That they agreed upon in a bipartisan way. And it can be done without everything that we do that has a risk. It can be done with nothing more than manageable risks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Senator, thank you for your extraordinary patience. Youve been here early the whole morning and just in order of seniority we find you and we thank you. Thank you. Let me congratulate you on your new role. This is great you in the chair and i look forward to our Work Together in the years to come. I want to associate myself with some of the comments of the senator before she had to depart. Because they say all politics is local and when you think about it this is obviously a large country and i think its fair to a as with other Energy Issues at the policies that we are discussing today dont necessarily affect all of our states and even manner. Like the senator, wisconsin is one of the leading manufacturers in the United States and i think right now it can boast the role of number one manufact
Comfortable, those are things we are doing, but we could do more of, and the second one, i think is the point thats important. The european story is we eliminated debt clauses, were done. Its not the case. Theres much more work that needs to be done, and i talked to my colleagues at the state department, encouraged them to put that at the top of the agenda. Get that market unblocked, more connections between there, you dont strand gas. You get connections. You can move more gas around that continent faster than it takes to build a new terminal. You can use the ones that theyve got. This 1 the next one here, and we have to bring it to a close. I have one or two comments and questions, and ill turn it over for final remarks, but i want to thank you, all, for your patience, excellent testimony, and everything will be submitted to the record. I want to bring it back locally to the u. S. , particularly louisiana and the energy coast. Designing an energy policy, which this committee is focus
Rebalance and part of that discussion was about amphibious shipping. I think you probably have some people on this committee and in the congress who would ike to help you on this. Hy do you need more amphibious capability, and would you elaborate on the role of our marines, the expeditionary marines and your air responsibility tissue area of responsibility, the effect would the effectiveness of the marines be diminished if there were insufficient amphibious ships or if we dont correct the ensufficient number of ships, and how would this affect your abilities as the Combatant Commander . Well, certainly im not the only combatant command whore deshire desires amphibious ship thoring marines on them. There is a Competition Among us as the worlds situation moves around and we we need different types of forces and generally the capabilities that the marine corps bring with amphibious groups is applicable almost every scenario from humanitarian assistance, Disaster Relief all the way to high