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Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. We meet this morning to consider opening a very small portion of alaskas 1002 area to responsible Energy Development to meet the 1 billion budget reconciliation instruction that our Committee Received last week. The 1002 area covers 1. 57 million acres of land in northeast alaska within the nonwilderness portion. You can bring it over here sean. I think its important to put this in context in terms of the areas that we are talking about. ...

Good morning everyone. Committee will come to order. We meet this morning to consider opening a very small portion of alaskas 1002 area to responsible Energy Development to meet the 1 billion budget reconciliation instruction that our Committee Received last week. The 1002 area covers 1. 57 million acres of land in northeast alaska within the nonwilderness portion. You bring it over here, sean. Within the nonwilderness portion of an war. And i think its important to put this in context in terms ...

Good morning everyone. Committee will come to order. We meet this morning to consider opening a very small portion of alaskas 1002 area to responsible Energy Development to meet the 1 billion budget reconciliation instruction that our Committee Received last week. The 1002 area covers 1. 57 million acres of land in northeast alaska within the nonwilderness portion. You bring it over here, sean. Within the nonwilderness portion of an war. And i think its important to put this in context in terms ...

Nonwilderness portion. Important tot is put this in context, in terms of the areas where talking about. War, itself, is 9 million acres, approximately the size of south carolina. The nonwilderness area, this 1002 area, is 1. 5 million acres, approximately the size of delaware. The area here is designated as wilderness, federal wilderness, 8 million acres there. So, when we are talking about an important tot is recognize that there are parts r that are designated wilderness, parts are designated ...

Want to get some sleep, you cant reread something 22 times. Doing okay in college was all about time management. Yeah, i maybe didnt spend as much time having fun. But i was able to get myself through because i was able to manage myself. Were you an athlete as well . I was not a good enough athlete to be an athlete in college. But thats a whole other story. I know the feeling. So after you graduate. You went back to your native area, cleveland, and you worked for u. S. Steel . I did. You werent ...

The house and senate are now out of session for their summer district work periods. Both return for legislative work on tuesday, september 8th. Theyll continue debate on the Iran Nuclear Agreement during the 60day review period. Join us later today for live coverage of remarks from author greg granden, a history professor at new york university. He argues that to understand americas current foreign and public policy, one must examine the actions of former National Security adviser Henry Kissinge...

Multiagency strategy for understanding and working to develop the science to mitigate the impacts of Unconventional Oil and natural Gas Production and this is with our office and usgs and epa and like wise you see the l recommendations that are pointed to doe. And this report really points back to that role for the arctic as well. In one way the way i think about the work of our office is were the office of science for federal and state regular lay to rs. We were in alaska last week and i can te...

The one. And said to myself is why the president put you here. So i recognized common even with the large staffs that we have around us that we surround ourselves with, every once in a while you have to take an independent look at something and not be afraid to realize that maybe they bureaucracy has got this wrong and you happen to be right. And i did that on a number of occasions at the pentagon. Okay. As i prepared to yield to dr. Coburn im reminded of the many definitional issue. One of my f...

Exhaustive list where personally identifiable information exists, i think that would be very helpful. I think we may have done that. But im happy to have my staff work with viewers or if theres questions for the record here to, again, always be as responsive as we can. Thank you. Senator, one more question . Thank you, mr. Chairman. And i just want to follow up on the question that senator ritter just asked. Let me tell youmy understanding is, director. There are approximately nine institutions ...

Quorum call ms. Stabenow id ask suspension of the quorum call. The presiding officer the senator from michigan. Without objection. Ms. Stabenow thank you very much, mr. President. Mr. President , im here today to talk about an issue that impacts tens of millions of people across the country and hangs over our entire economy, and thats student debt. Right now borrowers have accumulated over 1. 2 trillion in student debt. Think about that for a minute. Thats more than people owe on their credit ca...