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Wendy Sherman is a prominent American diplomat and a member of the Democratic Party, currently serving as the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources. She has played a significant role in U.S. foreign policy, particularly in relation to global health and international relations with China. Sherman is known for her emphasis on collaboration in addressing global challenges, including pandemics, and has articulated the importance of managing the U.S.-China relationship as a key geopolitical issue of the current era. Her extensive experience in diplomacy includes serving as the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal.
But the pamphlet is not the law. The budget he submitted slashes the money. Then that budget is the basis of the tax cut that they are going to have us pass tomorrow, the next day, whenever they get it written. So that is going to cut the…
I want to shift just a little bit, because we are so preoccupied, quite naturally, with the short term in our own State, and talk a little bit about conservation and how important it is. Now, the problem we have is that the President's…
the gentleman is right to bring up the natural gas prices. As I indicated, the price of moving natural gas went up by 1,200 percent. That happened right after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the same culprit as in the other…
I thank the gentleman from San Diego, California (Mr. Filner) whose home county was ground zero for the consumer being directly affected by this Statewide and now regionwide rip-off. In 1999, California paid $7 billion for electricity…
focusing on these phase-ins, if only the Republican bill, if only the gentleman would promise that he would come as close to not backend loading the ultimate bill, as we did in our Democratic plan, he would get my vote against this motion…
I rise to use these 5 minutes to rebut some of the recent comments of the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas), chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means. He stood here and he urged that the House not vote for the motion to instruct…
The answer is simple and long in coming. The answer is established by Federal law and ignored by a Federal regulatory agency. Our law says that the price being charged by wholesale generators, those who bought the plants from our local…
I take up that issue about conservation research and renewables. The President's budget which then passed the floor of this House cut those areas by a third. We are in the middle of an energy crisis, but we cut our research on renewables…
And the other turbines in the same plant were generating electricity and selling it for prices 50 and 100 times the rates being charged.
As I was talking about before, the private sector was not anxious to build plants in California. A few years ago they bought the existing plants at bargain prices, which is proof that there is no pent-up demand or desire to build plants…
It is not the 14 plants that have just been approved, four or five of them are going to be on-line this summer, many more will be on-line by next summer. Californians are working overtime in conservation. We are second only to Rhode Island…
That is a good profit. But if you have monopoly power and the White House is there to make sure that you do not get regulated, you produce less. Why produce a megawatt for $30 and sell it for $50 when by producing half as many, you can…
a stage-3 alert is a desperate situation where we are asking everybody to conserve and produce.
In the City of Los Angeles, and I live within the city limits, the prices are the same, no blackouts; we have no problems. Our city produces a little bit more electricity than it needs and sells it to the gentleman's city and others in the…
Now, I should point out that that incentive exists only when things are close to shortage. There are States that have passed similar laws to California, but those are States that have been losing population, or at least losing relative…
We have an adequate supply of pipeline space into California. It would be good to have some more. But the supply of pipeline capacity to move the natural gas from Texas and Colorado into California is just tight enough, not so that there…
My point here this evening is I want to tell a story. It is a story of great tragedy. It is a tragedy that did not have to happen. It is a tragedy that could have been avoided. It is a tragedy that was brought about in part because of…
If it is an infrastructure bottleneck, it is also a cause for antitrust investigation, because there has been an explosion in the profit margin that refiners are generating. It may be that, as we have seen problems in the generation of…
I came to this floor last night with intensity, as any of us would have intensity if we were living through what California is and soon will be living through. What was missed was I was here chiefly to support a bill submitted by the…
I know we have limited time, but just in closing, I want to say that California is building 14 electrical generation plants now. Under our prior Republican governor, we built not one, but the private sector was not trying to build plants…
I am so focused on the short-term disaster in California that so far I have not mentioned the long term. Some of the less progressive elements in the energy industry have sought to crush the alternatives. They have sought to eliminate…
this weekend I was disappointed by the comments of the Vice President in talking about the California energy crisis. Vice President Cheney put forward the theory that California made a mistake with its deregulation, and therefore…
I think it is simply outrageous that we in California are prevented from having the kind of rate regulation at the wholesale level that we all want, that we so desperately need, and that we are precluded from having by Federal preemption.
If I can have just a couple of seconds, I would like to point out that per capita California uses less electricity than any State except Rhode Island. And in a couple of months, we will be number one in minimizing our use of electricity…
The Vice President made some remarks recently that have become rather famous. He said conservation might be a personal virtue but it was not the basis, not a sufficient basis, for a national energy policy. I think we can only respond that…
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