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
Good morning everyone. 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 bring it over here, sean. Within the nonwilderness portion of an war. And i think its important to put this in context in terms of the areas we are talking about. Anwar itself is 19 million acres. Approximately the size of south carolina. The nonwilderness area, is approximately the size of delaware. The area here is designated as federal wilderness. So when were talking about anwr itself, i think its importedant to recognize there are parts that are designated as wilderness, parts within the refuge and parts, the 1002 area specifically been designated for consideration for oil and Gas Exploration. So again i want to be
Good morning everyone. 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 bring it over here, sean. Within the nonwilderness portion of an war. And i think its important to put this in context in terms of the areas we are talking about. Anwar itself is 19 million acres. Approximately the size of south carolina. The nonwilderness area, is approximately the size of delaware. The area here is designated as federal wilderness. So when were talking about anwr itself, i think its importedant to recognize there are parts that are designated as wilderness, parts within the refuge and parts, the 1002 area specifically been designated for consideration for oil and Gas Exploration. So again i want to be
The threat for 50 million americans this morning with more to come. And birthday boy. Prince george turns 4. The new official portrait following a very photogenic royal family trip. The helicopter high jinks. How george and charlotte stole the show. Good morning. Another day, another bombshell report on the russia investigation. This one comes from the Washington Post, and it involves the embattled attorney general Jeff Sessions. Now, the story says that u. S. Spy agencies intercepted communications between the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. , sergey kislyak, and his superiors back in moscow in which kislyak talked about conversations that he had during the president ial campaign with then senator Jeff Sessions, a major trump supporter. According to the post, kislyak told his bosses that he and sessions discussed both campaign and policy issues. Now, this directly contradicts what sessions told congress during his confirmation hearings for the job of attorney general back in january.
The threat for 50 million americans this morning with more to come. And birthday boy. Prince george turns 4. The new official portrait following a very photogenic royal family trip. The helicopter high jinks. How george and charlotte stole the show. Good morning. Another day, another bombshell report on the russia investigation. This one comes from the Washington Post and it involves the embattled attorney general Jeff Sessions. The story says that u. S. Spy agencies intercepted communications between the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. , sergey kislyak, and his superiors back in moscow in which kislyak talked about conversations that he had during the president ial campaign with then senator Jeff Sessions, a major trump supporter. According to the post, kislyak told his boss that he and sessions discussed both campaign and policy issues. Now, this directly contradicts what sessions told congress during his confirmation hearings for the job of attorney general back in january. Now, it