>> thank you very much senator hirono. there is no question that 50 years ago congress was very visionary when they passed the land water conservation fund act. they recognized that as we drill for oil and gas in federal waters off shore there is federal impact. they believe that impact should go to benefit all sits states through the lwcf. not only does every doll sar invested provide a very strong return on investment, but we have many willing sellers of land in holdings within national parks, access areas so hunters and fishermen can get to the waters or the hunting lands they have. important areas for ecosystems that you referenced like those talked about in hawaii. this has been used successfully over 40,000 times. it has been fitted 98% of the counties in this country. and we think it's a brilliant piece of legislation that has worked well. i want to compliment many members of the u.s. senate for their support for re-authorization of the land and water conservation fund. i appreciate the president including full fund

>> police hirono human trafficking is alive and well in the 21st century. >> it's scary. if you are naive enough to think it's just here, you're wrong. we dig it out here. >> the driving force behind sting operations like these is polk county sheriff grady judd. >> we wear them out. >> after some 40 years on the job as a cop, judd knows many people, if not most, see prostitution as a victimless crime. he tells our producer he's out to change their minds. >> grace, if they could spend one evening with you and with me in an undercover location, they would change their entire attitude. they would find out this is not two consending adults. they would see the pump in the parking lot. >> sheriff's office, hands up. >> they would see how he takes advantage of her, how he has complete control of her life. she's property. she's property to be bartered with, to be sold. >> to begin the operation, sheriff's investigators set up in a polk county hotel. undercover male agents browse internet sites like back page for sex ads. >> is that you in the pictures? >> and invite women for hir

. -- senator hirono. >> mr. smith was asked a question regarding if we create administrator our regulatory certainty in the timeframe for approvals that would we expect more applications and mr. smith opined i want to see of the palace with you think very brief answers, please would you think will be more applications if we great certainty as this build a? >> i don't with the number of applications be affected by the time i. it will be affected by company double eagle deputy finance it line of customers. is a very long-term, very expensive propositions. i think those that are moving forward, knowing that there is some certainty at the end, after a very long extensive but a predictable process at ferc, and by way during that entire process deletes one of the cooperate agencies so that part of the effort of the. >> it sounds as though the ferc process is a much longer process than what do we has to do once ferc is approved, rights because it is longer but it didn't be we as part of that process. during this entire

thank you, senator hirono. compact impacts are very significant as you point out. hawaii and guam have the biggest hits. we're limited to $30 million. we'd like to see that cap raised. the president's budget requests mandatory funding for the compact impact and requests that you consider raising that cap. because it is a huge impact on hawaii guam and fsm, federated states of micronesia to deal with this. as far as palau is concerned yes, we want to work collectively with the department of defense and state department. we need your support for a solution from a funding standpoint to the palau compact. i know there have been various funding sources considered by this body. helium was one of them. we sent that to other places, including legacy well cleanup. we request your support in getting funding to address, you know, our government's obligations to palau. i don't have a lot of influence with the department of defense and the state department, but it's certainly on their radar and on mine and we would appreciate your help in moving that forward. >> thank you very

hirono. mr. kaine. >> aye by proxy. >> mr. king. mr. heinrich. mr. chairman. >> aye. >> 25 ayes, one no instruction. >> then the motion will be reported favorably of dr. carter's nomination to the senate to the floor of the senate and hopefully we can get a vote perhaps even as early as tomorrow. >> do you want to keep it open? >> we'll leave it opened for senator sullivan to make his wishes known for a while. i'm sure this committee meets today to receive testimony on our nation's defense budget and priorities from the bipartisan national defense panel. this group of former military leaders, members of congress and pentagon officials who served under republican and democratic presidents released their unanimous recommendations in a report on our nation's defense strategy last year. we have with us today two distinguished members of the national defense panel, eric adelman and michele flournoy each served under defense on policy and among experts on both sides of the aisle. we are grateful to you to appear before us today. also like to thank the pane

. >> senator mazie hirono thank you for being with us. >> aloha. >> aloha. >>> after the break, turningcal futures of two democrats. is hillary clinton getting closer to announcing a 2016 run, and chicago mayor rahm emanuel needs a runoff to keep his job. >>> plus next hour eddie ray routh will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murders of chris kyle and chad littlefield. we'll hear more from chad's parents and talk to a legal analyst about the verdict. >>> right back from florida international university. good job! still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. if you're running a business legalzoom has your back. over the last 10 years we've helped one million business owners get started. visit legalzoom today for the legal help you need to start and run your business. legalzoom. legal help is here. [ female announcer ] hands were made for talking. feet...tiptoeing. better things than the pain stiffness, and joint damage of moder

hirono: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. ms. hirono: i rise to ask my colleagues to pass a clean appropriations bill that funds the department of homeland security or d.h.s. listening to my friend, the senator from utah, it is very clear that the republican position on this bill that is before us today is totally dependent on their assertion that the president's recent actions on immigration is illegal. democrats do not concur with that. in fact, i thought illegality of any actions should be determined by courts of law. what the president did recently is no different than like presidential actions taken by presidents reagan and bush, i might add. so we must fund d.h.s. and resist the temptation to govern through manufactured crises and political games. our national security is at stake. surely my colleagues remember when d.h.s. was created in a direct response to the terrorist attacks on september 11, 2001. just 11 days after 9/11, d.h.s. started to take shape. president yogi george w. bush created an office to coordinate a comp

. >> another issue that was brought up by several senators, including senators gillibrand and hirono, was sexual harassment in the military. you tweeted about the ashton carter response saying he called it a problem sexual assault, widespread, in u.s. society and particularly offensive in the military. we have to try to root this out. some senators have tried to do that changing pentagon policy. what do we know of ashton carter's intentions in this area? >> he said clearly that he wants to be aggressive on this issue, look for ways to really attack the problem and forward, you know further the work that the military's done already. surely after that tweet came out, senator mccaskill came on and tried to reverse some of the conversation there. obviously the legislation that she proposed and senator gillibrand proposed has been an ongoing fight between the two of them. the idea of taking the issue completely out of the hands of military commanders, finding a new way of handling this has been a controversial point. but he said this is an issue he's looking at and it's something that he d