mr. allison when we return after this next week's recess. i will have some questions for the secretary about his, about the allison report and the state of the loan guarantee program when we get to questions. again, thank you, mr. secretary, for coming. we look forward to your testimony. let me also just mention before calling on senator mikulski, i appreciate the technical assistance that your staff and the folks at the energy information administration and other parts of d.o.e. provide in helping prous vied the standards for clean energy standards. i hope we can introduce this legislation in a couple of weeks, the modelling and analysis that's been done by your department has been very helpful in helping us develop that bill. so let me call on senator mikulski for her opening statements. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here. to speak to the budget as it relates to the department of energy. i was disappointed with the administration's overall request for fiscal year 2013. i think we all hoped and i certainly expected that the

mr. allison. we are announcing the disclosed that today. the american people deserve a political system that is fair, transparent and accountable and the political system is fair, transparent and accountable, we believe that will result in policies that are fair to the american people. and instead of the union address as we've said repeatedly, the american people deserve a fair shake. everybody deserves the same fair shake, the same shock and opportunity in this country. entity that, we should have a political system that responds to their needs, not to through his bank rolling various campaigns. and so what this says is let's get rid of secret money and american politics. let's make sure that when people contribute to these outside groups that we are seeing, whether they contribute is their corporations or other entities, whoever they may be, that they may disclose who they are. they have to report who the contributors are. the american people have a right to know who's bankrolling television acts. so that is one thing it does. another thi

mr. allison and the need to do political damage control. all loan guarantee opportunities for whatever purpose will now be painted with the same brush. the loss of public confidence is difficult to calculate. arthur laffer just learned from this? energy projects fail in the marketplace, we know that. but the political directions were behind any project selection, then our fears would be justified. he may have seen a report by the "washington post" on february 14 which alleged that as much as $3.9 billion of your funds may have been improperly influenced by appointees. now the white house must show the election year budget is not, the election-year is not dictating this budget spending plans. i put yucca mountain in the same box but the administration has tried to kill this project, wasting billions of dollars to accommodate senator reid. mind you, not on any sound scientific grounds which you yourself have said, mr. secretary. now your budget request to obtain funding for some of the blue ribbon commissions recommendations, recommendations

mr. allison will address that, we believe pressure will be on coz shareholders and employees to know what the political contributions are. now it is my honor to yield the floor to the distinguished gentleman from maryland, the ranking democrat on the budget committee, he has served on the conference, the payroll tax cut, and he is the author of the disclosed at in the previous congress and has reintroduced it today, mr. van hollen. >> thank you for your leadership on the disclose act, as well as making for the american people get a fair shake, and i am pleased to be here with my colleagues, mr. israel and mr. ellison. in announcing to disclose act today, the american people deserve a political system that is fair, transparent, and accountable. if the political system is fair, transparent, and a campbell, we believe that will result and policies that are fair, and as the president said in his state of the union address, the american people deserve a fair shake. every body deserves the same fair shake, the same shot and opportunity in this country, and to do that we should have a political

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mr. foreman i'm tone -- good morning, everyone, i'm tony perkins. >>> hey, allison, we should have highs into the upper 40s to 50s. it will be a mild afternoon and we'll have winter weather into the daytime hours tomorrow. let's get to it. 33 degrees at reagan national. 26 in hagerstown and ocean city, good morning, 27 degrees for you. let me try that again. should be sunshine to start your day and we'll have the clouds moving in later on today. mostly cloudy and the rain will move in during the nighttime hours. we'll see if that transitions into winter weather. high temperatures in the upper 40s and by 4:00 p.m., the clouds will start to move in and they'll start to lower and thicken. more details on the forecast in a minute. let's check out the traffic with julie. >>> all right, a lot is happening now. we're receiving word of an accident involving a tractor trailer tieing up the commute. that puts it south of this area. the sky fox is in route to the incident. coming in and out of the area, no trouble in and out of centreville. the lanes are open. this is a crash near 123 and it's clea