We will speak with the met arrested a number of times protesting over Immigration Rights, illinois democratic congressman Luis Gutierrez about as President Trump addresses the human generalissimo today, he will be protesting outside trump tower with other lawmakers. Will this increases number of arrest . Not clear. And we will speak with dulce garcia, an immigration lawyer in california who is one of six Daca Recipients suing the Trump Administration over its plans to rescind the program. Then President Trump childhood childhood trumps home in queens, new york, is now in airbnb. Oxfam rented it out this week and four refugees to spend the night and share stories of hope, resistance, and like in the United States. To me, the American Dream is having a safe and stable home and being a able to accccomplish your goals and having those opportunities, and now it is starting to feel threatened. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace r
Witnessed the deadliest mass shooting. We should be passing the dream act who dreamers call this nation home. Timely, instead of wasting taxpayer dollars and our constituents time, this house should be reauthorizing chip, the bipartisanbacked Health Insurance program which expired over the weekend and which is going to leave children who badly need Health Care Insurance twisting in the wind without it. Congressional republicans have chosen to bring this irresponsible and extreme bill to the floor in stunning ignorance of reality. It assumes trumpcare will still pass. How many times must the majority be reminded trumpcare will not become law . How many times will the majority try to cut medicaid by 1 trillion, cut medicare benefits and raise insurance costs on elderly and lowincome americans. Enough is enough. Instead of to pandering the wellconnected, this bill should embody our best values. This does not reflect mr. Yarmuth i yield to the gentlelady 30 seconds. Ms. Wasserman schultz t
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. We meet this morning to consider opening a very small portion of alaskas 1002 area to responsible Energy Development to meet the 1 billion budget reconciliation instruction that our Committee Received last week. The 1002 area covers 1. 57 million acres of land in northeast alaska within the nonwilderness portion. You can bring it over here sean. I think its important to put this in context in terms of the areas that we are talking about. Anwr itself is 19 million acres. This is approximately the size of south carolina. The nonwilderness area is 1002 area, is 1. 5 million acres, approximately the size of delaware. The area here is designated as wilderness, federal wilderness, 8 million acres there. When we are talking about anwr itself, its important to recognize there are parts of anwr that are designated as wilderness and parts within the refuge and parts of anwr, the 1002 area specifically designated for consideration for oil
When Congress Last debated opening anwr to oil and Gas Development, people made arguments about the use of new technology and how it would minimize the impact on anwr. Since then a lot of the claims have borne out in the industry. We will share some of them today. A couple are directional. Extended reach Multi Lateral drilling techniques that allow wells to be drilled in all directions from a well pad kind of like spokes on a bicycle wheel. Directional drilling has been around since the 1970s. But at that time it was did not allow the reach that we can now. And so you could drill a few square miles around a pad. I have a figure thats been shown before in the hearing today. You can see a couple, three square miles using technology from the 1970s and fast forward to the run on the far right, 12acre pad where a rig can reach out and cover 125 square miles. That means that you can space pads in modern development up to ten miles apart and that there is little to no surface impact between t
There is more brush now than there has ever been in the past they have had to change where they go. This is real. I just left and there is no snow on the ground in fairbanks. It was 30 degrees when i left. That has a real impact as well. When it ices over they have a harder time getting to their food. I hope to see that this body recognizes that. Thank you mr. Alexander. Thank you. Senator lee. Thank you very much. I want to add my support for the opening up of a coastal plain region. This proposal makes sense on a number of levels, from an Economic Perspective opening up this small small remote area will provide billions of dollars in federal revenues alone over the next few decades which could be used to chip away at our staggering budget deficits that we are guessing. And new development will be for alaska, a state struggling for high unemployment and for its own budget shortfalls. Opening up the coastal plane makes sense. Energy development meets some of the most rigorous in the en