Hence geothermal nuclear, they remain core and important parts of the department of energys technology program. That said, we have seen big fluctuations in Natural Gas Prices, that have come from a variety of sources. That is something that we have to take into account. We look at the importance of price when we look at Public Interest determination. They impact the price on consumers, on manufacturers, and a lot 6 the issues that you heard here on the panel. That is something were focused on. We think it is very important. But over time, as you look at our research and development program, in the area that i manage which deals with throughout the department of energy, we want to make sure were pushing those technologies here in the United States. Thank you again. Thank you madam chair. I thank the witnesses for being here today. Im very pleased to be here, and also to be a cosponsor of senator barrassos bill. Many people think of the shelf as occurring in the western states, like wyom
Enemies than what we already have, and we want to bring many of them over to our side. So we have to be careful, i think, how we approach that. And you all know this better than i do but i think we need to learn more about other countries and other peoples and other cultures. My favorite example of that, i was privileged to be a joint chief of staff. And every year admiral lyons and the rest of us would order us to go down and steam around haiti. And every year we would go down and steam around circles in haiti and every year some Phi Beta Kappa on the joint chiefs of staff would announce were going to drop leaflets and every year i would remind them, its a great idea, but they cant read. And then we used speakers and spoke creole. We dont know what were talking about here in a lot of areas. Were not the most brilliant people in the world. If i want to thank the panel. I think youre on the right track. Somehow you failed to mention how were going to how were going to take advantage of
Could get a green light to produce something make something, move forward with a project in the United States of america pretty quickly. Now were ranked 41st in the world in the dealing with Construction Permit category by the world bank. Were getting worse. Other countries are Getting Better. Germany, Something Like number eight. South korea is Something Like number 12. And capital is flowing to different places around the world and not coming here because of the time it takes to permit something. Yesterday i introduced legislation with senator mccaskill thats bipartisan, thats a balanced approach to how do you get at some of this permitting. Senator king is a cosponsor of that legislation. Hes got an incredible background in this, having been a governor, but also in the private sector dealing with permitting. What i like about this legislation is it doesnt take away d. O. E. s approval authority, but it says you have to do it in 45 days. I appreciate what mr. Smith said about the fac
Proceed. There were instances when voter i. D. Laws had received preclearance because they sought to protect the ballot as opposed to act in a different way. But where there is an indication that the vote will somehow be harmed, i believe the department of justice certainly has the obligation to review that matter and look carefully at all of the facts and evidence and proceed accordingly. I couldnt agree with you more. And i find it ironic and painful that at this moment in our history, as we celebrate with the movie selma and talk about 50 Year Anniversary of the Voting Rights act that many states are making it more difficult for americans to vote, without any evidence of voter fraud to back up those changes. In one Southern State it is estimated that 600,000 voters were basically precluded from voting in election because of new voter i. D. Requirements. In that same state a 93yearold veteran was turned away. A 73yearold doctor turned away, people who were proud and wanted to vote tu
Function as a team, because it was basically we lost everything in this house fire that happened just as they were turning into teenagers. What year was that . Around 20002001. So it was an interesting experience. And for them to also be on the side of people donating things to us. It was a really unusual experience where weve been on the other side of the gift giving in the past. And we had to work through recreating our physical lives. I think we all learned that stuff doesnt really matter, that its really all about people. It was an incredible lesson. Not that id ever recommend it to anybody, but it was an incredible life lesson. You were a single mother but what was the impact on a teenager with that fire and what would be the impact on an adult . What would be the difference . Yeah, well. Stress has a greater impact on teenagers and that is one of many topics we talk about in the book. You know, they are surprisingly vulnerable to things that we might think, oh, theyre just resili