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after leaving the governorship of alaska and get away from like some of the like petty score settling about like alaska bloggers in alaska and stuff like that about a little of those who are in or around like the staff in this guy bailey it's not enough it's not focus enough on bail and but if you have a version like we do where it's a p.d.f. it's searchable it's pretty entertaining yeah i mean who's really going to write a book about pail and then i'll make paying land right out of me do you even have to worry about here i mean the great thing about the the book as it stands now is it just has these like long block quotes of e-mails from her just like all the exchanges and everything else and i would be extremely ticked off if i were her because i mean the guy had to make the rest of us happy. but it is access to a personal e-mails too because he had the password and username too or like hotmail she was to do a lot of business i got to wrap it advantage thank you so much for joining us and everybody go check out the palin links now before we go it's time for excite to today republican congressman john. has crushed the h

alaska is out of whack. it's too much. let's look at the facts as they relate to alaska. there are currently 153 communities receiving subsidies according to usdot. the department of transportation said, i mentioned, 44 communities in alaska for hawaii and puerto rico. the critics say that alaska has almost as many half as many e.a.s. communities as the rest of the united states. okay. that may be true. we'll grant you that. but what they ignore -- what they forget is how we compare in alaska in -- in conjunction with the rest of the country. so -- i know people get tired of looking at these maps about how big we are. mr. president, the fact of the matter is we don't make this up. we don't just super impose alaska on the happen of the country and say, isn't this a nice shape. we put it on the map of the lower 48 states to show the size. we are not that little state that's down in the water next to hawaii or off of california, despite some of the maps that are stilt out there on peep -- despite some of the maps out there on people's walls. we are this big. we are this big. we've got over 47,000 miles of shoreline as you go all the way out here and come all the way up 47,000 miles. more than all of the other 49 states combi

alaska natives, for american indians, alaska natives or programs that target hispanics, run by hispanics, tend to produce better outcomes than programs that are not sensitive to those issues. so we use sort of a bias force paradigm. there are programs that are not run by the specific population group, but have modules that are targeted to the unique needs of that group. so they do not as well as the programs that are run by the specific population group, but they do better than programs that are general. so when we look at the outcomes of, say, a woman in a male program or a general program that doesn't have any gender specific programming, she doesn't do as well as the program that is targeted to, for women, run for women or a program that has gender-specific issues. the same thing for american indian, alaska natives, hispanics, african americans, and the same thing would be applicable to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender. the key issue is of cultural competence and that is the thing that if indeed you know you've got a diverse population, you want your practitioners, your facilitators to be aware of some of these unique issues. and moving prior to the person even getting a problem as we address again the whole issue of prevention, are there some idiosyncrasies, going back to that word, of special populations that folks need to be aware of, you know, in terms of the viewership, in terms of what the types of programs that they get their messaging from. even the whole notion, as you were mentioning, john, of using the individuals that are in recovery to go out in the community, right? i think you were mentioning that. we have an amends part of our program where people make amends. that can commonly look like distributing bags of lunches to homeless populations. and that's when preventi

alaska legacy oilfields are past their peak production. alaska ships over 600,000 barrels of oil a day through the pipeline. alaskas oil patch is not dry. from it. it contributes 11% of national oil production. it has supplied oil to the nation for more than 40 years. there is much more available if the federal government will allow us to access it. alaska and the gulf states have been blocked from developing america's oil by misguided federal policies, much of it aided by misinformation and political agendas. with the middle east and north africa a powder keg, and with real americans soon having to pay $5 a gallon at the pump, the federal government's policy will soon be revealed as our nation's achilles' heel -- much like what happened during the opec oil embargo in the 1970's. the president made it clear he wants to increase taxes on domestic oil production. we know anything that you tax more, you get less of. less domestic production is the functional equivalent of creating more dependents on an unstable foreign oil stream. the federal regulatory side is not better. the department of interior and the epa appear to be driving u.s. for

alaska air conditioning. cold system dropping out of the gulf of alaska. it will bring chances of off-and-on rain. lowering snow levels, especially by thursday and friday, maybe as low as 2,000 feet around the bare area. tonight, patchy cloud. fog showing up along the coastline as the sea breeze picks back up. temperatures dropping a few degrees tomorrow. most noticeable for places along the coast. san jose still to the mid to upper 60s. livermore, some of the warmer temperatures for tomorrow. 50s and 60s around the peninsula. east bay, highs in the low 60s, thanks to the winds picking up out of the southwest for the day. for the north bay we should see highs mainly in the mid-60s. your seven-day forecast looks a lot more like february. we'll get rain at times for monday. the wettest system of the bunch, tuesday night into wednesday, maybe some thunder as well. temperatures cooling as we head toward next weekend. more sierra snow. i think bay area hilltop snow could be possible by friday. >> little skiing? >> possibly. thd ches-country, cohed cpw oe thbottosk. isf skis. >>> we'll be right back. >>

alaska, a state i love and enjoy. there's a great article that appeared in an alaska newspaper and it's called "self-sustainability: is it time for alaska to grow up?" among other things that i didn't rknow about is that while the nation faces a $14 trillion fiscal hole and congress is looking to tighten its belt, its inevidentable that alaska is going to feel some of the pain. but the interesting thing is that the state of alaska, he goes to state, "had $12 billion in reserves and another $40 billion banked away in the permanent fund o. "wow. i don't know of another state in the union that is that well-o. he goes on to say, it's written by andrew helkrow, "we alaskans fancy ourselves as rugged individualists who are quick to askew the long arm of the federal government and big brother. however, our actions sometimes don't match our rhetoric." and what about the amendment -- he goes on -- "to eliminate essential air service subsidies in small, rural communities throughout alaska? currently, the fed subsidizes air service to more than 44 communities to the tune of $12 million per year." and the author goes on to say, "is it really the fe

alaska producing oil in alaska than sending our money to venezuela, nigeria, saudi arabia, creating jobs there? it would both be -- it would be an additional supply source that helps bring down the cost and it would create american jobs and it would keep that american wealth at home. it would keep that wealth at home. 60% of the oil we -- we're putting in -- using to buy -- make gasoline that goes into our automobiles is imported. that wealth is going abroad. it's not good. so we need to take actions that will produce american energy at the lowest possible cost. yes, it needs to be safely produced of we saw the accident on the gulf coast. i've been on those beaches, and thank goodness they're cleaned up now, but it was a mess. everybody was worried and it hammered our gulf coast tourism industry and fishing industry for months. although fishing is coming back now and i think tourism will be back. but it was an unnecessary disaster and it can be prevented and steps have been taken to ensure it doesn't happen again. we can do that. i like the boon pickens plan. we discovered how to drill down into the ground and then turn that drill bit horizontal and go through shale rock to produce huge amounts of natural gas. natural gas burns about 40% cleaner than gasoline or diesel fuel. it produces -- it can produce energy, it even can be converted and can be used for vehicles. so it's all american. it's energy produced here in america. and we have to have americans to drill the wells, to move the natural gas, to process it and do all the things that goes into that. instead of importing oil from venezuela. this makes sense. this is not a theoretical vision for an energy program. the energy department has now projected that we have maybe 200 years of natural -- natural gas. twice what we projected just a few years ago because of new, improved way to drill. we should be doing more of that. it creates american jobs. it would provide a new energy source that hasn't been there before. it could create -- be used for electricity. natural gas prices are low. pretty spicingly low -- surprisingly low, actually compared to other sources of energy. we can use it in vehicles, particularly larger trucks, city buss, and vehicles like that, but it would take an infrastructure capabilities to be able to travel around the country and be able to get it for -- for our truckers. but the city buses, the garbage trucks and things like that can be done all over america, now we reduce our imports, create jobs here, create wealth in america, not be sending it abroad. now, i know the president has said, and we're going to have to confront this and talk about it. he has said we're going to create dream jobs through solar and biofuels and that sort of thing. and there's been some hope for that, but, really, it hasn't gone nearly as well in the united states as we had hoped. one big plant that had millions of dollars in massachusetts put into it has gone bankrupt. china is undercutting prices and producing prices -- things that were supposed to be american jobs is not going so well, frankly. it's just not going so well. and after -- have to give this cautionary tale. no nation in the world committed more to dream jobs and this idea that you could create jobs in the energy sector by doing more windmills and solar and biofuels than spain. and spain has just had a terrible time. spain had the highest unemployment rate in europe. they drove up the price of their energy, it adversely impacted the whole economy of spain. they created some jobs in some of these new programs, but one study said they lost i think 2 1/2 jobs for every one created. now, i wish this weren't so. i wish we could just have a plan to invest in solar panels or corn ethanol and it would just create lots of jobs and create energy at a competitive cost, but it produces these energy sources at much higher costs. someone has to pay for them. and businesses have to pay are for them. and they can't hire as many people. and they can't make widgets in alabama and sell them abroad if the energy price goes up 20%, 30,%, 40%, 50% as a result of these policies. you can't do it. there is no free lunch here. i -- i think we need to see what happened in -- in spain. i had a group of paperworkers, union members yesterday. i knew a couple of them from the past at pulp and paper mills where i grew up in the country in alabama, and they are worried that the enviromental protection agency's regulations, this boiler mack, among others, there are lots of them, but the one hammering the boiler industry is the boiler mack, they convert waste wood product at the paper mills, they burn it and create steam and energy that reduces their demand on the grid from the power companies that create it through coal and natural gas. so it's a renewable source, but they're requiring now millions of dollars into new boilers. and i was at a saw mill in alabama in a rural area, good people. they export half of what they produce in -- in this lumber. they have a real fine lumber quality that they export, and -- and they say this boiler mack can hammer them so hard that they may not be able to continue in business and it -- what would that do? all the people that go out in the woods and harvest timber, those who bring it in, those who work at the mill to saw it and plain it and produce it are damaged. you'd have less competition within the united states for wood products and less production of it so price might go up. -- price might go up for the consumer. so this is not a good plan. this regulation went too far. it's got to be repealed. but there are a lot of them like that that are driving up costs that could be eliminated at no cost to the government, reduce the number of bureaucrats that are out there enforcing it and allow the industry to be more productive. there's lots of that out there. a regulation that gets passed, sometimes that regulation might be beneficial to a narrow sector, but often it gets applied to 10 times -- 100 times as many companies and businesses that -- that -- that -- that is necessary -- than is necessary or beneficial and they have an extra cost reducing their productivity for no good benefit whatsoever. all wasteful regulations need to be eliminated. the president is finally, i think, understood that. he's made some statement about it. but we need to be sure that it happens and it happens quick because we've got people unemployed today as a direct result of excessive regulation. a lot of people may not realize that our corporate taxes, once japan reduces theirs, as they plan to do, will be the highest corporate tax of any developed nation in the world. this is not a healthy place to be. in the airports, you learn a lot in the airports. a businessman started talking to me about this. we got on the plane, i had an opened seat, i asked him to sit by me. very impressive. c.e.o. for a north american division of an international corporation. they were going to produce a product in their company that would be sold in the united states and worldwide that would be energy efficient, a chemical product that they wanted to produce. it would be about 200 employees. this is the story he told me. and he was so frustrated about it this is a very intelligent, sophisticated man. he said they had the best price. these big companies, if you're going to make a new product, they ask every plant in their system who can build it the best, the cheapest? and the one that wins the competition gets the process. he had won the competition. 200 new jobs to the alabama plant until he got a call from the european headquarters. they said, you haven't considered the taxes. well, what about that said, oh, you've got to consider taxes, that's the cost of doing business. you know, you've got to refigure it and do the taxes. and the united states lost. it's going to be -- this process is going to be built in another country that has lower taxes. the idea that you can raise taxes on corporations and not have an impact on the competitiveness of those corporations is ultimately false, of course. we just have to take a minute or two to think about it. of course that's damaging to our competitiveness. and we compete worldwide. not just between -- within the united states, but produces -- producers can move to mexico, they can move to canada. by the way, our corporate tax rate is 34%. canada is talking about -- they've already reduced theirs to the low 20's. they're talking about going to 16.5%. i guess my colleague from alaska saw -- this plant wants to choose between building a plant in alaska and building one in canada, building one in new york or building one in canada. and they add up the numbers and you have to pay substantially more tax in the united states. that could be the tipping point to make the difference in where that plant is built. so it's not that we're trying to help corporations by proposing that the taxes be reduced. it's that we're becoming uncompetitive. you know, ireland's been -- had a financial crisis. their banking system reached a real crisis, but a number of years ago they reduced their corporate tax rate to the lowest in europe and had an economic boon. and this boon didn't have anything to do with the financial crisis. and when the europeans said, we're going to have to bail out your banks -- help you bail out your banks, we want you to raise some revenue. they said, we'll do some taxes among our budget cuts, but we're not going to raise our corporate tax. they refused because

alaska. the chair: pursuant to the order of the house today, the gentleman from alaska, mr. young, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from alaska. mr. young: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the chair: without objection. mr. young: we must explore the environmental resources in a safe and substantial manner. we must allow that exploration work to proceed without bureaucratic impediments. this amendment accomplishes both. this amendment would limit funds in the bill from being used by the environmental appeals board, e.a.p., to validate any permit issued by the environmental protection agency, e.p.a., for activities of the arctic outer continental shelf, o.c.f., the e.a.p. is part of the e.p.a. that -- >> the house is not in order. i at least want to hear what the gentleman -- the speaker pro tempore: the chair: the gentleman will suspend. the committee is not in order. will the members please take their conversations off the floor. the gentleman deserves to be heard. the gentleman from alaska may kin. mr. young: the e.a.p. is part of the e.p.a. that hears civil penalty decisions of the agency. the e.p.a.

alaska native youth. indian youth have the highest rate of suicide among all ethnic groups in the united states. over all in alaska, we have the second highest rate of suicide in the united states, twice the national average. on the north slope and in western alaska, the suicide rate is five times the national average. we are not alone. while the indian pressure the alaska indian held has historically suffered from high rates of youth suicide and the other indian health services region, the aberdeen in the tucson indian health service regions are not far behind. each lost native life is a tragedy in its own right, and we must do all that we can to prevent every incident of suicide. and we will not be allowed in our quest to bring these unacceptable rates of indian youth suicide under control. on paper 28th, the aspen institute will announce the launch of its new center for native american youth under the leadership of our friend, senator byron dorgan. this new program is the centerpiece of senator dorgan's legacy to the well being of our native people. it will be a center that is committed to improving the overall health, the safety and well being of native youth and notably, the prevention of youth suicide. so i look forward to working with the

alaska airlines cites 60 gallons of kerosene every time they land coming down from alaska their high altitude approaches. they glide in. there's a tremendous savings, savings in fuel, emissions, noise, the noise footprint of people doing optimized profile descents, we can show you what goes on in louisville, kentucky, it's dramatic. so as we roll these out, it's not just a schematic anymore. these are real life operations and we deploy them as people get equipped and we get the procedures and training in place and as someone mentioned the momentum and pace is there and it will continue to accelerate. >> thank you very much. i look forward to the time we can talk more directly and thank the chairman and yield back. >> mr. kapuano. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. administrator. i think you're doing the right job, right priorities and right man for this job. i want to talk specifically about what you can do. correct me if i'm wrong, but my math indicates that if you'll roll back to 2008 levels from today's operating levels it's a little over a billion dollars worth of cuts, i

alaska native affairs subcommittee, mr. young of alaska. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. young: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: so ordered. the gentleman is recognized for how much time? the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. young: i can't help -- i have a prepared statement. i can't help but answer the gentleman from massachusetts who never supported any time, any time -- has never supported any way any energy development in this country. he was against nuclear power many years ago, still is against it. he was against solar power, and he has since wind power in his state and is against, frankly, any fossil fuel development and depending on the so-called make believe wind power, make believe solar power, in the meantime we're buying oil from overseas and you know that. and the e.p.a., very frankly, is part of the problem. i am the chairman now of the american indian alaska natives and their lands can't be developed because of e.p.a. the navajo nation had a coal plant. they had the coal. they had the financing. and the obama administration says no, you can't do that through the e.p.a., through the fish and wildlife, etc., and they lost the financing for a coal project because they don't believe in coal. and we have a trust relationship, the american indians. and however, the agencies in the government say you can't do it, you stay right where you are is wrong. they have the highest potential of energy of any landmass in this nation and they're precluded from development because of regulations. the e.p.a. just came out, i mentioned it earlier today, they just come out with a new concept of a regulation for dairies. this is your government, the obama -- and by the way, thank god for george bush. they're still blaming him for everything. but if i remember that horizon was done under the obama administration. if i remember correctly, it was his management ag

folks in alaska and hawaii paying a lot more than that. $3.66 in alaska, $3.75 in hawaii. across the heartland, about $3.29 in the nation's midsection. in the lower 48, drivers in california are complaining the loudest and at $3.57 a gallon on average they have a right to. >> if you're just going to work and back alone you're getting hammered with these gas prices. it's killing people. >> i pray for democracy in the middle east and north african. >> reporter: while yesterday's average was $3.19 a gallon, it's well above that in many big cities. washington, d.c., $3.29. new york, $3.39. chicago, $3.38. seattle, $3.48. san francisco and los angeles close to $3.60 and likely to move higher. >> i'm sharon epperson. >> reporter: she says the libyan unrest has created a fear premium in the oil markets. >> $100 a barrel, the highest price we've seen in 2 1/2 years, is the concern the protest we're seeing will go to saudi arabia. >> reporter: that fear premium is pushing pump prices higher. in boulder, colorado, the eco baby diaper cleaning service drives 300 miles each day. >> fi

paso, texas, than in anchorage, alaska, and snow is forecast in houston for only the second time in a decade. ryan owens, abc news, oklahoma. >> colder in texas than alaskad morning, rob and mike. south texas deals with the icy weather, for once the northeast is looking dry. a high pressure system sitting in control, although it is chilly outdoors. we have sunshine in place. that next winter storm is on the way. it's already brewing in the gulf of mexico where it's bringing rain to the southeast, in and around new orleans, back into atlanta, while the cold air has basically surged in across texas and louisiana. as this moisture moves in, it's coming in as an icy mix rather than any rain. even accumulating snow on the backside of this in houston, maybe upwards of an inch into the morning hours. brownsville, very rare for them to even see accumulating ice, that may be the case into the morning hours. the roads will be an absolute mess. the good news, as we head into the weekend for the big game in arlington, looks like it should be warming up and dry. as for the north east, it gets a bit tricky. the storm is tracking up the east coast, mainly rain across t

alaska gov. sarah palin followed by national historian richard norman smith. >> on television, on radio, and all line. c-span, bringing public affairs to you, created by cable. it is washington your way. >> former alaska gov. sarah palin spoke at a tribute to ronald reagan commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth. she touched on the former president's 1964 speech called "a time for choosing." she also talked about his political philosophy, the size of government, and u.s. energy and economic policy. this event was hosted by the young america's foundation in santa barbara. it is about 30 minutes. >> thank you so much. thank yo thank you so very much. what an honor. thank you. have a seat. i appreciate the opportunity. thank you so much. thank you for allowing me this honor to share with you have the celebration of ronald reagan's centennial. i can tell you how humbling it is to get to be here. it was simply overwhelming and inspiring. to get to be there riding horses. [applause] riding horses on trails that ronald reagan had cleared. i have to lead men, we are more coortable writing snow machines that horses. asd bristol how her experience went. it makes you stronger. it was overwhelming. to kn

alaska rise? >> i have an amendment printed in the record. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment 532 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. young of alaska. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. young: this will strike the language in h.r. 1 that prohibits the funding for native hawaiian education program. the amendment will not add money to the education budget but allow the department to fund those programs as they see a need and i yield at this time to the good lady from hawaii for a very short statement. are you ready? i yield to the lady. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. i ask unanimous consent to extend my remarks. the chair: without objection, so ordered. ms. hirono: i rise in support of the amendment from my colleague don young to support native hawaiian education and it makes these worthwhile programs eligible for these education funds. and i urge my colleagues to support this amendment. i yield back. mr. young: i urge my colleagues to vote yes on the amendment. the chair: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlelady from connecticut rise? ms. delauro: i seek time in opposition. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. ms. delauro: i move to strike the last word. wharme, as i understand the current definition -- mr. chairman, as i understand the current definition of an earmark, the two programs the gentleman is seeking to restore are earmarks, alaska native education and native hawaiian education programs are worthy programs. there's no doubt in my mind. and i believe the overall purpose of both is to ensure that the unique educational needs of alaska and hawaii natives are met. and clearly, we all want the same for our constituents. but i think we have to be clear about what these programs are. they are earmarks. with a price tag that approaches $70 million. now, this majority has been very proud of their policy to ban all earmarks. and if i might, i would like to just read from the comments of the chair of the appropriations committee, mr. rogers, in his summary, fiscal year 2011 continuing resolution. and i quote, the continuing resolution include nose earmark funding and eliminates all previous earmark funding from the fiscal year 2010 savings the taxpayers approximate $8.5 billion. in addition, the bill includes language specifically negating any and all earmarks as defined by house rules. that is why -- and again, as i say,

alaska natural gas. being part of the mix within the projections through 2035; is that correct? >> yes that's correct. that tends to depends heavily on the alaska natural gas pipeline who's assessment have increased and have come down through 2035. that's not the protection; correct. >> i wanted to confirm that. let me ask more generally than in terms of your assessments as they might relate to the arctic as a whole. not necessarily just to the u.s. arctic and what may not develop offshore there. as you know we've got the bp deal at play in the arctic. do you include these prospects in your assessment even the bp deal or just anything in the arctic? i think we recognize the potential for the reserves. do we anticipate in your forecast seeing anything coming out of the arctic? >> i'd have to go back and look at the specific results that we currently have. but areas that are open for release sale would enter into our projections at some point. there has been changing over time in terms of what areas at least around alaska have been open. and i think that's even recently changed. so i'd like to go back and see exactly. we do assess those areas, for sure. >> let me ask. this is probably a question for the whole panel here. we talk a lot about what the u.s. and worldwide consumes. the commentary is the u.s. consumes a quarter of the world's oil, but we only had 3% of the worlds reserves. i have some issues with how this is stated. first of all, the 3% figure, as i understand it, only speaks to proven reserves. which is to say they've been drilled. it doesn't reflect any of the unexplored areas whether we are talking arctic, offshore, atlantic, pacific coast, eastern gulf, much of the deepwater. i guess the question to you all would be first how important is it to actually know what our oil reserves amount to and then secondly if we here in the united states were to prove up our reserves not use them for production, but provide for that assessment, and we were to do so within the five to ten year horizon h

when you get from alaska to florida, don't you have to pass massachusetts, new jersey and north carolina because the three of us think it's a terrible idea. mr. moran: i said from alaska to florida. reclaiming my time. the point is noaa's objective is to sustain the fish supply so these fishermen will continue to have jobs, not just now but in the future and for their children and grandchildren. that's noaa's objective and why i think we should reject the amendment. thank you. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. all time has expired. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from north carolina. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. mr. jones: mr. speaker, i would like to request a recorded vote. the chair: a recorded vote is requested. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the amendment from north carolina will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have an amendment at the desk, number 47. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment 47 printed in the congressio

alaska. $3 billion later, the epa has refused to allow them to move outward in the announced last week or stopping. this wasn't the alaska wilderness area. this is an area legally open for restoration in which the environmentalist that the government in environments outside the government deliberately conspired to stop and the company and creating american oil and american gas in the united states in a way which we can only be helpful to the saudis and the arabian and i for one entire to say we had to crippler companies on behalf of people overseas. you don't see any losses over there because i don't frankly allow it. you're the situation where every time we stop american come with strength and our enemies than we can or an economy and this is a perfect case study. [applause] we should also stop the environmental protection agency's efforts to cripple the development of gas admin shell. we have technology that lets us go down and doesn't feed, reach out as much as four miles horizontally. we cannot produce commercially available natural gas from shale. we have an 1100 year supply. in the answer is you don't know what happen and therefore your epa is going to protect you from the possibilities of 328 years from now, something bad might happen. let me tell you, something that is happening this morning with other people can't find a job because the government is killing the industry. [applause] we need to develop the site as clean coal pilot projects to prove the concept that we can use coal because we have more cool than saudi arabia has energy and soil and it is utterly, totally foolish to say the united states is not going to aggressively develop clean coal. the department of energy promised in 2003 they would have a plan to buy 2008. the event to need it to death and now hope to have won by 2016 that the current correction, the chinese will build, patented and licensed technologies worldwide faster than our bureaucracy in washington could daguerreotype to issue the permit to try. it is fundamentally wrong and we should cut through the red tape and we should maximize the ability of burn electricity industry and are coal industry develop new plans. clap knock them for example, the obama administration a few weeks ago reversed a permit that had been given for homeland in west virginia because the new epa bureaucrats decide if they were wrong. had you in best buy site you create jobs? had even a sense of energy production but nevertheless antibusiness bureaucrat could in fact take away every single thing you've done? so they had to reverse the decision to go back to keeping their word and create energy for the rest of us. they should streamline the nuclear regulatory us to go enable us to build power plants. there is something fundamentally wrong. [applause] i received my environmental friends, if you really wanted to get carbon out of the atmosphere of a enough from france it would take 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide. they would pay that is not the right doors. there is never a rates pollution if it is aleutian because then the economy would grow, free enterprise at work and that would be wrong. so there was one of technology that doesn't exist or could exist sunday if only your patient long enough in the meantime ride a bicycle to prove you're a peach tree because they won't permit you to do anything else. very two things at nuclear power. one is we should dramatically coetzer and streamline the regulatory process. but to come as a whole new generation of nuclear power plants that are very, very if that should not come under the regulatory design for huge, giant, multibillion-dollar plan. we can go to much more nuclear power and have a very big job creation technology. [applause] we should also insist on flex feel cars to want to say to some of my friends that i think are confused about the issue, frankly. the person a first-come intention of the former or the cia covers this should be seen as a national security issue. purcell went to a flex fuel car model years ago. the companies by the a will testify they don't know how to do it are building the cars in brazil. they said okay, we'll learn how to do it. it cost us than putting on a seatbelt. and the fact is it allows the consumer to do it. it's not about dictating what you want to do. it's about giving a range of choices that what you want to do. brazil today is totally energy independent by a combination of offshore discovery, flexeril cars in the use of sugar-based ethanol. and they don't pay a penny to saudi arabia. they don't pay a penny to iran or iraq or venezuela. [applause] we had to be clear about this. let the consumers have the opportunity to choose what they want to do in most of them can be economically rational. it's a step towards us getting away from relying on foreign fuels. finally, i do think because i'm a futurist and i believe in the future like ronald reagan. i believe in investing in developing it to elegies if the investments are made private sector without picking winners and losers solar matters, when matters, but the truth is the next 20 years about what will will matter the most is oil, gas, coal and nuclear because they will send only statistically win the bulk of the supply. each move forward on every front, not at the most successful friends fluid around for a better future that may or may not come faster enough. in order to have an american energy policy, we need to replace the environmental protection agency is a fundamentally different or mental solution. [applause] for my friends in the media, i want to emphasize her place is not about terri down, destroy, eliminate walkaway, thought to corporate interests and all that baloney. this is a different question. and i wrote a book called contract with outlining the model of the green conservatism. the question is, could you in fact develop a better solution that awash in today's command-and-control, top-down your credit regulatory litigation model? i believe in by the way 75% of the american people believe that relying on science, to allergy, markets and incentives is a better future with better solutions than relying on eurocrats, trial lawyers come the litigation and regulation. can we do it better? i want to replace, not reformed epa because epa is made up of self-selected bureaucrats who are anti-american jobs, anti-american business, anti-state governments, anti-local control and i don't think you can reeducate. you shall love and to go home, get a college job, write memoirs, what i did before the revolution and go on with what we're doing. [applause] i don't think the epa bureaucrats are dedicated to washington top-down bureaucratic control by litigation regulation are going to learn a new dance in a new approach and a new model. what we need is -- and by the way this is doubly true because obama went to use epa control carbon of the camera control all the non-help the economy to match his control over the health economy through obamacare. the two of them together such a fundamental threat to freedom in this country by centralizing power in washington d.c. a new environmental agency i believe would do a better job of protecting both in higher mint in the economy. first of all they are straightforward. localism when possible. i believe local people who live there may have a higher value for their urban. a washington bureaucrat who has never visited their town or been in their state. i believe that state governments can be very reliable partners in that there have to be a cooperative attitude from washington seeking to work with the state, not a dictatorial attitudes against other states the limits of some bureaucrat here based on people. [applause] i believe that incentives, innovators and much bernoulli's can solve environmental problems and improve the environment better than bureaucrats commemorate the leaders litigators. the new entire middle ages he should be communities, states and industries have arteries, not adversaries and solving problems with win-win approaches. the terminal solutions agency should look for new science companies to elegies and new approaches to get our energy, more jobs in a better environment simultaneously. as an american, i reject the idea that you have to choose one or the other. we have never done that in our history. we have always believed we can create a better future and in my mind a better future is a healthy environment and a healthy economy and help the local control within a constitutional system of a limited federal government and we americans fail to do that. [applause] i taught in the second part a 40 years ago. i was director interdisciplinary program wester to college and provide a contract with your agenda to bring conservatives. i believe you can let nature be conservative. you can love the environment and also want american energy and american jobs. i want to close by asking you to do this. how your congressman and your senators. ask them to introduce a genuine american energy plan to cut through all the red tape and all the litigation and get us to energy and jobs this year for american national security for the american economy and better future and urge them to introduce the past an american solution -- environmental solutions he gets here and then we'll give the president a choice. they really want the president veto every good idea that comes up l.? 40 like to work with us in a cooperative bipartisan commonsense, centrist majority supported by the american people, doing the conservatives found things that the american people want in the washington elite. let's let him choose. i don't actually personally believe he will make it next year. but it's a goal. we are all having a good time, why shouldn't he get to have a good time, too quiet thank you all very, very much. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> we also heard from donald trump who said he is serious to considering a run for president. this is the teen -- 15 minute period. [inaudible conversations] mus not >> with apologies to my better looking cousin, what a fantastic teacher it weimar pierre is. [applause] when i served as the solicitor general texas coming at the the great honor of fighting alongside wayne before the u.s. cyprian court, defending the individual right to keep and bear arms and we won a landmark decision, protecting all of her second amendment right. you know, in the wake of the arizona tragedy, a great many in the media mike d'antoni about stability. and it seems stability only applies to those that are not on the left. i don't know how many of you saw "the new york times" wire story this morning about this gathering. breaking news, band of lunatics and rates washington, terrorizes women, children and innocent government eurocrat. and then of course we remember president barack obama on the campaign trail when he quoted sean connery from the untouchables. if they are putting a knife, i'm putting it done. that is the chicago way. and come to think of it, that quote would've very much pleased her last speaker. it's the only time in history president obama never supported second amendment right. i'm very pleased now to upload a surprise speaker not on the gas. to introduce our surprise speaker is our direct to, least of us well and she is here to introduce donald trump. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good afternoon. well, i am pleased to report this is the largest crowd we have ever had an eager anticipation of her next speaker, we have overflow rooms filled, so we'll get to it. whenever we are preparing a speaker with an introducer, we like to find people that have some sort of connection, something in common. in this case, the next speaker and i both have very iconic hair. [laughter] during this time in america, when everyone is desperately trying to find or keep their job, there's a long line of people that sign up for the chance to be fired. next speaker. he quite honestly need no introduction whatsoever. donald trump is one of the most successful businessmen in the world, and multiple best-selling author, creator and star of the one of the popular television franchises company committed fiscal conservative and a proud american in his recent interview with ron ti series we saw this as a believes this great country is worth fighting for and someone who was speaking about tossing his tag in the ring for the 2012 presidential nomination. [applause] of course, that journey must begin with all of you today. please join me in welcoming mr. donald trump. ♪ ♪ >> what a nice group. beautiful. thank you very much. great to be here. >> you are hired. this is beautiful. let me begin by thanking cpac for the opportunity to address so many of you today. it's a wonderful forum and an honor to be here. thank you very much. while i am not at this time a candidate for the presidency, i will decide by june whether or not it will become one. and i will tell you to reason that i'm thinking about it is that the united states has become the whipping post for the rest of the world. the world is treating us without respect. they are not treating us properly. america -- [applause] america today is missing quality leadership in foreign countries have quickly realized this. it is for this reason that the united states is becoming the laughingstock of the world. whether we like it or don't like it, that is what's happening. i do with people from china. i.t. with people from mexico. they cannot believe what they are getting away with. i have said on numerous occasions that countries like china, like india, south korea, mexico and the opec nations view our leaders as weak and in effect give and have repeatedly taken advantage of them to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year when they talk about raising your taxes, they raise the taxes on some of these countries they are taking advantage of the united states. [applause] over the years i participated in the many battles and have really almost come out very very victorious every single time. i've beat many people and companies and have won many wars. i feared and intelligently earned billions of dollars which in a sense was a scorecard to knowledge needs of our abilities. during my lifetime -- a little bit different from what you've been hearing. during my lifetime, i've always been told a person of great accomplishment and achievement cannot become a politician or run for political office because there are too many enemies, both very smart and not so smart strewn along this highway to success. people have been in wars -- and this is were. life is pleasant, but it can be more. people have been in wars, even the most successful leave themselves open to great criticism from the many they have beaten and those that have watched the battles. the fact is, this theory of a very successful person running for office is really tested because most successful people don't want to be scrutinized to refuse to notice what happens. if you see it, that's what happens. and this is why we don't have the kinds of people that we shouldn't have running for office. unfortunately, this is the kind of person that the country needs and they needed now. we don't have time to wait 25 years. this country is in serious trouble and we need it now. [applause] our current president came out of nowhere. in fact, the people who went to school with them never saw them. they don't know who it is. [applause] with more track record and i will tell you it's got nothing to criticize. wonderful guy. it's a nice man, but there is no record. he didn't go on wars, battles, didn't beat this one, have enemies all over the place. nobody knew who the he was. even our president. he is our president. but he is our president. "businessweek" magazine, which is now bloomberg business week said said in a vote of donald trump was the world's most competitive business president. i don't know if that's true or not, but with no case be number two on warren buffett be number three, steve ford stated that i was one of the greatest entrepreneurs in the history of free trade. that's an important one because we don't have free trade. we don't have free trade. we don't have fair trade and i am a fair trade reliever. i love open market, but not when china is manipulating currency. not when all the other fact tours have taken place. [cheers and applause] and i can tell you, i am a big buyer of products. they build holdings in other things. and so many of those products unfortunately come from china and other countries, but china. we are rebuilding china. you go to china right now they are building the biggest airports in the world, the best everything. and in doing it, because we buy so much of the product. and the reason we buy their product is because their currency is so low and they have it artificially so low that it makes it almost impossible for companies to compete. i tell you the one thing that's very important. our companies make a better product. it's very important to know we a better product. [applause] was steve "forbes" and the disney weak statement continuing to shape the united states is an right now, we need a competitive person. we need a highly competent person or we are going to have very, very serious trouble very quickly. [applause] ism on numerous occasions that we should watch china and opec because by the way, worse than china, worse than everyone, opec. they are truly ripping us. and you know, i wrote it down is coming over here today -- would've many people in the cars cars that my gosh, look at that. he didn't use the word gosch, but i'm going to use it. $4.54 a gallon for gas. it is going to go much higher, folks. get used to it because we have nobody the cause of opec. they are only there because of us. we protect them. we have nobody that cause up opec and say, that price better get lower and up better get lower fat. we have nobody that does that. [applause] they have a free reign. they have a free reign and the amazing. the other day there is a small lake in the alaskaey did. they announced an increase. any time there's a problem. egypt -- vehicle situation in egypt, people in the square. opec announces an increase. anytime there's a problem they announced the nobody says anything. nobody says it's unwarranted. anyway, so you have to watch opec. you have to tell opec, those prices are coming down and they are coming down fast and we're not paying $7, $8, $9. in a year or two for nine to prepare that eye. it sure is you are sitting there because we have nobody to speak to. how about this morning i am leaving new york and germany is find the new york stock exchange. can you believe it? i thought he was kidding. i said is this april fools' day? germany, a major company in germany is buying the new york stock exchange. how about the smaller pirate? you know that doesn't pertain to us. a simple with that the. give me one good admiral and a couple of good ships, we blast them out of the water so fast. [cheers and applause] so i have a reputation for telli

alaska natural gas. being part of the mix within the projections through 2035; is that correct? >> yes that's correct. that tends to depends heavily on the alaska natural gas pipeline who's assessment have increased and have come down through 2035. that's not the protection; correct. >> i wanted to confirm that. let me ask more generally than in terms of your assessments as they might relate to the arctic as a whole. not necessarily just to the u.s. arctic and what may not develop offshore there. as you know we've got the bp deal at play in the arctic. do you include these prospects in your assessment even the bp deal or just anything in the arctic? i think we recognize the potential for the reserves. do we anticipate in your forecast seeing anything coming out of the arctic? >> i'd have to go back and look at the specific results that we currently have. but areas that are open for release sale would enter into our projections at some point. there has been changing over time in terms of what areas at least around alaska have been open. and i think that's even recently changed. so i'd like to go back and see exactly. we do assess those areas, for sure. >> let me ask. this is probably a question for the whole panel here. we talk a lot about what the u.s. and worldwide consumes. the commentary is the u.s. consumes a quarter of the world's oil, but we only had 3% of the worlds reserves. i have some issues with how this is stated. first of all, the 3% figure, as i understand it, only speaks to proven reserves. which is to say they've been drilled. it doesn't reflect any of the unexplored areas whether we are talking arctic, offshore, atlantic, pacific coast, eastern gulf, much of the deepwater. i guess the question to you all would be first how important is it to actually know what our oil reserves amount to and then secondly if we here in the united states were to prove up our reserves not use them for production, but provide for that assessment, and we were to do so within the five to ten year horizon h

alaska where in 1879 and 1880 and a lot of the glashers are not just reseeding but disappearing up there. have you looked into climate change and why so much of this 4 frozen alaska's melting? >> you know, doug, for me, i think i have the greatest cabinet job in the united states of america. john podesta might agree with me. but i get to go from sea to shining sea and out into the oceans, and it's part of my responsibility as secretary to watch these places. there was a time last year when i was at a national park in maine and watched what was happening in akadeya national park where you're having a rising sea and then where lake superior is now five degrees warmer than it was years ago and asking the scientists what that would mean for the ecosystem? that went from there to the glacier national park. we flew around glacier national park and saw the disappearance of the glaciers and the scientists, i don't know whether they are democrat or republican but they are telling us that the glaciers in glacier national park will disappear by 2020. that's like 80 years. so when i look at these issues, that's real. in the colorado river where we have one of the largest rivers in america which is the place where most of our agricultural things are coming from. we are expecting to see a 20% guideline this the amount of water that will be available for knew the miss approximately and agricultural and other issues there. >> do you bring these matters to president obama, like, will you -- after you go to these places maine and wisconsin and montana, report back to the president a concern about these, you know, the disappearing glaciers, the rising tides? >> yes. we have an ongoing dialogue about these issues and was reflected in the american infiltrate outtoors and in terms of the push on conservation as well as the push to grasp new energy future for america. for me, in my role as interior, one of the things i'm proud of stth is the fact that we have been able to move forward with renewable energy in a way that has never happened before. 2010 we permitted 3,210 megawatts of solar energy to the desert south west. that's the equivalent of 10 power plants where we are basically capturing the power of the sun to run our economy. >>si said the segue to renewable energy, how can renewable energy most be used on public lands? how can the government raise moneys and help get us off fossil fuels using wind turbines or solar? what's the interior's vision on that? >> we do have a significant role to may. because as we mansion with the forest service 30% of the land mass of the united states. we need appropriate places to site the renewable energy, so if you take for example the southwestern part of our country, california, new mexico, colorado. the national renewable energy labs have all said that's where we have the greatest potential for solar energy development. we will make believes out of skeptics who say it cannot be done, because we have alreadied that ground breakings on what will become the largest scales in the world. once that electricity from those solar plants gets on the grid and people start seeing how we can capture the sun and clean energy, it will have a transformtival effect and start making believers out of the skeptics. so we have a significant role to play and spent a lot of time working on it recognizing that not every place of our public lands ought to be used for our solar energy or wind energy development. so our concept and slogan is senator from the start. we have to deconflict the places where oui going to place these renewable energy facilities. >> one event that's happened today, is you've released a 10-year vision program for our national wildlife refugees, and we have over 500 and they are peck tackler saving habitat for the wildlife and the u.s. fish and wildlife does an incredible job of managing these. people think of national parks as being interior, but what is the 10-year vision that you have? the plan you're releasing on how to use our national wildlife refugees properly? >> we want to move forward with our next vision for the reality of what we're doing today in terms of wildlife refugees. we have an asset which belongs to the american people of 150 million acres. and these are some of the greatest pieces of land and water areas in the world, from pelican island to the alaska wildlife refuge, to so many other places around the country. 553 of them 69 -- of them. and what we need to do is figure out where we're going in our nextgen ration and how we are connecting to people. we want to connect to young people and have them come out and understand what we do. so there's a planning with that as well and so in the months ahead it will tie into what we're going with the american great outdoors and the planning that went on. through a process, one of the things we will identify are a number of different candidates where additional fish and wildlife refugees we'll designate year and in the following years as well. >> you mentioned it's very controversial, because there's oil there. is the obama administration going to hold the line that there will be no oil drilling in the artic refuge while the president is in office? is that a firm interior department position? >> yes. the president was clear on that. during his time as a u.s. senator, he was clear on his posit

alaska. i have had a drunken driving ticket in the states. they won't let me across the border to go north. is there some way we can work with canada to let americans into alaska guest:? without knowing the specifics of your background and record and why that would trips something, my advice would be to contact your congressman to see what might be done to allow you to travel across the canadian border to get to alaska. short of taking a cruise ship which you might not be in a position to do, the canadians have their rules and their laws. it is up to them to enforce their own laws. i don't know the specifics of the case so i'm afraid i cannot give you much more advice. host: alexandria, va., independent line, go ahead. caller: are we going to have a comprehensive immigration law in the near future? guest: reform was intended in 2007. there was lots of discussion and lots of hearings. it failed to get much further than that. the agreement fell apart over certain provisions, not the least of which was that many in congress want to make sure that the borders were secure before going ahead with comprehensive immigration reform which would provide a path to citizenship for those already in the country. historically, immigration reform has been a second term issue if you look back to the reagan built in 1986 and clinton in 1996. it is usually a second term issue for the president. that does not say that w

alaska. we have someone who represents the northern tip of alaska. in years past, it has been difficult to get him to agree to something off shore. he says that offshore alaska is 100 feet of water. we're not talking deep water. there are much stiffer safety factors. testimony says that shell oil has earned the right to drill offshore. that represents a significant change when an alaskan native of a north slope community is willing to step forward and say that. what i am telling you is that waiting five years for an air permit is unreasonable and has nothing to do with try to act dutifully. it has everything to do with the federal government and willing to make a decision. that is what i am trying to get at here. >> can you also talk a little bit about the use that with? >> i just arrived. i am here for the national governors' association meeting which i will be participating in. many of the secretaries will be participating in that meeting. we should have a chance to me with the president as well. >> during your remarks you made mention of the crisis in the '70s and the rationing of oil. are you suggesting something similar will happen real cent? >> i am no

senator merkley, senator murray also had great concerns, along with the senators from alaska, senator -- the senators from alaska, senator murk -- senator murkowski and senator begich. so they had concerns we had to address. the california senators certainly have wanted more access for california because that is a huge population base that will now have better access to national airport as well as dulles. so there -- i think that is the outline of the amendment that we have just adopted, and we're going to continue to work in conference. the house bill has five new entrants only, so we have 16. we have conversions. the house does not. so there will be a lot of talk and a lot of input, but my goal is to have more competition, to have strengthened air carriers for our overall u.s. air competition, and to assure that the people west of the mississippi river have access to national airport. and so i think we have made a good start here, and i want to commend all of those who have been involved in a very delicate negotiation, and i especially thank my chairman, senator rockefeller, of the commerce committee for helpi