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biden s nominee to be deputy-energy secretary. the committee is meeting the committee is meeting today for both a business meeting and a hearing. we are going to begin by considering the nomination of david turk to be the deputy secretary of energy. i am going to start with my opening statement. then, i will turn over to senator barrasso for his. and then, we ll have hopefully one more ready to roll. i was highly impressed by mr. turk at our hearing last week. he clearly has a firm grasp on the wide range of issues facing the department of energy. he is going to bring a wealth of practical experience to the job of deputy secretary. he started his career working in the senate for our former colleague, kent conrad, who speaks very highly of him. he then worked on the senate-judiciary committee for senator biden. he held a series of national-security and foreign-affairs jobs in the house, in the state department, and at the national security council. he spent two years a ....
[inaudible conversations] twenty as we need today for business meeting and a hearing and we will begin by considering nominations of david turk to be secondary deputy. mr. barrasso will have his and then one more and ready to go. i was highly impressed by mr. turk at her hearing last week and he clearly does have a firm grasp on the wide range of issues facing the apartment of energy and will bring a wealth of practical experience to the job as deputy secretary and started his career working with the senate for our former colleague kent conrad who speaks very highly of him and he then worked on the senate judiciary committee for senator biden. he had a series of national security and foreign affairs jobs in the house and state department and at the national security council. he spent two years as deputy assistant secretary in the apartment of energy and has spent four years in senior positions at the international energy agency, including the last 14 months as the deput ....
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to be united states district judge for the federal circuit. the presiding officer: the question now occurs on the stoll nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: does any senator wish to vote or change his or her vote? on this vote, the ayes are 95. the nays are zero. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. the president will be immediately notified of the senate s action and the senate will resume legislative session. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. fischer: mr. president? this summer parents across the country will be preparin ....
more about how that has evolved and rubber company placed in that. okay. it s funny, so i thought i would have to let a lot of grunt work that you guys have laid a lot of the grunt work for me. alec s talked about the two copyrights in every recording that you here. there s the composition the notes and lyrics and the sound recording. the sound recording is that artist, that recording artist interpretation of that composition. and then fixed permanently somehow to be a recording. so before 1995 1998 before the performance right was created in those two laws there was no performance right% according under federal law. but some in 1998 there was and there was no one to collect the royalties for the performance right. so as services developed and as they need to pay royalties develop the industry collectively created an entity to collect those royalties and that was soundexchange. initially it was kind of this come in the corner of an office a group of people trying to f ....