senator cantwell. >> thank you, madame chair. mr. walker, obviously you've heard some of the recommendations on resiliency. which one of those ideas in the report stand out to you as good things to implement? >> i think the position that ferc has taken in reestablishing what was previously the noper in bringing the rtos and isos together to evaluate the resiliency on their respective systems will provide an excellent baseline. i've had the opportunity to meet with mr. van welie and go over his new england report and look at the work done by pgm and vortex, those are two fantastic baseline analysis that will enable ferc, the rtos and isos to move forward with really having a fundamental understanding of where the interdependencies are on the system so that we can actually build a better and more resilient system informed by where the actual risk is and not the markets. >> well, i appreciate your comments about first of all compromised infrastructure and cyber security. i mean, given the quadrennial review that's where it said we shoul

senator cantwell. cantwell: thank you, mr. chairman. in light of your news of your decision, i wanted to thank you for your work on the low-income housing tax credit, not just this year but for several years in making sure that program continues to work cost effectively. chairman thank you so much. : could i make one comment before you begin? i believe having listened to senator brown's questioning, i believe senator mcconnell is supportive of our c.h.i.p. agreement. and i hope that our colleagues on the other side, especially senator brown, will help convince senator schumer to support this as well. well, i have not seen it so far. >> mr. chairman? chairman: yes. >> i spoke on the floor yesterday, and senator schumer came right after me and said he was very much committed to our legislation, our bipartisan legislation, so thank you for that. chairman: ok. senator cantwell. cantwell: thank you, mr. chairman. i would be remiss not to mention i met with my provider community on the c.h.i.p. issue, and the level of anxiety in making sure w

thank you, madam chair. >> thank you, senator cantwell. let's go to senator cassidy. >> thank you, great testimony. i'm intrigued by the electrify cation of transportation, if you will, but let me ask you to comment on this. yesterday, the ceo of fiat chrysler was quoted saying "i don't know of a business that is making money selling electrical vehicles unless selling at a very high end of the spectrum." this has made at the detroit auto show. so i guess how do you kind of position that versus your very bullish statement that within a relatively short period of time we're basically going to transition to a primarily or equally electric car marketplace? your thoughts. >> thank you very much, senator. i think the electric cars, number of electric cars will grow, but our numbers show that even two decades from you the biggest chunk of the cars we are running will be the existing internal combustion engines, the traditional cars. but electric cars will grow, especially in some regions, for example in europe. there is a lot of incentive and sub

with that i turned to senator cantwell for her opening comments. >> thank you, madam chair, thank you for scheduled two-day shipping for coupling think i did suggest at 11-point that we visit dr. birol instead but -- >> we work on that. >> we were not able to do that but i so appreciate him being here today and for the discussion on the iea primary focus on increasing energy security for its member nations and i appreciate his continued focus on expanding the definition of energy security as well. because energy security means more than just oil and gas flowing in and out and across borders. and also meet protecting critical infrastructure from attacks and the cybersecurity attacks that event much of the subject of a lot of the past administrations focus on quadrennial review and but we need to do to upgrade that an upgrade the security of our nation. we must take action to protect her critical infrastructure from cybersecurity attacks and ensure the security of energy. a good and networks are under constant cyber attacks from 2012 in 2016, reported cyber incidents against you is crit

when senator cantwell and vitamin a joint, i felt it was my opportunity to show trump himself that were not going to get intimidated. we're going to continue working. people in detention, yesterday throughout the day and told me, we cannot be there. we have selected you. you have to be there. endure whatever he says. racist president of public speech. the scapegoat of my community along with many other communities. but was important to show we are not afraid and we're going to continue in the struggle. amy: seen and reported that congressman paul gosar said he requested u.s. capitol police arrest undocumented immigrants attending the state of the union. the arizona republican who is down as an immigration hardliner tweeted his request the police consider checking identification of all attending the state of the union address and arresting any illegal aliens in attendance, he said. maru, talk about your own situation. not only that you might have been arrested right there, but in washington state, you are a long time, well-known immigrants rights activist. but talk about the letter you

senator cantwell. >> on that point chair would note i suggested to her many times that should be a good focus on natural gas as opposed to more recent discussion, china being a huge market opportunity for the future with a shift in policy thugh blue sky, being the largest market opportunity for the us, front do you think we need to continue to focus on here that would help us looking at asia more as a market and the us leadership with the energy efficiency side and the nuclear policy side. energy efficiency in the context of saving so much, and move forward, what we achieved in the region to some of the technologies used in other countries. one of our northwest companies provides metered energy in south africa so they could buy the power it takes to turn the lights on when kids come home from school. energy efficiency is making our businesses competitive and reaching the marketplace. what else do we need to be doing to focus on energy efficiency and other export policies on the clean side? >> thank you very much. first of all, the us becoming an exporter to china and asia, i imagine chi

senator cantwell. >> thank you madam, chair. mr. walker, obviously you've heard some of the recommendations on resiliency, which one of those ideas in the report stand out to you as good things to implement? >> i think the position that ferk has take nn reestablishing it, in bringing the rtos and isos to evaluate the resiliency on their expected systems will provide an excellent baseline. and i had the opportunity to meet with him and go over the report and look add the work done, those are two fantastic baseline analysis that will enable ferk, due wee and the rtos and iso to move forward on understand being the system and build a better and resilient system informed by where the actual risk is and not the markets. >> well, i appreciate your comments about a come promiezed infrastructure and cyber security. that's where we should be spending our attention and i'm reminded of this debate we had in this committee in 2015 about that very issue where oil and coal were competing for rail supremacy is the way to say it and definitely left

chairman. >> thank you, senator cantwell. >> thank you. and thank you for being here today, and i do wish that fema had been here. i think they would have been an integral part of this discussion. i echo a lot of the concerns from my colleagues that i've heard today and appreciate your candid comments as well about the challenges we still have moving forward but the good things that are happening with the alerts. one of the things that i do have concerns about, particularly in the state of nevada where we have a very diverse and growing population, are language barriers. i know ms. fowlkes and mr. bergman, you talked a little bit about this and the actions that were taken in 2016 to enable spanish language alerts. can you talk a little bit more about that and describe how that works to ensure understandable alerts are sent to everyone? and not just spanish language alone. in nevada, particularly in southern nevada, we have a large filipino population, tagalog is an important language, obviously, and that's a barrier for those who do not sp

congressman richard hudson, who represents north carolina's eighth district, tweeted -- and senator maria cantwell of washington state, the ranking member on the senate energy committee, sent the message -- >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. a 1979, c-span was created as public service by america's cable television companies, and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> steve bannon and michael fury"s new book "fire and once again dominated the white house briefing with press secretary sarah sanders. this is about 20 minutes. ms. sanders: good afternoon. pleased to see the dow jones industrial average broke through 25,000 for the first time ever today. the president's economic agenda of lower taxes, less regulation, and economic opportunity for all is already paying off, and american family and workers are the big winners. with that in mind, we have a message from a special guess i would like to share with you. i will ask you to tune into the screens, and then i will continue from there. president trump: thank you for being with us today. the historic tax cut i signed i

allison is the president of and senator cantwell mentioned your contribution. mr. andrew is the president and ceo for the interconnection. welcome, and mr. gordon really i hope i'm saying that right, the president and ceo of iso new england welcome to each of you and if you would like to begin with your comments this morning. >> senator, chairman, members of the kennedy, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the performance of the electric system during the recent weather events. i am honored to serve as the chairman. the commission takes seriously the responsibilities congress has entrusted to us concerning the reliability. we are still receiving and reviewing the data related to the performance of the power system. based on what we know today, it appears notwithstanding the stress and several regions, overall the book for system performed relatively well under challenging circumstances. looking forward we must both learn from this experience and remain vigilant with respect to challenges for reliability and resistance of the bulk pow

senator cantwell is next. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and ranking member, thank you for holding this hearing. when it comes to the pacific northwest i guarantee you with tsunamis and earthquakes and volcanos, flooding, worried about -- we pay a lot of attention to disaster issues. and i'm reminded, having been on the committee for some time, our former colleague senators stevens and inua spent a lot of development on what is the buoy system, what is our earliest detection on the waves so we can have this information. and now noah is working on the additional information to get the information to hand held devices. it is -- i think we need to be thankful that we've made the investment in technology. i think the question becomes who in the federal government owns the protocols for making sure that the coordination happens at the state and local level if so many of the partners in the development of that communication, or the communication itself, for example, the weather service, who i know isn't with us this morning, how do we m

big fan of him in his work i actually think that he's a very effective legislator senator maria cantwell who is the ranking member of the senate energy committee i think is also a very effective advocate for families ok we are a large and decent year you know in this industry so to speak what's the scuttlebutt on the straight what the current administration and what it going to twenty eighteen and twenty twenty what what is like trying to come up with some opposition that's going to get some traction ottley fane some big flashy names in the celebrity arena but you know that's not nothing oh here we are in the actual belly of the right so we're kind of trendy see what worse that word is an effective pushback against this current administration because it will appears as though they're gathering some momentum they're not collapsing like people thought that they would they're actually gaining some momentum so where were the pushback going to be i actually would challenge that they're gaining some momentum just because they had this tax bill victory i don't think it's a popular measure donal

i'd like the to start by calling on the ranking member, senator cantwell, to give your opening statement. >> good morning, i am sure that to

big fan of him and his work i actually think that he's a very effective legislator senator maria cantwell who is the ranking member of the senate energy committee i think is also a very effective advocate for families ok we are in washington d.c. you're you know in this industry so to speak what's the scuttlebutt on the straight what the current administration and what it going to twenty eighteen and twenty twenty what what is like trying to come up with some opposition that's going to get some traction not a feint some big flashy names in the celebrity arena but you know that's not the you know the here we are in the actual belly of the being right so we're kind of trendy see what worse that word is an effect of push back against this current administration because it will appears as are they're gathering some momentum they're not collapsing like people thought that they would they're actually gaining some momentum so where were the pushback going to be i actually would challenge that they're gaining some momentum just because they had this tax bill victory i don't think it's a popular m

mayhem, president and ceo of communications and a former chief of staff or washington senator maria cantwellan of the american serve linac conservative union. let me read to you what senator claire mccaskill tweeted. she said the president just embraced earmarks, talk about the swamp of swamp creatures, she is probably thinking about the bridge to nowhere and how that fueled a lot of frustration into country and fed into the tea party. what do you think of this idea that is there is some merit to having some way to get these deals done? >> i am lukewarm at best, but i do think it is interesting that claire mccaskill chose to criticize the president, because i thought that that was the most extraordinary video, i have seen coming out of the white house. i think the whole time i've been in politics. it was like, the american people got to see how your meeting goes. and that is a donald trump, for those of us who have dealt with him before he was president, they got to see a little bit of how he talks and runs the meeting, and it is different than what most presidents would do, but when you are

president and ceo of square communications and former chief of staff to washington state senator maria cantwell. a former chief of staff to house speaker paul ryan and his first time on the daily briefing so welcome and happy new year to your both. i'm certain both of you had had dealings with senator hatch in his office print out turn it over to you first for your reaction to his announcement that he is going to retire. >> i think it's a big problem because he is someone who actually would work across the aisle in the years that i was there, they are that they went there to actually figure out something without giving up his principles. he served the senate so well that i think the ability to get things done will be impacted here. i don't think it was a big opportunity politically for the democrats is former massachusetts governor mitt romney stepping into the ring there but i do think it is a loss for the senate to expect his retirement. >> dana: he grew up in the great depression. he saw his older brother died in combat in world war ii, and then went on to win that senate satan and the longe

. >> you heard senator cantwell talk about the tsunami alert. there are other alert systems that work just like hawaii. >> yeah and that's why i think you know we have to figure out and in this case my understanding the way it works is fema thrift ipod system delegated out in this case to state agency some of that responsibility for the alert and whether or not that process needs to be modified is something we will take a look at. clearly in the event of a nuclear attack norad is presidential and that's what senator schatz is attempting to get at with this though which on the surface make sense to a lot of us but we definitely need to figure out how we keep what has happened this time from happening again and we are still trying to put all those pieces together. [inaudible] >> this bill would be under his his --. >> doesn't have a markup then? >> we probably wouldn't alessa something that triggered our jurisdiction but if it has fcc components and if it would they would come under our jurisdiction. we will take a look at that at what he is propo

senator cantwell. >> thank you, mr. chairman. in light of your news of your decision, i wanted to thank you for your work on the low income housing tax credit, not just issue buffers over years in making sure the program continues to work cost-effectively. >> thank you so much. >> could i i make one comment before you begin? i believe having listen to senator brown's questioning, idly senator mcconnell is supportive of our chip agreement andom i hope that our colleagues are near the side, especially help convince senator schumer to support this as well. >> mr. chairman? >> i i haven't seen so far. all i can say is i haven't -- >> of very few seconds. i appreciate your interest in getting this done. i spoke on chip on the floor yesterday senator schumer came right after me and said he was very much committed to our legislation, our bipartisan legislation, so thank you for that. >> okay. senator cantwell. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would be remiss not to mention i met with my provider community this week and on the chip issue, a

congressman richard hudson, who represents north carolina's eighth district, tweeted -- and senator maria cantwell of washington state, the ranking member on the senate energy committee, sent the message -- >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. a 1979, c-span was created as public service by america's cable television companies, and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> steve bannon and michael fury"s new book "fire and once again dominated the white house briefing with press secretary sarah sanders. this is about 20 minutes. ms. sanders: good afternoon. pleased to see the dow jones industrial average broke through 25,000 for the first time ever today. the president's economic agenda of lower taxes, less regulation, and economic opportunity for all is already paying off, and american family and workers are the big winners. with that in mind, we have a message from a special guess i would like to share with you. i will ask you to tune into the screens, and then i will continue from there.

baldwin, blumenthal, booker, brown, cantwell, casey, durbin, feinstein, graham, harris, hasson, heinrich, cane, king, leahey, menendez, murphy, murray, paul, peters, reed, sanders, shots, schumer, shaheen, smith, stab now, van hol lin, warner, warren, whitehouse and widen. mr. lee, no. mr. jones, aye. mr. tesser, no. mr. gill grabrand, no. >> we heard that senator lindsey graham did vote no. at least one republican vote no. we also just heard senator jon tester vote no. a democrat of montana who was one of the senators the republicans thought they were going to be able to get. this vote is clearly going against the republicans. >> to hear lindsey graham voting no as we just did, jon tester voting no immediately after that call of the roll, at this point it doesn't look like there's a possibility for the republicans in this vote. >> no. i think thenlyhance mitch mcconnell has is slim to none and slim left town. you heard bob casey vote no. i only heard four democrats voting yes and with most of the democratic votes in. i think that basically it's clear this is going down to defeat. looks

. >> thank you, ranking member cantwell, seems like each winter and summer when energy demands peak, we're reminded of the importance of reliable and reenergy. from the northern states, we expect terms like polar vortex and bomb cyclones. in montana we call that january but that's the way it goes. the importance of keeping the supply on hand to keep the lights on and infrastructure necessary to support that system and this winter has been no different, this hearing is timely as my office kicking off planning efforts for our -- energy summit, we do this every couple of years. it will be in billings in may. we've invited ferc chairman kevin mcintyre to attend and secretary perry and others and hope to have important conversations related to energy infrastructure and the jobs energy creates in our states. we hope they can both attend. as you've probably heard me say more than you want to, one critical piece of our energy infrastructure in montana is a coal strip power plant. supports about 750 direct jobs. generates enough power for about 1.7 million homes and businesses across montana

the ranking member is here in the room, maria cantwell. the chair murkowski of alaska.ump and white house press secretary sarah sanders will join a white house conference on empowering women, and returning to capitol hill today, , congress will be in facing the government shutdown deadline midnight friday night. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everyone. the committee will come to order as we begin our first hearing in what promises to be

i appreciate you standing in or sitting in for senator cantwell, our ranking member on the committee. i understand senator mansion will also be with us but he is enjoying the auto show right now and he will be here as soon as he can steal himself away from some of the latest and greatest. i want to thank the washington area new auto dealers association which puts on this ought so show every year for helping us coordinate the hearing. i think this is an exciting time for it automotive sector. lightweight materials like carbon fire, titanium, aluminum and composites are improving efficiency while boosting performance. at the same time advanced manufacturing technologies are decreasing the time and cost of bringing new concepts to market. this is increased the productivity of our automotive suppliers, allowing u.s. manufacturers to thrive in a hypercompetitive global market. lithian ion battery prices are falling. and the chevy bolt and tesla's model 3. and meanwhile, sales and consumer adoption have increased for other alternative fuel vehicles including the hydrogen powered toyota. and

miss cantwell? mrs. capito. mr. cardin? mr. carper? mr. casey? >> so getting some clarification, yes, this is the vote that's happening now. mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer will speak afterwards, everyone stand by, will the government shut down, we'll find out momentarily. >> mr. coons? mr. corker? mr. cornen? >> aye. >> ms. cortese-masto? mr. cotton? mr. crepo? mr. cruz? >> aye. >> mr. danes. >> as we -- as a vote, we'll continue our conversation. sorry, david, to interrupt you, did you finish your thought? >> it's not a problem. don, look, i think the bottom line is that once you get this close to a shutdown, into a government shutdown, it's no longer about the policies that brought you to the brink, it's about who blinks first, whoever blinks first ends up weaker in the next round of negotiations, that is governing all of the decisions both democrats and republicans as well as president trump are making as we go forward. >> molly, i want to bring you in here, and get what you think of this conversation, here we are at the once again, really