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Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin ....
Democrats, it has reached a truly gross level. Watch. The president has taken action that is unconstitutional. The president is in violation of the war powers act. He is truly taking us right to the edge of war. It was a reckless decision that increased the risk to americans all around the world. This was very clearly an act of war by this president without any kind of authorization or declaration of war. Trish okay. Okay, lets not forget what has actually transpired here. We took out a terrorist who killed hundreds of americans and was threatening our u. S. Embassy personnel in baghdad and making threats to additional personnel, u. S. Personnel throughout the region. And heres a quick refresher for anyone who doubts whether or not we have shown iran the benefit of the doubt. We certainly have. Iran violated the terms of its lousy agreement with president obama. Thats on them. President trump tore it up. Iran responded with attacks on oil fields and by shooting down a u. S. Drone. We s ....
Democrats, it has reached a truly gross level. Watch. The president has taken action that is unconstitutional. The president is in violation of the war powers act. He is truly taking us right to the edge of war. It was a reckless decision that increased the risk to americans all around the world. This was very clearly an act of war by this president without any kind of authorization or declaration of war. Trish okay. Okay, lets not forget what has actually transpired here. We took out a terrorist who killed hundreds of americans and was threatening our u. S. Embassy personnel in baghdad and making threats to additional personnel, u. S. Personnel throughout the region. And heres a quick refresher for anyone who doubts whether or not we have shown iran the benefit of the doubt. We certainly have. Iran violated the terms of its lousy agreement with president obama. Thats on them. President trump tore it up. Iran responded with attacks on oil fields and by shooting down a u. S. Drone. We s ....
Now im a believer. Not a trace. Or doubt in my mind. Im in love. Im a believer, i couldnt leave her if i tried. Cheryl were believing that it is tuesday and welcome to fbn a. M. And good morning, everyone, im cheryl casone. Lauren good morning, im lauren simonetti. Cheryl lets take a look at how your money is moving this morning. Were seeing slightly positive numbers as the tense situation with iran continues. There was early pressure on headlines crossing overnight. Right now, green arrows. Lauren a major turnaround yesterday too. Take a look at oil prices, they are continuing their slide after reaching their highest level since september in the immediate aftermath of the soleimani killing. Wti is down half a percent. Gold is down a buck 20. Cheryl stocks in asia are focused on trade optimism as chinese officials are pre prepag to sign a phase one deal with President Trump, we expect the signing next week. The shanghai composite ....
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here today to consider the nomination of Dan Brouillette to be the secretary of energy. He currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who believes that you have done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy ....