To move the thing along quicker, you know, for research or for staffing. And then, as we saw, by the way, you know, in the bill that kept the government going for another eight months or so, we saw writers attach to that, you know, fundamental budget bill what was designed to affect derivatives risk. So congress is in it, theyre in wit both feet, theyre in it at the front end, theyre in it in the middle, and theyre in it in the back. There is something, and let me get to this one on the next slide yeah. A guest speaker said derivatives were defined three different ways in dodd frank on purpose to give the agency more power to actually select the definition that they wanted because they could have more power not on the hill at that point but with the agency defining it. Yeah. Well, i mean but if youre saying that the agency has the power, youre really saying that the groups that influence the congress to write those three different definitions were expecting some advantage from one or m
You know . Who is going to be making their life miserable once this thing hits the street . And this is all about winners and losers like all Public Policy processes. Implementation information. How is the public how are universities going to react who in universities are going to take responsibility for changes in the rugs in their classrooms . How is this going to cur . How do you communicate with georgetown on the one hand or a. U. On the one hand and, you know, st. Olive college out in minnesota . How do you get to these people . How do you let them know this is a change in what theyve got to do . Splins information at what level at what point will the agency take action against st. Olive or a. U. . All right . And then of course the political information which, by the way, is driven entirely by impact information. If you know who this is going to help and if you know who this is going to hurt youve got the roadmap for whatever political information youre going to need out there. R
Clearly if these prices persist for a long time, then the reductions in capex that we are seeing are clearly going to start coming in down the road. Right now i think were looking carefully, were being prepared with analyses for alternative pathways forward. Right now consumers are having the benefit. Excellent. Ok, a question over there and the mike will be made available. Please identify yourself. Im a Public Policy scholar here at the wilson center. Can you talk about what the role is for biofuels to remain in the future energy mix . Well, i think the first of all, we certainly continue to invest in biofuels. In fact, just in i guess it was october i was pleased to be in kansas for what is now the largest commercial functioning biorefinery in the country. Our loan program helped put that into place. So if i go back to the what i mentioned about our entry in this book, first of all, actually i think its important that sorry. Let me go back a step. As we celebrate our incredible incre
There is very big serious each is to be addressed. Also a reluctance to confront these issues in the congress. Not only do they have a lot to do, but they as you may have noticed have a hard time doing anything these days, they disagree about so much. We argued to say it is time to stop kicking the can down the road and start having an intelligent conversation about these big issues. To start s off today i am going to call on four people who know about this, and they will speak in turn and open up for questions from the audience. To my left is robert taub dermott designated acting chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission by president obama on december 4th, 2014. He is new to the job but he was also sworn in as the commissioner in 2011 and elected vice chair in 2013. He came to the post office from the army where he was special assistant to the secretary of the army john mcyou and served as chief of staff to u. S. Congressman john mccue for a whole decade. To his left is dr. Robert
Misdemeanors and those convicted of three or more misdemeanors. So heres my ask. We want to work with you to restore this relationship. Weve replaced secure communities with a new program for the benefit of Public Safety. But i need a partner. In those in this room, in governors and mayors county commissions, and so forth. Weve done our part to end the controversial secure communities program. Now i ask that you and others get with your city attorney, your city council, your police commissioner, your chief get a hold of the policy document that i issued in november to see how weve replaced the secure communities program. For the benefit of all of toes we serve. And if youre one of those 177 jurisdictions, you will get a knock on the door from me. Because we want to work with you to rebuild this relationship. In my view it is a Public Safety imperative. Elsewhere in our department were moving forward on our Cyber Security mission. We had legislation passed late last year. The administra