The coast guard knows that and you know that. And in the meantime, 21 medivacs to pluck people out to get them to some level of safety when a tenmile onelane gravel, noncommercial use road could help save these lives. Weve got to keep working on this, madame secretary. Senator, i recognize this issue and i also recognize that this is not a unique situation. That there are many villages that struggle in the case of medical evacuations. And i appreciate that it is part of our job to work on that. And i will continue to work on that. That is true. That there are many villages. But there are none none that have ready access to an allweather airport right there. I think we should talk to the senator who has an Appropriations Committee and talk to her about what we can do. Im just pointing out that in 19 t e 98 we appropriated 187 million to promote a hoefer california. So i think that was something that the Clinton Administration worked on. So maybe we need to look at something in that area
And the statement has done, that giving lewis clark project 22 million last year which was almost ten times the amount of funding that you included in last years budget. Yet this year you still came back and only requested 2. 7 million for the project. Congress has already demonstrated that we can fund these projects at a higher level, routinely increasing funding in appropriation bills beyond your budget request. These local communities and the state have done everything that has been asked of them and more. Putting more funding than they were supposed to. What will it take to get interior to prioritize these projects . Im going to may i, madam chair . Okay. Ill make my part very brief and turn to mike for the specifics here. Indian water rights settlements have taken priority for us and making sure that communities that do not have access to water are prioritized. And i know you appreciate that. Weve talked about that before. Theres some money in the budget for lewis clark to continu
Opportunities alaska has with regard to resource production, you have enabled an unprecedented attack on our ability to responsibly bring these resources to market. The president has withdrawn over 22 million more acres of alaska from Energy Production just in recent weeks, and that has occurred on top of many other restrictions and regulations being imposed on us. Its occurred despite the Tremendous Energy opportunity and potential in those areas. Despite our no more clause. Despite the pressing need to refill our pipeline. And despite strong opposition from most alaskans. The map that i have behind this is one my colleagues are going to become familiar with because im going to be pointing it out quite frequently. The colors on the map represent those areas that are withdrawn from any Development Opportunity whatsoever. Some are, in fact, proposed critical habitat areas, so they are not fully withdrawn at this point in time. But we have the anwr new wilderness proposal. The president
Leaders and it was very clear that there is no daylight amongst the elected leaders in terms of how they are viewing these decisions coming out of the administration. So i just want to make again very clearly enunciate very clearly that i oppose this administrations decision on anwr i oppose its decision offshore, i oppose its costly restricts and endless decisions within the mpra and oppose what its doing to our plasser miners and Timber Industry and many other Resource Producers ready to provide good jobs to hardworking alaskans. The state of alaska was actively ignored. The north slope bureau, alaska native corporations and many alaskans all of whom asked for an oil and gas alternative in interiors anwr plan by claiming that it requires an act of Congress Even though an act of wilderness requires the very same. The actions from this administration seem destined to shut down our transAlaska Pipeline weakening our economy, forcing our state to make steep budget cuts and really violati
Four percent from february. Out. R and conagra will be also, nike. Today is the beginning of march madness. President obama will make remarks on the economy at 2 00. It has been a long winter. It is on the edge of warmth. I would not rule out that it is over yet. The groundhog did see his shadow. Easter is april 20. That is a long way. Lets do a data check. We saw Market Reaction yesterday. The yield goes up. It balloons. He euro dollar is 1. 39 crashed as yet no went weaker as well. I want to go to the chart. Two year yield 0. 42. Heres how far janet yellen has to go little move up in the two year yield. We have so far to go to get back to any sense of normality. Or 2016. Ay 2015 no other way to look at. We did see some market move yesterday. We scoured the papers this morning. There is one story front and center. I am all over this. It is day 13 of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight. There was a breakthrough. Satellite imagery the tech did objects in the south indian ocean. Planes