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Going in a helicopter over this with the epa administrator right after it happened. Stunning. Now. The company has come in and, you know cleaned up most of what was there. We still cant fish. People along the river cant use their property their back yards. This is going to take tens of years to clean up. You can go to the other side of the state where we have in detroit mounds of whats called Petroleum Coke from tar sands that was sitting on the detroit river, now not only blowing into the river, blowing into the school neighborhoods, churches of the southwest side of detroit. Now, thanks to m...

Like the members of congress that have spoken today i long advocated for modernizing our relationship with cuba. I led a bipartisan bill to make it easier to finance exports to cuba. The bill is led in the house by ranking agriculture chair colin peterson. My home state of minnesota digs into exports while we export to cuba in 2o 13. With the president s action alone, the Minnesota Department of agriculture estimates that exports could increase by another 20 million. Increasing agriculture exports and promoting normal commercial relations with cuba will ensure cubans can provide for their fami...

Called baker, montana. Its not just about canadian oil coming to the u. S. Its about north dakota and montana oil. Second, as i was traveling one day to a rural coop in glasgow, montana, there in my pickup, i show up in my jeans and my jacket, they told me that the Keystone Pipelines approved electric rates for their coop payers folk who is dont have a lot of money, thousands of montana families in eastern part of our state their rates will remain flat for the next ten years because of the Keystone Pipeline . Why is that . Because they will supply electricity to the pump stations in the pipeli...

And i look forward to looking to working with senator cantwell. Our geographic neighbors so to speak with so much shared interests between the states of washington and alaska. We have a lot that we can be working on collaboratively. To i have a very strong collaborative relationship with my colleague from oregon senator wyden, from the committee. I think we set a good tone for this committee, in terms of how we build things and how we work to advance initiatives throughout the process. Having said that, as we embark on their First Business meeting, our markup, i think it is a little unfortunat...

Example here where opt out notices are mailed. Those opt out notices are required by state law and required timeframe of two 2 months out of launch. We cant shave time there. Thats a fixed activity. But as we come through the Program Design phase and think more about how quickly we can act, those are some of the areas where i think we might be able to shave some time if we are given the latitude to do that. Supervisor john avalos when it comes to assessing the competing rate, the pg e rate that we are trying to come under or come at for the light green option, thats very predictable, right, we...