perry testifies before the senate energy and natural resources committee about president trump s 2020 budget request for his department. this is just over two hours. good morning. the committee will come to order. we are here this morning to discuss the president s budget request for the department of energy for fiscal year 2020. mr. secretary, it is good to have you back in front of the committee again. it seems like it has been a quick year for me. i would imagine for you as well. we are back with a conversation again about the budget. many parts of this look familiar to where we were last year. i am pleased to see the president s budget seeks to increase funding to address vulnerabilities in our electric infrastructure, ensuring that cybersecurity and resiliency of our nation s grid is important for us here on this committee, so it is good to see your priorities here as well. these issues also fall squarely in our jurisdiction which is why we have devoted significant tim
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coal industry alive. we re just now reaching the point where this technology is mature enough to be considered for rollout to the broad coal- fired fleet in the united states and around the world. woodruff: all that and more, on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world s most pressing problems skollfoundation.org. the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, in the u.s. and developing countries. on the web at lemelson.org. supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers
hours from now. this is critical. he is trying to change their mind here. it is coming as we re getting word that the health care bill is now not going to be voted on at least not before the 4th of july. they do not have the votes. don t forget five senators came out and said they didn t like the thing. several others as well rumored not going along with it. so it would be a pretty uphill climb. there was just enough to make everyone a little bit angry in the bill. so not happening before the 4th of july. here is the problem. this is why. show the market, how we re now down 45 points. i want to bring in a live intraday chart of the dow if we have it. market selling off on the news because expectation had been, get repeal and replace or this version of repeal and replace through. therefore you get tax reform, you get infrastructure bill, everything would fall in line. one of the reasons the imf now is saying it has to lower economic forecast for united states of america. in te
welcome you to your first hearing following your bipartisan conservation in the senate. it took us a little bit longer than we had hoped to get you in this role and we are happy to have you at the helm. we look forward to getting you helping you get a full complement of folks at the department as well. the budget request for the department of energy takes a different approach than we ve seen. the president has made a concerted effort to increase funding for the nuclear. this is a portion of the department that falls outside of our community here. the administration has requested robust cleaning of nuclear waste. to offset those funding increases the proposed deep cuts to research and development for energy and science. it proposes to phase out innovative programs that have had demonstrated success. i understand what drop the proposal, but i am concerned by certain parts of it. the united states is the world s leader in science and energy. we like it that way, and we want to