Pann for the d. C. Court of appeals set for this morning and lawmakers are expected to debate a Global Climate change treaty, and to refuse gases commonly used in air conditioning and refrigerators. Live to the floor of the u. S. Senate. The chaplain let us p. Our father in heaven, in whom we live and move and have our being, we glorify your precious name. Lord, we ask you to guide our lawmakers as they influence the future of this nation and world. Lead them with your wisdom, direct them with your patience, and protect them with your power. Lord, we pray that our senators will faithfully fulfill the duties set before them, providing for the common defense, striving to bring domestic tranquility, and working to ensure liberty and justice for all. Likewise, we pray that you would lead and bless american citizens guiding them to protect liberty from sea to shining sea. We pray in your righteous name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , september 20, 2022. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable john w. Hickenlooper, a senator from the state of colorado, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed patrick j. Leahy, president pro tempore. The presiding officer under the previous order, the leadership time is is reserved. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. The clerk nomination, the judiciary. Florence y. Pan of the district of columbia to be United States circuit judge for the district of columbia circuit. Host as part of the discussions over continuing from the government their supervision by senator manchin order to change leasing rules. Our viewers what there that would be and what he think that is going . Guest when you say leasing you mean energy leasing, public lands and waters for Energy Production. Its unfortunate we got herself in a situation, whats happening right now is where seeing record gasoline prices, record your children prices we have seen fewer lands a lease for Energy Production than any administration dating back to the truman administration. To put in perspective there were 100 times more acres of land that were offered for Energy Production at this point in time during the carter administration, 375 times more energy made available for Energy Production during the reagan administration. This is a selfimposed crisis that were experiencing with Energy Prices and, of course, whats going on with ukraine and russia and we could be doing more to help our nato allies in europe. So this really is, these are unforced errors where experience and its having a profound impact on the American Public. The legislation you are referring to requires that lease sales for energy the issue because they are effective at the nine under this administration. The First Administration in modern history to do so. This shouldnt take an act of congress to force these actions, to force us to solve problems that should have never become a crisis or problem to begin with. Host President Biden during the 60 the 60 minw was asked about oil and gas prices and want to play what he had to say about it and response and get your response to that. The price of gasoline is down about 26 from the five dollars high. What can you do to keep that price down while Vladimir Putin is throttling Energy Supplies . A couple things. Remember i got some criticism for releasing 1 Million Barrels of oil a day from our Strategic Petroleum reserve. And then along came the industry saying they produce another Million Barrels a day by spring. We ran relatively good shape. Host Vladimir Putin is going to try to break your will on ukraine and using the prices to do it. Surety is, but we the United States are in much better shape than anyone else is relative to russia in particular. Hes been trying that for a while. Hes not going to succeed. Host he used a term good shape when it comes to america or lease in good shape when it comes to oil and gas situations. What is your response . Guest that answer unfortunately is just uninformed. Look, when President Biden took office my hometown were paying about 1. 82 a gallon. When President Biden took office we were paying 1. 80 or 1. 82 on the looming for regular gasoline. Just when and fill up as we can and it was about three bucks. So were in awful shape right now. The thing is looking back within the last two years we were entirely Energy Independent and we were taking care of all of her own energy needs. These are selfimposed problems. You cant be after thing were going to release energy from the Strategic Petroleum reserve, and say that we dont have an energy crisis, with supplyside problem. We dont need increase our production. This makes america week. Gives more power to folks like Vladimir Putin to exercise over the United States and it doesnt have to happen. We never should have put ourselves in the situation. The Biden Administration really needs to be more aggressive with both renewable and with conventional Energy Sources to ensure america has the resources it needs to bring prices down and have supply and demand meet one another. Host 2027488000 democrats. 2027488001 for republicans and 2027488002 for independence. You can text asked at 2027488003. When it comes to those renewable sources we saw the Inflation Reduction Act include the packets taking a look at green energy and those conventional or at least those ways of going forward. What did you think of the money thats going to be devoted and is there some benefit from that money being spent . Guest so what the bill does is it just floods the renewable market with money. It actually causes some problems because what is key with Energy Solutions with any Energy Solution is your content technologies that are both economically sustainable which means you dont have to continue flooding taxpayer dollars that we cant afford into these Different Energy technologies to subsidize them into affordability because if thats not sustainable. So you have to economically sustainable technologies that are also environmentally sustainable. Unfortunately i think what the legislation does is it artificially propped up the affordability but he gets it to the point where you cant continue subsidizing. To give an example over 40 years ago you had Renewable EnergyIndustries Come in and said hey, we need seven years of subsidies, seven years, yet what just happened is we just renewed it after 40 plus years of subsidies. The only way, i will say it one more time, the only way these technologies are truly going to be sustainable if they beat and economically sustainable test. Host theres an oped in the New York Times today from the former climate advisor to President Biden gina mccarthy. She wrote this when she assess whats happening with green energy and u. S. Pirg she said the United States is now becoming a magnet for Clean Energy Innovation investment since the president took Office Company seven invested nearly 85 billion and manufacture of electric vehicles, batteries and u. S. The u. S. Is now on track to troubled Domestic Solar manufacturing capacity by 2024 and 2021 hello to investors and as 2. 2 billion in funding 2 billion in funny for offshore Wind Supply Chain adding make the mistake with a long way to go the task to complete reshaping our economy is daunting especially in the country as vast and complex as ours. When she talks about those investment what do you think of those . Guest i think he used three criteria to evaluate the performance of energy under this administration. Look at affordability, look at omissions, emissions within vibrant and jeff to look at Energy Security. Affordability we talked about. Prices have surged. We should not be excited about a small drop considering that we are seeing huge increases compared to when Biden Took Office in energy and electricity prices. Number two, on the emissions aside, emissions of got it under President Biden. On average emissions went down about 2. 5 year under the Previous Administration. Last year they went up 6. 3 . They will go up again this year. You failed the emissions and environmental test. This president is sailing on climate. The third one is Energy Security. We made ourselves more dependent upon foreign Energy Sources. China manufacturers about 90 of the solar panels that are used globally, 90 , and the Biden Administration took trade actions which allows chinese solar panels that already subsidize or illegally dumped on u. S. Markets under money Domestic Production of that technology is basically waved the terrace for allowing them to continue to be dumped undermining, creating more uncertain young domestic manufacturing. Theres no metric you can look at today that says this administration is exceeding on Energy Policy and it is causing profound impact. Where one quarter of all americans today have to decide among purchasing food medicine or covering an energy bill. These are unforced errors. We never shouldve gotten to the situation. We have the resources and the United States to supply your own energy and Energy Security. Host our first call is from edward in Michigan Democrats line. Go ahead. Caller yes, i want to talk about the drought out west. I am amazed at how bad the drought is. It is been described as a one in 1000 year mega drought. Ill list the states that are affected or in severe drought now. California, nevada, arizona, new mexico, correct me if im wrong, colorado, utah, texas is now in the drought, colorado, utah, the whole southwest is in a drought. Theyre going to have to start, they are rationing water now. The Colorado River is extremely low. The reservoirs, lake mead and liked how are at record lows. They may have to turn off the hydroelectric generators because the water level is so low. Did the republicans of any plan or any statement of how to, what to do about this drought . Or example host edward, we got that. We let our guests respond. Guest edward, hope youre having a great morning and thanks for the question. This is a really important issue and on friday we will be talking about our commitment to america what we will be going through some of these topics and talking about the resiliency efforts were working on including disasters like drought and southwest, talking about our plans to address those things. Os and cowfntsing, just this and counting just this fiscal year. This is a larger group of people than the entire populations of 14 states. This recordshattering two million apprehensions only counts the subset of people that were actually caught. Experts estimate hundreds of thousands more people on top of that number who simply got away. The latest reports say that cbp encountered more than 2 00,000 people just in the month of august alone, and more than 20 of those people were not firsttime border crossers, but rather repeat offenders who are already previously been expelled or deported. Tens of thousands of individuals who are already been thrown out flooding it back in every single month. Orderly, Legal Immigration is part of what makes america strong. Anarchy and open borders makes us weak. Theres nothing compassionate or humane about the border crisis that democrats mixed signals and failed policies have unleashed. Its not fair to american citizens. Its not fair to Law Enforcement. And its not fair to the people whove been encouraged to undertake desperate and dangerous journeys by years of democrats signaling to the world that there are no real consequences for breaking our laws and cutting in line. Vice president harris says the border is secure. The American People know better, and theyre furious. Illegal immigrants know better as well. For years washington democrats have attacked republicans for calling for basic Border Security and Law Enforcement. The Democratic Party line throughout the last five years has been that enforcing existing Immigration Law would be cruel and securing our borders would be xenophobic. But over the last few days, some liberals seem to have changed their tune. Out of desperation a few governors along our southern border are now giving some democratrun states and cities just a tiny, tiny taste of what border communities have been enduring literally for years. According to the Washington Post the total number of individuals in texas and arizona have helped relocate to new york, washington and other places in recent months is roughly on the order of the number of Illegal Immigrants who arrive at our southern border in a single day. One day. All those cities combined have had months to accept between them approximately one days share of our nations ilLegal Immigration. But the democratic mayor of new york city is now declaring that his governments resources are, quote, at a breaking point. At a breaking point. According to the post these border states september to new york city less than one daze worth of one days worth of illegal crossers over a month, and the selfproclaimed sanctuary city cannot take it. The governor of florida helped a tiny number of Illegal Immigrants, about four dozen, secure transportation to the wealthy liberal destination of Marthas Vineyard, fills with millionaires mansions, which appointed itself a socalled sanctuary destination. Apparently, this sanctuary destination tolerated, housed and the fed the newcomers less than 48 hours before having the National Guard remove them to a military basin stead. Democrats military base instead. Democrats are melting down. Their absurd accusations flying around that its somehow illegal for republican owe fixes to help Illegal Immigrants move within our country. That would be breaking news, because of course, the Biden Administration has been flying and busing Illegal Immigrants around the country on a regular basis. According to one report from early 2021, the Biden Administration was already filling greyhound buses with people turning up at our border and driving them to various destinations from the south to the midwest to the northeast. Ah, but never to Marthas Vineyard. So these welltodo blue enclaves are finally witnessing the smallest fraction of the challenges that open borders have forced on working class communities all across our country. Now, on another matter, washington democrats runaway inflation caused a nationwide crisis. Its put working families and Small Businesses in a bind from coast to coast. Since President Biden took office inflation has shot up a staggering 13. 2 . The average American Household this translates to hundreds and hundreds of extra dollars every month, working overto barely, barely tread water. In kentucky, the democrats inflation forced proud, hardworking families to ask for help putting food on the table. In some cases, for the first time in their lives. The director of the food pantry in Nichols Ville says our numbers are going up like crazy. We have problems getting food now. Were not giving away as much as we were a couple of months ago because i cant find it, and i cant afford it sometimes when i can find it. These challeng