good morning. >> good morning, senator carper. good to be here with you. >> good to have you. >> with senator barrasso. thank you for holding this hearing. first i'd like to thank our blue ribbon commissioners for coming and would also like to especially welcome two members of our -- two panelists on our next panel. jeff fettis formerly worked with me in the new mexico attorney general's office during the siting process. his expertise is now very much broader and he's very knowledgeable expert with a great spirit of public service. jeff, welcome. >> would you raise your hand, please? >> oh, he's -- >> thank you. >> thank you, senator carper, for doing that. and dr. andrew orrell of the sandia national lab is our nation's best expert on the science and policy of the nuclear fuel cycle. thank you for making a long trip here from albuquerque to be with us. dr. orrell has worked on yucca mountain and the science behind numerous international and potential nuclear waste solutions. sandia, dr. orrell and his colleagues in los alamos nat

welcome. >> good morning chairman, carper. i'm eric howes governor and director at maine yankee. we and our fellow sites that comprise the decommissioning plant coalition worked closely with the blue ribbon commission to ensure it understood the unique impacts that our three sites d the six other permanently shut down reactor sites face. the yankee companies and others in the dpc especially endorse those brc recommendations concerning permanently shut down plants that are most directly achievable. the prompt establishment of a voluntary program that would lead to the lin licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility or facilities. the establishment of a first in line priority for the movement of spent fuel and other material being stored at permanently shut down reactor sites to those licensed consolidated storm warning sites and the prompt initiation of programs to coordinate federal, state and local efforts to plan for the transportation of this material to consolidated storage and disposal facilities. the blue ribbon commission noted the success that we enjoy with our c

. >> did you know, chairman carper, that we had an ancient ocean a million years ago in new mexico? >> that was then. this is now. so if you're looking for a five-star beach to come to, senator udall, come to -- feel free to visit us in delaware. that's beneath here nor there. i had to -- we're especially happy to welcome you given the great work that the rdc did on that. david wright president of the national association of regulatory utility commissioners. vice chairman public service commission of south carolina. nice to see you, welcome. sir eric house. eric howes. and the senior professional staff. dr. metly great to see you. is it mr. or doctor? mr. it is. mr. andrew is it oral. with the emphasis on the first or second syllable. like oral surgery? we'll alternate then. doctor andrew oral director of nuclear energy and fuel cycle programs. again, hold your statements to about five minutes. we're glad you're here. appreciate your participation and preparation. there you go. turn that mic on. >> i thank the chairman and the ranking member for inviting nrdc to share the crews on t

. >> i think senator carper he's pointed out an issue here that is very important when we look at final legislation. many of the issues that arise along the way, what happened in the waste isolation project, was local people and state people were very worried about the safety issues. they were worried agent highways. they were worried about emergency preparedness. many dollars. hundreds of millions of dollars were put towards that to alleviate the fears, to improve the roads to emergency preparedness in place. number one. and then the issues that you've both talked about came together around should we have the site, how we should have it. the state was very worried about the science. the state was saying we know the big federal government has a lot of science. we know about the national laboratories. but as a state we want to have some oversight. as part of the negotiation as you both pointed out in your report, the environmental evaluation group was created. these were independent scientists and they walked every step with the federal science scientists along the way. challenged them a

>> thank you, senator carper. there's -- we've found a number of very important lessons in examining the success of the development of the wipp facility. i can list just a couple. one was that the federal government in the end was willing to negotiate legally binding agreements with the state government that clearly defined a set of regulatory authorities that the state held. and in essence gave state leadership hands on a steering wheel, or at least ability to put their foot on a brake. and i think that that was a key element of creating confidence that the facility -- that the facility could be operated safely and they could assure the citizens that, indeed, it would be operated safely. >> so instead of a my way or the highway federal government calling the shots, you've got the state in the car -- >> yep. >> in one of the front seats of the car. >> that's correct. >> and with the ability to put a foot on the brake. it's almost like in driver's ed when i was in high school, you'd have, like, the student driver o

>> thank you, senator carper. this question is to mr. orrell and mr. fettus. i'm trying to drill down a little bit because the brc on this issue of parallel versus what we have in the law now, as you know d.o.e. can't enter an interim site unless a permanent site is already open. so the brc talks about parallel. how far along, in your opinion, do we need to be toward a permanent site before you start opening an interim site or a consolidated site? >> i'm very happy to begin. a lot farther along than we are now. i'll start with that. i think, and as i outlined extensively in my written testimony, there's a long and, i think it's safe to say, torturous history of the repository program as well as sputtering attempts at an interim storage program. and as dr. metlay, i think, effectively outlined today, it's the countries that are having any progress are countries that have resolved the allocations of power. and if we don't do that, and i have a set of suggestions in my testimony as to how we begin to do that in a more thoughtful way that avoids the mistakes of th

carper: happy to yield. finally, mr. president, our bill makes a number of important investments in developing the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. this is work force development. for example, the bill provides stronger cybersecurity training and establishes better cybersecurity programs in our schools and in our universities. this legislation also makes research and development for cybersecurity a priority so we can develop cutting-edge technologies here at home and bring jobs to our

bryce carper -- harper on first and there is zimmerman. 13th home run of the year.ot do it again? keep in mind he is slugging .910 in july. the nationals up 5-0. that would continue, and they win the series finale, 9-2. in cleveland betemit doing some work. the o's go up 4-0, surviving a late rally by the indians to win. adam scott went into the british open four strokes in the lead. he grew up idolizing another australian who famously had a six stroke lead in the 1996 masters, and let it slip away. history seemed to repeat itself, as scott even predicted earlier, saying no lead was good enough. check it out. watch out for the ball. it might hit you. it would be a tough act. he would triple bogey and finished third. cool and confident making a move. he shot a final-round 68 finish at seven under. your leader going into the day court adam scott. three straight bogeys. that will make to crumble to the ground. he finishes 6 under. an amazing comeback to capture a fourth career major title. >> to make up all those shots -- i just felt good. i do not know. it is hard to

there was a subsequent $10 million improvement program including the construction of the carper building, new commercial just docks, completion of the promenade, disabled access to run the harbor, and other facilities for disabled and youth. that was completed in 2006. there was another improvement planned, phase two, which would include structural repairs to the substructure of pier 40, completion of another public access walkway on the south side of peter 40, replacement of the south and west facade, new restrooms for the tenants and visitors. most of these improvements are mandated by bay conservation and development commission, as a requisite of the permit to approve the construction of the harbor. these mandated improvements are due to be completed in 2017. the estimated cost for these improvements in 2004 was about $6.2 million. we estimate now the cost has exceeded $10 million in today's dollars. so there is a large capital outlay that is coming relatively soon. i mentioned south beach harbor, 700 slips, fully occupied. it has a life about 50 years. it is about halfway through its

, and senator toomey, senator carper were kind of throwing each other bones back and forth, saying we, great idea. what do you think? >> i think it would be nice, it hasn't happened much but it would be nice if it could happen. >> you think the fiscal cliff coming up, you're convinced very need to fall over it? >> i do, actually. it's a drastic bipartisan solution. the tax rates go back to what they were when bill clinton was president and we cut the living daylights out of things that haven't been cut before. they're unpopular in washington which probably means they make sense. i don't think they'll strike any kind of reasonable deal because they haven't been able to do that for quite some time but this would really and the congressional budget office says we would go into recession for two quarters and then be out of recession and the growth rate for the year would be 2.3%. that's a tough price to pay. maybe 700,000 people lose their jobs, a tough price to pay. what you get out of it is a deficit problem that's significantly altered, something like $7.5 trillion out of the deficit i

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in 2010, chairman lieberman, senator carper, and i introduced our cybersecurity bill which was reported by our committee later that same year. as i indicated, we've been working with chairman rockefeller to merge our bill with legislation that he has championed, which was reported by the commerce committee. we've also worked very closely with senator fein, an -- senator feinstein, an expert on information sharing. the bill we are urging our colleagues to proceed to today is the product of these efforts. it also incorporates substantial changes based on the feedback from the private sector, our colleagues, and the administration. this new bill is a good-faith effort to address the concerns raised by members on both sides of the aisle by establishing a framework that relies upon the expertise of government and the innovation of the private sector. it improves privacy protections that americans expect from their government. it also reflects many concepts proposed by senators kyl, whitehouse, the presiding officer, blunt, coats, graham, mikulski, blumenthal, and coons. we have revised our b

one day before his official inauguration, he address supporters in carper square. the remarks were clearly directed at the military and morsi said no authority was above the will of the egyptian people. >> no institution, no authority, none can be above this will, your will. if you are the source of the power. the nation is the source of the power. the nation is the one to decide. the nation is the one to give unity. and the nation is the one to appoint an higher -- and hire, and the nation is the one to fire. >> the following day, morsi sounded a more console tarrytown, praising the military for its role in the transition from the mubarak regime. he also renewed his vow to respect all of egypt's international obligations. >> we carry a message of peace to the world and we carry with it a message of crisis this -- righteousness and justice. as always, we emphasize each commitment to international treaties and agreements. we will look after these treaties and agreements. >> at least eight people have been killed in the latest drone attack in pakistan. four u.s. miss

[laughter] sth ste e mr carper lghed. coming through. i always thought of you as the fab four. >> back to the homeland bill -- [laughter] i remember th onc ewhi ancearonded to embrace it because that would ensure presidential support, and so it was. although the dhs comise 22 departmes as senat olns toogatod the four main directorates, bordernd transportation security, emergency preparedness, science technology and information, sciencantechnogy a inrmatn anis intrreti. rmation analysis was supposed to analyze intelligence and information from other agencies as i think you said including the cia, the dia and nsa involving threats to the vuabie tenonvate deteee be doing. emergency preparedness would oversee domestic disaster response and training, border security would streamline the entries in the abente scificecog ss lym preto ie do re h homeland. while the initial strcture more often to something different, and we all learned if we didn't ow it before that merging government functions are difficulties with the threats against us aeeovin

tonight's author, timothy gay, is a former press secretary forb rockefeller and tom carper. he spent more than two years were researching this book is a graduate of georgetown, and a senior vice president at a firm. this is the third book. he is also the author of the rough-and-tumble life of a baseball legend. we will follow our usual format. speakers will discuss the book for 30 or 40 minutes, then we will take questions from the audience for 20 minutes and then tim will sign copies of the book and i will turn the panel over to kim. >> thank you, larry, i much appreciate it. it does this irish art good see so many pals in the audience ouç here. just a wonderful thing. i can't say how much it means to me. as you can tell, perched a little awkwardly here, i managed to tear up the knee a few weeks ago. i wish i could tell you about wounded while storming a nokia stronghold in germany. but the truth is that i tripped heading toward a poolside bar and search strawberry margarita. it is pathetic, i know, ernest hemingway just puked. there are sensitive legal matters, david. it w

to begin my statement by thanking the aforementioned senators collins, rockefeller, feinstein and carper who joined me in sponsoring s. 3414, which i want to talk about a bit now in this opening statement. i also want to thank the majority leader, senator reid, for seeing the cyber threat to america in all its urgency and reality. last year urging senator collins and me to go forward and repor report -- work on legislation, try to work across party lines to get a bill out, and then now to thank senator reid for keeping his commitment to bring this bill to the floor, even though, as always, there are clearly other important issues vying for this body's attention. but to me, there's none more important to america's security or -- and prosperity than this topic, which is cyber security and the cyber security bill that is pending now. i'd like to make three points in my remarks today to my colleagues. first is that the danger of cyber attacks against the united states is clear, present and growing. with enemies ranging from rival nations to cyber terrorists, organized crime gangs to rogue ha

host: did you get a response from senator carper?uest: we presented our information to him and it's up to him to decide what he wants to do. he may have a hearing to talk about it. in terms of the administration, they have 60 days to get back to us with whatever plan they may have to implement the recommendations. the gsa recommendation, they agree with in their working plans -- and they are working on plans. host: we have linked the gao report to our web site. you can also go to their web site, gao.gov. our guest has been david wise, the physical infrastructure director. that is it for "washington journal." another edition tomorrow starting at 7:00. we will see you then. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> congress is back in tuesday at noon eastern. on their agenda next, the bill providing the whitese

there was also a great deal of hard work done by my senior senator tom carper and senators feinstein and rockefeller who chair relevant committees and were also essential to making such great progress. madam president, one of the aspects of cybersecurity and the threat to our country that keeps me up at night is that it is constantly evolving. our enemies are smart, they are capable and they are fast and that means our cyber defenses have to be flexible, adaptable and regularly evaluated in order to keep up. one good thing about the house version of this legislation is that it includes a sunset provision requiring that in five years this body once again must take a hard and serious look at cybersecurity threats and update or change our defense as needed and ensure the privacy protections have been fully observed. that's not just good strategy, madam president, it's good sense. think about the capabilities of your computer, your cell phone, five years ago compared to today. the pace of change is faster on line than ever before. and we need the kind of legislative process that allows u

. >> chairman carper, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. i am honored to be nominated to serve on the board of governors for the u.s. postal service and i am pleased to share with the committee how, if confirmed, i would approach the responsibilities involved. as you know, the postal service faces enormous challenges. in assessing them, i find it helpful to keep in mind the magnitude of what is at stake. in my view, the postal service remains of vital national asset. it directly employs about half a million americans. and it makes possible all $1 trillion mailing industry, that employs 8 million others. although mail vlume has declined, the postal service delivered 168 billion pieces of mail last year to more than 150 million households and businesses. many of these households and depend on those deliveries for essential services that they could not afford were it not for the postal service's important commitment to universal service. similarly, many small businesses, non-profit, publishers and other mailers depend on the postal service's i

skills, and should have i think thyor.ire executive experie >> thanks, senator collins rick senator carper. >> again let me just reiterate our thanks to each of you for, not just being with today but a anr yo wilngss ts as we ntin to rveonryn fe ws. i just want to follow up if i could briefly on points that senator collins was making. we wh i call executive branch is a swiscse fr mirati to mira. gngset tr. re he anto this administration. we have gaping holes in major leadership roles because we couldn't agree on, or because of administratio couldn't agree on a nome. theyout hr t naress,nw n up with big problems, and a number of departments but one of ose is the acquisitionside. in the budget mr. risch ande saw. we saw it again and this administration. when you seemjens ad t $400 million, $400 billion not have to 18 months, agency and te top watchdog position and the department of defense issues i think unthinkable. but i wantto ome back to poont oc l arolns wa rf admirably. i don't know that the mr. shea is going to come back to us as a this is who we think ought to be the person or the ri

well, senators carper and durbin have a bill in to stop that.senator durbin is also a leader on the issue of private student loans in bankruptcy, as well as a great partner in helping to draw attention to the experiences of students who have attended these schools. i also want to thank other members of the help committee who have been active participants at hearings. senators franken, senator merkley, senator blumenthal. i've also received a great deal of support and encouragement along the way from organizations dedicated to ensuring that students have a genuine path to success in higher education. in particular, i thank the cowns council for opportunity in education, the leadership trust, the leadership council on civil rights, institute for college access and success, campus progress, and the national association for college admissions counseling. all have been involved in helping us over the last couple of years to get the data that we need. on behalf of service members and veterans, we have had tremendous assistance from the iraq and afghan

. >> senator carper? >> let me jump in if i can. i apologize for missing your comments. we had a simultaneous hearing on the committee of homeland security and government affairs, and we're coming up on the tenth anniversary of the creation of the department on the heels of 9/11, and it was an opportunity to look back and forward at the threats we're facing around the world, so i apologize for missing much of what you said. how do we realize better health care outcomes for less money, for the same amount of money? if we don't do that, we're not going to be able to extend coverage long to people who don't otherwise have it. among the focus i've had is actually a focus shared by senator baucus and senator enzi, as well as others of our colleagues. is it possible, let me ask this question, is it possible to reduce the incidents of medical malpractice litigation? is it possible to reduce the incidents of defensive medicine, and is it possible to get better health care outcomes? one of the things we put in the health care reform bill was a $50 million authorization to incenti

reid of nevada, baucus, udall of new mexico, stabenow, begich, whitehouse, levin, casey, harkin, carper, coons, mikulski, merkley, gillibrand, inouye, blumenthal, warner. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask consent that the mandatory quorum required under rule 22 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call:

original cosponsor of the cybersecurity act of 2012 with senators lieberman, collins, rockefeller, and carper, and i'd really like it thank them for their tireless work on this legislation over the past several years. this act has seven titles, each of them addressing a key gap in our nation's cyber laws. i'd like to just -- i'd like to just take a moment to describe the critical infrastructure provisions in title one, but i'd like to focus most of my remarks on the information-sharing part of the bill. which make up title seven. title 1 covers critical infrastructure protection, which means protecting the public and private infrastructure that underpin our economy and our way of life, a big, big deal. a cyber attack against these networks could open a dam, crash our financial system or disabled the grid, could stop all planes, it could interrupt the f.a.a., on and on and on. although some critical infrastructure companies have taken action to protect their networks, i must tell you many of them have not. it appears that market forces are insufficient for many critical infrastructure companie

[laughter] >>chairman carper, ranking member and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. i am truly honored to be nominated by the president to serve on the board of governors of the u.s. postal service, and i am pleased to share with the committee, how, if confirmed, i responsibilities involved. as you know, the postal service faces enormous challenges. in assessing them, i find it helpful to keep in mind the magnitude of what's at stake. in my view, the postal service remains a vital national asset. it directly employs almost a half million americans, and it $1 trillion industry that employs 8 million others. although mail volume has declined from its 2007 peak, the postal service still delivered 168 billion pieces of mail last year to more than 150 millionmany of these households depend on those deliveries for essential services that they could not afford were it not for the postal service's important commitment to universal service. similarly, many small businesses, nonprofits, publishers and other mailers depend on the postal service's international