Good morning, efveryone. The committee will come to order. 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. Looking forward to starting the new year off with that good foot. We dont have senator capito with us this morning but she is also returning to our committee and i look forward to welcoming her in her ongoing contributions. We do have a lot on the agenda today. Our broad Bipartisan Energy Natural Resources bill where again were looking forward to continuing that as the year progresses. Our efforts to increase our nations mineral security, our need for wildfire funding fix paired with for estry management reforms, Park Maintenance backlog, islands and territories. Weve got a wide range of public lands. Those are a few of the things that we h
Production in the United States this is good news for the us economy is trades and i am quoting you here, combined with the right policies. When you make that statement, are you referring to tax policies, energy policies, a combination of all of that . If you could go into that i would be curious. Very fortunate because we have oil, gas, Renewable Energy sourceand business here. By improvement of the technology you look more and more oil and gas, existing resources if the right incentives are provided to the industry. Number 2, i believe, huge potential to make more use of urban energies, solar and wind especially. I was able to see support for Renewable Energy policies. The production tax credit. Exactly. Third, very important, the Independence Energy dependence and Energy Dependence is based on two factors, one is encasing production and seconds, keeping consumption at a certain level and not to waste Energy Efficiency so i imagine Domestic Energy policies, in addition to supplyside
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
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