[inaudible] [inaudible] speemac, a look at Nuclear Energy innovation, safety, and safety, and modernization proposals. Then agriculture secretary, tom bill sack is part of a discussion on hunger and Food Assistance program. Later, conversation with marilyn senator ben cardin. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up on friday morning jeff adelstein, politics reporter for the new orleans advocate will join us by phone to discuss the debate over removal of confederate monuments in new orleans. The mayor has backed the City Councils effort to remove number of monuments on public land. However, the city remains divided on the issue. Hannah smith, senior counsel will be on to talk about the recently argued case. The case deals with religious liberty and the Affordable Care act contraceptive mandate. Chris, author of the book of grunge in government, lets fix a broken democracy joins us for a discussion. Be sure to watch washingtons csp
Guest ill be giving his speech on the floor of the United States senate. Tomorrows earth date and president obama is in new york will see many countries sign the top 21 agreement for 196 countries, 90 of the global admissions of the world will sign a commitment towards working together to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. I was in france during the negotiations. Im a strong supporter of the u. S. Leadership globally and in this country to dramatically reduce our emissions. Caller did you hear senator in half on the floor and those 192 countries going two countries going to be disappointed. How do you work with someone like that. Guest ive known jim ever since ive come to congress we came in the same year, 1987. He is a good person. He is just wrong on climate. Totally wrong. The way i answer that is, look, lets let the scientist determine what we need to do in order to keep our globe healthy. What can we do in order to protect our environment and future generations. Scientists tell us w
Commission. This subcommittee and clean air and Nuclear Energy is chaired by senator Shelley Moore capital of west virginia. [inaudible] i would like to welcome all of our witnesses today. A particular welcome to the alumnus of the committee, mr. Merrifield to tell me he began here 1986, i think. I appreciate you returning. As each witness knows you have five minutes for an oral statement and that we will take questions. We are here today to examine and exciting topic and that is advanced Nuclear Reactors. While Nuclear Issues are somewhat new to me, i am learning these technologies have the potential to make Great Strides in advancing Nuclear Technology. This is a topic that many of us are very interested in because Nuclear Energy is an essential component for all the above energy policy. Our Current Nuclear plants provide clean, safe, reliable, and Affordable Energy to power our economy while providing thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in benefits to local communities. They m
The service wins Action Network holds a discussion at 1 p. M. Eastern here at cspan3. Senator ted cruz campaigns in indiana today. Well have live coverage of a rally hes holding at the Johnson County fair grounds in indianapolis. That starts at 6 30 p. M. On cspan. Indiana holds its president ial primary on may 3rd. Cspans road to the white house coverage continues later today as Ohio Governor john kasich campaigns in the washington, d. C. Suburb of rockville, maryland ahead of the primary. Live rof kaj starts at 2 00 eastern time on cspan and the campaigns for governor kasich and senator ted cruz announced last week theyre teaming up to try to deny donald trump to try to deny the necessary delegates for the nomination. Madam secretary, woo proudly give 72 of our delegate votes to the next president of the United States. Tonight the safety and security of the u. S. Electric grid, lights out, a cyber attack, a nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath examines the potential for Cyber A
Topic last month and outofcontrol wildfire was burning a half a mile away from the Nuclear Plant. Those of the people of california. Millions and millions of them. This is it. This plant is asking for a waiver so they dont have to deal with any type of emergency response. My concern about nrcs commitment to identifying and remedy safety problems is highlighted by my investigation into the installation of defective equipment. I learned that the nrc staff was preparing to allow the restart of one of the reactors before it had received a single answer to any of the technical safety questions it asked Southern California edison to submit. Continuing the pattern of doing everything that you are asked to do by the industry. This oversight investigation that i am conducting is important, not only to get to the bottom of this problem, but to avoid disastrous problems like this in the future. I am also concerned that whistleblowers at nrc fielded have no recourse but to Contact Congress to repo