The first hydraulic fracturing that took place was in my State of Oklahoma in 1948.
I believe that this is an important issue that we have to get at.
To me it begs the question, you are not up to date on your taxes, you no longer have a clearance, period.
It is accountability. And all I want to know is what are the results of holding some--did we hold whoever made that deci...
We need an automated system to do that? What about random audits? How about firing a contractor who does not perform?
But what I am asking is they do not monitor the individual agencies to see if they are in compliance.
Do we require our contractors to do joint training with local law enforcement so that we have dry runs?
We have way too much stuff classified, we have way too many people who have to have a clearance.
Is it a requirement of their contract to do joint training with local law enforcement?
It is the responsibility of each individual agency to make sure they comply with that.
Why should you automate it? Why shouldn't you force your contractors to automate it and present it to you?
That would be one of the things you would want to check.
To me this is not a political issue. This is an issue of us failing to do our job in a proper way when it comes to secur...
The American people ought to be asking what in the world is going on.
I kind of see this as a multitude of problems. I mentioned in my opening statement we overclassify, which is a problem f...
A large proportion of our officers that we either contract or have are not trained.
That is not a clear part of this statement.
I can tell you there are two coal-fired power plants in Oklahoma that are being shuttered because of EPA regulations.