My career as a political scientist. And this has been amongst if not the most satisfying intellectually to work with john and work with all the authors who are all crs analysts and experts who in addition to their regular duties i want to emphasize that in addition to answering the requests that come in from members of congress and their staffs, in addition to that sat down and found the time oftentimes outside of regular work hours on the weekends and in the evenings to write these very insightful chapters. And i think its im very proud to be part of the institution of the Congressional Research service at the library of congress, also a terrific institution. And were very happy every day coming to work to help serve members of congress and with the goal of an informed national legislature. So as long as were we continue to be funded, as long as Congress Wants us to be there and help them, well keep showing up for work. And producing hopefully more documents like the one we produced f
And to any suggestions version is appropriate. I need you to intervene when you think that an assault of mediocre and if you are concerned about taking action i need you to get help from a friend from Law Enforcement, a chaplain with the officer sadly it is made worse on how he or she is treated. When victims are most vulnerable, the leadership and fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and brains need to stand by them in solidarity and not turn their back or turn away. It may not be easy but i need you to be one of them in person and also online. I know you live online in many ways snap chat, share your days news on facebook and instead ran. Thats why i need you to be leaners. Most of you would intervene if you saw someone being bullied around the campus but too many people like that stuff slide along the line. We know that and sometimes offline. We cant allow all those who do the right thing either in reporting an assault or standing up to stop it to be belittled on facebook ignored, passe
Has only 40 inspectors. West virginia has 56,000 active wells and as of 2011 just 20 inspectors. Pollution of Drinking Water whether from fracking or flawed construction of the well, or from surface waste from the site moving into aquifers has occurred 248 times between 2008 and 2014 in pennsylvania. We actually do not know how many incidents in total there have been because the state did not start collecting statistics on incidents until 2014. If we had more transparency, more accountable and more oversight, local communities would be able to make well wellinformed choices. However, building an oversight hearing around Public Relations campaigns to dismiss those concerns of local communities not only does a disservice to members of this committee, it also does nothing to increase the trust of the fracking industry in those communities. In closing, i would argue that it is not some hypocritical Smear Campaign by. The federal government, but rather repeated attacks against epa and campa
Rep. Smith the combination of hydraulic fracturing called fracking this technological breakthrough has helped create hundreds of thousands of jobs for the resurging Manufacturing Sector and has allowed the nation to become more energy independent. As with any type of technological process, any risk must be evaluated carefully. By the use of verifiable science. Unfortunately, opponents make claims based on the possibility and not the probability of associated risk. Environmental protections agencies have used this to wrongly assert a connection between hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination. In texas, the epa issued an unprecedented order that halted Natural Gas Development only to have them investigate and find the epa was wrong. They released a report that found hydraulic fracturing caused water contamination. It was later discovered that the report had several glaring weaknesses. They failed to take into account naturally occurring natural gas. It was not peerreviewed. Th
He goes on to say quote this goes to the very heart of what is the mad isonian system if the president can unilaterally change the laws in substantial ways or refuse to enforce them, it takes offline that very thing that stabilizes our system. I believe our members will loathe the day they allow that to happen. When i teach constitutional law i ask my students what is the limiting principle of your argument. When that question is presented to this white house too often the answer is in the first person, that the president is the limiting principal or at least the limiting person. We cant rely on that type of assurance in our system. Madison knew no people can be given total power without limits he goes on to say professor turley does quote the problem of what the president is doing is that he is not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He is becoming the very danger the constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in any single branch. This new