and is the nrc ready for that? >> i think they're on a big spectrum, depending how much technology development has been done in the past. i'd say the quickest, assuming that we do the types of things we need in regulatory space would be on the order of 10 to 15 years. some of them are much further out than that. and i think that nrc has a strong regulatory function but as we've talked about could do some things to be better receptive to companies and to build staff depth in areas that they're not used to regulating. >> mr. merrifield, do you think there's a risk of agency bucking heads against each other, nrc and d.o.e. with respect to the new technology? >> well, i think -- there was a lot of discussions between the d.o.e. and nrc on earlier advanced reactor-like programs. that did not get as far as we hoped it would have gotten. i think with the focus that this committee and your counterparts in the senate have on advanced reactor technologies, the legislation you have before you will give the framework and the e

this is the nrc and d.o.e.o look broadly at the functions and report back at how it can support this new innovation community. there have been some specific idea suggested. we hope that you have additional useful ideas. we appreciate the intent of the discussion draft from mr. kinsinger to move nuclear thank you for letting me testify. >> next witness, mr. jeffrey fetus. thanks for being with us. you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. >> pull it up close. pull it closer to you. >> is it working? terrific. thank you, chairman whitfield and ranking member rush, and distinguished members of the committee. i'll highlight a few points here. first, with respect to hr 4979 which requires d.o.e. and nrc to work together to work to develop plan with public input for advanced reactor licensing systems, such a charge has merit in that it asks two of the relevant federal agencies to work together. but some cautions are in order. 270 days is far too short a time to gather and analyze the regulatory information an

this legislation seems to provide guidance and direction to the nrc and d.o.e. to ensure these two agencies have sufficient technical expertise and in order to support and regulate advanced reactor technology. the bill also requires the nrc to formulate a plan that would help foster civilian research and development of advanced nuclear energy technologies and enhance the licenses -- licensing and commercial development of such technologies. mr. chairman, i fully support the intent of this legislation. i look forward to hearing feedback from our panel of experts on both the necessity for this type of legislation and the implications once it is enacted. in regards to the nuclear utilization of keynote energy policies act, i also look forward to engaging the witnesses on this legislation. mr. chairman, finally, if nuclear energy is going to continue to play a constructive role in a reduced common energy portfolio, we must ensure that we have policies in place that appropriately reflect the contributions of the industry and current reality that it faces. so i commen

craig. >> katy tur outside the narc. >> luke is also outside the nrc. as i understand and you correct me if i am wrong here. this is from the meeting from his campaign has had with congressional republicans. do we know whether all these face to face meetings have gone to great deals or great lengths to calm any nerves? >> i think to some degree. you are correct. over the last months there has been meetings -- senator sessions over the capitol hill club and discussing strategy to discuss a way forward. the purpose of the meeting that trump had today, i think was to try to calm the nerves of the nrsc officials as well as some of the gop leaderships. craig, there are a lot of republicans who are up for reelection representing blue or purple states. one senator who was at this meeting today is rob horton and he's facing the important battle in ohio. i am sure his electoral strategy was discussing between the trump campaign. mitch mcconnel spoke with supporters here. they discussed a variety of issues and it was constructive. mcconnell is a chest player, he'

. >> nrc is present in falluja where we are just riveting water and food to their families -- around families that have managed to escape the outskirts of falluja where there is intense fighting ongoing. the families tell us an extremely critical situation they are coming from. they tell us that they have been surviving on dried dates and river water. they have not been able to walk out of their houses. children have stopped going to and they are afraid of their lives every minute of every day. >> he say they are afraid for their lives and with good reason because there are reports that the islamic state forces have been using these people as human shields against the approaching iraqi army. what are you hearing about that? we have been hearing reports that the islamic state is not allowing civilians to leave. >> the reports we are receiving in addition to the families i have been talking to, they mainly point to two factors of why people are having a hard time escaping. one, they are basically afraid of leaving their houses because they are in the middle of the crossfire, rockets an

>> and of course, the nrc disputed that. memo calling you a liar. rep. jolly: [laughter] i think ally was that the meeting never took place. -- the lie was that the meeting never took place. that was an integrity had. i am not trying to judge colleagues. they went straight at my integrity. i went to microsoft outlook, rented the meeting notes from -- calendar that day, printed the meeting notes from the calendar, where the request comes from the leadership. i said, if you want to ramp it up, we will. i don't want to. hopefully, cooler heads will prevail. i would be surprised if it stays at $400,000. both parties still have a system where you have to pay your dues to the party. -- ask anybody in town who contributes. they have to contribute in the name of a certain member and that is the way you meet goals. a quick question. you had a lot to say about donald trump and bernie sanders. what is your response to donald trump saying, it is all my money, and bernie talking about the system is dropped? -- corrupt? have you spoken to them or anyone? rep. jolly: i

i'm not criticizing my colleagues, i'm not criticizing the nrcc or the dccc, let the nrc and dccc continue to raise as much resources as they want to raise, i think we should simply remove members of congress from that. look, i will say on my side of the aisle, we are one party. obviously this is a hard issue to talk about but i understand and support what the nrcc is doing, i just think members of congress should be removed from it. to rick's point, i worked for 12 or 13 years on staff but largely in my professional life about 20 years with my predecessor, just a wonderful legislator, a wonderful man by the name of bill young. he came in in 1970. you know, when we first got elected in 1970, the nrcc raised money for us. the nrcc gave us money. now we are in a world where you get elected as new member of congress and you get a bill, you are given your dues. it's one of the worst-kept secretes around here. members of congress are told this is how much money you have to raise for the party based on years of service and i got a 400,000 bill this year, i'm not paying it. does that put me on th

what the nrc is saying, what the national republican committee is saying. we want you to go back and localize these races which our incumbents are doing anyway. i would submit to you the fact that john sin knnknewu, the younger, lost to jeanne shaheen. was probably 85% about they were tired of george w. bush. because his favorability as a senator was off the charts. so trump underperforming on any of those tickets will put in my mind the senate in play. i'm not saying anything i wouldn't say to you if you were sitting at the national republican committee. >> so everything that peter said. plus, here's how it's going to play out in the next few months. your republican senate candidate. you wake up in the morning. you go to your first event. the reporters gather around you. and their first question is senator so-and-so or candidate so-and-so what do you think about donald trump said yesterday/this morning about x? and you're going to have to figure out what to do. and the next day you're going to have to get up and go through the same thing all over again. so

my last question, tell me about your current relationship with the nrc see? nrcc? >> i have got a wonderfully good relationship. here, ind to point out one respect, members of the congress are victims of citizen united and the massive infusion of money into our campaigns and political process. if you intend to run for reelection and you believe in the stop act and immigration any ofand you believe in the ideas that have been advanced for the reveille -- resolution of problems we face as a nation, you had better have enough money to defend yourself and get your message out there. without money, you do not exist. if one candidate has got the money and the message, and you are sitting there with nothing, you lose. you do not have to have more than a person but you do have to have enough. this country never operated that way before. i have the opportunity to see how it operated many years ago. know ourus who history, it did not work that way throughout most of our country passes history. we have got to restore democracy. it is about congressional reform and campaign re

nrc, chairman, there is been a lot of speculations that donald trump at the top of the ticket could not lean in and they would lose perhaps 15 or 20 seats. the fact that he's rolling in on trump and preaching unity and significant and the longer there is this divide between ryan and his lieutenant, could that be ryan speaking for members of his congress that's not comfortable with trump? is that ryan's own molition. the longer it is going on, the harder it is for the gentlemen being met right now. hey, we are ready to go. people are saying a little kumbaya now. the longer this goes on, the more issues it will come to the forefront of the problem of the fact factor of the party. as long as they are not on the same page completely, reporters are going to say why the differences and why cannot you do it. >> those differences can be problematic. >> thank you very much, we seen those protesters. they're going to stick with trump today. coming up, trump huddles with leaders. what is it going to take for republican senator like geoff flake to support his presumptive nominee. next on this speci

>> and of course, the nrc disputed that. >> they disputed that? >> there was a memo calling you a liar. rep. jolly: [laughter] i think the lie was that the meeting never took place. i said if they wanted to name names i would be happy to do that. look, that was in integrity hit. -- an integrity hit. i am not trying to judge colleagues. they went straight at my integrity. i went to microsoft outlook, printed off the meeting notes from the calendar that day, printed the meeting notes from the calendar where the request comes from the leadership. i said, if you want to ramp it up, we will. i don't want to. hopefully, cooler heads will prevail. ask anybody in town who contributes to local parties, they get solicitations. that is the way you meet your goals. >> you had a lot to say about, where is donald trump and bernie sanders. what is your response to donald trump saying, it is all my money, and bernie talking about the system is corrupt? have you spoken to them or anyone? rep. jolly: i obviously don't have any inroads to donald trump. >> no one has

the latest national poll by cnn/nrc taken before last night shows trump trailing clinton by double digits. trump knows the clinton campaign is already organizing to attack him in key swing states so trump aides have let it be known they're getting calls from veteran gop operatives around the country who say they are ready to get on the so-called trump train. trump's tapped ben carson to vet potentialitentiality projects a expected to announce his choice shortly before the july convention in cleveland. he's been arguing for more than a year that unlike his rivals who he called bought and paid for that trump has not been influenced by special interests but now he's planning to start fund-raising for the general election which could tarnish his image a bit. trump aides acknowledge that their big data social media campaign and a few other departments are not really yet up to presidential campaign standards but now that trump's rivals are toast instead of spending the next two months prepare forge a contested convention, they can use the time getting ready for the national campaign and ready t

the nrc chairman, he's all in on ryan. you're starting to see it divide between ryan and the chairman and ryan and majority leader and mitch mcconnell having the meeting behind me. it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out. >> let me bring in for more analysis, ben ginsburg. howard fineman is with us as well. i go back to this statement of honest dialogue. you have speaker ryan saying we cannot pretend to be unified when we're not. but is he pretending here that his goal is to roll donald trump, to have donald trump be the opposite of what he has been from everything on immigration, from the fluid answer now on banning muslims, to even as he pointed out, the separation of power, which it seems that some within the party and maybe even speaker ryan are not convinced donald trump fully understands. >> well, i'm going to disagree with your basic assumption in the question. i think what you're seeing here is people that do have different views and they will end up coming together before the convention. and frankly,

, by the way, which i think is the most important news today, chris, that's very underreported, the nrc chairman greg waldon of oregon, someone very instrumental in getting the house majorities in 2010, holding on in '12 and '14 and growing them, he's all in with trump saying it's time to unify behind him and the same goes for roger wicker and the nrsc and the members in charge of electing republicans saying let's fall in line, let's go. the one thing about that is that donald trump is so unpredictable. that's the word i hear from these members, so if they embrace him now in may, they really have no other choice, but what happens if something as bombastic as another ban on all muslims coming into the u.s. comes out. what if you have the language like all mexicans coming across the border are rapists. those are right now things on the back burner. we're past that. we're going to smooth out those rough edges that he is as a candidate right now and he said there's an el man of surprise with donald trump. while they embrace him now, perhaps pay for that in the future, but i do think it's te

the agencies, nrc included, are responding and have the adequate resources to respond.mass displacement, and we're talking around 50,000 people. and if we just imagine 20,000 people manage to get out, then of course our resources would be stretched dramatically, and we wouldn't have sufficient resources to actually cover those mass displacements if that were to happen. >> and of course the big fear now, these summer temperatures are on the way, and that is going to make all of this situation even worse than it is already. thank you so much for talking with us. we do appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >>> now, after months of secrecy, the world is just starting to see what terrorists did to kenya's military in a brazen attack back in january. >> kenya's government has said very little about the el shibab attack, but just seeing the number of caskets and number of funerals, the toll is now becoming much clearer. robyn kriel has this exclusive report. >> he was telling us this is not my home. >> reporter: the photos he sent home told his family he was brave. but in his

>> and of course, the nrc disputed that. there was a memo calling you a liar. rep. jolly: [laughter] i think the lie was that the meeting never took place. that was the last. integrity hit. i am not trying to judge colleagues. they went straight at my integrity. i went to microsoft outlook, printed the meeting notes from the calendar, where the request comes from the leadership. i said, if you want to ramp it up, we will. i don't want to. hopefully, cooler heads will prevail. i would be surprised if it stays at $400,000. both parties still have a system where you have to pay your dues to the party. ask anybody in town who contributes to local parties. they have to contribute in the name of a certain member and that is the way you meet goals. >> a quick question. you had a lot to say about donald trump and bernie sanders. what is your response to donald trump saying, it is all my money, and bernie talking about the system is corrupt? have you spoken to them or anyone? rep. jolly: i obviously don't have inroads with donald trump. i think we tried a little social media

we're working with a health care research firm called nrc who does perception research on-going throughout the year so we'll be able to measure how well we are doing in improving awareness and perception around the general. related but separate is the launching the new family birth center which rachel talked about. one of the reasons we selected this as a pilot was we had some drops in birth at the hospital and this was a challenge to the department and we saw we were not getting the patients from the net board of corrections. our own patients were going elsewhere to give birth. we wanted to upbltd what was happening there because we know our hospital is second to none in the city in terpls ters of quality of maternity and birth care. so we did a number of focus groups with moms and people who gave birth to us, people who gave birth with us, how they choose a birth center. right now we're accumulating the stories and brochures, video, it will object social media but really the outreach is the most important for us on the birth center. so we're working with health network clinics as well as

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we're working with a health care research firm called nrc who does perception research on-going throughout the year so we'll be able to measure how well we are doing in improving awareness and perception around the general. related but separate is the launching the new family birth center which rachel talked about. one of the reasons we selected this as a pilot was we had some drops in birth at the hospital and this was a challenge to the department and we saw we were not getting the patients from the net board of corrections. our own patients were going elsewhere to give birth. we wanted to upbltd what was happening there because we know our hospital is second to none in the city in terpls ters of quality of maternity and birth care. so we did a number of focus groups with moms and people who gave birth to us, people who gave birth with us, how they choose a birth center. right now we're accumulating the stories and brochures, video, it will object social media but really the outreach is the most important for us on the birth center. so we're working with health network clinics as well as

we just held a cooperation with the nrcs, a soil conservation class. we've also had grant writing classes that we have held with veterans want to become farmers. some of the best friends in agriculture are now through the farmer veteran coalition. >> thank you. what anybody else want to respond to any programs or initiatives or benefits come is working with the veterans farmers or veterans anywhere working in the food system? >> senator, i would just add simply that we supported the efforts that you just described and that which is described here, both financially and with our resources personally but as you may recall last summer the farm credit system helped sponsor you in washington a homegrown by he was a we are really trying to feature the products that are raised by our veterans and make them more visible to the general public so they can be featured and distributed and help them be successful. thank you. >> ranking member, i just want to add that we don't a special programs for our veterans because we've honored them our entire careers in the co

we just held a cooperation with the nrcs, a soil conservation class. we've also had grant writing classes that we've held with veterans who want to become farmers. some of the best friend and r crews i have in agriculture are through the coalition. >> thank withdryou. anybody else want to respond in working with veteran farmers or veterans anywhere working in the food system? what we described financially and with resources personally. we're really trying to feature new products raised by our veterans and make them more visible to the general public so they can be featured and distributed and help them be successful. thank you. >> ranking member, i just want to add that we don't have special programs for our veterans because we honored them our entire careers in the community banks. and that would include rate concession, some terms that maybe would unusual in a normal situation to try and stimulate them. i appreciate mr. welder's office of farm credit. sounds just like a community banker that i know. >> all right. let me ask, again, i'll start with yo