Acknowledge your sovereignty over all events and times. Renew america in confident faith and deepen our commitment to seek peace. Help us to work sovereignty over all events and times. Together when whom we find se it difficult to trust, but with a m we must try to forge Common Future of security and prosperity. This peoples house with your that all might seek to find first areas of agreement and openness to Honest Exchange where it is not. May all that is done within the peoples house be for your honor and glory, amen. E speaker pro tempore the the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from. Llinois, 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. The speaker pro tempore the up
Lawmakers walk through their starting legislative session. We will bring you live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You have blessed us with all good gifts and with thankful hearts we express our gratitude. You have created us with opportunities to serve other people in their need, to share together in respect and affection
[inaudible conversations] we are back for round number two. Everyone has had a little bit of a stretch. Palmer spent, we your endurance here. You are probably thinking, nothing like what you are used to, but we appreciate the fact that you have been generous with your time and your questions here, so we will allow for members to ask another round of questions. We actually have another confirmation hearing that just started up at 5 00 p. M. That i will head off to when this is concluded, so we are working fulltime here today. It may be more popular than mine. No, this is very important. Congressman, went to ask you about an issue that alaskans care a great deal about and given the makeup of our land and the fact that so much of our land are held in the federal estate under the Alaskan National interest Lands Conservation act that specifically provides for a no more clause and makes very clear that within the state of alaska when it comes to those areas that have been withdrawn from publ
[inaudible conversations] we are back for round number two. Everyone has had a little bit of a stretch. Palmer spent, we your endurance here. You are probably thinking, nothing like what you are used to, but we appreciate the fact that you have been generous with your time and your questions here, so we will allow for members to ask another round of questions. We actually have another confirmation hearing that just started up at 5 00 p. M. That i will head off to when this is concluded, so we are working fulltime here today. It may be more popular than mine. No, this is very important. Congressman, went to ask you about an issue that alaskans care a great deal about and given the makeup of our land and the fact that so much of our land are held in the federal estate under the Alaskan National interest Lands Conservation act that specifically provides for a no more clause and makes very clear that within the state of alaska when it comes to those areas that have been withdrawn from publ
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. We talked about different parts of alaska, especially the lower part where the opportunity to harvest timber in a reasonable, sustainable traditional method has been taken off the table. Thats hurting real communities and some areas in washington, the catastrophic fires, why do we have fires at the extent and magnitude that we do each year . The senator franken talked about global warming. The statistics i have from a single summer of forest fires in rose bud county, which very few people know other than senator danes, made it more particulate in the air during that season than running 3,000 years of coal strip. So lets manage our forest, our fires, our lands the way it was intended to. That means having the voice of alaska and the voice of the people that live there. And if i may, when we say how it was intended to, lays out clearly that reservation to the state of alaska with regards to the fish and Wildlife Management authorities. So i look forward to d