Legacy energy source. Senator udall of new mexico and i have an amendment that will close a loophole in federal Energy Policy. I want my colleagues to know, and i think they do, of my long support for renewable and alternative sources of energy and so i agree with the aims of the murkowskimachin murkowskiy bill. The amendment that senator udall and i have introduced is the same as the bipartisan bill we introduced last week. The title of that bill is the fair return for public lands act. Mr. Grassley this bill was introduced 100 years to the date of the mineral leasing act of 1920. This amendment would increase the royalty rates on federal lands from 12. 5 to 18. 75 . Everybody here knows that a royalty is what the oil company will pay to a mineral owner. In this case the mineral owner is the american taxpayer, and that royalty is paid for the right to extract oil and natural gas from the lands of the United States. The legislation modernizes the public lands leasing system and it does
Good morning. Committee will come to order. Not too many of us here this morning in the energy and Natural Resources committee. Its kind of a foul day. Mister secretary i am sorry that your coming before the committee this morning when we thought that we were going to have some relatively good news for your department and the department of energy because we would be moving forward with a package of Energy Related bills that we have been working on for well over a year. In many cases four years. Equities from some 70 different members of the senate. And we are stalled out right now. We are not done but we are certainly stalled out. Not because of the good strong work that this people on this committee have not participated in. But because of matters completely unrelated to the jurisdiction of this committee. Completely unrelated aided to anything we have been working on prior to it and so we are stalled out right now. As a committee chairman, it makes me wonder why we work so hard aroun
Vote vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 96, the nays are one. The 60vote threshold having been achieved, the bill is passed. Senate will be in order. Please remove your conversations from the floor. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i withdraw amendment number 1419. The presiding officer the senator has that right. The amendment is withdrawn. The senator for alaska. Ms. Murkowski i modify the amendment amendment number 1407 with the chaplains at the desk. This modification includes, among other things, acceptance of amendment number 1419 offered by the senator from kentucky, mr. Mcconnell, for the senator from iowa, ms. Ernst. The presiding officer the senator has that right. The amendment is so modified. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the deck for the substitute amendment number 1407, as modified. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned
To focus on now of course is a trade deal with the uk and so i have joined a number of other senators and asking you can watch this online at cspan. Org. The senate gaveling in at 3 30 p. M. And they will take a procedural vote on a couple of abortion measures. Live coverage now of the u. S. Senate. 18. The presiding officer under the previous order, the time until 3 30 p. M. Will be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. The senator from alaska. Ms. Murkowski madam president , just very briefly here this afternoon, we will have beginning at 3 30 p. M. A series of votes to include the nomination of Katherine Macgregor to be deputy secretary of the department of interior, and i would like to provide my support for this nomination. I want to thank my colleagues on the energy and Natural Resources committee for working with me to report and rereport ms. Macgregors nomination moved out on a bipartisan basis. I thank the majority leader for filing cloture on her nominat
Been filed in there under negotiations. Life coverage now to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. Www. Iowaculture. Gov. I yield the floor and i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Mcconnell madam president . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell yesterday evening the president , the Vice President , and their task force offered an extensive public briefing on ongoing efforts to combat this new virus, which has spread from china throughout the world. As the director of the c. D. C. Explained, officials are now tracking more than 500 cases across our country. Nationwide, the risk to any individual american remains low. But as the Vice President and the experts reminded us, the time is now for all americans to engage in basic commonsense measures and for americans