As this hearing is fully virtual, we had to address housekeeping matters. For this meeting, the or staff designated by the staff may mute their microphones when they are not under recognition and the purposes of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Numbers are responsible for muting an unyielding themselves, and if ive noticed that, i would ask the staff you. If you indicate by knotting, we will unmute your microphone. I remind everybody that the fiveminute club still applies. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next issue member until the issue is resolved. You will mean pain the talents of your time. At one minute remaining, the clock will turn yellow, at 30 seconds permitting, i will deadly tap the gavel that your time is almost expired. When your time has expired, the clock will turn red and i will begin to recognize the next member. In terms of speaking order, we will begin with the chair and Ranking Members and members present at the time the hearing is calle
Departments budget and clean jobs. This is two hours and 35 minutes. Welcome, everyone. As this hearing is fully virtual, we had to address housekeeping matters. For this meeting, the or staff designated by the staff may mute their microphones when they are not under recognition and the purposes of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Numbers are responsible for muting an unyielding themselves, and if ive noticed that, i would ask the staff you. If you indicate by knotting, we will unmute your microphone. I remind everybody that the fiveminute club still applies. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next issue member until the issue is resolved. You will mean pain the talents of your time. At one minute remaining, the clock will turn yellow, at 30 seconds permitting, i will deadly tap the gavel that your time is almost expired. When your time has expired, the clock will turn red and i will begin to recognize the next member. In terms of speaking order, we will begin
Your time. The clock will show how much time is remaining. One minute remaining clock will turn to yellow and 30 seconds remaining i will gently toss the gavel to remind members is almost expired. When your time has expired will turn red and i will recognize next member. In terms of the speaking or we will begin with the chair and Ranking Member of members present time is called, the meeting will be a or a Senior Member is not present at the time order. House rules require me to remind we set up email address which they can put in writing and at any of our hearings are markups. The address has been provided in advance. Im not myself for five minutes for my opening statement. The subcommittee will come to order. Let us begin ourfirst hearing on the fiscal year 2020 four department of energy. Thank you secretary granholm. I am so thrilled to have a fellow colleague with such a distinguished career as the news energy. The secretary jennifer granholm, a resultsoriented leader. I know with
Hopefully, their jobs have not been affected area well, thousands of jobs are being affected. In wyoming alone, a longterm leasing band would result in 33,000 workers losing their jobs. Hundreds of thousands more workers stand to lose their jobs in new mexico, colorado, texas, and other states. As for why the administration would not just let Energy Workers keep their jobs, she had no good answer. American jobs are being sacrificed in the name of the biden agenda. These policies will have no effect on Climate Change but have reallife consequences for thousands and thousands of americans. The nomination is historic. If confirmed, she would be the first native american cabinet secretary, but let me be very clear representative holland s extreme policy views and lack of substantive answers during the hearing to me disqualify her for this job. She is allowed to pursue her green new dealinspired policies at the department of interior. She will run wyoming and other states economies into the
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Thursday approved the nomination of deb haaland to be interior secretary by a vote of 119. Senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska was the only republican to vote in favor. Following that vote, they held a confirmation hearing for the Deputy Energy secretary nominee. This is to an a half hours. [gavel bangs] the meeting will come to order. We are meeting today for both a business meeting and a nomination meeting. I want to begin by approving our subcommittee assignments and then we will move to considering the nomination of deb haaland to be secretary of interior. Approval of subcommittee assignments need not detain us any longer. I think all of you have the breakdown on that. The chairs and Ranking Members were chosen with regard to rules of our respective party conference. Member assignments reflect member preferences. Do you wish to add anything on the subcommittee assignments . Im sorry, senator brosseau, do you wish to add anything . Know