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Rick Perry to Head Agency He Could Not Name
This is a Joke, right?
Trump to choose Perry as Secretary of Energy, sources say
President-elect Donald Trump will pick former Texas Gov. Rick Perry for Secretary of Energy, sources tell Fox News.The two sides finalized the decision during a meeting Monday evening at Trump Tower.
The pick could be seen as ironic for some as Perry famously forgot that he wanted to torpedo the Energy Department during a 2011 presidential debate. He couldn’t remember the department when he was ticking off which departments he would eliminate.
"I will tell you, it is three agencies of government when I get there that are gone. Commerce, Education, and the — What’s the third one there? Let’s see."
The former Texas governor is a board member for Energy Transfer Partners, which is attempting to build the Dakota Access pipeline. The construction of the pipeline sparked protests and its attempted passage through Lake Oahe in North Dakota was blocked recently by the Army Corps of Engineers over concerns it could damage the water supply in tribal lands.Trump supports the completion of the pipeline and had vowed to solve the situation “quickly.”
Perry ran for president in both the 2012 and 2016 campaigns, bowing out in both. Perry’s 2016 presidential campaign was supposed to be his self-described “second chance.” However, Perry never broke through as a top candidate and was never invited to participate on the main debate stage.
After minimal fundraising and being forced to stop paying campaign staff in late August, Perry suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination.
In August 2014, Perry was indicted by a grand jury for abuse of power. He threatened to defund a statewide Public Integrity Unit as a way to force the resignation of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat who had pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated. The indictment added to the multitude of distractions for Perry’s presidential campaign.
Perry initially endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz after dropping out of the presidential race, but then turned around to support Trump.
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Re: Rick Perry to Head Agency He Could Not Name
“It’s three agencies of government, when I get there, that are gone—Commerce, Education and the, um, what’s the third one there? Let’s see,” Perry said during a Republican presidential debate in November 2011.
As Perry stumbled to think of the answer, Mitt Romney chimed in to suggest the Environmental Protection Agency, while Ron Paul suggested he actually meant to cut five agencies.
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Re: Rick Perry to Head Agency He Could Not Name
Yea, let's get rid of the Department of energy.
They only are, concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material. Its responsibilities include the nation's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production. It also directs research in genomics; the Human Genome Project originated in a DOE initiative.
DOE sponsors more research in the physical sciences than any other U.S. federal agency, the majority of which is conducted through its system of National Laboratories.
National Laboratories? The physical sciences?
Get rid of them too. They are only,
A system of centralized national laboratories that grew out of the massive scientific endeavors of World War II, in which new technologies such as radar, the computer, the proximity fuze, and the atomic bomb proved decisive for the Allied victory.
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