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
You uphold the universe by the words of your power. Today, walk with our senators as they work. Help them to remember that there is no purity without vigilance, no learning without study, and no mastery without discipline. Give them the wisdom to be willing to pay the price to honor you. Provide them with joy in service and devotion in discipleship. Infuse them with a spirit of power, love, and selfcontrol. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley one minute in morning business. An oped i penned recently mentioned countries that still has laws on the books and it touched the nerve in bangladesh. I certainly didnt mean to imply that it was the worst off
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
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