Into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. Im going to start by recognizing myself for five minutes before an opening statement. As i said, today, we begin the process of rebuilding and revitalizing our economy by modernizing our nations infrastructure. Over the last year, we have seen the devastating results of in action. Communities left behind due to the Digital Divide. The lift america act which was introduced last week, will help build back a better economy and invest a total of 312 million in clean and efficient energy, safe Drinking Water, expanded access to broadband. This legislation will serve as the blueprint moving forward and it provides an opportunity to Work Together in a bipartisan fashion. Im hopeful we can Work Together to try to find bipartisan solutions. I said this to our Ranking Member, this is a beginning. We introduced this as democrats, but we would like to have republican input into this before anything moves forward. There are a lot of bipartisan provi
Quicker in some cases like the current vaccination rollout their absolute disaster is discussing it discussing everything trying to please everyone and just like the somewhat myth of german efficiency there are lots of other areas where the reputation doesnt quite match the reality germany is considered a pioneer in the fight against Climate Change at least thats the image you leave in stumble across the word any given in some english magazines and newspapers it means Energy Transition and in this case its the monumental shift from dirty and potentially dangerous Power Sources to renewables applaudable but if you look behind the Success Stories youll quickly discover a few dirty secrets as they say old habits die hard is over. Whats the 1st thing that comes to your mind when you think about germany let me guess its probably going to be sausages football and of course lots and lots of beer. Well i guess theres a bit of truth in every stereotype but its actually one more thing that a lot
To the german people saying the plans were mistake and not practical. The European Union has toughened its vaccine export rules shipments can now be blocked if importing countries already have enough doses italian inspectors meanwhile have found a stash of millions of astra zeneca shots the drug maker says the jobs was staying within the e. U. Or going to the United Nations skin. U. S. Secretary of state Anthony Blinken says america is aiming to revitalize ties with its nato allies lincoln told Foreign Ministers in brussels that trust between the partners has been shaken and needs rebuilding he says the Transatlantic Alliance needs to confront threats from china and russia lincoln also accused china of undermining western democracy this is d. W. News from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram news or visit our website d. W. Dot com. For almost 48 hours people in germany thought easter would be a repeat of christmas another casualty of the pandemic no travel no easter egg hunts no f
Legacy energy source. Senator udall of new mexico and i have an amendment that will close a loophole in federal Energy Policy. I want my colleagues to know, and i think they do, of my long support for renewable and alternative sources of energy and so i agree with the aims of the murkowskimachin murkowskiy bill. The amendment that senator udall and i have introduced is the same as the bipartisan bill we introduced last week. The title of that bill is the fair return for public lands act. Mr. Grassley this bill was introduced 100 years to the date of the mineral leasing act of 1920. This amendment would increase the royalty rates on federal lands from 12. 5 to 18. 75 . Everybody here knows that a royalty is what the oil company will pay to a mineral owner. In this case the mineral owner is the american taxpayer, and that royalty is paid for the right to extract oil and natural gas from the lands of the United States. The legislation modernizes the public lands leasing system and it does
Should do Robust Community outreach to identify these sites with communitybased organizations and faith institutions and more. And explore ways to pass the cost savings on to the residents themselves, and not just the managers of these sites. And as i mentioned, highlight affordable and Senior Housing sites. We have already started seeing the consequences for neighboring communities in the last round of Public Safety power shutoffs that there were multiple Senior Housing complexes in communities where the power went out. And with some cases with clients living there and tripping over each other and going without their oxygen equipment that required electricity for days. San francisco, we dodged the bullet in this case, but we might not be so lucky in the future. There are a number of other recommendations. Just to touch on one real briefly, a prohibition on natural gas and new construction has been discussed. I think that is worthwhile considering, given our cas disar prone areas of th