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
Deb haaland testified today in the first day of her confirmation hearing. The Committee Meets today to consider the nomination of representative Debra Haaland to be secretary of the interior. Its so good to see her here. And she has the honorable don young with her, a dear friend to all of us for many, many years. We want to welcome her to the committee. We want to thank you for being here thorning and for your willingness to serve in this important position. Before we proceed, i would like to welcome four new members to the committee. Although this is not the hearing this congress, it is the first one since the Senate Appointed new members. On the democratic side, we are pleased to welcome senator mark kellie of arizona and senator John Hickenlooper of colorado. On the republican side, we are pleased to recognize senator james lankford. To ensure Energy Security and the wide stewardship of Natural Resources. We look forward to working with all four of our new members in carrying on th
Congresswoman deb haaland to serve as interior secretary. At her confirmation hearing, she answered questions about oil and Gas Production and the use of federally owned land. Representative holland was first elected to congress in 2018. If confirmed, she would be the first native american to head the interior department. The Committee Meets today to consider the nomination of representative Debra Haaland to be secretary of the interior. Its so good to see her here. And she has the honorable don young with her, a dear friend to committee. We want to thank you for being here thorning and for your willingness to serve in this important position. Before we proceed, i would like to welcome four new members to the committee. Although this is not the hearing this congress, it is the first one since the Senate Appointed new members. On the democratic side, we are pleased to welcome senator mark kellie of arizona and senator John Hickenlooper of colorado. On the republican side, we are pleased