chairman, tharnk you. >> senator coats questioning steven chu about the president's budget and energyepartment budget. as we've been hearing all week other topics coming up including the solengra loan guarantee. the u.s. debt is growing now at more than $15 trillion. it is, by the way the largest in the world. and so we want to take a look back at how we reached this point and in 2009 shortly after taking the oath of office the president delivering a speech before a joint session of congress had this to say about the debt and the deficit from february 2009. >> yesterday i held a fiscal summit where i pledged to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term in office. my administration has also begun to go line by line through the federal budget in order to eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs. as you can imagine this is a process that will take some time but we've already identified $2 trillion in savings over the next decade. [ applause ] in this budget. [ applause ] >> the president's comments before a joint session of congress in february 2009, of course now as we ente

and in a little more than three hours, you will hear from steven chu. then from the world economic r for forum, a panel of what ceos need to do to compete globally. >>> a budget of $900 million in the red. in shreveport, it is mostly cloudy and 38 at the airport. 38 in menden. you are listening to news radio. >> this weekend, book tv and american history tv explore the history and culture of shreveport, louisiana. author gary joiner on the union army failure in louisiana. the red river campaign of 1864. then a look at the over 200,000 books housed at the lsu archives. then a walking tour of shreveport with neil johnson. then sunday at 5:00 p.m., from barksdale air force base. a history. then visit the founding fathers autograph collection. then from the pioneer heritage center, medical treatment during the war. shreveport, louisiana. this weekend on c-span. >>> and now environmental protection agency administrator lisa jackson on the president's 2013 budget request. this hearing is a little more than three hours. >> i like to call today's hearing to ord

. >> energy secretary steven chu testified before resource committee last week on president obama's 2013 budget request. the $3.8 trillion package includes $27.2 billion for the energy department, which is just over a 3% increase from last year. secretary chu says the budget proposal reflects the administration's priorities and commitments to clean energy technology, research and development and national security. it's about three hours. >> okay. why don't we get started. i thank people for coming. today we have a hearing to examine the president's proposed department of energy budget for fiscal year 2013. we welcome secretary chu to testify and present the administration's budget to us tod today. the priorities laid out in the president's proposed budget reflect a strong commitment to clean energy and the increased security and economic benefits that made in america energy can achieve for us through american innovation and as well as manufacturing. in an overall budget request that seeks to provide substantial government-wide deficit reduction, i'm pleased to see that we have a proposed

president -- >> this morning we're live on capitol hill for more budget testimony, energy secretary steven chu will be answering questions this morning on president obama's budget for his department for 2013. the spending plan would increase funding by over 3% to $27.2 billion. mr. chu on your screen. >>> okay. why don't we get started. thank you for coming. today we have planned to review the budget 2013. we welcome secretary chu to testify and present the administration's budget to us today. the priorities laid out in the president's proposed budget reflect a strong commitment to clean energy and the increased security and economic benefits that made in america energy can achieve for us through american innovation and as well as manufacturing. in an overall budget request that seeks to provide substantial government-wide deficit reduction i'm pleased to see that we have a proposed 3.2% increase in the department of energy budget. this is an investment in the nation's energy future that will boost our economic growth and global competitiveness and protect the environment and allow the u.s. to

. >>> earlier this week, energy secretary steven chu outlined the president's 2013 budget request for the energy department. the president's request is just over $27 billion. and that's less than last year's spending. the budget eliminates $4 billion in fossil fuel subsidies and cancels the 35 projects that failed to meet research milestones. this briefing is about 40 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome members of the press and the media, i believe we have c spab online too. so hello to all of our viewers there. my name is irvine barwell. it's a pleasure to welcome you all to receive our presentation of our fiscal year 2013 budget request. i'm going to run through some ground rules here. we'll see from the secretary, hear from secretary, run through our presentation. i will be available also to run through a presentation of some of the budgetary numbers that we have. we'll then move into a question and answer period. i will emcee that, both the secretary, myself, and we also have the undersecretaries that have joined us, are available to answer questions. and if we're unable

energy secretary steven chu recently testified before the senate energy and natural resources committee about the president's request which includes $27.2 billion for his department. we'll bring that to you at about 1:30 eastern this afternoon. and continuing to look at energy, live in about 15 minutes at the american enter prirz institute for an event at renewable energy, benefits and down sides. live at noon eastern right here on c-span3. meantime, we'll show awe portion of energy secretary chu's outlining the budget request for his department. we'll show you as much of this briefing we can before going live to the american enterprise institute. >>> okay. good afternoon, everyone. welcome, members of the press. and the media, i believe we have c-span online too. so hello to all of our viewers there. i am the deputy chief financial officer here at the department of energy. it's my pleasure to welcome you all to receive our presentation of our fiscal year 2013 budget request. i'm just going to run through ground rules here. we'll see from the secretary, hear from the secretary, run thro

energy secretary steven chu will take questions about his department's budget request from members of the senate energy committee. that's on c-span 3 at 3:30 a.m. eastern. also on c-span 3 at 2:00 p.m. eastern, treasury secretary tim geithner will return to capitol hill to testify about the president's 2013 budget. he's before the house budget committee. >> booktv is live saturday from the savannah book festival. coverage starts at 9:30 eastern with tom clavin on the last hours of the vietnam war followed by karl marlantes on what it's like to go to war and scotty smiley at noon. at 1:30 eastern, the changing israeli/palestinian conflict and irshad manji and toure on "who's afraid of blackness" and the rice and fall of the comanches on c-span 2's become tv. >> c-span radio's "washington today." over the next 90 minutes a look at today's top stories including the president's trip to milwaukee to talk about the economy. >> welcome back to "washington today" here on c-span radio. i'm steve scully. we're on the website with a photograph of the president as he toured the master lock plant

steven chu even said that.y look forward to rising prices. >> brian: i don't think he wants the answer. >> kimberly: he amount afford it now. first, he has a solution and the idea? play but he is not doing it. he's talking about ridiculous things like algae. it's laughable this is a "saturday night live" skit. it's not. >> juan: you are talking about new drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge. he is talking about more gas exploration in the gulf by 2017, pumping it up 75%. >> andrea: he has been in office three years now. all we have heard is enough hot air to power the -- >> juan: wait, were you saying this when president bush was around? oh, if we dealt with this four years ago? we had the reagan. we had the first bush, the second bush. >> andrea: in fairness, president bush released comprehensive energy plans and tried to act on them. >> juan: we have more drilling now, thanks to president bush, by the way, than we've ever had in this country. i don't -- >> andrea: what are we thanking president obama for? >

energy secretary steven chu was on hand for the ceremony at the lawrence berkely national lab.hen complete in 2014, the research building will crunch the numbers on everything from climate change to complex physics. >>> work on the tunnel has entered the last major construction milestone. crews are pouring cement for the beds that will link san francisco and pacifica. once the road is complete, they'll put in the tunnel lighting, traffic signals and other systems. they hope to open the tunnel by november. >>> some drizzle this morning. it might have slowed you down on your morning commute, or your outdoor entivers in the early morning hours. the sun came out this afternoon. daytime temperatures increased 62 in santa rosa. we saw sunshine, more sunshine tomorrow, and higher daytime highs. we're going to see numbers tomorrow going up 5 or 6 degrees. overnight lows tonight will be in the mid- to upper 30s. maybe a little patchy fog, but not much. the winds are clocking off shore. the winds are going to stir it up. fog shouldn't be an issue. tomorrow is going to be one of those day

energy secretary steven chu was on hand for the ceremony at the lawrence berkely national lab.hen complete in 2014, the research building will crunch the numbers on everything from climate change to complex physics. >>> work on the tunnel has entered the last major construction milestone. crews are pouring cement for the beds that will link san francisco and pacifica. once the road is complete, they'll put in the tunnel lighting, traffic signals and other systems. they hope to open the tunnel by november. >>> some drizzle this morning. it might have slowed you down on your morning commute, or your outdoor entivers in the early morning hours. the sun came out this afternoon. daytime temperatures increased 62 in santa rosa. we saw sunshine, more sunshine tomorrow, and higher daytime highs. we're going to see numbers tomorrow going up 5 or 6 degrees. overnight lows tonight will be in the mid- to upper 30s. maybe a little patchy fog, but not much. the winds are clocking off shore. the winds are going to stir it up. fog shouldn't be an issue. tomorrow is going to be one of those day

tuesday secretary steven chu talked about the doe budget. it was appropriation hearing. again they asked about the primary goal to lower gasoline prices. i believe we have something called a "s.o.t." >> the overall goal is to get our price -- >> no, the overall goal is to decrease your dependency on oil. to build and strengthen our economy and decrease dependency on oil. we think we can go a long way to become less dependent that will help the economy and the consumers. >> greg: isn't the philosophy that america is sick. the medicine is -- they're giving the medicine. we have can't have any more gasoline. because we're adigited to it. >> dana: prescribed where you want a little morphine drip every once in a while. the white house said they didn't know about secretary chu's comments, which is convenient. you can't dictate every word that comes out of a cabinet secretary's mouth. i kind of agree with him in one point. the answer is our job is to make sure there is a secure and steady supply of oil. but they don't use the second part, which is we'll let the market work. if

energy secretary steven chu has 60 days to testify to congress about the solyndra scandal.lls us live what he expects out of that. bill: that spec on the mountain coming down there was a thick-thinking snowboarder, saving herself from what could have been a deadly avalanche. we'll talk to her and find out how she saved her own life. ♪ [singing ] ♪ ♪ like many chefs today, i feel the best approach to food is to keep it whole for better nutrition. and that's what they do with great grains cereal. see the seam on the wheat grain? same as on the flake. because great grains steams and bakes the actual whole grain. now check out the other guy's flake. hello, no seam. because it's more processed. now, which do you suppose has better nutrition for you? mmm. great grains. the whole whole grain cereal. sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get bk to these invoices... martha: you know, pretty much in owl the exit polls we've covered the number one i

after all, remember what president obama's energy secretary steven chu said about conservative fuel. how to boost the price of gasoline to the level inform europe." europe. again, the greatest company in america adopts it. obama himself might have said under his cap of cap-and-trade system electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket. or maybe i dreamt it. >> under my plan, of a cap-and-trade system, the electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. >> greg: no, i didn't dream it. i call this starbucks socialism. tackling consumption to make it too damn expensive to consume. if you are disgusted by america's gluttony, use pricing to hinder use to reduce consumption. we end up like belgium without fattening waffles. i'm not saying that obama wants gas prices, but he is not that worked up over it. no wonder he put the caribou before me and you, nixing the xl pipeline. every now and then the curtain parts and you peer in a party's true soul. this is that. the hard left hates our success, hates capitalism and won't rest until we have european irrelevance, and now european gas prices,

. >> reporter: republicans bolstering their case with the words of steven chu before he became the secretary of energy. >> i quote, somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in europe. well, this administration is certainly trying their best to do just that. >> reporter: the oil industry believes that new drilling technologies put to use domestically would make the u.s. independent of middle east oil in only 12 years. >> we have more combined oil and natural gas than iran, iraq, libya and kuwait combined. >> reporter: still there is some agreement that the fundamental cause of rising prices is uncertainty in the middle east, saudi arabia attempting to reduce that uncertainty by increasing production, one of the few middle east countries with reserves and capability to do so. rick? >> rick: thank you, doug, doug mcelway in washington. >> arthel: no one will argue stakes are high for all four candidates headed into tuesday's primaries. especially mitt romney, who is in a tough fight with rick santorum for his home state. michigan. this is a live look now at

secretary of energy steven chu was on hand. there he is on the right.was joined by university officials as well as the uc president. they were helping kick off and shoveling for the construction of the research and theory facility. it's a 140 square foot area. >> played an incredible role of pushing back the frontiers of science. further than that, i see the future as being a key element in helping further the innovation and the industrial competitiveness of the united states. >> it is a big deal. the facility will be completed in 2014. it's expected to be the most energy efficient high performance super-computing center in the entire department of energy. >>> still ahead here at 6:00, an important recall tonight. a birth control mixup you want to hear about. >>> also ahead, it takes a minute to sign up, but it could have lasting health benefits. the unique prescription program at a south bay school district. >>> and a dramatic scene unfolding in egypt. violence erupting after a soccer match. dozens are left dead. we'll have the latest and other stories

secretary of energy steven chu may be deeper in the scandal than the white house is saying. the congress of the commerce committee joins us. good evening. >> good evening. >> greta: new information just coming out. but prologis. who are they? >> they are part of the 1705 program, loan guarantee that department of energy gave out for solyndra. headquartered in san francisco. a huge company. they operate in 22 countries and they got $1.4 billion from a department of energy to develop, put solar panels on the roof of commercial building. >> greta: when did they get that loan in relation to solyndra going belly up? >> two months before solyndra went belly up. >> greta: so they got a loan from the federal government, taxpayers, department of energy. to buy those panels that solyndra was manufacturing. >> that wasn't ostensibly the reason. they were supposed to go out in the marketplace and buy the solar panel to put on commercial buildings. flat roofs across the united states. but some e-mails show secretary chu was intermediary with the white house saying possibly this company c

energy secretary steven chu visited the site today to see the work in progress. basic construction had begun more than a year ago, anticipating that the nuclear regulatory commission would license the new reactors, which it did last week. they're the first ones approved since 1978, the year before the partial meltdown at three mile island in pennsylvania. president obama called again for more nuclear energy as part of an overall national strategy in his state of the union address last year: >> by 2035, 80% of americas electricity will come from clean energy sources. ( applause ) some folks want wind and solar. others want nuclear, clean coal and natural gas. to meet this goal, we will need them all and i urge democrats >> brown: today, there are 104 commercial reactors in operation at 65 nuclear power plants nationwide. all told, nuclear power provides 20% of the country's total electricity and 8% of energy consumption from all sources. but the earthquake and tsunami in japan last year underscored the potential dangers, when reactors at the fukushima daiichi plan

. >> energy secretary steven chu testified yesterday before the house appropriations subcommittee on energy and modern development. topics include the presence decision to hold off on the yucca mountain nuclear waste site, rising gas prices and energy department research projects. the president's budget plan would eliminate $4 billion in annual tax incentives for oil and gas companies. this is an hour and a half. >> good afternoon. i would like to call this hearing to order. secretary chu, i would like to welcome you back once again to the subcommittee. i understand through the grapevine that today is your birthday, is that correct? and that it is also your wedding anniversary. >> what is he doing here? >> i was going to say. >> we appreciate your being here, of course. you are here today to present the administration's fiscal year 2013 budget request for your department. your request totals $27.2 billion, a $1.5 billion increase, 1.5 -- 5.5 '07% increase from the fiscal year 2012 enacted level. nearly one-third of that increase comes in one program, energy efficiency and renewable e

steven chu, who is now president obama's energy secretary, said at the time -- and i quote -- "somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in europe." think about that, madam president. somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in europe. if you look at the levels in europe, i think even at that time you were talking about $9 to $10 per gallon of gasoline. so you have members of his very administration suggesting, madam president, even back then that part of strategy, the energy strategy was to increase prices. think about that. as having an energy strategy that is actually going to drive up the cost of energy to people in this country. yesterday in testimony before the house appropriations committee, now-secretary chu, who said back in 2008 that somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in europe, was asked: is the overall goal to get the price of gasoline down? that was asked by a member of the house of representatives, again, as secretary chu was testifying in front of the ho

they said no, this is the same steven chu on behalf of the president who said three years ago that ourt the gas prices up to be comparable to those in europe. $7 or $8 a gallon. so there we have it now. >> we've heard him say that in the past. so what you're saying is those who have this agenda, they're using essentially fear, not facts, to try to get people and using the mainstream media because they're all in the tank for this. to try to get that passed. >> it's all fear. and they've talked -- in fact, gore even said you're not going to get nations to cooperate and to make the necessary sacrifices, reducing their economy unless you instill fear in them. and we have a lot of this fear statements. it didn't work, however, they still have an endangerment finding. i know this is kind of in the weeds and they're proceeding to do it, steve, on regulations. which would be far greater in terms of the expense to those who are watching us now than if they had done it by legislation. >> senator, for all the people that have wondered about global warming, you say it's a hoax and all in this bran

and then energy secretary steven chu. the increase was $27.2 billion which invest in clean energy and the elimination of tax incentives for oil and gas companies. at 6 eastern "key and a -- "q &a." monday on "washington journal," we speak with robert shapiro on the impact of the eurozone crisis. then, tony perkins, president of the family research council on the issues important to social conservatives in the run-up to the election. and then, mickey mccarter will talk about the president's $36 billion in cuts and how the program has evolved since 9/11. life monday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. -- live monday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this president's day, a former navy steel -- navy seal talks about the killing of osama bin laden. >> by august, the sort of factoids had metastasized and the seals were crashing the helicopter as they arrived. they were blowing their way into the building. finally, the shooting -- they wounded a man on the third floor. that did not sound like a seal team mission to me. talking to

steven chu testified on thursday on the 3.8 trillion dollar request for 2013. the package includes $27 billion for the energy department, at a 3% increase from 2012 with funding for clean energy and a national security. this is just under three hours. . [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captions performed by the national captioning institute] if we are serious about energy efficiency, and using electricity as efficiently as we can, if a nation can learn from what vermont will be doing. we want to share that with the rest of the country. mr. secretary, it seems to me that one of the sad moments in terms of what is happening in our country today is the degree to which as a nation, as a congress, we are not dealing with global warming. i say this not to be terribly partisan, but it is very sad that we have a major political party were many of its leading members project what the scientific community is saying about the reality of global warming. it is caused by man-made activities. if we are aggressive, we can lead the world in reversing th

we'll hear from army officials and energy secretary steven chu. >> a couple live events to tell you aboutthe senate armed services committee will hold a hearing on defense programs with secretary of defense leon panetta, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general martin dempsey. that's on c-span at 9:30 a.m. eastern. >> there's been on his conventions, spirited disagreements, and i believe considerable hot arguments. but don't let anybody this misled by that. you have given here in this hall a moving and dramatic roof of how americans who honestly differ close ranks and move forward for the nation's well being, shoulder to shoulder. >> as candidates campaign for president this year we look back at 14 men who ran for the office, and lost to go to our website at c-span.org/thecontenders to see video of the contenders got a lasting impact on american politics. >> and what about you? are you now out of debt? do you have a comfortable backlog in the bank? are you paying less for the things that you buy? or more? do you really think things can't be better? of course they can. working

. >> steven chu briefed reporters on budget requests for his department. this is 40 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome, members of the press, and c-span. i am the deputy chief financial officer at the department of energy. is my pleasure to welcome you all ought to receive our presentation of our fiscal year 2013 budget request. i will run through some ground rules here. we will hear from the secretary. i will be available to run through the presentation of some of the numbers we have. we will move into a question and answer period. i will mc that. we also have the undersecretary joining us that are available to answer questions. if we are unable to field questions and the session here, we will be sure to make an answer to you before your deadlines. to give a flavor of our budget here, and the budget cuts we are under, we're down to one lamp in the department. the secretary is running i.t. training for us. without further ado, mr. secretary. >> thank you. i want to talk about the budget and will begin by quoting president obama, who spoke about

. >> energy secretary steven chu outlined his department's budget request yesterday, including the elimination of $4 billion in fossil fuel subsidies. this is 40 minutes. >> okay, good afternoon, everyone. welcome, members of the press, and the media. i believe we have c-span online, too. so hello to all of our viewers there. i am the deputy chief financial officer here at the department of energy. it's my pleasure to welcome you all to receive our presentation of our fiscal year 20 '13 budget request. i'm just going to run through some ground rules here. we will see from the secretary, hear from the secretary, run three presentation. i will be available also to run through presentation of some of the budgetary numbers that we have. we will be moving to a question and answer period. i will emcee that, both the secretary and myself that we also have the undersecretary, are available to answer questions. and if we are unable to field any specific questions from the session here, we will be sure to make sure we get answer to you before your deadline. so, just to give a flavor of out budget year a

energy secretary steven chu, december, 2008, somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in europe. and another one, mr. chu is called for gradually ramping up gasoline taxes over the next 15 years to coax consumers into buying more efficient cars and living in neighborhoods closer to work. mr. speaker, we, republicans, have a plan. we need the senate to act on that plan. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. murphy, for five minutes. mr. murphy: thank you, mr. speaker. while we are all aware of the debt this country has hanging over our heads, over $15.3 trillion, we have to also be aware of what it takes to grow our way out of this debt, and part of the way growing us out of this debt is by having jobs. yet, there's also another burden hanging over our heads and that is the cost of gasoline to american families which adds to their own personal debt. bear in mind at the last inauguration in 2009, the price of gasoline was $1.83 a gallon. now, it's approach

we have the secretary of energy steven chu coming before the energy committee on thursday to talk about his, the president's proposed budget as it affects the department of energy in the upcoming year. and these are nominations for management positions in his department, which he is very much in favor of us moving ahead with. each of these offices, these five that i'm talking about here, has important responsibilities. together of five of them make up a large part of the management structure of the department of energy. a frequent observation that i hear on the senate floor about energy policy in our country is that the united states needs to have a -- quote -- "all of the above approach to energy." i don't know how we can execute a -- quote -- "all-of-the-above strategy for energy" when we have vacancies in the key government offices that oversee. fossil energy, nuclear energy, renewable energy, energy efficiency, small and minority business access to energy programs. and we have a vacancy in the legal counsel office for the department of energy as well. the president has nominated fiv

next, energy secretary steven chu testifies before the committee on president obama's 2013 budget requestthe 3.8 trillion dollar package includes $27.2 billion for the energy department, a 3% increase from the 2012 budget. this is almost three hours. ok let us get started. today, we have a hearing concerning the department of energy budget for fiscal year 2013. we welcome secretary chu to testify and present the budget to us today. the priorities laid out in the president's proposed budget reflects a strong commitment to clean energy and the increased security and economic benefits that made in america energy can achieve for us. for american innovation as well as manufacturing. in an overall budget request that seeks to provide sub -- a substantial government wide deficit reduction, i am pleased to see that we have a proposed $-- 3.2% in the department of energy budget. this is an investment in the nation's energy future that will boost our economic growth and global competitiveness and protect the environment and allow the u.s. to continue important nuclear non- proliferation work. infor