How much money has been spent by Jimmah’s D.O.E?
Done.
“national laboratories at Los Alamos, NM; Oak Ridge, TN and Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM. These National Laboratories perform scientific tasks that are not only vital to national security but also, in some cases, are mandated by arms reductions treaties”.
There are at least two others on the list, with important accomplishments, Lawrence Livermore, and Idaho National Lab, not to mention the old Hanford Lab that is not as big as it used to be.
See map and lab list at link. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/commercialization/nationallaboratories.html
They along with many other Government agencies are having budget issues with the downturn in the economy.
Not far enough. These powers grabbed by the feds must be given back to states to enforce.
Coast Guard still has way to much authority in deeming a ditch a “Navigable Waterway” which means they control how it is handled.
All powers are retained by states exept interstate/international, defense and printing money.
DC population needs to shring dramatically. Bureaucrats there are not accountable.
If these are controlled at state-wide level, bureaucrats are closer and more accountable to the average voter.
Replace it with another unconstitutional department? More efficient overblown government? No thanks.
A new administration can probably find plenty of corruption and wrong-doing, esp. with the likes of Solyndra-type loans. Its political show, but that needs to be exposed and propogated, at the same time a thorough "reform" of DOE is carried out.
I would like to see MOST (99.9%) of regulations/laws with a sunset clause attached.
A few good outcomes would result:
First, and most important, a regulation/law could be reviewed every 5 years or so for efficacy. Obviously the Dept. Of Energy and Dept of Education would be closed by this sunset approach.
Second, congress would spend more time reviewing existing legislation than constantly wrapping the country in more legal red tape. They just would not have the time.
The reason that Obama has been able to do much of what he has done is because of the infrastructure that was in place when he moved in.
If we don’t start dismantling the bureaucracy, the next lib that comes along can easily start governing by edict again.
I don’t think that the Republicans in leadership positions there now have any intensions of decreasing the framework.
I hope I am wrong.