Screeria nigeria. Environmental officials from california, indiana, wyoming, wisconsin and new york testified on the hill this week on the challenges and successes with the epas Greenhouse Gas emissions rule for power plants. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee convened the hearing. Senator jim inhofe chairs the committee while senator Barbara Boxer serves as Ranking Member. This is just shy of two hours. Good morning. Before we begin let me get clarification Senate Armed Services committee embraced by everyone but well use it that is when we hit the gavel whoever is here well go by the early bird well go by seniority. Then those who come in after the gavel well get to them after everyone is already taken care of. So with that ill make note of who is here. If you would do that. Well bring this meeting to order. Great to have the panel. Had a chance to meet each one of you. I really do think the most important thing when we get into these rules and regulations is the state
North america. Will county is crossed by six class 1 railroads, five interstate highways, several commercial water ports on our nations largest inland waterway. Last year we processed over 3 million containers containing 65 billion worth of goods that are grown, manufactured, assembled, and delivered throughout the United States and the world. Our first and last mile Infrastructure Requirements today total 3. 6 billion of new investment just in our county, and that does not include bringing our existing road infrastructure up to a state of good repair. Our needs extend far beyond roads. Increased utilization of freight by rail as weve heard is resulting in more at grade rail crossings and its impacting commerce from public safety. We need at the very local level more grade separation structures and first and last mile interstate connectors to accommodate the freight of the future. The growth of freight has been stated we believe by 2045 that increase will be about 45 putting more press
Sanctions. We will not get any sanctions because the other countries will not go with it. Host ok, we are all out of time on capitol hill right now. Before the Senate Finance Committee Testimony to be had about protecting taxpayers from schemes and scams during the 2015 tax Filing Season. That is the topic. We will bring you live coverage on cspan. Welcome. The Committee Meets to talk about growing criminal activity that is threatening taxpayers across the country. These criminal acts are prevented by themes hiding behind telephone lines and computers, preying on august taxpayers on august taxpayers and robbing them of tens of billions of dollars a year. We are here to hear about federal and state officials on the fight to catch these crooks and protect taxpayers. First, i would you talk about one case in particular. In one very large number, by the way. This is a hearing that is long overdue as far as i am concerned. We will get into it. I have to apologize that a senator is not. , bu
Research tract faculty. There are jobs in industry, journalist, many where needed and we want to be sure people find the right match for themselves. We have started new programs, an early independence award which im excited about which allows a talented phd to skip the post doc and go to an independent position. I go to the presentations each year and its the most exciting day of the year because of their vision and their ideas. Similarly we have this new award where you cant apply if youve previously had a grant and your valentines day has to be out of the box, a little wacky for you to be allowed to apply for that proposal mechanism. And when we look at the output it has been truly impressive. All that is great but of course it doesnt solve the main problem we have which is this loss in purchasing power for research. We can try to balance things as best we can, protect those young investigators. We can only go so far. I appreciate that. And resources are obviously key to this as well
President obama just left in the past 45 minutes and the clean up inside begins. The president picked this location to announce the latest energy plan because this walmart in Mountain View uses solar for 14. 5 percent of its energy. We want to show you video of the motorcade leaving the walmart at 9 45 this morning. It avoided the protesters. Inside, the president announced the latest plan to advance solar power and Energy Efficiency and creating jobs and cutting carbon pollution. He says 300 new private and Public Sector commitments represent 850 mega watts of solar enough to power 130,000 homes and Energy Efficiency investments and lowering bills for a billion square feet of build education. It will be good for the economy long term. If we dont, that is bad for the economy. Rising sea levels, drought, more wildfires, more severe storms, those are bad for the economy. The president also announced some of the money will go to start Training Programs at Community Colleges across the cou