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hydroelectric power plays a crucial role in that energy grid and provides a 1/3 of our nation's renewable energy and is one of the most cleanest sources available, available 24 hours, seven takes a week. instead of expanding this resource, we're watching it get turned down, including four dams in my district on the klamath river. they're gone now. hydroelectric power is paid for and co-2 free if we're worried about co-2. it's a beautiful thing and they're gone because of some environmental ruling. the removal after these dams took out a significant power source and reduced the clean energy production further limiting our ability to strengthen the grid. now they're even targeting more of them including one called lake pillsbury in manned seeno valley as well as snake river dams in washington. we want to take away the hydropower as they want to expand electricity for automobiles and take out gas stoves, more electric stoves, one thing or another to stretch the grid and we're taking it out. the policies around here don't make sense. we need streamlined permitting to have more power plants li

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most of the rest the three baltic nations, all former soviet republics, 0ur europe regional editor, danny aeberhard, told me more about the switch away from russian power gridons against ukraine, you're thinking of the annexation of crimea in 2014, the launch of an insurgency in the eastern ukraine, and then the full—scale but all those steps obviously accelerated the pressure to disconnect from this, the russian and belarusian grid. so its old soviet infrastructure tied in with an agreement from about 25 years ago. and what it does, although lithuania, estonia and latvia had already stopped buying electricity invasion of ukraine, they were still subject controlled the frequency, the operating frequency. so very important thing. they've disconnected from the cabling system is sandwiched between lithuania and poland. and now, they are doing a series of testing before reconnecting, russia has indeed. russia says that it's a political move. but also for the wider eu. they say that kaliningrad is operating fine and that it they ship in liquid natural gas and then so that's quite important. but their wider worries within the baltic nations, i mean, the system up

grid. and these are actions that we have to take. our nation's ability to compete in the 21st century depends on it. unfortunately, it appears that republicans are determined to once again do the bidding of their big oil and gas friends, and i don't think that's progress. democrats will fight this partisan effort every step of the way. and finally, to all the career staff of the department of energy who are doing such hard work under challenging circumstances, please stay in your jobs. america really needs your expertise. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. chair latta: thank you very much. the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. this concludes member opening statements. the chair would like to remind members that pursuant to committee rules, all members' opening statements made part of the record. and before recognizing a witnesses, i also want to just thank all of our new members that are on the subcommittee. a hearty welcome. we're going to have a lot of work to do in this congress and look forward to working with everyone. i wan

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national security. in the case of ukraine, for example, there are more than 200 american usaid personnel that are on the ground that are helping with the energy grid here in the dead of winter, that help with the agricultural industry. if i was talking with another individual who is familiar with the missions in africa, who says that when it comes to the humanitarian assistance in terms of foreign aid, financially, even if waivers are to be granted that allow that money to funnel into countries in africa into specific programs, there's no personnel on the ground to actually implement it, provide oversight and work with the contractors to ensure that in so many situations, life saving food and funding is able to make it to these places. at 3 p.m. eastern, that's just about an hour from now. there is supposed to be an update from the state department in terms of some personnel who are determined to be critical of functioning here, but the consternation at usaid, outside of the thousands here domestically that have been placed on administrative leave or fired or furloughed, is about those men and women overseas who in many cases have been there for y

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