The chair yield to himself five minutes for questions. First, mr. Wilburn, thank you very much for the service to your country as i thank captain moak as well. I used to be, prior to coming to congress, an officer in the Green Energy Company itself. I dont know about your particular company but its a subject im highly interested in. But, mr. Wilburn, im still a little curious. I understand that you were on a flight, i guess, when you were sending your testimony. But i guess my first question is, was it simply a clerical mistake, or did you change your mind on whether or not t. A. R. P. Regulations in dodd frank played a role in failing to finance the Brazilian Company that sought your product . So is it a clerical error, or did you change your mind about including that in your testimony . No, its not a clerical error. I didnt have exactly all the facts. Youll see the rest of my written statement. I think it speaks to some of those issues surrounding what youre okay. Mr. Wilburn, you he
Ignored again . Thats why we thought this problem was fixed last time. And then we worked over the course of the last two years to try to get the reforms that both sides of the aisle enacted. Lowell braynard told me they were not going to interact with the subsidies right across in the treasury department. In the meantime while we wait for reform to be implemented and find out its not going to be implemented, how many jobs will we lose in the interim . Were going to lose thousands. Thats why our position has changed. Last time, we thought we had it fixed. Now our position is if theres not a stop on widebody financing for stateowned. I appreciate that, mr. Wilburn, what youre doing, i appreciate your service as well as your entrepreneurial spirit. I just have one bone to pick with you. I know you say youre a free markettype of guy. I think you said i pledged my collateral, you can only pledge that once. And i get that. But i guesses that the way the free markets work. If i have an idea
I appreciate you have been willing to persist but participate. As we continue to explore the timeline of the crash, the inconsistency of the probability of lost emails by multiple people with the government, we appreciate you are not in government. You were not doing this at the time. As you can imagine, not just the internet, not just fox but america is beginning to question how convenient so many emails of so many people at the heart of targeting conservative groups for their views and politics and for the fact that the Citizens United was objected to by the president how many of them had loss of data and how much is not available to American People . A coverup is normally described as something that happens during an investigation around here. In other words, things go missing during an investigation. When it comes to the loss of data, it is clear that data began disappearing and not being able to be found at a time when congress was just beginning to look at wrongdoing that is now
Believe its necessary to your Business Model, i accept that. But how is that fair to the other millions and millions of Small Businesses who sell to americans who dont get their products subsidized to the federal government . Sir, id love to compete on a fair basis in america with my Green Technology to take bio gas into methane. I dont get a subsidy. I take exception to your remark. But my point is does xm not subsa die finance for your products . I dont believe that im subsidized. I dont believe that at all. Yes, sir. Let me speak to that point, if i may, mr. Chairman with all due respect. And i do respect you from the bottom of my heart. My point is, you asked a question. I cant sell my technology here because theres barriers to entry to the market. And the barriers to the entry of the market is the oil and gas industry who subsidize the 15 oil and gas depletion allowance. I dont get that as a producer. I can but my bio and gas mr. Wilburn, wed be willing to work with you and be muc
You both. Steve, ill start with you. The new year is only bringing more troubling news for Los Angeles County as it fights this pandemic. So what are you seeing there . Kathy, its gotten to the point in this crisis where i have to start off with the overwhelming amount of death and what to do with the dead. Private mortuaries and Funeral Homes have now gotten to the point where theyre so overloaded with bodies that they have to turn away bereaved families. The county has shattered its single day death toll, now three days in a row. Let me put it to you like this. The National Guard has been called in to assist with hospitals and in some cases, there are an extra pair of hands for nurses and emts but their primary function in a lot of cases has been to move bodies from hospital morgues because they are so overloaded with the overwhelming amount of bodies to a county storage location, somewhere else where they can free up more room to treat patients. Thats the situation now at hospitals.