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House Proceeding 05-13-09 on May 13th, 2009 :: 0:50:00 to 0:51:50
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Steve King

0:49:49 to 0:50:01( Edit History Discussion )

Steve King: and use the nuclear energy to charge up people's batteries in their cars and all, we're talking about a completely different way. and that's just one possibility. but i wanted to get back to my good friend from utah.

Rob Bishop

0:50:00 to 0:51:50( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Rob Bishop

Rob Bishop

0:50:02 to 0:50:22( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: you said you wanted to develop one specific area and jump right into that. mr. bishop: last week, a professor was telling us about the specific problems that spain is having with their approach of government mandates. so every new green job created,

Rob Bishop

0:50:23 to 0:50:43( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: many of them are administrative. for every one of those -- you've got it right there. they are having a difficult time with their economy simply because they decided to do the top-down approach to it. what americans have always been able to do is have americans

Rob Bishop

0:50:44 to 0:51:04( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: come up wi innovative ideas if they have the incentive to do it. i want to emphasize, the incentive with prizes. that is something that we have always used in the history of this world. when britain was trying to control the seas and didn't know how to map it, so they offered a prize of 20,000 pounds to someone who could solve the

Rob Bishop

0:51:05 to 0:51:27( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: problem. a clock maker came up with latitude and longitude. napoleon wanted to feed his troops. 12,000 franc prize. when lindbergh flew across the ocean, it was to claim a prize.

Rob Bishop

0:51:28 to 0:51:48( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: the british spitfire was the development of a prize. this is a time for us not for us to say come to us and the government will solve the problems and we will fund the research and we will decide what's good and who wins and who loses. puthe money out there and the first person who can produce what we want, privately produce it, privately make sure that it

Rob Bishop

0:51:49 to 0:51:52( Edit History Discussion )

Rob Bishop: is sustainable, give them a decent price.

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