Opportunities alaska has with regard to resource production, you have enabled an unprecedented attack on our ability to responsibly bring these resources to market. The president has withdrawn over 22 million more acres of alaska from Energy Production just in recent weeks, and that has occurred on top of many other restrictions and regulations being imposed on us. Its occurred despite the Tremendous Energy opportunity and potential in those areas. Despite our no more clause. Despite the pressing need to refill our pipeline. And despite strong opposition from most alaskans. The map that i have behind this is one my colleagues are going to become familiar with because im going to be pointing it out quite frequently. The colors on the map represent those areas that are withdrawn from any Development Opportunity whatsoever. Some are, in fact, proposed critical habitat areas, so they are not fully withdrawn at this point in time. But we have the anwr new wilderness proposal. The president
Thank you, madam chair. On want to get gavelled on. Well, you have 28 more seconds if you wish to continue. No. I will get some credit out of you. Oh, need your credit, thats true. Now were going to complete this first panel, which started a very long time ago, seems like yesterday. And were going to do it this way. Im going to give senator whitehouse take my two minutes. Senator vitter okay . Senate inhoff, senator sessions and then ill close. Everybody has two more minutes, okay . So lets start with senator whitehouse. Ill just take a little bit of my time to respond to senator sessions suggestions that one scientist says that Climate Change isnt really happening and that there really isnt an association with storms. And i just want to put that into context. There actually is a Peer Reviewed Scientific Consensus out there about this. It is massive. It is not unanimous. Sometimes is rarely unanimous. There are eccentrics. There are outliers. There are people who have nonmainstream opi
Well now go to senator carper. For years ive been working with my colleagues here in congress and administration and all kinds of stakeholder groups across the country to tackle one of the Biggest Challenges of our generation, and thats Climate Change. I believe Climate Change exists and were living on borrowed time. The longer we wait to address the issue the more damaging and expensive it becomes. Before the recent session we had members from both parties including myself put forth legislative proposals that would grow our economy and provide for a safer climate. This was a time when our Climate Change debates focused on how we would grow our economy and clean our environment. Its not a novel idea in the 1970s and 1990s, republican president s and majority of members on both sides of the aisle supported, as youll recall, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990. These clean air protections protected our health but allowed our economy to grow exponentially. Unfortuna
Joining us. Anderson cooper 360 starts right now. Thanks, wolf. Were going to pick up right now, it hit the senate and then hit the house, deals mainly with restoring middle class tax cuts. Let listen to nancy pelosi right now. I believe that we will heed the american people, come together with a strong vote. We will increase by voting for this legislation and passing it in a strong bipartisan way, well increase the confidence of consumers, of the markets, of businesses, of employers to hire more. We will extend Unemployment Insurance to people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. This is very, very important. Not only to those individuals but to our economy because this is money that is spent immediately injecting demand into the economy creating jobs. Well extend permanent tax relief for the middle class, for more than 98 of american taxpayers, more than 97 Jessica Yellin and dana bash working their sources to stay ahead. Dana, when do we expect a vote to take plac
This system . I mean, i see a number of things, obviously Electronic Medical records didnt happen and ill have a follow up question for mr. Mini and other items in that vein. Did the va ever contact you after this or after your testimony and say, hey, this is where we failed . This is the doctor. This is where the system failed for you . No. No one no one ever from that i can recall explained to me where the failure occurred or held themselves accountable or provided an apology. Ive stuck with the va, and ive had great medical care and met and became friends with a lot of medical professionals within the va, but the system clearly, clearly failed in my case. And no one ever has explained to me what happened. Do you still travel 2 1 2 hours to the Va Care Center for your current va care or you found one closer that they would let you or did you move . Can you describe that more . I come from a rural district. Plenty of veterans have to drive 100, 200, 300 miles one way for care often th