and so we are excited that mr. moniz is here today so that we can explore the perspective of the department of energy as the country makes dramatic changes in its energy distribution production, transmission system. we have a lot of infrastructure needs. we are focusing on the diplomatic -- diplomacy aspects of energy which is becoming more and more important to our friends in the european union who find themselves reliant on natural gas coming from russia. and so we have many opportunities in the united states to come forth with a good energy policy. and i think that most of the provisions that we're focused on in this energy bill, democrats and republicans agree that they need to be addressed. and one of the biggest is infrastructure needs and trying to improve the permitting process for an example. so i look forward to the testimony of all of our witnesses today. and we have a real opportunity here and we don't want to drop this ball. so we're getting close to the end of drafting this legislation, coming up with a fin

chairman let me first begin by welcoming secretary of energy mr. moniz here to the subcommittee. welcome, mr. secretary. let me commend you for the outstanding work. you have been involved in a myriad of different issues, all important to the american people. mr. chairman mr. secretary you might not accept this and you might not -- you might think that this is not something that you seek but, in my mind and in the mind of a number of my constituents, you are, indeed, a superstar secretary. i am real proud of your work on behalf of our nation. mr. secretary from your literature and historic nuclear talks with iran and the minorities on energy initiative to overseeing the development of the comprehensive qer are among your more important accomplishments and i have no doubt you would go down as one of the secretaries of modern time. you see, i'm a fan mr. secretary. and to replace the current requirement for energy plan with quadrennial energy review. it is my hope that this bill, like the senate counterpart that was recently introduced by secretary coons of delaware and senator alex

chairman let me first by welcoming the honorable secretary of energy mr. monizision. welcome, mr. secretary. mr. secretary, let me commend you for the outstanding work you have been involved in on a myriad of issues all important to the american people. mr. chairman -- mr. secretary you might not accept this and you might not think this is not something you see but in my mind and mind of a number of my constituents you are indeed a superstar secretary. we're proud of your work on behalf of our nation. mr. secretary, from your leadership from the talks with iran to establishing the much needed minorities in energy initiative and overseeing the development of the comprehensive qer, among your more important accomplishments and i have no doubt that you will go down as one of the most significant and impressive energy secretaries of modern time. see, i'm a fan, mr. secretary. as you may be aware, i have a bill that i will soon be introducing that would amend the department of energy authorization act to replace a current requirement for biannual plan quad drenial en

mr. chairman. i hope secretary moniz will send someone to the discussion this afternoon. f course i want to talk about exports like my friend mr. barton did. one of the things he talked about is that one of the good reasons for the ability to have oil exports is because you have a better matching of the qualities needed by the refineries in different geographical areas around the world. you didn't go quite far enough i don't think because one of the things that happens when you have it better matching is the of economic efficiency, and economic efficiency releases additional capital and that additional capital base am i a curious with 30 years in the business would go back into investment which stimulates the production. next time you're answering a question if you go all the way through that economic cycle i think it would be helpful. the next thing has to do with i guess i would call it a safety valve question. as you know there are multiple versions of proposals for oil exports. and some of them include given the president the authority, the ability to suspend oil expor

mr. chairman. i hope secretary moniz will send someone to the discussion this afternoon. of course i want to talk about exports like my friend mr. barton did. one of the things you talked about is that one of the good reasons for the ability to have oil exports is because you have a better matching of the qualities of grades that are needed by refineries and different geographical areas around the world. you didn't go quite far enough, i don't think, because one of the things that happens when you have that better matching is you have economic efficiency and economic efficiency releases additional capital, and that additional capital, based on my experience with 30 years in the business, would go back into re-investment which stimulates the production. so next time you're answering that question, if you go all the way through that economic cycle, i think that it would be helpful. the next thing has to do with -- i guess i'd call it a safety valve question. as you know there are multiple versions or proposals for oil exports out there, and some of them include giving the pr

mr. chairman. >> thank you. and that concludes the first panel. secretary moniz, thank you very much for your testimony and answers to our questions. we look forward to continuing to work with you on many pressing issues as we move forward. thanks again for your leadership. and mr. rush will be notifying you formation of the fan club and we'll be getting together with that soon. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> we have a meeting relatively soon. >> okay. >> and there will be a huge crowd there. >> topics included claimant change cross border in infrastructure. this is an hour. -- also active statewide association of county commissioners, outstanding commissioner who am very pleased could travel down from pennsylvania to be with us today. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you for being with us. once again i want to thank all of you. we really look forward to your testimony. and i'm sorry there was such a delay in your testifying. we had to reschedule a little bit. but mr. do zer, i think you came the longest distance from germany, and i think you were in the german

mr. olson, for five minutes. >> i think the chair and welcome, secretary moniz. my first question is about the federal power act. under section 202 c. d. a we you can order a power plant to stay running during a great crisis. involving your order the plant might squeak past the clean air permits. unfairly that plant can define and sued others for doing so. one regulator says ago, another says stop. that plant has to decide whether they want to acquiesce the power shortage, maybe a brownout or blackout are protect breaking the grid printer just a few days maybe a few hours. i have a bipartisan bill with representative doyle and green to fix this energy package we are working on. this is not about a company running roughshod over environmental laws. we are talking about days or hours in a crisis. the other week ferc and nerc indoors our bill. their predecessor, secretary chu, told me in this committee is quote-unquote very supportive of the idea. the bill has passed this committee three times now and the whole house twice the 112 the 113th congress. and so my quest

mr. chairman. >> thank you, that concludes the first panel that secretary moniz, thank you very much for your testimonyand answers to our questions. and we look forward to continuing to work with you on many pressing issues as we move forward. and thanks again for your leadership. and mr. rush will be notifying you of the formation of the fan club and we'll get together with you for that. >> so we'll have our meetingpwxxpÑtz relatively soon. >> and there will be a huge crowd there so --. >> on our second panel todaytq we have mr. rudolph dolzer, who flew all the way to the u.s. from bonn, germany, andb-dd appreciate him being here. we have mr. jason grumet and gerald president of upstream research and consulting. we have ms. allison cassady from the center for american progress. we have miss hammond who is professor of law at george washington university law school. and i'm going to call on my colleague mr. pitts of pennsylvania to introduce one of our witnesses as well. >> thank you mr. chairman. i'm pleased to introduce bit. mr. dolzer you came the distance. from bonn, germany and you were in the ger

mr. chairman. >> thank you. and that concludes the first panel. secretary moniz, thank you very much for your testimony and answers to our questions. we look forward to continuing to work with you on many pressing issues as we move forward. thanks again for your leadership. >>> more road to the white house coverage coming up later today and tomorrow. this afternoon at 5:30 eastern, lincoln chaffee becomes the fourth announced democratic presidential candidate in arlington, virginia. he's a former republican turned independent and now running for the democratic nomination. live here on c-span 3. and live tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. former texas governor rick perry also announces his presidential bid making him the tenth republican to do so and his second run for the gop nomination. the event takes place in dallas and will be followed by your phone calls. back now to this house hearing on energy policy as the panel of energy analysts offer recommendations on cross border infrastructure projects and liquefyied natural gas exports. >>> and we have mr. gerald keps, vice pr

mr. salhi, who is a key player here and sidelined with some surgery. if he does come back with zarif, he is the counterpart to moniz, i think the glass is who half full han half empty. >> we like hearing it that way. we look forward for your show at noon eastern time tomorrow. developing news in taiwan. a massive fire at the water park left hundreds seriously injured. the water park is located in the northern city of new tie pay. most of them sustained burns on the lower parts of their bodies. kerry sanders has the developments. this is a horrific story. how did it happen? >> it's just so unexpected. it was a hot day, about 100 degrees, people went to the water park to cool down and have fun when the scene turned into a scene of disaster. around 1,000 people were partying at the popular water park when theatrical colored powder was thrown from the stage for dramatic effect. the powder caught fire and set off an explosion sending panicked crowds screaming and running and images captured on this amateur video. >> he says suddenly it was sprayed and there was sparks then fire on our bodies. rescue workers treated hund

mr. chairman, i yield back. >> recognizing the gentlemen from texas for five minutes. >> i thank the chair. welcome, secretary moniz. my first question is about the federal power act. under section 202-c, doe, you, can order a power plant to stay running during a great crisis. in following your order, the plant might squeak past the clean air permits, unfairly that plant can be fined and sued by others for doing so. one regular says go, another says stop. that plant has to decide whether they want to acquiesce in a power shortage, may be a blackout or break the permit for just a few days, maybe a few hours. i have a bipartisan bill with representative doyle in green to fix this in the energy package we're working on. this is not about a company running roughshod over environmental laws. we're talking about days or hours in a crisis. the other week ferc and nerc endorsed our bill, secretary chu told me he's very supportive of the idea. the bill has passed this committee three times now and whole house twice. and 112th, 113th congress. can i count on your support in the 114th congress? will you be supportive of the b

moniz. i talked to him about all of these obstacles just before we flew over here and blackout was imposed on all interviews and this is what he had to say. >> mr. secretary, there's been a lot of concern, even by some former advisers to this administration that the deal is not a good deal that inspections, for instance will not be possible for the u.n. inspectors to get to those military sites. can't iran hide what it is doing? >> well, of course the deal has to be judged on how it turns out. and clearly the article you refer to for example raises a set of concerns which are very much on our minds. we have every intention of emphasizing very strongly verification, transparency access to sites where there's reason to suspect activity that might go outside the bounds of the agreement. that's all what we have to negotiate in these next days. >> we thought that that was all negotiated back in march and april and this it was just technical things that were being worked out. is iran backing away from this deal? >> no i don't think so. there were several issues that were not fully resolved in the april 2nd announcements. if you look at our fact sheet

mr. speaker last april secretary mow knees discussed the -- moniz discussed this as a renewable in address to the national hydropower association. in his remarks, the secretary stated, we have to pick up the covers off of this hidden renewable that's right in front of our eyes and continues to have significant potential. yet, despite this public praise for hydropower, the e.p.a. decided to push a plan that explicitly nedgets hydropower in favor of other sources such as wind and solar. additionally, the e.p.a.'s plan use us the year 2020. this would also negatively impact my home state and others in the northwest. in 2012, oregon and washington experienced unusually high levels of rainfall, unfortunately, unlike this year, which led to a sharp increase in hydropower production and therefore we used less energy from fossil fuel sources. as a result, the proposed rule seriously underestimates the amount of carbon used by my state which in reality is much higher than the e.p.a. 2012 baseline. because hydropower is not viewed as a renewable, we have to utilize impractical amounts of other renew

mr. chairman, i yield back. >> recognizing the gentlemen from texas for five minutes. >> i thank the chair. welcome, secretary moniz. my first question is about the federal power act. under section 202-c, doe, you, can order a power plant to stay running during a great crisis. in following your order the plant might squeak