames taking over a mountain. There are dozens of homes nearby. Some of them have been evacuated
Henry olsen to passing this tax reform, they need to pass something that gives everybody a stake in the system. I think they need to not just focus on Corporate Tax reduction and higher rate reduction, but include payroll tax cuts for the workingclass people who put donald trump in the white house. They need to have something that gives americans a leg up being hired for companies and keep middleclass tax cuts and be more like the reagan style tax reform rather than the tax principles that have so far been breached. Lets talk about how Ronald Reagan reached that point. At what point did Ronald Reagan talk about tax reform . A how long did it take for negotiators to piece together a bipartisan plan, and what are the lessons we can take from that . Henry olsen reagan had two major tax plans. One was a tax cut in his first term, but he started his second term talking about tax reform almost as soon as he was inaugurated in his first state of the union address. He set out some broad princi