Week of starting specifically about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works, why why mostrtant, political scholars hate the Electoral College. Hopefully you have read most of the book so far, if not, all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College, but its a useful book because he lays out all of the common arguments for think isl, which i helpful for allowing each person to make up their own mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. I do a whole week on this one elect thes how we president , but very few americans understand the process. Theou take a course in american presidency, you should probably walk away understanding how this process works. But also because its really important in how it structures how elections turnout. We started our discussions of president ial nominations by talking about the history of nominations and taking a relatively deep diving to the process rules of nominations today. We start out president ial nomina
We have your statement. It will be including the record in its entirety and under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety if you wish or summarize, either way. I will summarize it. I am here to provide a frank response the questions regarding the Exxon Valdez Oil spill and to describe our continuing efforts to deal with its consequences before this i do this however i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of the exxon and certainly on behalf of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred and we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and in particular those in the Prince William sound area thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this we take full responsibility and weve done so from the beginning and well continue doing all we can to clean up and mitigate those
You ready for me, mr. Chairman . Yes, mr. Roe, we have your statement. It will be included in the record in its entirety. And under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety or summarize, either way. Ill just sort of summarize it. Ill here to provide a frank response to questions regarding Exxon Valdez Oil spill, and to describe our continuing to efforts to deal with its consequences. Before this, i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on beha of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred. And we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and particularly those in the Prince William sound area. Thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this, we take full responsibility, and weve done so from the beginning. Well continue doi
Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg
Later. Explore nations past on American History tv, every weekend on cspan3 i woke up at my home was in a suburb of anchorage it was all over the news. So, by the time i got to work and you all about it. My first reaction was disbelief, how could this happen. Then, the second reaction was just shock at the enormity of it. They spilled like 11 million gallons of oil and covered like 11,000 mi. 2 of ocean before it was done. The scale was inconceivable until it happened. Where were you working, and what was your job there i worked for the Anchorage Daily News and i was a reporter , primarily doing investigative work but also covering business so i covered oil even before the spill. Can you tell us what the history of the oil industry was in alaska, how large was it during that time. A modern oil industry that we know today got its start in alaska in 1967 when there is a huge oil strike, the pipeline began operating in 1973 and that was when the tanker traffic began so about 15 or 16 year