director panetta as well as by the former directors. >> last month, outgoing democratic senator mark udallled for a purge of top cia officials implicated in the abuses and the ensuing cover-up, including current director john brennan. in stark language, udall accused the cia of lying. >> the cia has lied to us overseers in the public destroyed and try to hold back evidence, spied on the senate made false charges against our staff, and lied about torture and the results of torture. and no one has been held to account. they are, right now, people serving in high-level positions at the agency approved, directed, or committed acts related to the cia's detention and interrogation program. it is bad enough not to prosecute these officials, but to reward or promote them and risk the integrity of the u.s. government to protect them is income brings up all -- incomprehensible. he president needs to purchase a ministration of high-level officials who were instrumental in the development and running of this program. >> that is outgoing democratic senator mark udall. do you think john brennan should b

-- there are two of them and i keep forgetting which is which mark udall got off on this women's rights women's issues things and overkill of his own position, and i think that really helped. i would go back to some of the planes i said, grassroots recruitment involvement in all of the various communities you can get involved in not just during election time coming and i think there is certainly a sizable population growing in colorado and i would be looking for individuals that are possible candidates from that community. outreach to the civic organizations and religious organizations and the hispanic community now not just election time and finding some of the key people that could be recruited. whether we like it or not we are all ideological and think in terms of conservatism. sometimes you have to remember the average voter looks at elections in a much broader way and it may be racial ethnic religious, other factors that cause people to vote for someone and therefore if you can't attract someone from that community to be a candidate, you are going to get not only to people that wou

mentioned our bill follows directly from the work of the last congress of our former colleague senator mark udall and also our new colleague senator gardner and my home state of new mexico some of you know, ranks seventh in the nation right now in gas production. the main gas producing region in new mexico is the san juan basin in the northwest part of the city around the city of farmington, as tech. the good news is, we have large reserves of natural gas. however the current surge in gas production has depressed prices to less than $3 billion per million btu negatively impacting the economies of doemsics gas producing regions, including northwestern new mexico. i fully support the measured and cautious approach being taken by secretary moniz, and assistant secretary smith at the department of energy. it makes sense for d.o.e. to complete its review of an application for exports to non-fta countries only after the nipa review has been completed. in addition, recent studies show that the industry can fully support modest levels of exports of lng with minimal impacts on consumers while boosting the

co-sponsoring this current legislation were involved in those efforts as was our former colleague, senator mark udall. i think we would all recognize that this legislation in front of us, ds-33 is a xromcompromise. imperfect in certain ways. but i do think it is the result of some very serious work by very serious people coming together to try to address an issue. i thank my cleegszolleagues for all that they have done together on this. i will turn to my ranking member for comments. >> thank you. as you said, we're on the floor on a pretty serious policy discussion on energy and we're having this hearing this morning. i think it is obvious to everybody we're two female committee chairs but we also have two female staff directors. i think the fact we're having this hearing and the floor debate at the same time just shows we are capable of multi-tasking when it comes to energy policy. makes for a busy day. at this hearing we are here to discuss s-33. that is a bill to seek accelerated and more certainty to the process of determining natural gas exports. and whether they are in the public interest. as w

when i was in the house of representatives from 1998 to 2008 me and my cousin mark udall work on a renewable electricity standard in the house and for the first time we were able to get a bill through the house of representatives. so our big challenge was, we were never able to match up the house bill and the senate bill and put in place something that a president can sign and have a national standard. and so that's where we are today. we've had good support for this and really what this amendment would do is set up a national marketplace. and many states across the nation in many every state has renewable energy. if you go into the south it may be more biomass than it is solar. if you go into the west and midwest, it may be more wind than solar. and it depends on the location. but the thipg thing that's clear from all the experts that have looked at this is that it is easy to really focus on when you have a goal and you say -- in the case of this amendment by 2025, let's get 25% of our energy from renewable sources. so if you have a goal like that, you can get there. and so i'm urging every

mark udall talked about his loss and said that the citizens have spoken, the. him -- the bastards. [laughter] people have to further members to do the right thing and recognize that people are really of two minds. some people say hypothetically do the right thing, but really they want you to vote the way they want you to. you are a leader and have to stick your neck out. ultimately that is what it comes down to. character, courage, integrity. >> fortunately, a large percentage -- i would say a majority of the members of congress, regardless of prior -- regardless of party, try to do the right thing. their conscience is significantly strong enough. for -- tarp was enormously unpopular. you are all too young. this was the decision on the part of the treasury department to pledge 700 alien dollars in support of the financial system. an attack as a bailout for big banks by the far right and far left. secretary paulson, the secretary of the treasury, came before congress, but then ben bernanke, the chairman of the federal reserve system, said that we had four days before the entire fina

vertically to the work in the last congress of the last congress of the former colleague senator mark udall and in the house also by house also by the new colleague senator gartner. my home state of new mexico some of you know ranks second in the nation right now and gas production. the main gas producing region is to stay in the northwest part of the state. the good news is we have large reserves of natural gas. however the current surge in gas production the gas production has decreased prices to less than $3. negatively impacting the economies of the domestic gas producing regions including northwestern new mexico. i support the measured and cautious approach being taken by the secretary and the assistant secretary at the department of energy it makes sense to complete the review of an application for exports to the country's only after the review has been completed. recent studies show the industry can fully support the modest levels of export with minimal impact on consumers while boosting the nation's economic output and jobs in the states like senator barrasso and mine. i cosponsored

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