important to note, our conservation adoption has been implemented without the aid of nrcs programs. this is due in part to practice standards being too rigid, reducing my ability to innovate and often being too risky for my productivity and success. nrcs could lead farmers by providing technical support regardless of farm families programs signing status. as i wrap up, i would like to mention my wife and her 4-h club run the local food pantry. i have seen firsthand the value and necessity of food assistance programs in our rural communities. the nutrition program in the farm bill is so important to communities like mine and food deserts with significant need. thank you. chair thompson: thank you. apologies for butchering your name when i introduced you. thank you to our witnesses. they set a great example for members. well under five minutes. [laughter] yeah. keep that in mind gentlemen and gentlelady's. in order of seniority, alternating between majority and minority members. five minutes, to allow us to get to as many questions as possible. i recognize myself or five minutes. dr.

a dal nrc e se non aveva alinhamento doveva andare a dal nrc comunque, quindi. >> they remember thislong afternoon playing in this court. kobe didn't want to leave, having lost the last game. sometimes he lost and it was like no, no, no, play one more, play one more. i want to win. play one more. kobe magari non era tirare per cui bastava prendere corridoio per trovato andare in sala e saluto sul tappeto magari mangiando pollo frito di pamela e poi e padova. la video cassette che arrivano la. philadelphia. >> my grandparents used to send me out all the tapes of all the games, so it was the lakers, the celtics, the bulls, hearn. my grandfather used to put a packet of tapes together. they used to send them out to us, and i used to sit there at the house and just just watch the games over and over and over again. >> yandro lui diceva sempre io androgeos nel nba. non mi devo alinari perchÉ io andrew io re devo dicevo certo. io ferro. la foto della vincero un noble non scherzando. lui diceva io arrivera. se parliamo del tempo della media e ricordo piu bello piu emozionante. e stato una re

reason they're not going to get their checks is in new mexico alone they let go of 35 members of the nrc us who are supposed to help in approving these grants so the new fire the people who have to approve the contracts and move the money you are delaying the funding and when you delay that funding you are delaying the decisions that say do i have the money to plant my crops. >> i would point out if we can't get a reference price for american farmers so the reference price reflects the input cost of fuel and fertilizer and labor last couple of years cost of grocery will go up because there will be a lot less food . with that i yield. >> the question is on the amendment, all those in favor signify by saying aye. the no's have it, the amendment is not agreed to . clark will call the roll. [roll call] >> the court will report the total. >> 4 aye's, eight no. >> the amendment is not approved . miss leger fernandez youare recognized . >> i move the committee make an order by myself which would protect funding for indian tribes. the federal government as a trusted responsibility but yet we've

it is something that hopefully reform at the nrc will help with. chair latta: ms. eversole the , testimony today underscores the policies that we have to have to incentivize american energy expansion, and the best way to incentivize that expansion is unlock private capital spending. we speak about the role that long term regulatory certainty and predictability have on the investment decisions to produce and deliver more energy. ms. eversole: absolutely, mr. chairman. thank you for the question. the way that markets think about investment over long term capital horizons is really important, and i think for our industry, which is incredibly capital intensive, and we invest over decades. 10, 20, 30 years in some cases. so we need to move beyond the 2, 4, 6-year political cycles and we to tell markets that we are all in together on a bipartisan basis in investing in america's long-term energy security. i think what i would, what i would add there is that it is extraordinarily important not just to signal for the markets but to producers that we are willing to make it h

if we do that i know that we can work together and continue to expand the amount of nrc this country has at its disposal and bring down the prices for american families and american businesses. thank you, and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: before i speak on the matter in front of us, i wanted to say that on roll call vote 89 i voted aye. it was my intention to vote no. therefore, i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to change my vote, since it will not affect the outcome. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. and thank you to my colleagues. i want to come down here and talk a little bit about energy with my colleagues in the senate today. and part of the reason why is that, as you know, mr. president, others know, the president of the united states has declared an energy emergency, and he did it on the day he was inaugurated here in the capitol. on a day when he was -- he had lots of comments, the fact that god had saved him so that he would be there to be inaugurated, that this was goi

trump just demolished all the offices at the department of nrc that support -- of energy that support carbon capture, which is a little weird because the fossil fuel industry has depended on carbon capture for rhetorical support of its continued pollution. the argument roughly is, don't worry about us continuing to pollute because carbon capture is going to come along and save the day. of course, that rhetoric is not backed up by investment because over and over again they refuse to actually build carbon capture equipment. it's a talking point, not a real solution that they will put any investment behind. and when regulators try to say, think about carbon capture. they say, oh, no, no, no. that's not a serious technology. we can't do that. if we're going to continuing polluting, but if you actually want us to apply it oh, no, it's a different thing. we're not going to talk about that. so here they all are. they all overshoot. this one just by a little. so you need that direct-air capture. then the other thing that they all need, they all need a price on carbon. they all need for it to

and something far too long we've been reluctant to deploy nuclear energy hopefully something at the nrc will help with. >> thank you very much. hopefully in our scores the american energy expansion in the best way to incentivize can you speak about the role of long-term regulatory and predictability have on the decisions produced to deliver more energy? >> the way the markets think about investment over long-term capital rising we invest over decades and 20 years in some cases we need to tell marcus randall bipartisan basic. what i would add it is extraordinarily not just for the markets but to produce not only to help us from an economic perspective. we have to change the reality talking once again of a.i. to restoring your manufacturing and unleashing our energy in burgum anymore fuel and pipeline, what is your view with more investment capital through regulatory and predictability in the last 50 seconds. >> thank you for the question is critically important building the workforce and maintaining the workforce those are planned or what our contractors are going to do is try to make su