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    Rick Perry said to be Trump's top candidate for energy secretary

    Rick Perry said to be Trump's top candidate for energy secretary

    Jennifer Jacobs, Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Bloomberg
    Updated 4:08 pm, Sunday, December 11, 2016


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    Rick Perry, former governor of Texas and 2016 U.S. presidential candidate, speaks during The Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2015.


    Donald Trump has narrowed his search for energy secretary to four people, with former Texas Gov. Rick Perry the leading candidate.
    People familiar with the president-elect's selection process said two Democratic senators from energy-producing states -- Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West Virginia -- are also in the mix, along with Ray Washburne, a Dallas investor and former chairman of the Republican National Committee.

    If Trump picks any of the four he will break with recent tradition of putting scientists at the top of the Energy Department. Among other things, the agency is responsible for policies on the safe handling of nuclear material.

    Trump met with Perry and Washburne while attending the Army-Navy football game in Baltimore on Saturday. It was at least the second time he'd spoken to the two men for potential roles in the new administration. Trump met with Heitkamp at Trump Tower in New York on Dec. 2, and is scheduled to meet with Manchin in New York.


    Jay Martin Cohen, a retired rear admiral of the U.S. Navy, is said to be Trump's choice for under secretary for Nuclear Security, the people said.


    Two leading scientists have run the energy department during the Obama administration: Ernest Moniz, the incumbent, is a nuclear physicist who previously headed an energy initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His predecessor was self-professed nerd Steven Chu, a Novel laureate who directed the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology.

    Perry, in a 2011 Republican primary debate, famously forgot that the Energy Department was one of the three federal government agencies he wanted to eliminate. The other two were the Commerce and Education Departments. The gaffe may have cost him a shot at the party's 2012 nomination.


    Texas' longest-serving governor was indicted in 2014 for abuse of power and coercion after threatening to veto funds for a Travis County office that investigates corruption unless the district attorney, who had pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated, resigned.


    He serves on the board of Energy Transfer Partners LP, the company whose pipeline project has drawn opposition in North Dakota and has become a rallying cry from environmentalists. While the Obama administration has stalled the project, Trump has said federal approvals for energy infrastructure need to come quicker.


    Trump has promised to unleash domestic oil, gas and coal production, largely by rescinding "job-killing" rules and environmental regulations, without detailing specific plans for the Energy Department and its nuclear-heavy policy portfolio.


    A questionnaire circulated by Trump transition advisers within the Energy Department signals future scrutiny of the national labs and programs that the Obama administration has used to advance clean energy.


    Trump's advisers are exploring ways to restart a long-stalled plan to stash radioactive waste from the nation's nuclear power plants at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. They also are evaluating whether Energy Department policy can be used to help keep aging nuclear plants online longer.


    Political considerations also may be a factor. Heitkamp faces a tough fight for re-election in two years as a Democrat in a Republican-leaning state that is at the epicenter of the Bakken shale energy-producing region. If a Republican is elected to succeed her in a special election, Heitkamp's appointment would rob the narrowly divided Senate of a Democrat.


    Heitkamp, 61, sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee and has been discussed for the post of agriculture secretary as well. A person familiar with the transition process said Trump and his advisers had been impressed with the first-term senator during her interview at Trump Tower this month.


    If Manchin, 69, were picked, his Senate seat would be decided by Democratic governor Earl Ray Tomblin. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, West Virginia is one of 36 states where the governor makes an appointment to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy, and the appointee serves until the next regularly scheduled statewide general election.


    Manchin's coal interests aren't necessarily a natural fit for the Energy Department, which plays a limited role in the use of coal. The biggest intersection in recent years has come through programs meant to accelerate the technology that promises to "clean up" coal, by paring the traditional air pollution that comes from burning it as well as capturing the carbon dioxide emissions tied to its use for power.


    The Energy Department's portfolio is nuclear-rich; it oversees the national nuclear weapons complex and also is tasked with advocating nonproliferation and promoting nuclear security worldwide. Moniz played a high-profile role negotiating the nuclear deal with Iran.

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    RICK PERRY EXPOSED AS A GLOBALIST

    September 8, 2011 NewsGuy

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    More information about Texas Governor Rick Perry’s globalist agenda has surfaced, including his advocacy of “bi-national health insurance” between the United States and Mexico.


    At a border summit shortly on August 22, 2001, Perry praised a study that looks into the feasibility of a shared health insurance scheme, reports the Dallas Morning News. “This study recognizes that the Mexican and U.S. sides of the border compose one region, and we must address health care problems throughout that region,” Perry said.


    “That’s why I am also excited that Texas Secretary of State Henry Cuellar is working on an initiative that could extend the benefits of telemedicine to individuals living on the Mexican side of the border,” the Texas governor added.


    In his speech, which can still be read in full on official Texas Governor’s website, Perry also lauded NAFTA and boasted how he just signed a Texas DREAM Act that granted in-state college tuition rates to the children of illegal immigrants who are academic achievers.


    “We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, ‘we don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there,'” Perry said. “And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate. Those young minds are a part of a new generation of leaders, the doors of higher education must be open to them. The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.”


    Rick Perry and former Mexican president Vincente Fox

    Perry also spoke glowingly of how the Legislature in 2001 passed a children’s Medicaid simplification bill and increased funding for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.


    Perry campaign spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger downplayed the reference to bi-national health insurance.


    “A bill was passed by the Legislature that authorized a study to look into this issue, which ultimately concluded there were numerous barriers to accomplishing that idea, and the Legislature took no further action on this concept,” she told the Dallas Morning News.


    Perry’s pro-socialized medicine comments were not the first he made. Back in 1993, as Agriculture Secretary, Perry wrote a letter of support for Hillary Clinton’s own plan for national healthcare.


    As a candidate for president, Perry is completely against nationalized healthcare. In his 2010 book Fed Up, Perry called Obamacare “the closest this country has ever come to outright socialism” and also declared the individual mandate “a total outrage.”


    If elected President, he says, Perry will use an executive order to repeal or block as much of ObamaCare as possible.

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