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The Senate has confirmed former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to serve as energy secretary under President Donald Trump.The vote was 62-37 on Thursday.Perry 鈥?w stanley cup ho once pledged to eliminate the department 鈥?has repeatedly promised be an advocate for the agen stanley cup cy and to protect the nation nuclear stockpile. Perry also has said he ;d rely on federal scientists, including those who work on climate change.Perry has said he ;ll work to develop American energy in all forms 鈥?from oil, gas and nuclear power to renewable sources such as wind and solar power.READ MORE: Scientists give Rick Perry mixed grades on his confirmation hearing Democrats say they accept Perry disavowal of his 2011 pledge to abolish the Energy Department. But they ;re worried he may not stand up to GOP proposals to slash the department budget.Perry served 14 years as Texas governor. He said he was for all of the above on energy production, from oil and gas to renewable sources like wind and sol stanley cup ar power, before former President Barack Obama embraced the strategy. Left: Former Texas Governor Rick Perry is sworn in before testifying at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing Jan. 20. He was confirmed by the Senate on Mar. 2. Photo by Carlos Barria/REUTERS Go Deeper department Ckpy Elizabeth Warren s oldest brother dies of coronavirus
For the economies of many poor countries, remittances from the U.S. are a lifeline. A remittance is cash that comes into the country from its citizens living abroad. In some countries, this money is critical to keeping the economy going. For example, in tiny Eritrea, a country on the adidas campus horn of Africa, 30 percent of the country GDP comes from Eritreans living abroad, many of them in the U.S. In Nicaragua and Guatemala, that number is close to 10 percent. In 2012, more than $120 million in remittances was sent from the U.S. to other countries by individual immig adidas originals rants wiring small amounts of money. Stephen Fee, producer and correspondent for PBS NewsHour weekend show, has been reporting on the subject from the Somali community in Minnesota Twin Cities. The amount of money flowing into Somalia from the U.S. as remittances exceeds the amount the U.S. sends that country in foreign aid. The most widely cited estimate is that 40 percent of Somalis rely on remittances to get by, so this is a huge driver of the Somali economy, Fee says. But there concern that some of this money is going to terrorist groups like Al Shabaab. For this week Shortwave, P.J. Tobia explains this source of money, how it regulated and how it gets from here to there stanley cup . Watch Stephen Fee segment on Saturday PBS NewsHour. Left: A teller coun