Senators about this and i think it is time for us to step up as congress and do something truly bipartisan that the people will applaud. We are going to increase by 5 and were going to do it on a bipartisan basis. I would say for the record if there is going to be some conversation about money going to the pentagon i want to i want to be part of that conversation and i want to stick to the rules that its shared equally. We make sure that there is money coming back into the nondefense side of the equation. I hope the administration will take the same position. If we can find oco money lets not do that at the expense of nondefense. I hope we can come to a conclusion that we are going to make our mark in bipartisanship when it comes to biomedical research. Id like to hear any comments youd like to make. We to believe in terms of the number in investments in the choices we need to make in getting the nation to function right now but also preparing for the future right now. Thats why we mak
In appellation of the basin is my into standing that most of the flowback is used to drill new wells. So the quantity of flowback is small. To ship it to ohio for final injection. But the industry has evolved ways to do this. In pennsylvania one of the companies, i forget suggested a way to have acid mine drainage coming of coal mines as an additive instead of using fresh water but there is a state regulation saying that you cannot get economic advantage of using a waste product so they never did it. But the chemical engineers are at work to solve the issues so maybe in the future we dont have to use fresh water but bad water to do the actual fracking. My time is expired. Without objection your recognize for an additional minute. Okay. [laughter] im done. Attwood add some context to the states issues. But what you see in colorado you see it working constructively to support local regulations in order to make sure the development is done responsibly with the support of the community. Th
Fellow americans in their privacy being protected while providing our intelligence agencies with the authorities they need to acquire foreign intelligence that is so important to our National Security. The bill passed by the house last month would make some significant changes to the provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that we believe will help us meet these two objectives. Among other provisions, the bill would prohibit bulk collection of information under section 215, the National Security letter statutes, and the pen register trap and trace provisions of fisa. It replaces the bulk telephony Metadata Collection Program with a new framework that preserves the capabilities we need without the Government Holding the bulk metadata. To be clear, the president called for this transition not because the program was illegal or was being abused but rather to give the public greater confidence that their privacy is being appropriately protected while maintaining the tools t
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