senator duckworth? no? the senator live here and in person and we'll come back to senator duckworth. you're recognized and then i have senator stabenow after you by webex. go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i'd like to begin by asking consent three documents into the hearing record, one is an economic study published in the national academy of science called environmental outcomes of u.s. renewable fuel, the second is a study by the university of georgia called analyzing the downstream impact of u.s. biofuel policies. and the third is an article entitled u.s. bread and donut maker urge biden to roll back biofuel requirements. i want to share a personal-- >> is there objection? hearing none. >> thank you. thank you very much. we've already heard testimony that the rsf mandate is adding about 28 to 30 cents a gallon to the wholesale cost of gas on average and of course, at a time when fuel prices are extremely high, and inflation is extremely high. it works a hardship on consumers. and i believe we should

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senator duckworth please proceed we will come back as she can we join us. >> and then i have senatorb in now one —- gather now. >> i like to begin by asking consent to the three documents into the hearing record one is the academics daddy of the national academy of sciences called environmental outcomes of us renewable fuel it is a study by the downstream impact of us biofuel policies and the third is an article entitled those that are divided into rollback biofuel requirements. >> is there objection? hearing nine. that the rfs mandate is adding 20 or 30 sensing out into the period class that the low prices are extremely high it works the hardship of consumers and we should look at every avenue to provide relief to consumers when i'm in cheyenne on the ranch i grew up in in the house that i grew up in a group to a small refinery. and then furthermore they were unable when refining for hydrocarbons, they were absolutely unable to purchase non- hydrocarbons to plan to meet the renewable fuel standards. so they converted the oil refinery to a refinery that now refines soybean we'll it w

senator duckworth please proceed we will come back as she can we join us. >> and then i have senatorb in now one —- gather now. >> i like to begin by asking consent to the three documents into the hearing record one is the academics daddy of the national academy of sciences called environmental outcomes of us renewable fuel it is a study by the downstream impact of us biofuel policies and the third is an article entitled those that are divided into rollback biofuel requirements. >> is there objection? hearing nine. that the rfs mandate is adding 20 or 30 sensing out into the period class that the low prices are extremely high it works the hardship of consumers and we should look at every avenue to provide relief to consumers when i'm in cheyenne on the ranch i grew up in in the house that i grew up in a group to a small refinery. and then furthermore they were unable when refining for hydrocarbons, they were absolutely unable to purchase non- hydrocarbons to plan to meet the renewable fuel standards. so they converted the oil refinery to a refinery that now refines soybean we'll it w

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duckworth: thank you, madam president. i join my colleagues, the senators from nevada, minnesota with my frustration as to why we're here today. today i'm joining them and urging my colleagues to join me in calling for the swift confirmation of chief ladon reynolds to be the u.s. marshal for the northern district of illinois. as a seasoned law enforcement officer, chief reynolds is more than ready to take on the challenges of this important leadership role, including paying a key part in addressing the rising violent crime devastating our communities in northern illinois. and yet the only reason he's not already confirmed to this position is because of a hold from senator cotton, a hold that is completely unrelated to chief reynolds' immense qualifications. these qualifications include serving with distinction as the chief of police of oak park police department for nearly 30 years, teaching law enforcement officers about the importance of community oriented policing at the illinois law enforcement training and standards b

from democrats in the senate, tammy duckworth saying putin's actions in ukraine are threatening lives in europe and i support the additional sanctions that the president announced yesterday, offering her full statement. senater richard blumenthal saying we need immediate crippling sanctions on russia. president biden's announced it was a good first step but bullies only understand consequences. just a taste of the reaction on capitol hill yesterday. we are mostly interested in your reaction around the country. the u.s. response to russia so far. do you think it has been too strong, too weak? we have phone lines for responses and we will take this question in the first hour of the washington journal today. april out of new york on that line for those who think the response has been too weak so far. go ahead. caller: i am a senior. i believe the reaction has been week -- weak. in my generation, people were patriotic and it does not matter about the ethnicity of the person. everyone felt they had this american patriotism. no one -- that is why everyone wants to be here. seeing it go acro

that's why a commission that has been sponsored by senator duckworth and a number of other folks, myselfncluded, is important to make sure we don't make the same mistakes in the future. >> and to put a fine point on it, do the leaked documents we have now seen underscore your concerns about how the withdrawal was carried out? >> they do. >> all right. thank you so much for your insights. we really appreciate it on a very busy news day. >>> coming up. closing in. the january 6th committee grilling the leader of the oath keepers and top aids to mike pence. what do they hope to learn? pence. what do they hope to learn i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that's jeremy, right there! we're literally riding together. he gets touchy when you talk about his lack of friends. can you help me out here? no matter why you ride, progressive has you covered with protection starting at $79 a year. well, we're new friends. to be fair. eh, still. what happens when we welcome change? we can transform our workforce overnight out of convenience, or necessity. we can exp

but senator tammy duckworth has introduced legislation, which is now part of the law. which has called for a complete investigation into the entire commitment that we made to afghanistan over the last two decades. and i think that investigation will go. >> to this kind of issue in terms of when did the state department start to indlees processing seeking tom initiate the united states wp rs. was there someone saying ramp it up or don't ramp it up? there a are a lot of fingers. and thaul r hair recommendation is pull hit the out. lot of tifant recommendations coming from different sources. so we had somewhat of a chaotic and lack of comprehensive plan. i think once this investigation's underway, it will be one of the lessons learned. what did we learn about going to a country like afghanistan. what happened to the mission? how did it increase from going after bin laden. all thesish oo as will be deeply explored. i think there are lot of people responsible for having made the decision in the first place and allowed it to, not only mission creak but leap into what we saw

duckworth? >> aye. >> mr. graham? >> no by proxy. >> mr. inhofe. >> no. >> mr. kelly. >> aye. >> ms. lummis. >> no. >> mr. markey. >> aye. >> mr. padilla. >> aye. >> mr. sanders. >> aye. >> ms. stabenow. >> aye. >> mr. whitehouse. >> aye. >> mr. wicker? >> no, by proxy. >> mr. chairman. >> aye. >> yeas are 10, nays are 10. >> to expedite this meeting, we have agrees to consider remaining matters before the committee by voice vote. i would like to call up two presidential nominations. first i want to call up presidential nomination number 539, steven owens of arizona, to be a member of the chemical safety and hazard investigation board. seconded. i'm going to call up the nomination of 542, silvia johnson, to be a member of the same board, chemical safety and hazard condition. it will include a number of bills to name post offices or federal buildings. i call up s-2205, 2126, 1226, and s-233. all in favor, say aye. the ayes have it. all those are confirmed. i think that's it. thanks, everybody. i know we have a lot going on today. thank you, everybody, who made it

this confirms the suspicions of many of us and all the indications we've seen liz, tell you senator duckworthwe put some, a plan together. it is now law which will require a 9/11 style commission to be brought together to study this stuff from day one until the botched exit. we know this. there was no plan for the withdrawal. in the 11th hour as kabul was falling, only at that point did the administration really identify countries that could be used to transit evacuees. we also know they didn't wait until the very last minute, again, kabul falling, to locate, local afghans who helped our country for a number of years and they did not contact those individuals about whether they wanted to come to the united states or some other country to be evacuated. so basically they're is no plan at all. so this is a failure of leadership. this is a case of bureaucratic inertia and the most damning thing, i will tell you, liz, we've seen zero members of state department, high-ranking defense officials or white house staffers who have been held accountable on the back end of this. we had 13 united states ma

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senator duckworth, please. >> thank you. i would like to begin by disagreeing with my colleague from missouri in saying this committee has scant commitment to looking at what afghanistan and afghanistan, in fact, on a bipartisan basis this committee passed the war commission act which will look at the entire 20 years including the evacuation and also provides for equal representation, equal opportunity for the ranking member and the chairman of both the committees on foreign relations and on intelligence to appoint committee members as well as the minority and majority leaders. i don't think it can be any more fair than that. it makes it clear this is going to move forward and there's a commitment overall to look at everything that happened in afghanistan. with that said i would like to say welcome, general. thank you. i want to apologize to you for cutting our call short the other day. you were very generous. it was one of those crazy days. i want to return to our discussion talking about the fact that after decades of focu

of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tammy duckworth, a senator from the state of illinois, to perform the duties of the chair. signed patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m., on friday, february 25, 2022. >> the senate's e in a district work period. there will be one more brief session like this on friday before the senate convenes for legislative business on

. >> senator duckworth and brad smith i think were eloquent about what is happening here this morning. we have two problems when it comes to trust in our institutions. one we are under external attack. we have a former kgb operative running a country devoting resources to dividing americans and their trust in their institutions. it has been an incredibly effective covert mission. we are amplifying that effect ourselves. i wrote a piece for forbes that says president biden, if he's elected his greatest challenge is going to be convincing half of americans that the other half are not evil. we have a number of americans right now who don't trust democracy because they don't see it working. we are doing part of it to ourselves and those outside the doing it for the direct purpose of dividing us and tearing down our institutions. sadsly, as our numbers show, it is working. >> i agree with everything that's been said especially the chairman's point which he made earlier about the fact that too many people institutions today as compared to when i started and each when he started, are using t

our choice, senator duckworth and my choice for the u.s. marshal to serve in the northern district of illinois is an individual with 30 years of law enforcement experience, a chief of police in one of the larger suburbs of the city of chicago. do we need a u.s. marshals office to be reinvigorated and dedicated to its purpose? of course we do. it wasn't that many years ago when the family of one of our highly respected federal judges was literally murdered in their home by a deranged individual who didn't care for the way he was treated by that judge. it's a very real question of personal safety. and yet, one republican senator from arkansas is stopping the appointment of these u.s. attorneys and u.s. marshals to execute the laws of the land. don't tell me you respect law enforcement and don't tell me you want to fight crime, and then turn around and tie the hands of the department of justice, keeping u.s. attorneys off the job and u.s. marshals away from their responsibilities. that is the reality. if we're going to get serious about fighti

from democrats in the senate, tammy duckworth saying putin's actions in ukraine are threatening lives in europe and i support the additional sanctions that the president announced yesterday, offering her full statement. senater richard blumenthal saying we need immediate crippling sanctions on russia. president biden's announced it was a good first step but bullies only understand consequences. just a taste of the reaction on capitol hill yesterday. we are mostly interested in your reaction around the country. the u.s. response to russia so far. do you think it has been too strong, too weak? we have phone lines for responses and we will take this question in the first hour of the washington journal today. april out of new york on that line for those who think the response has been too weak so far. go ahead. caller: i am a senior. i believe the reaction has been week -- weak. in my generation, people were patriotic and it does not matter about the ethnicity of the person. everyone felt they had this american patriotism. no one -- that is why everyone wants to be here. seeing it go acro

of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tammy duckworth, a senator from the state of illinois, to perform the duties of the chair. signed patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m., on friday, february 25, 2022. >> the senate's e in a district work period. there will be one more brief session like this on friday before the senate convenes for legislative business on

of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tammy duckworth, a senator from the state of illinois, to perform the duties of the chair. signed patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m., on friday, february 25, 2022. >> the senate's e in a district work period. there will be one more brief session like this on friday before the senate convenes for legislative business on monday at 3 p.m. eastern. as always, lye coverage of the -- live coverage of the senate is here on c-span2. and now, back to booktv. >> i'm ian bremmer, and i am presiding over today's discussion. s it is, as you see, virtual which is a littled sad, but it does mean we have 400 people signed up instead of 100 in a room, so it could be worse. there's some upside. let me introduce you to our esteemed panelists today. we have author and human rights activistto kati marton, wolfgang ischinger and brookings institution senior fellow congress stands stulzen muller. and you probably know the cou