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
Want to get some sleep, you cant reread something 22 times. Doing okay in college was all about time management. Yeah, i maybe didnt spend as much time having fun. But i was able to get myself through because i was able to manage myself. Were you an athlete as well . I was not a good enough athlete to be an athlete in college. But thats a whole other story. I know the feeling. So after you graduate. You went back to your native area, cleveland, and you worked for u. S. Steel . I did. You werent a steelworker . That was a little joke in my career there. I worked for the Home Building Products Division of United States steel that sold aluminum siding, gutter coil and replacement windows. Were you good at that . I wasnt there long enough to find out. There was a story that you met somebody who asked you about options, you took a taxi ride with him and you got a job. So ill give you the fiveminute version of the story. So after my freshman year in college, i did the typical summer internsh
Morning. Im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. This morning the clock is ticking on Alabama Senate candidate republican judge roy moore after new Sexual Assault allegations laid against him. And demoore strongly denying any and all allegations of Sexual Misconduct, one of his biggest supporters is now bringing down the hammer, giving the candidate just hours to explain himself or drop out. For me, the judge has 24 hours. You Must Immediately and fully come up with a satisfactory explanation for your inconsistencies that i just showed. You must remove any doubt. If you cant do this, then judge moore needs to get out of this race. And now three of alabamas largest papers are deeming moore unfit for office, and his time is beginning to run out. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez starts us off this morning. Reporter amid a growing political firestorm, the senates Top Republican is publicly floating the idea of attorney general Jeff Sessions as a writein alternative to roy moore. The alabaman who would
This morning the clock is ticking on Alabama Senate candidate republican judge roy moore after new Sexual Assault allegations laid against him. And demoore strongly denying any and all allegations of Sexual Misconduct, one of his biggest supporters is now bringing down the hammer, giving the candidate just hours to explain himself or drop out. For me, the judge has 24 hours. You Must Immediately and fully come up with a satisfactory explanation for your inconsistencies that i just showed. You must remove any doubt. If you cant do this, then judge moore needs to get out of this race. And now three of alabamas largest papers are deeming moore unfit for office, and his time is beginning to run out. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez starts us off this morning. Reporter amid a growing political firestorm, the senates Top Republican is publicly floating the idea of attorney general Jeff Sessions as a writein alternative to roy moore. The alabaman who would fit that standard would be the attorney general,
Russia Takes Center Stage in washington on the eve of inauguration day. And the f. B. I. Goes under the microscope for its preelection probe of Hillary Clintons emails. Im amy walter. We tackle it all tonight, on Washington Week. I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out. The president elect concedes russia was behind Election Hacking but then accuses intelligence agencies of leaking an unverified dossier. Thats something that nazi germany would have done and did do. Meanwhile, trumps top cabinet picks are at odds with their future boss, expressing support for the u. S. Intelligence committee and united in their belief that russia does pose a danger. Its pretty clear about russian efforts to hack and have an impact on american diplomacy. Plus, why experts are skeptical of the incoming president s plan to separate himself from his International Business empire. And did the Justice Department