Us is the authorization of construction of pipeline infrastructure, the keystone xl, a project that in my view and i think the view of certainly all on this side and several others on the other side is important to our energys infrastructure system and how we work to build that out. I dont think its any breaking news here today, but i do believe that our climate is changing. I have said that. I dont agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity. Ive come from a state where we can see the change. Id welcome all of my colleagues one day to join me in alaska on a walking tour of what we call the permafrost tunnel, basically a tunnel bored straight back into the bank of a hill in fairbanks, pretty much in the interior part of the state where it is truly a walk back in time 30,000 years, where through the ice lenses that you see that you can touch, that you can smell in this tunnel, in this cave, you can see what has happened over the course of thousands tens of th
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Called baker, montana. Its not just about canadian oil coming to the u. S. Its about north dakota and montana oil. Second, as i was traveling one day to a rural coop in glasgow, montana, there in my pickup, i show up in my jeans and my jacket, they told me that the Keystone Pipelines approved electric rates for their coop payers folk who is dont have a lot of money, thousands of montana families in eastern part of our state their rates will remain flat for the next ten years because of the Keystone Pipeline . Why is that . Because they will supply electricity to the pump stations in the pipeline. Accused on pipeline is is the Keystone Pipeline not approved the electric rates for those hardworking montana families will go up 40 in the next ten years. Its 80 million a year in tax revenues for the state of montana and for these Rural Counties that desperately need infrastructure to pay for roads, for bridges, for teachers, for schools. So this is not just about the good arguments already
And i look forward to looking to working with senator cantwell. Our geographic neighbors so to speak with so much shared interests between the states of washington and alaska. We have a lot that we can be working on collaboratively. To i have a very strong collaborative relationship with my colleague from oregon senator wyden, from the committee. I think we set a good tone for this committee, in terms of how we build things and how we work to advance initiatives throughout the process. Having said that, as we embark on their First Business meeting, our markup, i think it is a little unfortunate that we move to markup first, that we did not have the opportunity for the hearing was scheduled yesterday. We had already laid that groundwork, we had invited our agreedupon witnesses, we circulated a background memo that i hope each of you had an opportunity to read and review. It was written by joint staff in preparation for the hearing. We had already gotten testimony from our witnesses, the
To the 94 bits in these graphs were rough total of 617 billion. My question is kind of a can to a congressman fleming was acting. Does it make any difference to the department of defense if the money comes to the department of defense via the base versus overseas Contingency Operations . How does that affect your ability to do it need to be done . I think i addressed that earlier when i said for the army receiving relief there are end strength provisions above 450 provides 4. 2 billion in one year relief. Im trying to explain. Ive only got a minute and 10 seconds left to so let me move onto something more specific. Look tauro combat ships that are being built in the state of alabama, secretary mabus cannot be built out of oco funds . I dont believe that under the current fund we can do new construction. Its not as good as base money in that instance. Is that a fair statement . Can you do Missile Defense out of oco money general odierno do you now . As far as i know we are not able to d