At the last meeting we had on this specific issue, Mr. Card gave us a 2-year.
Jim Bunning
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Jim Bunning is a former United States Senator from Kentucky, serving from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Bunning was known for his strong conservative positions and advocacy for fiscal responsibility. Before his political career, he was a professional baseball player, notably a pitcher in Major League Baseball, where he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987. Bunning's tenure in the Senate included a focus on issues such as energy policy and workers' compensation reform, often criticizing the Department of Energy's handling of compensation programs for workers.
I hope that if the Senate confirms Mr. Shaw, he will work hard to make sure that DOE effectively manages the part of the energy employees program that they retain.
DOE continues to fight against the bipartisan workers' compensation amendment. DOE has squandered the past 4 years and $90 million of taxpayers' money on this program.
The Department of Energy has asserted that its path forward will provide a payor for every claimant.
The nomination of Mr. Shaw is especially important, given the problems we have had that have plagued the DOE operation in its energy employees compensation program.
I am also concerned with some of the recent corporate earnings that have been reported, especially in the airlines industry.
I am also concerned with some of the recent corporate earnings that have been reported, especially in the airlines industry.
I do not think you should have changed your statement after the last FMOC meeting.
The job of the Fed is to set monetary policy, and I believe that when the Fed strays from that into other areas that we get in trouble.
I was deeply concerned about the Council of Economic Advisers' report earlier this week that indicated that outsourcing jobs to other countries is good for our economy.