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hoeven: mr. president, i join my colleague from north dakota today to honor a brave young man, officer jason david mosure, who made the ultimate sacrifice for his community. jason mosure was an officer since 2009 with the fargo police department. died in the line of duty two weeks ago today while responding to a domestic violence report. it is a tragedy that he was torn from his family and his friends and torn from his life while protecting the lives of others. he dedicated himself to serving our state, and we are all grateful for his commitment to devoting his energy and talents to serve as a member of the fargo police department. while at his funeral earlier this week, i appreciated the opportunity to learn more about the person jason was and the life that he lived. from his youth, he led a life of continuous service, service with the national guard as a combat medic for eight years, service in bosnia, service in iraq, and until his passing, service to the people of fargo as a policeman. in 201
hoeven: mr. president, i join my colleague from north dakota today to honor a brave young man, officer jason david mosure, who made the ultimate sacrifice for his community. jason mosure was an officer since 2009 with the fargo police department. died in the line of duty two weeks ago today while responding to a domestic violence report. it is a tragedy that he was torn from his family and his friends and torn from his life while protecting the lives of others. he dedicated himself to serving...
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mission may be getting broader because of the challenges that we face today and i share chairman hoeven's concern about the administration's request which really reduces funding for the department by about $40.5 billion for operations in 2017. now i guess i have several concerns about this. first has to do also with the proposed $909 million in fees that have not yet been authorized. and while i appreciate that that's an important potential source of revenue, i think the politics of trying to get that done are really questionable. second, i'm concerned about the reductions in the budget for fema's state and local grant programs. they were priority of the administration a year ago, and yet they've been reduced by about 20%. and finally, the proposal suggests that we are going to rescind $120 million from emergency disaster loans that cbo is -- at least in our interpretation -- is not likely to allow us to take as a discretionary offset. so this means we start this budget prois es with a hole of about $1.5 billion, i think. so i'm hoping that you can share some insights into how you made th
mission may be getting broader because of the challenges that we face today and i share chairman hoeven's concern about the administration's request which really reduces funding for the department by about $40.5 billion for operations in 2017. now i guess i have several concerns about this. first has to do also with the proposed $909 million in fees that have not yet been authorized. and while i appreciate that that's an important potential source of revenue, i think the politics of trying to...
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and last spring senator hoeven and i had the opportunity to go down to our southern border and meet with customs and border patrol in laredo and watched some of the dogs in action as they were trying to find drugs being smuggled across the border. i remember very vividly a conversation with cbp what they talked about drugs coming across the southern border and going up to the interstate, up 95 which is how they get to new hampshire and then up 35 across the middle of the country. obviously, we've got to confront this crisis on many fronts, but one piece of it is the interdiction of drugs and the challenges that cbp and coast guard are facing as if you look at how to keep those drugs from coming across the border. so can you first talk about whether there are other things come you just mentioned you think we are about right in terms of cbp guards. can you talk about what additional role they might be able to play in interdiction and whether the budget is there to support that role? >> i also believe there's a role for homeland security investigations. investigations. >> absolutely. i shou
and last spring senator hoeven and i had the opportunity to go down to our southern border and meet with customs and border patrol in laredo and watched some of the dogs in action as they were trying to find drugs being smuggled across the border. i remember very vividly a conversation with cbp what they talked about drugs coming across the southern border and going up to the interstate, up 95 which is how they get to new hampshire and then up 35 across the middle of the country. obviously,...
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we agreed to a new oil and gas permitting pilot program, one of several ideas that senator hoeven contributede took a proposal from senator collins to boost the efficiency of schools. we agreed to approve our nation's cybersecurity based on legislation from senators risch and senator heinrich. we also made innovation a key priority to promote the development of new technologies. and as part of that, we agreed to reauthorize many of the energy-related portions of the american kapitz act. we agreed to take commonsense steps to promote geothermal energy, which is a key issue to senator wyden, certainly myself and so many others. we agreed to promote vehicle innovation based on a bipartisan measure from our friends from michigan, senators peters, senator stabenow and senator alexander. we agreed to reauthorize the coal r&d program at the department of energy based on yet another bipartisan proposal from senator manchin, capito and portman. and in the context of our broader bill, and only in the context of the broader bill, we also agreed to reauthorize and reform the land and water conservation f
we agreed to a new oil and gas permitting pilot program, one of several ideas that senator hoeven contributede took a proposal from senator collins to boost the efficiency of schools. we agreed to approve our nation's cybersecurity based on legislation from senators risch and senator heinrich. we also made innovation a key priority to promote the development of new technologies. and as part of that, we agreed to reauthorize many of the energy-related portions of the american kapitz act. we...
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hoeven: i rise in support of pending legislation to sanction the regime of north korea for its belligerent behavior towards the united states and its neighbors. today the senate takes up a bill to increase sanctions on north korea. most americans would be surprised, i think, to learn that it's still possible to increase and strengthen sanctions on north korea. in fact, while we've had certain sanctions on north korea in place for many years, these sanctions have never been as strong as they could be and should be. that's what we're about here today. we're now dealing with the third generation of dictators in kim jong-un, who is proving to be as disastrous as his infamous father and grandfather. kim-il song, the founder of the kim regime. the kim family has done whatever it thought necessary to stay in power, including the use of criminal enterprise to raise revenues and engage in systematic human rights abuses against its own people. the legislation before us today requires the president to sanction anyone contributing to north korea's weapons program, money laundering activities and human
hoeven: i rise in support of pending legislation to sanction the regime of north korea for its belligerent behavior towards the united states and its neighbors. today the senate takes up a bill to increase sanctions on north korea. most americans would be surprised, i think, to learn that it's still possible to increase and strengthen sanctions on north korea. in fact, while we've had certain sanctions on north korea in place for many years, these sanctions have never been as strong as they...
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maybe we'll get one from the north dakota senator john hoeven who is joining us live this morning.ave you, senator. you sit on the senate energy committee. >> right. sandra: what do you make of this new proposal for an oil tax? >> well i think senator rubio had it about right. it is a bad idea. certainly not boeing anywhere in congress -- going anywhere. sandra: any point talking about it? we're talking about a proposal for a new oil tax while looking at oil at $30 a barrel, historically low. are we looking at the administration trying to take advantage of that low oil price environment by proposing this tax right now? >> i think both marco and your analysts had it right. makes no sense to put $10 tax per barrel on oil at a time when our companies are fighting in a global competition to just stay in business. and, so i mean you're talking, not only loss of jobs, not only hurting economic growth, you're talking about impact to consumers at the pump. they're going to pay more and what happens of course if our companies are put out of business, we go back to relying on opec and russia
maybe we'll get one from the north dakota senator john hoeven who is joining us live this morning.ave you, senator. you sit on the senate energy committee. >> right. sandra: what do you make of this new proposal for an oil tax? >> well i think senator rubio had it about right. it is a bad idea. certainly not boeing anywhere in congress -- going anywhere. sandra: any point talking about it? we're talking about a proposal for a new oil tax while looking at oil at $30 a barrel,...