The Foreign Relations committee to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of President Bidens nominees dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you to the senator for being here to lead of the republican side of the hearing. Its not always easy to find members that are willing to adjust their schedules to accommodate the hearings ander i think the senator for always being available to the committee to carry out our important work. Im going to have some opening comments and i want to recognize senator reid and allow him to make an introduction and thank t him for being here in the committee. Sometimes have a friendly rivalry but since i will soon may need his help thank you very much, chairman and senator. Its my pleasure to introduce kristine, assistant secretary of state for oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Anyone whos had the pleasure of working with chris knows a a c
baby s coming up on the left. mum s poopin ! we ll discover secrets that are hidden in the bodies of these huge marine mammals. liquid gold! laughter. ..and why scientists need to be here to protect this vast icy wilderness. musical sting. today, the archive footage looks shocking. it shows our brutal history with antarctica s whales. file: very soon, the giant carcasses are made ready| to yield their store of sperm oil and other products so vital to our post war needs. some were driven to the brink of extinction by commercial whaling during the 20th century. the small whalers bring their catches to the mother ship. through this slipway and a stern will be drawn the many monsters she hopes to catch. that was banned a0 years ago but research is now uncovering new threats to the future of these animals. that s why scientists make the long journey across the notoriously rough southern ocean to antarctica. woke up to my nightstand crashing across the room because we ve hit appare
in the antarctic peninsula faster than anywhere else in antarctica. we re with a team of wildlife scientists who are trying to find out how some of the biggest animals in these waters are responding. some populations around the world are getting skinny because they re not getting enough to eat because of climate change. baby s coming up on the left. mom s pooping. we ll discover secrets that are hidden in the bodies of these huge marine mammals. liquid gold! and why scientists need to be here to protect this vast icy wilderness. today, the archive footage looks shocking. it shows our brutal history with antarctica s whales. very soon, the giant packages for carcasses. some were driven to the brink of extinction by commercial whaling during the 20th century. the small whalers bring their catches to the mother ship. that was banned a0 years ago but research is now uncovering new threats to the future of these animals. that s why scientists make the long journey across the notor
Well, you know what makes your auto run. For millions of years, this sourcrce of power slept peacefuy in the dark recesseses of the earth until modern magic loosed the liquid energy from its subterranean prison. The quest for oil was not only confined to land. It extended offshore. There are oil reserves under the coastal waters of the united states, mainly off the coasts of california, alaska, texas, and louisiana. The gulf of mexico, home to a rich diversity of marine life, and it also produces almost a quarter of americas oil. Tapping these offshore oil reserves helps meet a significant part of u. S. Energy needs. But when things go wrong, theres a high price to pay. In 1969, the Santa Barbara oil spill dumped two and a half million gallons of oil into the pacific, killing thousands of sea birds and marine mammals. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez Oil tanker ran aground in alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William sound. And most recently, in 2010, the bp deepwater hor
Well, you know what makes your auto run. For millions of years, this sourcrce of power slept peacefuy in the dark recesseses of the earth until modern magic loosed the liquid energy from its subterranean prison. The quest for oil was not only confined to land. It extended offshore. There are oil reserves under the coastal waters of the united states, mainly off the coasts of california, alaska, texas, and louisiana. The gulf of mexico, home to a rich diversity of marine life, and it also produces almost a quarter of americas oil. Tapping these offshore oil reserves helps meet a significant part of u. S. Energy needs. But when things go wrong, theres a high price to pay. In 1969, the Santa Barbara oil spill dumped two and a half million gallons of oil into the pacific, killing thousands of sea birds and marine mammals. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez Oil tanker ran aground in alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William sound. And most recently, in 2010, the bp deepwater hor