elana fine, thank you for joining us. of so many things that the university of maryland does to p preach and coddle or entntrepreneurship. there are some geared toward ststudts and alumni, but also venture-capital that is offered for any regional startup p that is loing for an investor. let's start with the ones that are geared toward the studentss and the alumni. ll us about those two competitions. >> we look at ourselves as providing advice and capital to the back of the napkin from the first million in fininancing. we have a program which is where udents start initially pitctching their ideas and experiencing the on to the normal process. >>>> this can be in the initial stages of the idea. you have to lay out a series of crition but you do not have to be already raking in the revenue. >> recent alums' can come inin every friday and to pitch their ideas and twice a semester we have a competition where the can put those ideas for $2,500 in prize money to go toward progress in their business. >> it is some nice seed money

elana, go ahead with your first question. >> a topic that you considered holding a hearing on as the solyndra scandal was becoming a political football. are you now considering a more public investigation into the program? >> there have been a lot of investigations. i do not know if it would be appropriate for our committee to try to do another investigation. we want to know what the new report says and what conclusions have been reached and what actions demonstration is going to take. we have secretary chu testifying on his new budget proposal for the department of energy on thursday. we need to figure out what additional steps we might take. there has been a lot of politics and not a whole lot of new substantive in sight. -- insight in the coverage so far. everyone wants the loan guarantee program to work in the right way. we do not want to waste taxpayer money. as far as i can tell, you have professional people making judgments on the basis of the information they had. with 20/20 hindsight, we can say they made some mistakes. they committed money to companies they should not have

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he beat out fellow teen crooner lauren elana in may with a record number of viewer votes, becoming then, he's been on a whirlwind. >> scotty has been off to a great start since he left "american idol." his debut album cleared today and broke all kinds of records in the first week. he became the first male country artist to debut at the top of the billboard 200 with the first album. >> reporter: scotty's debut album went platinum in just 13 weeks. >> i wanted to make sure by the time the new season came along that people remembered who i was. >> your expectations are high because you won a contest. you're a winner so they come to see you onstage they really want you to bring it. >> we thought of that. we have to go out and put a show on and really entertain these guys. we were well aware of that when we were rehearsing. >> reporter: despite his new found fame he's trying to stay grounded. born and raised in garner, north carolina, mccreary is finishing up his senior year in high school. he still sings in the school choir, and he's getting ready for a varsity baseball season. what people

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