National Nuclear Security Administration: Joint Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session on the Department of Energy's Implementation of Provisions of the Department of Defense Authorization Act which Create the National Nuclear Security Administration, October 19, 1999, Volume 4 |
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Page 18 - Our long-term strategy must be to encourage the right kind of development in China; to help China grow at home into a strong, prosperous, and open society, coming together, not falling apart; to integrate China into the institutions that promote global norms on proliferation, trade, the environment, and human rights. We must build on opportunities for cooperation with China where we agree, even as we strongly defend our interests and values where we disagree. That is the purpose of engagement: not...
Page 18 - ... to do so, China could pursue such a course, pouring much more of its wealth into military might and into traditional great power geopolitics. Of course, this would rob it of much of its future prosperity, and it is far from inevitable that China will choose this path. Therefore, I would argue that we should not make it more likely that China will choose this path by acting as if that decision has already been made.
Page 16 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000." This Act authorizes FY 2000 appropriations for military activities of the Department of Defense, military construction, and defense activities of the Department of Energy. Although I have serious reservations about some portions of this Act, I believe S. 1059 provides for a strong national defense, maintains our military readiness, and supports our deep commitment to a better quality of life for our military personnel and their families. The...
Page 18 - ... National Nuclear Security Administration potentially are of the most significant breadth, and the extent of the Secretary of Energy's authority with respect to those responsibilities is placed in doubt by various provisions of the Act. Therefore, by this Statement I direct and state the following: 1 . Until further notice, the Secretary of Energy shall perform all duties and functions of the Under Secretary for Nuclear Security. 2. The Secretary is instructed to guide and direct all personnel...
Page 1 - Act, the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency shall submit a report to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Government Operations, and the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives, on the review conducted by the Inspector General of each agency under this section.
Page 40 - Even if every aspect of the ongoing structural reforms is fully implemented, the most powerful guarantor of security at the nation's weapons laboratories will not be laws, regulations, or management charts. It will be the attitudes and behavior of the men and women who are responsible for the operation of the labs each day. These will not change overnight, and they are likely to change only in a different cultural environment — one that values security as a vital and integral part of day-to-day...
Page 40 - The panel has found that DOE and the weapons laboratories have a deeply rooted culture of low regard for and, at times, hostility to security issues...
Page 1 - The Department of Energy is a dysfunctional bureaucracy that has proven it is incapable of reforming Itself.
Page 12 - The Administrator shall ensure that the Administration complies with all applicable environmental, safety, and health statutes and substantive requirements.
Page 18 - ... employee to a concurrent office within the NNSA. 3. The Secretary is further directed to carry out the foregoing instructions in a manner that assures the Act is not asserted as having altered the environmental compliance requirements, both procedural and substantive, previously imposed by Federal law on all the Department's activities. 4. In carrying out these instructions, the Secretary shall, to the extent permissible under law, mitigate the risks to clear chain of command presented by the...