Oversight of the department of Energy Research and development enterprise. Welcome, mr. Secretary. Were delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities so i hope we see you much more frequently from now on, and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make draconian cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs, most actually fared well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a subst
Exit selectivity it will come to order. This is a short hearing weve never had this combination of the select committee will come to order. This is a historic hearing, we have never had this combination of witnesses, a fantastic collection of expertise to help us make sense of the Chinese Communist party is doing in cyberspace and how we can better defend ourselves. I thought this morning we spend a lot of time on the committee debating or thinking about the question of whether china will make a move militarily against taiwan and what would be the timeline of such a move. Obviously this is a unknowable question and people continue to debate it, but in some meaningful sense i wonder if such invasion or the preparation for such invasion which would be incredibly costly as the Ranking Member eloquently pointed out yesterday has already begun. If the intelligence operation of the battle space has begun for over 20 years the ccp has been attacking government, defense contractors, technology
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Plus, senator mark warner talks russia, virginia, and points in between. And later on, congressman joe crowley with a look at how the party can rebuild on tuesdays win to start redrawing the map in favor of democrats. And i talk with republican congressman Steve Scalise whos on the mend and praising the men and women who saved his life on the baseball diamond. At this hour the president is in the philippines. He has praised that countrys president Rodrigo Duterte despite his bloody crackdown on drug use in the country. Its a trip in which President Trump saw 11 nations go around him with an agreement on pacific trade. It was one where he once again undermined the conclusions of the American Intelligence Community that, indeed, russia did interfere in the 2016 election. Once more, President Trump met with russian president Vladimir Putin and once more he did not forcefully make the case for protecting the integrity of american elections. President trump talks to reporters saturday and i
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