senator boozman. yes, i want to recognize senator boxer. >> on behalf of senator sanders thank you, mr. chairman. he really wanted to be here, but he's at a budget committee hearing. he wrote a very interesting opening statement where he quotes the department of defense saying climate change is an immediate risk to u.s. national security. i ask to put that entire statement -- >> without objection so order. senator boozman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to follow up on the senator from west virginia and also from south dakota in regard to the baselines. i really feel like the 2012 baseline is arbitrary. you've got this complicated formula to determine the targets that the states must meet. in arkansas because we have a new coal power plant that was online -- not online until december 2012, it really doesn't accurately represent where arkansas's at. we're going to be in a situation where we're six or seven on the list. in reality because of the formula of the scripts we're two or three. the bottom

boozman: thank you mr. president. mr.president, on march 2 1 2007 deborah johnson of sherwood arkansas answered a call no parent should ever receive. her son 23-year-old army private jeremy andrew johnson was dead from a drug overdose. private johnson was diagnosed with protest traumatic stress disorder after his deployment to afghanistan. deborah said she thought he was getting the proper care he needed during the transition out of the military, but when she received a goodbye text from him, she knew he needed more help. the family made his commanders aware of his suicidal thoughts and private johnson was put on suicide watch. three days later deborah answered that horrible call. she shared her family's story with me in hopes that other families can be spared the anguish of losing a loved one to mental illness. deborah understands that congress has an opportunity to deliver help to veterans, living with mental illness and prevent suicides by passing pac the clay hunt suicide prevention for american veterans act. this leg

let me thank both senator boozman and senator cap-itto who have been very accommodating to their time to accommodate the others. thank you very much. senator carper. >> thanks, mr. chairman. miss mccabe welcome. it's very nice to see you and thanks for joining us today. thanks for your service. you have a tough job. we appreciate your willingness to do it. for those of us who live in states, and there's actually millions of people in states that are already seeing the impacts of climate change. epa's proposal to regulate our nation's largest sources of carbon pollution has been frankly a long time coming. however, with any substantial regulatory action there's always room for improvement. and while we strive for perfection, we know it's hard to achieve. i look forward to working with our colleagues on this committee in the senate and the house and working with the administration and other stakeholders trying to make sure that this regulation as good as it is becomes even better before it's finalized. one such issue i hope to address is inequities in the state targets. had some discuss

. >> senator boozman. >> very quickly mr. chairman following up on senator rounds the committee worked really hard with senator boxer and senator and house leadership in trying to identify things to cut the red tape. the problem is some of those things don't come under her jurisdiction so we can cut red tape here. what i would really like for you all to do and your comrades is really, but the things you mentioned the problems that we have some times and then also other federal problems that aren't under the jurisdiction of the committee so that we can work with this committee's in the next reauthorization which hopefully will happen very soon. then again make sure that we do that. we have talked about the challenges of getting more money into the system. this is a way to save tremendous amounts of money. so we have examples. i've got to go visit the bridge that fell down and no walking. that thing was rebuilt in a year. that would be a 10 or 20 year project probably but the agencies work together and we didn't have a gotcha a

boozman: thank you mr. president. on the same week the president released his national security strategy a pilot in the rural jordanian air force was burned alive by radical islamists. while the administration was putting the finishing touches on this document, the propaganda weighing of isis was beginning too. the jihadist group was pumping out a video of this latest act of horrific brutality. isis represents one of the biggest threats to peace of an already unstable region. these terrorists are committed to establishing a new caliphate ruled by sharia law where all would be forced to convert or die. they're committed to destroying all who stand in their way if anyone embodies radical islam it is isis. given the severity of the threat posed by isis not to mention the continuing efforts of al qaeda to strike again, you would think a plan to take on radical islam would be a focal part of the president's national security plan. it's not. in fact, there is no mention of radical islam in the document at all. what is menti

so as chairman of the committee i want to thank senator mccain senator blumenthal, senator boozman and senator burr for their tremendous effort. i want to thank the members of the committee who unanimously passed this out including the chair who is presiding today at the first meeting of the veterans administration committee. i encourage every member of the senate to vote for the clay hunt suicide prevention bill and make an investment in the future for the lives we'll save of veterans who return with mental health problems and i yield back my time and suggest the absence of a quorum. i withdraw that request. mr. blumenthal: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you. i ask that the quorum call be lifted. is there one in effect now? the presiding officer: the senator is not in a quorum call. mr. blumenthal: thank you. mr. president, i want to begin by thanking chairman isakson for giving the clay hunt suicide prevention for american veterans act the priority that it needs and deserves, and i know that the presiding officer as a veteran