. >> newly elected senator dan sullivan thinks the environmental lobby is living in another era. >> weave ways in which whether its ice roads, ice pads for drilling only in the winter. where we do these things shoot 3d seismic that literally has zero impact on the tundra. literally. and you know we need to make that element of the debate people are more aware of. >> in 1980, congress specifically set aside portions of the arctic wildlife refuge for future oil and gas exploration, including acreage that president obama has now unilaterally designated as a wilderness area. question, why is president obama broken the 1980 anwr compromise? pat buchanan? >> john, barack obama is liberated. he sees himself liberated by the defeat in last november. he's going to go basically with his ideology. he's going to go with his political base the liberals and environmentalists and all the rest of it. and i do think this is a real -- this is a very negative decision. none of us wants to see anything spoiled but you can drill in the anwr and also preserve the anwr, john. and in my judgment, i think this

dan sullivan is not here. he is speaking on the senate floor about a subject we will be talking about, which is keystone. we have some able advocates of that pipeline. i will start by asking a question of the entire panel. you were all in the capital for the state of the union? was everybody there? president obama spoke for an hour. we have one hour with four senators. please no filibusters. [laughter] >> it definitely won't seem like three hours, which it did the other night. >> let's just play a word association game. your response to the president must state of the union. one or two words. >> disappointing. >> higher taxes. >> height of arrogance from the depth of influence. >> that is a harvard man. [laughter] >> the president said, we have turned the page on the recession. moments later, he said the shadow of crisis has passed. do any of you agree with those statements? >> i certainly don't. in north carolina, just take a look at the numbers that defy the statement that the president made. you take a look

thom tillis, dan sullivan. doug ducci. mia love. my governor of massachusetts charlie baker. [applause] how about joni ernst? isn't she an amazing person? just something else. there is some people that not only impressed me but also inspire me. martha, arizona, you know her story. a fighter pilot, air force fighter pilot. she comes and runs for congress and believe she wins. they send her to washington to meet the other members in 2012. only to find out by recount she did not win. she has to go home having thought she had been elected. she decides to go at it again. she has been an extraordinary person. a rising star. some people who have served in the military, who have gone out and fought for our nation, despite having extraordinaire academic credentials and career opportunities, they went to the military and have come back to serve in the senate. it is quite a story. i want to congratulate you on the work you have done to improve the primary process, to change the date of the convention, to limit the debates and reign them in. i think you ought to be proud for doing that w

i rode in the elevator with the family of alaska's senator dan sullivan and they found the concern over the snowfall charming. it's great to meet families. the mothers in law are here and the children are here. it is a joyous occasion. we know how they feel about congress, but today is a family day and the start of something new. >> thank you julie and luke and thanks to you on the first day of congress. weather alerts from coast to coast on the west coast. heavy rains caused mudslides in washington state, pushing several homes off the foundations. the mudslide cutoff a neighborhood of almost 200 people. there is risk of more rain today out there. most of the country including us dealing with record setting cold temperatures and winter storm expected to dump more than a foot of snow in places as it moves east. kevin tibbles reported in chicago. >> 200 million people will be affected by this cold and you are speaking to one of them right here right now in chicago. lake michigan behind me is quickly freezing over. there is a winter cold advisory in effect not just for today, but through t

we were honored to attend dan sullivan earlier this month. i have also spoken with senator mikulski and congressman don young. we pledged to work together to make the most of our god-given resources and yes, this means at long last responsibly accessing the vast oil reserves. we can, we must, we will, is beyond time. [applause] >> members of this legislature. i am so honored to stand before you. i look forward to working together to overcome the challenges before us. the men and women in this room are no strangers to edgar city. some of you have beaten cancer. others and the end childhood poverty. and overcome tremendous challenges in life. your fishermen, educators lawyers, farmers and veterans, contractors, health care providers, pilots, engineers, accountants, a minor in even a reindeer herds of list a few. uva readiness dollars a share love for our state and our people and a desire to serve, to give back and to make a difference. the opportunity and sacred obligation we have over the next four years is to leave alaska abettors and we rece

thom tillis, dan sullivan. doug ducci. mia love. my governor of massachusetts a republican governor charlie baker. [applause] how about joni ernst? isn't she an amazing person? [applause] just something else. there is some people that not only impressed me but also inspire me. martha mcsally, you know her story. a fighter pilot, air force fighter pilot. she comes back and runs for congress and believe she wins. they send her to washington to meet the other members in 2012. only to find out by recount she did not win. she has to go home having thought she had been elected. she decides to go at it again. she has been an extraordinary person. a rising star. some people who have served in the military, who have gone out and fought for our nation, despite having extraordinaire academic credentials and career opportunities, they went to the military and have come back to serve in the senate. it is quite a story. i want to congratulate you on the work you have done to improve the primary process, to change the date of the convention, to li

would like to obviously welcome our new members senator tom cotton senator tom tillis, senator dan sullivan and senator joni ernst. this committee has a long committee of working in a bipartisan fashion of which we are very proud, i have had the opportunity working with senator reid for many years despite his lack of education, he has done an outstanding job your and that includes the service academies and i welcome the opportunity of working as closely as i have for many years as i have with the senator from rhode island. we begin a senate hearing on global challenges to the u.s. security strategy and i'm pleased to have as our first witnesses to of america's most prestigious thinkers in public service. they each served as national security advisers to the president of the united states and this includes iran, negotiating treaties with moscow, making tough choices on the middle east that have clear sailing for this country today. we are grateful for allowing us to drop on the wisdom. four decades ago the secretary of state dean acheson titled his memoir on the construction of the post-worl

are seasoned washington hands from outside congress too like former bush administration official dan sullivanka and ben sasse of nebraska. >> so how does it feel? >> we're having fun. got a lot to learn. want to make sure we're on time. >> reporter: even joni ernst and thom tillis of north carolina hail from the halls of state government. but how much will this new republican congress actually do? it means some of those no votes may have to become yes. you've been called one of the new faces of the hell no caucus. what do you think of that characterization? >> i would like to say yes to a lot of reforms that would lead to smaller, more limited government. >> reporter: republicans now share the burden of governing. >> we're going to function. we are. we're going to pass legislation. >> reporter: the first test comes quickly in debates over the keystone pipeline, president obama's new cuba policy and even his strategy toward fighting isis. the big question facing republicans is how much time they should spend trying to unravel obamacare. >> americans are suffering because of obamacare. >> repor

tom cotton yeah, background in the military, tom 'til is dan sullivan, do you go doucy, mia love in my state of utah. my governor of massachusetts, a republican governor in massachusetts, charlie baker. gosh. how about joni ernst. isn't she an amaidsing person and a great leader you know, it's -- there are some people that not only impress me but also i am expire me. i mean martha mcsally, i imagine you know arizona. you know her story. i mean this is a young woman who fighter pilot, air force fighter pilot, in combat. she comes back and runs for congress and believes she wins. they send her to meet the other members only to find out by recount she didn't win. she has to go home having thought she had been elected, and she decides to go at it again and gets elected and comes. she is an extraordinary person a rising star and some of the people who served in the military who have gone out and fought for our nation despite having extraordinary academic credentials, they went to the military and that have come back and are serving in congress and the senate. it's quite a story. now, i want

you have tom cotton, dan sullivan, cory gardner. all coming into the senate people in their late 30's, early 50's. diverse backgrounds. impressive people. they were all younger than the people they beat in each of those races. the republican congress in both houses will be younger than the democratic caucus. suddenly, the image one had and i had too, which was depressing as a conservative in 2008 and 2012, of the republicans as the party of backward looking, older, hanging on desperately. democrats are cutting-edge. i think that is going to look different in the next year or two. that could affect the 2016 election. hillary clinton will be the nominee, who has been around quite a long time. the republican nominee is much more likely to be someone who may be in his or her 40's or 50's. jeb bush will be a little older. he is a little younger than hillary clinton. it is an argument against jeb bush, incidentally. host: you are talking with bill kristol. stephen on the republican line in texas. caller: good morning. a fairly simple ques

donna and i were honored to attend the swearing in of senator dan sullivan earlier this month. i've always spoken with senator murkowski and congressman don young. we pledge to work together to make the most of our god-given resources. and, yes, this means that long last responsibly accessing the vast oil reserves under anwar. we can we must, we will. it's beyond time. members of this legislature, i am so honored to stand before you. i look forward to working together to overcome the challenges before us. the men and women in this room are no strangers to adversity. some of you have beaten cancer. others have known childhood poverty and overcome tremendous challenges in life. you are fishermen, educators, lawyers, farmers and veterans, contractors, health care providers, pilots engineers, account abouts, a miner and yes, even a reindeer herder to list just a few. uniting us all is a shared love for our state and our people. and a desire to serve to give back and to make a difference. the opportunity and sacred obligation we have over the next four years is to leave alaska bette

thom tillis, dan sullivan. doug do see. me aia love. my governor of massachusetts charlie baker. [applause] how about joni ernst? isn't she an amazing person? just something else. there is some people that not only impressed me but also inspire me. martha arizona, you know her story. a fighter pilot, air force fired fighter pilot. she comes and runs for congress and believe she wins. they center to washington to meet the other members in 2012. only to find out by recount she did not win. she has to go home having thought she had been elected. she decides to go at it again. she has been an extraordinary person. some people who have served in the military, who have gone out and fought for our nation, despite having extraordinaire academic credentials and career opportunities, they went to the military and have come back to serve in the senate. it is quite a story. i want to congratulate you on the work you have done to improve the primary process, to change the date of the convention, to limit the debates and rain the men. these are-- rain the m in. and thank you for 2012. you were

. >> >> senator murkowski serves as the energy committee chaired joined by dan sullivan and alaskan congressmanng. this is 40 minutes. >> usually we don't get this on the alaska the specific issue but as you have learned to from the media accounts from sunday and this morning that this administration effectively declared war on alaska's. those are some pretty tough words but what we saw on sunday with the announcement that this administration will move to a permanent wilderness status for anwr and what this administration is poris to do the balance of this week with the secretary of the interior and her deputy it is no one, two, three kick to the gut of velazquez the economy. and we have said as a delegation will not stand it or tolerate it and do everything that we can to push back against an administration that has taken a look at alaska to decide it is a nice little snow globes and we will keep it that way. that is not what you do to any state. our governor had a conversation with the secretary this weekend and reminded her in his state of the budget address this week looking at some pretty