Are we ready . Amendment to an amendment number 41, democrats are committed to closing the halliburton loophole that trip to the Environmental Protection agency of its ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing and ensuring tough safeguards are in place including save Drinking Water provisions to protect local water supplies. Fracturinghydraulic should not take place where states and local communities oppose it. We will reduce methane emissions and transportation by at least 40 by 45 below 2005 levels by 2025 through comments and standards for new and existing sources and repairing and replacing thousands of miles of leaking pipes. This will protect our climate and create thousands of good paying jobs. Comes to order please come to order please. Thank you very much. Im not going to be as popular. It may surprise you to learn of the same most objectives. Protecting our climate, protecting childrens health. We have a difference of opinion on how to do it. Im not going to convince everybody
Corrupt activity is al qaeda. This is an incorrect notion that has even planted itself in certain quarters of the United States congress. And i think it is well worth keeping in mind that for many, many, many years, ten, to be precise, there has been a network of strong connections between the Syrian Regime and al qaeda in iraq, connections originally used to facilitate the movement of these characters through syria in to iraq, connections which i strongly suspect still exist. With that i want to thank fred and matt. I want to congratulate that once again, i urge everyone here to buy a copy of the book on the way out and really wish this goes to the top of the New York Times bestseller list of what a week is done. Congratulations. [inaudible conversations] to ten. Yet environment reporter. This week Environmental Leadership Program founder paul sabin and his latest book the bet Paul Ehrlich Julian Simon and our gambol over earths future. He analyzes of the 30yearold wager between an ec