The critical thing and we should visit when we have more time. Let me just say the reports about because way are incredibly disturbing and i cant count on the investigations but we take every threat seriously and investigate to the fullest wherever we think theres some incredible allegation that a company has done an end run around your export controls. We need different tools, im supportive of the guard act which would and the restrict act which would codify our itcs authorities. We need that to have a comprehensive approach to go after connected apps. We would need resources additionally to do that. I think we need Additional Resources around enforcement to do exactly what youre talking about. Candidly we need the threat is different today. The threat from china in 2023 is different than the cold war threats of decades ago. It is technology and a. I. And it is moving fast so i would welcome a broader discussion with you around how we modernize what we do and how we properly fund what
Impulsive. Heres a look at speech. He followed by democrats who supported his comments. This is about 25minutes. Mister president , near the beginning of the documents that made us free, our declaration of independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote we hold these truths to be selfevident. So from the very beginning, our freedom has been predicated on truth. Our founders were visionary in this regard, understanding well the good faith and shared fax between the government and the government to be the very basis of this ongoing idea of america. And as a distinguished former member of this body Daniel Patrick moynihan famously said, everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts. And this past year on alarmed to say that senator moynihans proposition has been tested more severely than at any time in our history. For it is that reason that i rise today. To talk about the truths and the truths relationship to democracy. And without truth and a principled fidelity of truth and the sh
[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