President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for energy secretary, Dr. Steven Chu appears before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today for his confirmation hearing.
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The next energy secretary faces several challenges, including determining how to fill the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve, developing renewable energy sources and assessing nonproliferation efforts, according to a report by the General Accountability Office that assessed procedural and managerial challenges facing the next leaders of 28 government departments and agencies. The report also recommends several questions lawmakers could ask the nominees, some of which are posted after the jump.
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