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
The s p 500 setting new record closes. We have fox team coverage, Charles Payne in new york tells us how this all plays into the big economic picture. We begin with White House Correspondent Kristin Fisher and the president s spin on the numbers today. Good evening, kristin. Good evening, bret. No surprise here, the white house and republicans are interpreting todays jobs report in drastically different ways. The white house says it is proof that the country needs these massive multitrillion dollars Spending Bills now more than ever. But republicans argue that some of the things in that first big Spending Bill are precisely what led to these weaker than expected numbers. It may be the biggest miss in decades, forecasters predicted gains of close to a million jobs in april. Buff when the data came out this morning it, revealed that the u. S. Economy had only added 266,000. And the Unemployment Rate picked up to 6. 6 to 6 in march. I want to put todays jobs report in perspective. Preside
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
Please knew your microphone. Mute your microphone. [indiscernible] we have previously provided guidance as to how this would [indiscernible] [indiscernible] cspan. Org [indiscernible] [indiscernible] thank you. I want to welcome mr. Menendez and his wife. I appreciate you taking on this post. Tonk you for taking the time talk to me last week and take the best thank you for taking the time this morning. This is the first hearing the committee has held since march the 10th. Since then, millions of americans have filed for unemployment. Nearly one point 5 million have contracted covid19 and nearly 90,000 have perished from the disease. Is work in the u. S. Senate that much more critical and we respond as we respond to this pandemic and return to the economy. Second the highestranking office and the department of energy and the department has been playing a role in helping the nation fight coronavirus. The department of energy is a scientific powerhouse. Its National Laboratories are some