I dont think that you believe that this is part of the way we have seen other countries do this in order to do the same thing. I know that there are other countries that believe this. There are others that believe they have an unfair advantage. Somebody might . , i guess that my point is that you do not get the right standards on your own. In the world where there are standards. We would not sign an agreement that didnt have standards that we felt protected as. Paterno recognizes the gentleman from indiana. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Its good to see you again we appreciate you being here. You said that the imf is indispensable to achieving economic and National Security interests. You talk about the way that this works to help prevent extremism and this has been a reoccurring theme that the terrorists had jobs they would drop their weapons. Fortunately what we have seen on the news is that parents are actually highly educated young men and women from some of the worlds most advanced agen
Forward, i have been focused like the laser on trying to help the country get to a Better Safety posture when it comes to the movement of crude by rail. Su the point we have taken 24 shortterm measures that were thought about as bridges longterm answer which is ultimately a rule on this. Just to cut to the chase, you have to have a comprehensive approach to is this issue. There is all lost in the news about hank cars and tank car standards. The cape cod is that mitigation device. Is not a device designed to prevent an accident an accident for some period of time. We have to have a prevention strategy, we have to have a mitigation strategy, we have to have an Emergency Response strategy. One thing we pushed on the department is a comprehensive approach to take into account all those areas and i would say that i think there is the building consensus both outside government but within government, the right way to go. We are still working through the later stages of rulemaking, this is an
On my part . Congressman, the action that the administration took obviously was to try within the law, within the authorities we have to remove restrictions that we thought were counterproductive, and if anything working against the goal of getting the kind of change in cuba that we all want which is a Movement Towards giving human rights and other issues of importance greater attention. I think that, you know, the transactions between the u. S. And cuban parties will be governed by law so there will be things like food sales. The payments will be easier for companies to comply with and purchasers to comply with, so i think it will be easier for u. S. Firms to do business with cuba but we havent opened up all the forms of support that exist in countries that we have normal relations with and weve been clear that cuba still has a long way to go to make the changes it has to make before we would have that kind of conversation. I agree that were not there yet. In 1993 cuba actually made t
Engineer, a Petroleum Engineer early part of her career, then a banker for a good portion of her career, a chief executive of a publicly held company and lastly a mountain climber and a kayaker. I think the last two attributes that she brings to this job are probably going to be the most important attributes of washington climbing mountains and avoiding rocks in the rapids. So i think she is extraordinarily well credentialed for this position. Ive had sometimes distressing experience and Energy Policy formation. I have a lot of i see Bennett Johnson in the background here. A lot of us have bruises that have lasted for years from that process. Senator, good to see you. Bob frye, the late bob frye was the head of resources for the future, once testified before the committee i was on that the task of defining the Energy Future was to chart a safe, secure response environmentally responsible energy path that would sustain Human Progress for present and future generations. That was probably
Thank you, madam chair. On want to get gavelled on. Well, you have 28 more seconds if you wish to continue. No. I will get some credit out of you. Oh, need your credit, thats true. Now were going to complete this first panel, which started a very long time ago, seems like yesterday. And were going to do it this way. Im going to give senator whitehouse take my two minutes. Senator vitter okay . Senate inhoff, senator sessions and then ill close. Everybody has two more minutes, okay . So lets start with senator whitehouse. Ill just take a little bit of my time to respond to senator sessions suggestions that one scientist says that Climate Change isnt really happening and that there really isnt an association with storms. And i just want to put that into context. There actually is a Peer Reviewed Scientific Consensus out there about this. It is massive. It is not unanimous. Sometimes is rarely unanimous. There are eccentrics. There are outliers. There are people who have nonmainstream opi