well, in the meantime, kiev has presented a new requirement for the american land lease, which is toy lng from the united states under a simplified scheme at a discount, and at the same time, washington is obliged to guarantee.

to visualize how much land that is, if each grain of rice were one acre, that would be 479 pounds of rice the american petroleum institute even opposed pausing more leasinglands and even sued to stop it, because apparently this acreage wasn't enough miss watkins, do you support a pause on new federal and gas leases >> no, i do not, because i think it's important >> you already have 13.9 million acres. this is equivalent to maryland and new jersey combined. how much more do you need? >> seth: first of all, i love the dramatic reveal when the automatic door slowly opens. [ laughter ] i've never been so excited to see what's in the trunk of a minivan. [ laughter ] usually when someone's opening the trunk of a car like that, it's a mobster showing you a dead body. [ light laughter ] "yeah, the minivan is great, because the back seats lift right out. i can get, like, five snitches in here. used to have to take a bunch of trips. [ laughter ] it was such an effective visual metaphor, if she had a music budget, she could have added the score from "2001: a space odyssey. ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ [ laughter ] >> seth: i also love when they cut back to her, and she's just

leases on federal land and water. and an array of policy moves, regulatory moves that american people couldn't see, last -- that was starting year. but then by august, they were begging effect -- opec plus, colluding russia to pump more oil, fighting climate change, is there a most important thing for biden incorporated? why do they do that, are they so stupid they don't understand it does wasn't matter where the barrel of oil is produced if you talk about climate change because it say global phenomenon in their minds, or. one more barrel, if they cared about climate change, they wouldn't be begging opec plus to produce more shower, they sid -- from day one, they gave our power and prosperity to nations that hate us, they funded putin from day one. i think that they truly do hate american business. but, they don't have an alternative. what do they want? everyone to work for the federal government? mark: when we come back, dagen, what about the rest of the economy? now see people pulling back purchases, and manufacturing pulling back, people say we're headed into a recession, are we in a recession in we'll be right back. jon

american energy. instead of canceling lease sales, joe biden needs to open up federal lands to american energy production, instead of canceling pipelines joe biden should speed up the pipeline permit prog sess. instead of -- process. instead of begging other countries to sell us oil, we should get it out of the ground right here in america. we have the skills and skilled workers to see us through this crisis. the president just needs to let them go to work. working families have already been pushed to the breaking point. people are spending their savings, seeing it melting away. they've run up credit cards just to get by. now recession is heading at us. we need to change course. the administration needs to change course. because the joe biden economic hurricane is about to hit america. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. mr. durbin:madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: the senate is not in a quorum call. mr. durbin: yesterday as chairman of the senate judiciary committee,

whether it is lend-lease or not lend-lease from the point of view of what we receive, the americans are now providing credit and financing and supplying weapons not from the land of the forest program, this does not stop the military industrial complex it just has a physical limitation because, well, we can say that in the world , there have not been as many orders for such a need for weapons as now. well, probably since the second world war , because we have already raked and shot the entire soviet weapons and you have to really imagine what this means, it means that the ukrainian army is not just declaratively switching to nato standards, but the ukrainian army will fully possess the same military arsenal that the west and the proposal of boris johnson, the idol of my facebook, have. i think your also about the fact that he is ready to train 10,000 ukrainian soldiers in a quarter of a quarter over there in great britain, this means that we will have modern weapons trained in the ukrainian military, from gunner pilots to various types of weapons, in fact, we are a nato army, but in addition to this, it must be said that there are problems with training, and t

american independence -- american energy independence act which would approve the xl pipeline, other pipelines. it would flip the switch on the leases both offshore and on federal lands would send a clear message to american energy producers that we are committed to american energy independence as well as the importance of energy when it comes to national security -- neil: to your point, it's a slow go. on the other side to find agreement on that. congresswoman, i'd be remiss if i didn't mention the january 6th prime time hearings this week. a lot of your republican colleagues say it's an attention shift away from some of these real problems you alluded to. but do you think there should be a reairing of what happened, a sense of how it happened on that fateful day? the capitol was storm thed, after all, the first time we'd seen that since the british stormed the capitol back in 1812. did it warrant, in your opinion, the kind of thing we're seeing now in. >> i have, i have condemned these attacks multiple times, the attacks that happened on january 6th. unfortunately, this committee is not set up to get the facts, the truth of what happened on january #th. and that's

everything that you can do to help americans -- >> martha: what about this -- this is what they have thought of. they want more consistency on leases, permits on federal lands and want to permit and build critical infrastructure, which means more refineries, permission from the u.s. government, to build more refineries and a proper role of regulation that considers costs and benefits. they're saying this is what we can do to ram up this up for everyone. are you willing to meet them halfway on those requests? >> what the president has made a commitment to, he will meet with them -- our team will meet with them tomorrow. the secretary of energy will meet with them. any ideas that they come up with we will take under consideration, this is all hands on deck. this is all ideas should be considered. >> martha: so you're open to those ideas in that letter from them? >> we'll be open to reviewing their ideas. probably not going to agree on everything. that's not a surprise. we're going to look for those place that's we can work together in this time of war on behalf of american people that are feeling the pinch when they go to fill up their cars with gas. >> marth

american energy. they canceled the keystone x.l. pipeline. they halted oil and gas leases on federal lands. they wreck leslie -- recklessly defeated our strategic preserves now the lowest level since 1987. they have done everything possible to discourage invest n-domestic production. at the same time, the administration continues to beg saudi arabia and other foreign countries to boost their oil supply. it simply makes no sense. in congress just one side, house republicans, has been proposing solutions. we should pass the american energy independence from russia act to unleash our domestic production capability. we should pass the strategic production response act to transition supply concerns from stopgap measures to permanent production solutions. and we should pass the pipes act which i introduced to prevent a sitting president to unilaterally attack existing domestic energy from. infrastructure. let's not forget, america was energy independent just two short years ago. there is a path to regaining that independence and bringing down prices at the pump. if president biden will reverse co

american families suffer at the pump. >> you can ask the oil companies this. there is land they are not all drilling in. every lease is not used. >> president biden: to the oil and gas companies and the finance firms we understand putin's war against the people of ukraine is causing prices to rise but, but. it's no excuse to exercise excessive price increases. >> harris: how can they all be on different pages when they're at 1600 pennsylvania avenue? congresswoman stefanik is in "focus" now. first go to peter and back to the congresswoman, can't wait. take it away. >> the biden white house blame game doesn't change history over the last 18 months. we have the chart that shows inflation was at just 1.4% when president biden took over and then it slowly ticked up and up and up long before putin moved into ukraine. it was already hovering around 7% by the time russia invaded in february and the chairman of the federal reserve knows it. >> would you say that the war in ukraine is the primary driver of inflation in america? >> no, inflation was high before. certainly before the war in ukraine broke out. >> gas prices ar

american people deserve. elizabeth: why does he need 16 and a half million dollars. was he behind getting rid of the keystone pipeline, was he behind shutting down leases, federal landsis, the washington post is reporting that climate czars and activists led by john kerry, they are trying to stop a new law meant to block china's solar panels and green energy products coming here that are tied to slave labor camps over there imprisoning minorities in china. even the white house joins human rights activists around the world saying this is part of china's ongoing genocide. john kerry is okay with moralizing and lecturing everybody about climate change. he's okay with this genocide of china. >> john kerry is a hypocrite whose policies on solar panels are aiding and betting a genocide in china. to your point he's trying to circumvent u.s. law that was passed last year end signed by president joe biden that says we cannot be importing products from china that are built by slave labor with a 16 and a half million dollars being allocated in the budget. nobody knows what he's doing and who's advising him. he's operating in a clandestine way and all the boston herald and journ

americans their jobs as well as much of their income. the continuous attack on our energy industries he halted all oil and natural gas leases on federal lands. despite a judge's ruling against this illegal ban. the administration shut down the congressionally authorized oil and gas program, the 102 area of the arctic national wildlife refuge in alaska and threaten industry regulation and increased royalties which significantly impact invest n-new energy production. indeed, the large finance years -- financeeers are backing away due to their e.s.g. idealism and intimidation by the government to do so. anwr is actually 19.6 million acres. the 102 area is small fraction of that total area. the drilling itself would take place on a smaller fraction of that as well. so most recently the biden administration has scrapped court ordered offshore five-year lease in the gulf of mexico. this could likely spell a complete ban on offshore leases until the end of his whole term. what does he expect is going to happen? we are seeing it. the people are feeling it. $5 gas nationally. $6, $6.50 in california where everything is more expensive. $7 for diesel.

we absolutely need to be buying oil from americans, not from autocrats, why the biden administration has expanded oil and gas leases on public landsificant margin, more in his first year than donald trump, 1,000 more leases than the last president the first year. but the same time, we should be planning for a future where we are not beholden to autocrats and foreign governments who set the price of gasoline. biden administration does not set the price of gas. it's in the international oil market and as a marine veteran myself who has had to go to the middle east, a place we are interested in historically because of oil and i have seen americans die trying to get that oil, we can do both things. do what republicans want, make sure we expand oil and gas production in the united states, the biden administration is already doing that, but we can also make sure that in the long run we are not beholden to the foreign autocrats for our gas. >> john: congressman, at the same time you say the biden administration is trying to get more oil out ground, the president has sent signals he wants to put oil and gas out of business, and probably g

americans. in the short run before that happens we have high prices as you pointed out for oil. i believe that producers are sitting on 37 million acres of land under lease from which they can drill and produce additional oil and high prices are motivation to do that. so, we do need additionaloil. the prices americans pay are influenced by what happens in global markets so i'm promoting the production of additional global oil to help relieve supply shortages in the global market but it won't completely stimulate americans from global oil market prosecution in the short run. >> i would point out in addition it the leases you need the per manages it drill and this administration has blocked that and this sue and settle agreement is taking many of those 5eurbgs and freezing this will so they cannot be used and with $5 gas is the president calling on using the defense production act to build solar panels and that seems the wrong plus to use that. i would point out, mr. chairman yesterday's adds front partly sunny story picture of you and the president of the united states yesterday "u.s.a. today" headline small risk of unnation swelled to a global threat und

americans. in the short run before that happens high prices, we have very high prices as you pointed out for oil. i believe that producers are sitting on 37 million acres of land under lease from which they can drill and produce additional oil. and high prices are motivation to do that. we do need additional oil. the prices that americans pay are influenced by what happens in global markets. so promoting the production of additional global oil will help to relieve supply shortages in the global market but it won't completely insulate americans from global oil market pressures in the short run. senator barrasso: in addition to the leases you need permission to drill. this administration has blocked all of that. this sue and settle agreement by the administration last week is taking many of those acres you just described and freezes those so they cannot be used. with $5 a gas what we see today is the president calling on using the defense production act, not to go after this but to build solar panels. that seems to me the wrong place to be using that act. i would just point out, mr. chairman, finally, yesterday's "usa today," front page story, picture, madam chairman, of yo

, increasing prices, making it harder for hard-working american families, and we need to flip the switch >> there's no new leases on federal p landshear conflicting things we hear there are more rigs now than when trump left office during covid we hear all these different sort of takes on what's really happening. it's hard for the average person to really flow know what's goinn at this point. >> in many of these examples, the administration is trying to distract from their true agenda, but i would just, the results, the facts on the ground speak for themselves, and the administration on day one shut down the keystone pipeline president biden had made it clear that he wanted, he wanted to wean us off of oil and natural gas, and yet natural gas has been the shell revolution, the technology around natural gas was the reason that we had been leading in bringing down carbon emissions the uk right now is in the eu is looking at making natural gas renewable. because they wreck into iz that that being the key to bringing down emissions we need to get this debate back on results and facts rather than distractions and confusing rhetoric tha

american policy. he announced he was going to put a pause on all new oil and gas leases on federal land. bragging about keystone, announcing the pause on leases on federal land, and now here we are after 17 months in offices, none but barack obama by this time had done 44 federal energy leases. not a single one by joe biden. no, not one. now, he's also shut down energy exploration near the arctic. all you need to do is talk to the senior senator who i share time with on the energy committee, senator murkowski, about what's going on there. and she will tell you how joe biden has shut down energy in the arctic. he's kempt more than -- kept more than 4300 drilling applications collecting dust on his desk. his energy agenda is far, far to the left of any previous american president. his energy agenda amazingly is far to the left of hillary clinton's agenda when she was running in 2016. further to the left than hil hillary. this is the most anti-american agenda in american history and joe biden owns it. when he says he wants us to produce more, no one believes him. no one believes this presid

american boy. roosevelt was insisted that he, cause that, quote, one of the rottenest things that's been said in public life in my generation. anyway, after long debate, congress passed the land lease bill, and it contributed greatly to supporting the allied war effort. but not surprisingly, i mean, it is surprising, though, that after all of this emphasis on the war in europe, that when we did go to war, it came not from europe, but from the far east, by invitation of japan. now, that country had been threatening its neighbor, china, for many years, and in the 1930s, actually invaded the chinese province of manchuria. the united states tried various diplomatic ways to try to force them out, ultimately placing an embargo on crucial war materials going to japan. so after many failed efforts to get the japanese to withdraw from china, on december six, 1941, roosevelt took the unusual step of appealing directly to the japanese emperor, hirohito, to demand that the japanese withdraw from china. well, he received his answer the next day, the american public received japan's answer the next day, roosevelt announced it this way, in a radio address, he said, yesterday, december 7th, 1941,

lands under lease right now that are not being produced on. >> so there's nothing more they could do to increase -- >> i think american producers saw low prices after the pandemic, lost money and cut their drilling activity, oil supplies declined and high prices that prevail right now are a huge incentive -- >> thank the german and think the witness. we will now proceed to a two to one ratio for questioning based on committee practice your let me recognize the from illinois mr. davis to inquire. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank you, madam secretary, for including tax credit refundable elite in the budgets tax reform package to support low and middle income families to grow their families through adoption, especially for those who adopt foster children. i applaud the president's support for reducing child poverty, and that is why i championed organizing the child and dependent care tax credit which specifically targets low income working parent 4000 or $8000 to help cover childcare costs. this tax credit paired with the ctc provides critical support that reduces child poverty. without the ctc, the ctc simply evaporates paying for child

leases, on federal lands? if that is not the case, when different policies are presented to you does anyone say, this will make it harder, this will make it easier, for american oils to be drilled on federal land? >> senator, the fact that things are harder or easier never enters a conversation. we are working hard to make sure that we have a balanced approach to our energy -- >> so you are telling me when you are having these discussions it doesn't tell you if that's gonna make it harder or easier for access to new leases? >> no. >> is it your goal, is it your hope that there is more or less drilling on federal lands while you are the secretary of the interior? >> my goal, as i mentioned, is to have a balanced approach to our public lands. to make sure we are doing the best job possible for the american people, considering that the public lands belong to them. >> does the affordability of energy, the cost of gas at the gas pump, cost of utility ever figure in your decision-making process? >> senator, i know exactly what it's like to be poor, quite frankly -- >> so to why. i do too. but does it ever enter into your policy making? >> i bring my whole self to t

in the meantime, kiev has presented a new requirement for the american land lease, which is to buy lng from the united states under a simplified scheme at a discount, and at the same time, washington is obliged to guarantee its supply in the amount of at least 6 billion cubic meters. at the moment the allen lise papers only includes defense supplies. the meeting of the federal reserve system the key event of the day of the financial markets today, yes, and for the near future, enrique intensifies every day, passions began to boil last week after the release of inflation data, which turned out to be higher than expected. against this background. market participants have begun preparing for a more aggressive rate hike and are pricing in a 75 basis point increase by september. that is, half a percent and a quarter at biennial meetings. it's clear unnerving stock index traders, oil is rapidly falling into the fire, poured gp morgan on the eve, he said that he was still waiting for the fed to increase the key rate immediately by a percentage today. and at the end of the issue, i will remind