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this portion is just about 90 minutes. good afternoon, everyone. afternoon,ted, this i will give a lay of the land here this afternoon. i will first proceed with my opening statement, then i will call upon ranking member senator cantwell to make hers. after she have concluded with her remarks, we will hear from our colleagues. is on theine committee here. senator chester, it is good to have you join us as well. they will introduce the distinguished witness and the other member from the montana delegation, ryan zinke. i will then swear in the witness, as kim three questions that we addressed to all nominees at confirmation hearings. will proceed this afternoon. i think it is important to us to recognize that we had a vote scheduled at about 4:15. that will cause a little bit of an interruption, but we do want expeditiously through the meeting. before i proceed, i would like to recognize an individual who is well known to this committee room. that is the former chairman ....
good afternoon, everyone. to get started this afternoon, just kind of give a lay of the land here this afternoon, i will first proceed with my opening statement, then i will call upon be our ranking member, senator cant welshing to make hers. cantwell, to make hers. after that we will hear from our colleagues, the montana senators thank you both. senator tester excuse me, senator daines, of course, is on the committee here, and, senator tester, it s good to have to you join us as well. they will introduce our distinguished witness and the ore other member of the montana delegation, representative ryan zinke. .. who happened to know you it s good to have him back. a little bit of favoritism there, but it s good to have you here as well. i would also like to welcome the new member stuart committee. we have three new members and we are pleased to have a new senator from nevada, ms. cortez masto, welcome. isil is the junior senator from illinois, senator duckworth. ....
zinke. good afternoon, everyone. to get started this afternoon, i just will give lay of the land herer i i will proceed with my opening statement and then senator cantwell with hers. after senator cantwell s remarks we will hear from our colleague, the montana senators, senator dains and senator tester. senator danes is on the complete here and senator tester, good to have you here as well. they will introduce our distinguished witness and other member of the montana delegation, representsive ryan zi zingk zinke. i will swear in the witness and ask him three questions we address to all nominees at confirmation hearings. so that s how we will proceed this afternoon. i think it s important for us all to recognize we also have a vote that is scheduled about 4:15. so that will cause a little bit of an interruption but we do want to try to move as expeditiously through this hearing as we can. before i proceed, i d like to recognize an individual who is well-known to this c ....
zinke. good afternoon, everyone. to get started this afternoon, i just will give lay of the land herer i i will proceed with my opening statement and then senator cantwell with hers. after senator cantwell s remarks we will hear from our colleague, the montana senators, senator dains and senator tester. senator danes is on the complete here and senator tester, good to have you here as well. they will introduce our distinguished witness and other member of the montana delegation, representsive ryan zi zingk zinke. i will swear in the witness and ask him three questions we address to all nominees at confirmation hearings. so that s how we will proceed this afternoon. i think it s important for us all to recognize we also have a vote that is scheduled about 4:15. so that will cause a little bit of an interruption but we do want to try to move as expeditiously through this hearing as we can. before i proceed, i d like to recognize an individual who is well-known to this c ....
high pressure natural gas steel riser that caused the gas leak. fire crews needed to wait before they could rescue him. he wasn t trapped. he started to get out of the vehicle, and the police department announced over their pa for him to stay in the vehicle because it was a safe place with the ignition turned off. we waited for pg and e to clear the scene and a lot my crews to go in and safely remove him from the scene. he was transported to a local hospital with non life-threatening injuries. this wasn t easy. the pipe is severed on the supply side of the valve which means you can t just go in and turn off the flow of gas. pg and e had a crew out here they had the gas turned off by 3:00 a.m. alameda fire department issued a reversed 911 callout to residents in the area asking them to turn off their furnace and natural gas appliances and nearby homeowners were asked to stay indoors. they lifted that moratorium on using gas appliances and cars are going by right no ....