Bill in the senate today continues work on the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline appeared they will vote this evening starting at 5 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. It will affect oil drilling in blow to Alaska Oil Production is one of the headlines this morning. We want to get your reaction. If not by phone, you can contact us at twitter. You can post a comment facebook. You can send us an email. This is the front page of the newspaper of the alaskan newspaper. It would be the approval of congress. The president is proposing to designate the majority of the Arctic National wildlife rigid as a wilderness area. This drew an angry response from elected officials is yet as a land grab by the federal government. That is the front page. The announcement came yesterday through youtube and a video that the white house. It runs about a minute. Alaskas wildlife refuge is an incredible place. It is pristine and undisturbed. It supports caribou and caribou and polar bears. It is very fragile. I am proud that the department of interior before eight plan to make sure that we are protecting the refuge. We are designated new areas for preservation. Im going to call on congress to make sure that they take it one step further, designated as a wilderness so we can make sure that this amazing wonder is preserved for future generations. Host also in the paper this morning, a quote from usa today. The reaction has come in harshly and swiftly. This is from bloomberg. Com. This is many stories on this. She is the new chairman of the Senate Energy commission. More reaction coming shortly. We want to get some information from mike lewis. He is a capitol hill reporter. There is a process that would have to happen. This would need congressional approval. What happens next . This is not a surprise. This is something that obama has pushed for for many years. He campaigned on it. For it to happen now is not surprising. We are in the middle of this keystone xl debate. Oil is on everybodys mind. This is an opportunity with a gas prices so low, there isnt a financial incentive to develop new gas pipelines. He thinks an Economic Opportunity because gas prices are low. This is going nowhere. You read some of the reaction. Congress controls and they hated. This is not anything thats going to go anywhere. Because this is the debate in the news right now they will start working on this for a fourth week. He sees an opportunity. He wants to remain relevant. He wants to fire up the base ahead of 2016. The timing of this plays out. Host you mentioned the keynote keystone in the senate. Where did they leave off last week . It was tense on the floor thursday night. Walk us back to that and move us forward. It was tense. It was the end of the third week on a keystone. The amendments were coming. There did not seem to be any end in sight to the democratic amendment. I think Mitch Mcconnell realized that. He said that he promised amendments and a debate, but this will i define the year. He did move to and debate. The six amendments that are left on the schedule will be voted on today. Final passage is expected by the end of the week. This is just timing. They have other things that they want to do. They have this funding will that theyve got to do by february 27. Otherwise, the Homeland Security department runs out of money. That is a month away. I think mcconnell gazed ahead and knew they had to turn off the keystone debate. Host take us over to the house. A Border Security bill is coming up on wednesday. There are battlelines drawn with that. Its mostly about executive action on deportation. Mcmichael is the chairman of the committee. He had gotten together with Bennie Thompson and they came up with a Border Security bill that passed unanimously. There was cooperation then. I think the executive action has angered the republicans. They see it as an abuse of his power. His First Response was to write his own order security will without any democratic and but. It is designed to block all illegal immigration inside the operational control and penalize political appointees if they dont meet those goals. It adds metrics that the old bill did not have. Its not going to go very far. The house will pass it this week. Its contingent on both sides. J johnson has said its extreme and unworkable. This is not something that we can meet. The democrats hated. Youre going to look for Law Enforcement area generally. There are a lot of cyber attack questions which he will get. This is not without a lot of questioning. For a long day of testing. Host it is a busy week coming up. Caller thank you for having me. Host i want to remind you of the phone numbers. Usa today has this headline. This is a quote from the newly elected senator from alaska. This is akin to spitting in the faces. This is the front page of the Washington Post. It sets the announcement is just the first in a series of decisions by the department of interior that will affect oil and gas production. The department will put part of the arctic ocean off limits to killing. This is a fiveyear leasing plan. It will have limits on oil and gas reduction. The move marks the latest instantce to adopt priorities. Once the government sees a designated area, it receives the highest level of protection until Congress Acts or a future administration adopts a different approach. It reflects the influence of john podesta. Some early reaction coming in from facebook. Joyce writes. We are looking for your calls on the move to ban drilling at an wwar. There are a lot of papers following up on this story. This is the Los Angeles Times workout. Republicans call it an attack on alaska. We have a little bit of video. We want to show you from a 60 minutes segment last night with john boehner and senator mcconnell. They talked about relationships with the president. They talked about the potential for the president to be vetoing bills. We know keystone is one of those bills. The president has vetoed two bills in six years. The reason was the senate never sent them anything that caused him any discomfort. Its going to happen occasionally. President s veto bills. There are differences of opinions. Thats not unheard of. His job Approval Rating is 46 . The job Approval Rating for the congress is 15 . What do you say to the 85 of the people who think youre doing a lousy job . I would say they are right. From a senate perspective, i can tell you the senate has been dysfunctional for four years. Its been shut down. The house has passed lots of legislation. Nothing would happen. Absolutely nothing over the last two years. We sent 400 bills that never received action. Almost all of them passed on a bipartisan basis. The previous Democratic Senate leadership used tactics to hamstring bills from the republican house. With both chambers in republican hands, more bills are going to get a vote. Host more of the flavor from the hill. Our first call is in langley kentucky. Caller i have been following the news for quite a while. I wonder if you know the answer to this. Why does john boehner not brought up on charges of treason to overthrow the government. Its clear what they are doing. Host what are they doing it . Turn down the sound on your set if you could. Caller you know what they are doing they are trying to bankrupt the country, favoring the millionaires, not passing legislation they should pass. It goes on and on. They have done it enough in the time that president obama has been serving the United States. Host thanks for your call. Caller new jersey. Host go ahead. Caller i am happy that he is making this move. We need to preserve this planet. It is the only one weve got. Host what do you make from the argument from the people in alaska. It is hurting them commercially to drill oil. Caller i think we have enough oil today. I think there will be other industries that would support alaska. Host ok. George is in maryland. He is a republican color. Caller i am a republican. I am a conservative republican. I am also a conservationist. I believe the federal government needs to keep his nose out of state business. There should only be state forest. When you go to a state park, the state park is always better. I am not opposed to its sad if the resources of their keeping people from having jobs, they should be able to access that. The state epa needs to keep a tight rein on that. There should be a lot of oversight and regulation. Business and industry, they dont always choose to do the right thing. People feel guilt only when they are caught sometimes. They are only sorry when they are found out. I think im all for them utilizing the resources here in. Host obama uses executive power again. This time in alaska. You can see the map here. This is the northeast corner. The president made his move yesterday. And is subject to congressional approval. It gets immediate protections in the meantime while the president made his announcement. And is in maine. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I cant see why there isnt anything president obama wont do to hurt us. Its just like the reverend wright home said. I just wish he would say things differently. Host some other facebook comments. Richard is on the line from connecticut. Caller thank you for your program. How can i trust the president when he came out and said you can keep your doctors. There wont be any copays. The premiums will not go up. He said that we dont have to have any problems with russia because that his past history. In ben ghazi he said there wasnt a terrorist situation. In yemen when he allowed the terrorists to leave from gitmo. They are in yemen. We are having problems with yemen. How can i take this person seriously . He talks about transparency. This administration is not transparent at all. Host i just want to jump in can you tie it back into the question . Caller i cant believe anything he says. Host and is in iowa for independent. Caller i just need to mention only one of those candidates mentioned the 10th amendment. Its time for the 10th amendment. Host a New York Times lease on this. They point out that environmentalists cheered the proposal. That these goes on to point out that the administration will release policies on conservation soon. Norman is in new york. Good morning. Caller i just wanted to say that i agree with obama about fracking. A lot of companies go down to south america mexico, while canal. While canal. Let us make a silver mine or a gold mine and you will be rich and have jobs. After they asked like the gold mines and the silver mines, they leave the water polluted and the land polluted in the air polluted. They walk away from everything. The people are worse off than before. The same thing will happen here in alaska if they allow fracking. Host this is the front page of the alaska dispatch. This is bill walker announcing. We have brent on the line from california. Caller i fully agree with the president protecting that area. I was stationed in a remote site up in alaska when the first pipeline was explored. The army corps of engineers had gone through. Even back then, it didnt seem there was a lot of interest protecting the environment like that. That wasnt the idea. The idea was just finding oil. Consequently, they did put in the first alaskan pipeline, you could see where there were leaks and erosion. That is a very sensitive area. There is a very delicate balance. The president protecting that area especially in canada, that is a very wise decision. Host pete is calling from michigan. Caller i am just wondering why cspan doesnt get rid of the labels. The labels of calling in, democrat republican. There are progressives and all of these other wins. I think we get rid of all the labels. Labels sort of partisan competition with a common cause for making universal communities. Host anything to say about the oil drilling story . Caller i think we ought to reserve it. I go along totally with obama on this. It sounds to me like we are saying there is something we can get for us now and we dont think of the future. I think we ought to hold off. We need to get a better hold of renewable energies. Oil tends to pollute. We can have it just as a reserve. If a crisis comes, you can always get congress to act. We can wait until we need it anymore critical time. Host thank you. We will do this for about 15 more minutes. Some of this goes under immediate protections. This is a request for congress to make the change. We have one reporter on earlier saying it is dead on arrival. We are hearing lots of harsh reaction from people on the hill, especially the people from alaska. Joseph is in new york. Caller i have two things to say. We stole all the oil from all the other countries. When we run out of oil, we should use ours. Thats what i believe. Host thank you for calling. There is a lot more in the news today. If you are following the story of harry reid, he is having surgery today. You can see the photo of him. He held a press conference about his condition. He was asked for what the future holds for him. He said he is going to be doing fine. This is one of the most of the leads in his personal life. Debbie is calling from lorna. Thank you for waiting. Caller hi. I work with endangered species every day. It amazes me you will hear a shotgun from the hip approach to dealing with these issues. They dont give you statistics or data for what has already been done and what the Oil Companies have done. I am neither for nor against. I am for the animals. Watching what people dont do and what they dont tell you is just like alaska. They are going to be out jobs. They will tell you what is working and what is not. I think winning big brother takes too big of a role is when we get into trouble. We cant even see that out of the white house. This is alaskas problem. Let them bring all the data. I dont even see that happening out of the white house. When it comes to endangered species in environments, lets see the statistics that already have been done. Host james is in georgia. We lost him. Lets try ashley in a houston. Go ahead. Caller i agree with the president. Youve got to preserve something somewhere. You cant drill everywhere. I was agreeing that some things have to be preserved. They will drill in your backyard if they thought they could do it. I agree with the president completely on this one. I thank you. Host thank you for calling. More of the news on this monday morning. This is one of the stories in the Washington Times. This is a shot of the president and the indian Prime Minister sitting for tea. The president is on his way home and will stop in saudi arabia to pay his respects to the late king there. This is the lost a wall street journal of greece. That is in the wall street journal this morning. Christian is hanging on from arkansas. Though ahead. Caller thank you. I applaud the president s decision. The fact is the senators and representatives here notes the or the majority of alaska and. The majority of alaskans dont vote. Alaska has benefited from the drilling and the oil production. The people that have made out have been the corporations. The majority of alaskans were depending on these jobs. That would be fine. The majority of the jobs are not in filled by alaskans and other Renewable Resources could be utilized. We have a National Petroleum reserve in this state. Why are we going after a National Wildlife reserve. Host larry is in boston. Good warning. Caller a woman just called and said that this was alaskas problem. She said that is what her teaches her students. I would like to contradict that. This is americas problem. This is a problem that we should all be concerned with. We are destroying our national resources. This is something that we need to pay close attention close attention to. Conservatives want to keep pushing this oil agenda when we should be looking to the future with more Natural Sources of energy. Host the Washington Times reminds us of a senate vote from last week. The degree differs on human blame. They were put on record by an amendment. Pope francis is featured. There is a picture of the pope. The popes visit will give him a stage to push for Climate Change policies. Troy is calling from new york. Hi, troy. Caller ive got some information. What is going to happen when they put these oil rigs in alaska . They are losing money right now. They have to make at least 100 a barrel to make break even. There are oil rigs that are not in use right now. Saudi arabia said that they are going to start investing money all over the world. They are going to go bankrupt. While ive got you on the phone stop investing in coal. Leave the oil alone. Invest in wind. Host the benefits to the nation are obvious. Caller i am out of alaska. If youve never visited alaska, is hard to explain how fast it is. The space to these few rigs are taking up is just miniscule. It would be Something Like a dime on a pool table or something. That is probably exaggerated. They only drill in the winter because the epa is so hard. Its easier to drill in the wintertime. They dont drill in the summer. You wouldnt be able to walk out on the tundra and see a drill site. Host are you still there . I think we lost that call from alaska. Mike is calling from montana. Caller how is it going . Host what you think about all this . Caller we have enough oil according to the scientists. We dont need to be looking anymore. We chased oil into the middle east for halliburton and dick cheney. We have isis from it. We dont need any more oil. We dont need to mess of our environment for it. What we need to do for jobs is rebuild our infrastructure which would create more jobs. I am an engineer and 20 years ago, 60 of our bridges were under standard. Why do we need to chase oil into areas we dont need to be chasing. We have enough oil. We need to be moving our energies into alternative sources. Host those are the words from mike. He may be forced to accelerate oil and gas permitting on state land to compensate or the federal restrictions. That is in the Washington Post this morning. The New York Times has a piece a