markey: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. markey: may i ask a parliamentary inquiry and it would be this. would it be possible for me to speak for five minutes and reserve the balance of my time and have the senator from north dakota speak and then i can reclaim the remainder of my time? the presiding officer: that will take consent. mr. hoeven: without objection. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. markey: mr. president we are about to engage in an historic debate, and that is over whether or not the canadians, a canadian oil company, should be allowed to take the dirtiest oil in the world, the canadian tar sands oil, to have the united states accede to the construction of a pipeline like a straw through our country which would then go down to the gulf of mexico with no promise from the canadians that they will not export the oil from the united states. so the issue which is raised, of course is what's in it for th

markey: mr. president? mr. president? mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to be recognized for one minute. the presiding officer: is there objection? there's a unanimous consent request. is there objection? ms. murkowski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: inquiry here, is the question from the senator from massachusetts to speak to this amendment for one minute? what is the inquiry? the presiding officer: the senator is requesting unanimous consent to speak for one minute. ms. murkowski: without objection. the presiding officer: without objection, the senator from massachusetts is recognized. mr. markey: thank you mr. president, very much. this is a motion to table the markey amendment which is an amendment to have every member of the senate be put on record on whether or not the oil coming through the keystone pipeline is then exported out of the united states. and each member of the senate should be recorded on that issue. we import 5 million barrels of oil per day into the uni

. >> tonight, janet markey president and ceo of the national council of la raza, on the state of hispanics in america, immigration reform, and her personal story. >> i have had the great privilege of experiencing the american dream in this country. born in kansas. my parents actually came to this country in the very early 1950's. my parents came from mexico with no money and very little education.

senator markey? >> thank you, mr. chairman, very much.e heard that the right agreement here includes a one-year breakout period of duration of 15 to 20 years would be the agreement. now, the iraq reactor would be neutralized. and there would be a full scope safe guards under the additional protocol. those are the highlights the way i understand it. are the iranians willing to give up the heavy water reactor at iraq? >> senator, i think you've covered many of the key details that would be required. there's some others. the short answer is, that unless iraq is neutralized so that it is not able to produce plutonium that can be reprocessed for a weapon we don't have a deal. there are different ways of doing that. one of the things that our negotiators are looking at, and the folks who -- the scientists who know the technical details, are the different ways of doing that. that's part of the negotiations. but the bottom line is absent satisfaction on iraq we will not have a deal. >> have they agreed to take iraq's heavy water processing capaci

senator markey? >> thank you, mr. chairman. now, i've heard that the right agreement here includes a one-year breakout period of duration of 15 to 20 years would be the agreement. now, the iraq reactor would be neutralized. and there would be a full scope safe guards under the additional protocol. those are the highlights the way i understand it. are the iranians willing to give up the heavy water reactor at alack? >> senator, i think you've covered many of the key details that would be required. there's some others. the short answer is, unless iraq is neutralized so that it is not able to produce plutonium that can be reprocessed for a weapon we don't have a deal. there are different ways of doing that. one of the things that our negotiators are looking at, and the folks who -- the scientists who know the technical details are the different ways of doing that. that's part of the negotiations. but the bottom line is absent satisfaction on iraq we will not have a deal. >> have they agreed to take iraq's heavy water processing ca

markey: thank you mr. president. my amendment is very simple. it would require that before the keystone x.l. pipeline is deemed approved that we should determine whether carbon pollution, including the carbon pollution from the tar sands oil production, will contribute to an increase in more extreme weather events. we should know if carbon pollution is going to put another climate change card in a deck that is already stacked for more extreme rainfall and snowfall and for more dangerously hot summer days. since 2010, there have been 49 weather and climate disasters in our country that caused at least $1 billion in damages across the united states. we should not be making energy policy decisions that increase the risk of costly extreme weather events. i urge an aye vote. ms. murkowski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: mr. president, i would suggest that this amendment is designed to yet further delay this pipeline. it requires that a study be done by all federal agencies wi

senator kirk voted in the house for the waxman-markey cap and trade bill. senator flake wrote articles supporting a carbon fee as long as the taxes were reduced elsewhere to offset the increased revenue from the carbon fee. and on and on. my first exposure to this was the warner-lieberman bill and the warner was a republican senator, john warner. well that's been awhile. since 2010 the year that citizens united was decided this honest debate about how we address this problem for the benefits of the american people has flatlined. now, since 2010, the climate evidence has only become stronger. nasa and noaa just officially declared 2014 the hottest year ever recorded. ever. easily breaking the previous records the agency said. but as the climate alarm bells grow louder, as the he earth sends her signals to us through our scientists, through their measurements about what is happening to the oceans, measuring the acidification in our oceans, about what's happening in our atmosphere, measuring the carbon concentrations in the atmosphere atmosphere, as all that i

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markey's attention.ing the presiding officer scripted announcements of it comes the vote or here's what we're voting on. he advises the presiding officer on what to do next what's the next thing that is a parliamentary border us back into his right? >> guest: i believe that is the journal clerk who helps keep the proceedings and runs the system by which the transcription of the senate proceedings are taken. again this is a picture. this is a picture when no vote is about to happen. soak in the empty chair would be the tally clerk the person who calls out the role. you always hear the tones where what are they going to quorum call the person whose first any of it, i do who will be in the new congress, i would have to stop and think about that gets his or her name called out and then they slowly slowly slowly call the roll but when an voters happened to the ones that are in charge of the hubbub of both calling the roll and simultaneous calling the roll members can go and get that person's attention at vote

markey: i thank you mr. president. mr. president, the -- the issue that we are going to be debating over the next two weeks here in the united states is really a story about two gasoline stations. in july of 2008, the average price of gasoline in america was was $4.11 a gallon. in january 2015, in the united states of america the price is is $2.21 a gallon. now, that's great for every driver across our country. that's great actually, for americans that buy home heating oil. they're saving a lot of money this winter and the predictions are that it will continue throughout the rest of this year. that's great. however, it is not great for the oil companies. it is not great for the canadians. it's not great for wall street. they're not happy with this incredible benefit that is now flowing to americans all across our country who now have a gasoline station ha-has $2.21 on average as what -- as to what people will pay. so what does the keystone keystone x.l. pipeline really stand for? well it really stands for the keystone expo

markey: i thank you mr. president. mr. president, the -- the issue that we are going to be debating over the next two weeks here in the united states is really a story about two gasoline stations. in july of 2008, the average price of gasoline in america was was $4.11 a gallon. in january 2015, in the united states of america the price is is $2.21 a gallon. now, that's great for every driver across our country. that's great actually, for americans that buy home heating oil. they're saving a lot of money this winter and the predictions are that it will continue throughout the rest of this year. that's great. however, it is not great for the oil companies. it is not great for the canadians. it's not great for wall street. they're not happy with this incredible benefit that is now flowing to americans all across our country who now have a gasoline station ha-has $2.21 on average as what -- as to what people will pay. so what does the keystone keystone x.l. pipeline really stand for? well it really stands for the keystone expo

markey: i thank you mr. president, very much and i thank the gentlelady from washington for her great leadership on this issue. we are having the beginning of an historic debate here on the floor of the united states senate. we're debating whether or not the dirtiest oil in the world the tar sands from canada, are going to be brought through the united states in a pipeline like a straw and brought right down to port arthur, texas to a tax-free export zone so that it can be exported out of the united states. what's in it for our country? well when you think about it, we're going to take the environmental risk, but the benefits flow to the canadian company. the benefits flow to the oil companies. but this whole argument that it deals with american energy independence well, that's just false. and the way in which we're going to ensure that we are protected is that we're going to bring an amendment out here on to the senate floor to debate whether or not this oil should stay in the united states. we export young

markey, proposes an amendment numbered 141. mr. markey: markey: madam president i thank you. and the subject matter of these two amendments is, number one that the canadian oil company that wants to build a pipeline through our country right now is exempt from having to pay taxes into the oil spill liability fund. in other words if there's an actual accident in the united states the oil pipe breaks, something happens the canadians will not have paid in to the oil spill liability fund the way every american company has to, every pipeline company has to. so my first amendment would just say that they cannot be exempt from that and the hundreds of millions of dollars which they are responsible for would have to be put into the trust fund. and on the second amendment that's an extreme weather amendment. and that amendment would basically call for requirement an analysis of the impact that global warming pollution would have from the tar sands pollution. and that we have to have that scientific analysis just so that we can understand it and its impact on extreme weather events in

markey's attention.dslt> of the parliamentarian, he is the parliamentarian and just like we talked about in the house, he has some script sheets and he'll hand the officer scripted announcement, here comes the vote or here's what we're voting on and advises the presiding officer on what to do next, what is the next thing in proper parliamentary order. >> to his right? >> and to his right i believe that is the journal clerk who helps keeps the proceedings and runs the system by which the transcription of the senate again this is a picture, this is a picture when no vote is about to happen, so again the empty chair would be the tally clerk, the person who calls out the role, you know, you always hear g sonerous tones whenever they go into a quorum call. the person first in the alphabet, i don't know who it will be in the new congress, i haven't stopped to think about that, gets his or her called out and they slowly, slowly, slowly call the roll. when an actual vote is happening they're in charge of the hub

markey's attention. he is the senatorial equivalent of the parliamentarian. he has some scripts sheets but he -- you will see him handing the presiding officer scripted announcements of the vote coming up on or what they are voting on and he advises the presiding officer and what to do next and what's the next thing that's proper parliamentary order. host: two is right? guest: that is the journal clerk who helps keep the proceedings and runs the system by which the transcription of the senate proceedings are taken. this is a picture when no vote is about to happen. the empty chair would be the tally clerk, the person who calls out the role. you always hear the sonorous tones whenever they go into a quorum call. the person who is first in the alphabet, i don't know who it will be in the new congress but he gets his or her name called out and they slowly call the roll. when an actual vote is happening, they are the ones in charge of the hubbub of calling the role and simultaneously calling the role members can get that person's attention and vote even when her

markey: thank you madam president. madam president, when the new congress opens there's a choice as to which issues we should start to work on. would it be infrastructure jobs, clean energy jobs, minimum wage increase for all of america? no. no, that is not what the new majority decides to bring up. no. instead, it is a canadian oil export pipeline. so next week, i am going to offer an amendment that the senate will consider that asks whether we will put americans first or oil companies first whether we will keep this oil and gasoline here for americans or send it to foreign nations to help them instead? if my amendment is defeated, it will make clear that this is not an energy plan that is all of the above. it is oil above all. my amendment says that if we build the keystone keystone pipeline, we keep that oil here, we keep that oil here. we keep the diesel, the jet fuel the heating oil we keep it all all here. because if we send it abroad? what are we doing? we're helping canadian oil companies get a higher price for

. >> tonight, janet markey president and ceo of the national council of la raza, on the state of hispanics in america, immigration reform, and her personal story. >> i have had the great privilege of experiencing the american dream in this country. born in kansas. my parents actually came to this country in the very early 1950's. my parents came from mexico with no money and very little education. my dad had an eighth grade education, my mom, a fifth-grade education, and yet, they believed in the promise of this country. they worked really hard and sacrificed, as so many latinos and hispanics have done in this country, because they wanted that better future for their children, and they believed in the promise of this country. they talked us important values that have been our guide for our lives, me and my siblings, my six brothers and sisters. they taught us the importance of family, faith, community hard work, sacrifice, honesty integrity. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." next on american history tv, researcher peter kornbluh discusses president kennedy's attempt

senator markey? >> thank you, mr. chairman.ow, i've heard that the right agreement here includes a one-year breakout period of duration of 15 to 20 years would be the agreement. now, the iraq reactor would be neutralized. and there would be a full scope safe guards under the additional protocol. those are the highlights the way i understand it. are the iranians willing to give up the heavy water reactor at alack? >> senator, i think you've covered many of the key details that would be required. there's some others. the short answer is, unless iraq is neutralized so that it is not able to produce plutonium that can be reprocessed for a weapon we don't have a deal. there are different ways of doing that. one of the things that our negotiators are looking at, and the folks who -- the scientists who know the technical details are the different ways of doing that. that's part of the negotiations. but the bottom line is absent satisfaction on iraq we will not have a deal. >> have they agreed to take iraq's heavy water processing capa

whilst here you we will have a lot of debates on for example, waxman markey climate change, a democrat or republican would vote for it, it whilst you would have those kinds of debates and australia, everyone in the labor party will vote for it. whilst our conservative parties maintain a fiction of freedom to cross the aisle, you aisle, you want to in reality block votes all the time. the only limited examples of people just individually voting on some conscious questions that are defined as conscience questions, things like abortion and same-sex marriage or you get people making individual decisions and mosaics of political party members sitting for one proposition or another. my task was to add enough independents to get the votes. i needed to get for. in the first instance we negotiated with the green political party. that that required me to be satisfied that they could be welded in a way that would keep him on the straight and narrow. they wanted to enjoy power power, and i would never do that, but we were able to negotiate policy issues and carbon pricing was one we could work thr

markey: thank you madam president. madam president, when the new congress opens there's a choice as to which issues we should start to work on. would it be infrastructure jobs, clean energy jobs, minimum wage increase for all of america? no. no, that is not what the new majority decides to bring up. no. instead, it is a canadian oil export pipeline. so next week, i am going to offer an amendment that the senate will consider that asks whether we will put americans first or oil companies first whether we will keep this oil and gasoline here for americans or send it to foreign nations to help them instead? if my amendment is defeated, it will make clear that this is not an energy plan that is all of the above. it is oil above all. my amendment says that if we build the keystone keystone pipeline, we keep that oil here, we keep that oil here. we keep the diesel, the jet fuel the heating oil we keep it all all here. because if we send it abroad? what are we doing? we're helping canadian oil companies get a higher price for

so whilst here you will have lots of debates about whether, you know, on, for example waxman-markey climate change, whether a democrat would vote for it, whether a republican would vote for it, whilst you will have those kinds of debates in australia a proposition in everybody in the labour party will vote for it. and whilst we maintain a freedom of crossing the aisles in reality they block vote all the time too. the only limited examples of people just individually voting are on some conscience questions that are defined as conscience questions, things like abortion and same-sex marriage where you'll get people making individual decisions, and you'll get mosaics of, you know, a political party members sitting for one proposition or another. so, i mean my task in the 17 days given we didn't have enough labour members to form a government was to add enough independents to our pile to get the votes. i needed to get four. in the first instance, we negotiated with the greens political party which sits to our left and is, you know highly focused on protest politics and environmental politics. th

senator mark kirk voted for waxman-markey when that bill was up on the floor of the house the famous cap-and-trade bill. senator flake wrote an article in his home state paper expressing the value and merit of a carbon fee when it's offset by reductions in other taxes as a way to help workers and address the pollution problem. over and over again, there were these joint actions all the way back to when i first came to the e.p.w. committee and senator john warner was its then-ranking member and he wrote warner-lieberman when our colleague then, senator lieberman. then came citizens united, then came the massive influx of polluter money into our political system, much of it dark money. and at about the spring of 2010 and citizens united was decided in january of 2010, that was the end of the conversation. and so here we are today. we are just now reaching an agreement on several votes by which i believe our republican colleagues will for the first time since citizens united -- some of them at least -- acknowledge that climate change is real. indeed we just heard my friend senator graha

. >> the presiding officer, who in that picture, is ed markey. that is a typical picture.ke in the house, with the speaker of the house has enormous power and how he or she rules from the chair has an enormous amount to do with how the day goes. in the senate, the rules are so fundamentally different that the presiding officer has minimal power. it is sort of a thankless task, but it is a side to members of the majority party who are brand_new. so the next years, we'll see all the new freshmen senators __ i think there are 11 freshmen republican senators. they will all take turns sitting up there. they cannot really do anything else then sign letters, sign autographs. but they do run the process. in several of them say that they become procedural experts by sitting up in a chair. so in that close in chat community the man right to add markey's front __ right there __ she is the senatorial equivalent of the parliamentarian. see, just like we talked about in the house, has some script sheets. you will see him handing the presiding officer scripted announcements. he also advi

senator mark kirk voted for waxman-markey when that bill was up on the floor of the house the famouscap-and-trade bill. senator flake wrote an article in his home state paper expressing the value and merit of a carbon fee when it's offset by reductions in other taxes as a way to help workers and address the pollution problem. over and over again, there were these joint actions all the way back to when i first came to

markey: thank you madam president. madam president, when the new ngress onshere's >> mdm.dam president, when the new congress opens there is choice as to which issues we should start to work on, infrastructure jobs, clean energy jobs minimum wage increase for all of america, no. that is not what the new majority decides to bring up instead it is a canadian oil export pipeline. so next week i am going to offer an amendment that the senate will consider task whether we we will put americans 1st oral company's first whether we we will keep the soil and gasoline here for americans or send it to foreign nations. if my amendment is defeated it we will make clear that this is not an energy plan that is all the above. it is oil above all. if if we build the keystone pipeline, we keep that oil here keep that gasoline here, keep the diesel, the jet the jet fuel the heating oil keep it all here because if we send to the broad what are we doing? are helping where helping canadian oil companies get a higher price for a world of acting as the middleman between 34 and dirty foreign oil a

senator markey. >> thank you, mr. chairman.his first and most important hearing that we'll be discussing. and i know that you and the ranking member boxer are working closely together to advance this legislation. and i think that if we do it correctly, we can have a great success this year. and i thank you for your work on it. mr. secretary, if i may, i'd like to talk first of all, transit oriented development. you came up to the rugel station in boston. and we're having great success there, with the help of the federal government to encourage development in an area that historically has been undeserved but which has the potential to be explosive in terms of the growth and the use of public transportation. could you talk a little bit about that? and the role that the congress can play in partnership with the department of transportation to continue to advance it and what role do you see that in terms of it being built into the legislation that we're considering? >> well, thank you very much. it's a very exciting project in bost

markey: and i think that this is the kind of debate that the american people expect the united states senate to engage in. and i yield back the balance of my time. mr. sanders: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: thank you mr. president. mr. president, i request floor privileges for my science policy fellow adria wilson, and ask unanimous consent that she be granted floor privileges throughout the remainder of the session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sanders: thank you mr. president. mr. president, the truth is despite our rather big egos here in the united states senate, much of what we do here is pretty quickly forgotten. people have a hard time remembering what we did two months ago or yesterday let alone last year. but i have a feeling that the bill that we are now discussing -- the keystone pipeline -- and decisions that will be made about that bill will not soon be forgotten not by our children or our grandchildren and not by people throughout the world. and in fact, not by history. in fact, i believe that decades from n

yet when we offered an amendment, senator markey of massachusetts offered an amendment to say keep the products coming from the keystone pipeline in the united states, the republicans to a person voted "no" and then senator franken came forward and said well, let's agree that if this is about jobs and america that the keystone pipeline will use american steel. that seems reasonable to me, and i voted for it. the republicans voted "no." they defeated the notion that we would use american steel to build this pipeline. this pipeline is senate bill 1 for the senate republicans. it is their highest priority. you would think if it truly is a jobs bill they would want american steel to be used to build the pipeline. let our steel mills build this pipeline in the future. create the jobs in america. and they voted "no." yesterday i offered an amendment as well. we know at the end of this pipeline if tar sands reach the united states through this means or otherwise it's a pretty nasty process taking the tar and sand out of the oil. and what's left over is a nasty product known as petcoke. petcok

senator markey is familiar with this. 27 times this nags has approved -- this nation has approved a one, two, three agreement with another nation under civil nuclear arrangements. y'all reach an agreement with a country and we approve it. secretary kerry came in and said he wants to make sure any agreement that happens passes muster with congress. i'd like to understand today how you'd like to see us pass muster. one way to do it is an up or down vote. i know there's been a lot of discussions. i know senator menendez will speak to this. a lot of discussions about what we might do and might not do. i've talked to prime minister cameron. i talked to the uk -- excuse me, european union negotiator last night in my office. some of us were in israel this weekend over this very same issue. we have heard no one, no one say that if congress were to weigh in on the final agreement, it would have anything -- it would in any way destabilize negotiations. as a matter of fact, we understand iran's parliament may have to approve their agreement. so i hope today you'll share with us the appropriate rol

markey of massachusetts. mr. mcconnell of kentucky. the vice president: please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic; that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god? the group: i do. the vice president: congratulations. the vice president: the clerk will read the names of the next group. the clerk: mr. merkley of oregon. mr. perdue of georgia. mr. peters of michigan. mr. reed of rhode island. the vice president: please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic; that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you takthis obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpos

senator schatz and senator markey two democrats had had never gotten a vote on one of their amendments in the senate before republicans gave them a vote last week. senator coons will get his first vote on an amendment today. now, all of these amendments aren't the only way the senate is working again for the american people. another example is going to happen on thursday. the energy and natural resources committee is going to hold a hearing on a bill that i introduced earlier this month. we've got four republican sponsors on that bill and four democrat sponsors, senators heinrich kaine and and now senator toomey, a republican, has added on and senator udall so now there are five democrat and five republican cosponsors. this is an idea the house passed last year with bipartisan support. 46 democrats voted in favor of increasing exports of liquefied natural gas. the house is expected to vote and pass a bill like this this week. this is an idea that has bipartisan support in the senate as well. so it should be a no-brainer. plans to send american energy overseas are wrapped up in washingt

senator markey. >> thank you, mr. chairman. congratulations to you on this first and most important hearing that we'll be discussing. and i know that you and the ranking member boxer are working closely together to advance this legislation. and i think that if we do it correctly, we can have a great success this year. and i thank you for your work on it. mr. secretary, if i may, i'd like to talk first of all, transit oriented development. you came up to the rugel station in boston. and we're having great success there, with the help of the federal government to encourage development in an area that historically has been underserved, but which has the potential to be explosive in terms of the growth and the use of public transportation. could you talk a little bit about that? and the role that the congress can play in partnership with the department of transportation to continue to advance it, and what role do you see that in terms of it being built into the legislation that we're considering? >> well, thank you very much. it's

school or a new bridge or a new rail line dwarfs that of a pipeline that without the adoption of the markey amendment to be offered later is quite possible just taking oil from one company sending it through the united states to another country never mind all the environmental side effects of continuing to develop this oil. so i'm going to oppose the underlying bill but i'm here to speak in support of senator franken's amendment because if we are going to approve this pipeline, let's do everything that we can to make sure that even though we're only going to create 40 full-time jobs that we're creating as many part-time jobs as possible. that's why it just makes sense to require that the iron and steel that are going into this pipeline come from america. and we know that we need to pass this amendment because keystone has already promised that half of the steel and half of the iron is going to come from overseas companies. 330,000 tons of pipeline is going to come from overseas countries. this process isn't new. we just passed a wrrda bill, bipartisan consensus. buy american provisions were

senator markey of massachusetts offered, and said at the end of the pipeline the refinery's oil products will be sold in america. the republicans defeated that. so all this argument about how this oil out of this pipeline is going to help our economy in the future no, don't expect it to happen. and yesterday's vote overwhelming republican vote made it clear. there was a second part that was considered yesterday. this bill, the number-one priority of the senate republican majority, is going to build a pipeline, that's for sure and we said good. if it's going to be built use american steel in building the pipeline. not an outrageous suggestion. if this is such a priority for the republicans wouldn't they want to put americans to work to make the steel to build the pipeline? we offered that as an amendment yesterday. senator franken offered it. republicans rejected it. the republicans rejected the premise that the steel that goes into the most important pipeline in the history of america from their point of view, should actually come from america. that's the second amendment we considered.

by the way, i should have mentioned earlier in response to several questions including senator markey of the other reasons i don't think countries are going to rush to do what iran did is precisely because of the limitations in terms of tran parent si, inspections monitoring that will be imposed on their nuclear program in the event of some kind of resolution. that's something that, again, most other countries will not want to live with because this would have to go well beyond what's required of other countries. i would just say also very quickly, senator, we share your concerns and the concerns of other members of the committee of iran's actions in other areas. that's precisely why we're vigorously implementing sanctions and taking other actions to push back on efforts to destabilize other countries on their efforts to proliferate and support terrorism. that will not end even if we get an accord with them on the nuclear program. >> senator? >> thank you, mr. chairman. the administration was very clear, mr. cohen, and thank you for being here today at the start that the sanction reli

57 to 42 to reject a measure offered by senator edward kennedy, democrat he had wells fargo bank, markey excuse me democrat of massachusetts which would have forbidden oil shipped through the pipeline to be exported. senators voted 53 to 46 to reject a measure offered by al franken, the democrat of minnesota. >> would have required all steel used to build the pipeline to be made in the united states. senators are expected in the coming weeks to debate and vote on dozens of keystone amendments that cover a variety of energy and climate issues. whatever happens in congress transcapped, the company that is hoping to build the pipeline is moving ahead with its >> plans. the company announced tuesday it had filed the necessary court documents to acquire through imminent domain the alaska land it needs for construction. you can watch that debate on c-span 2. betty in wills point, texas, an independent. hi, there, betty. call call had you row, today? host: doing well. go ahead. caller: i am really concerned about the obamacare that they are talking about. it was to pie understanding that if you

apparently because i went to senator markey first in the senator manchin from massachusetts. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. virginia as you know is a real state and we may not be there to be honest with you that we have 2200 so we appreciate the opportunities. that being said i look at different things in the pipeline senator markey just mentioned into some of the in some of the concerns we have and the dangers of making it safer but with the pipeline iab leave and everyone here believes it will be built we just don't know when it will be built. that being said how is it affecting the railroads because i know to be able to handle 800,000 pills a day the pipeline will take that away from the revenue and you will be building up the infrastructure for that. is that the model or the plan or how do you all prepare for that? if i could ask everybody to chime in here. >> thank you, senator we are supporters in west virginia as you know. the industry by and large is growing. it would grow nearly 100% by 2025 so there is ample growth in many different markets in order to handle the capac

markey: i thank the senator from california, and i -- i thank the senator and i thank her for takingme to have this very important discussion here this afternoon. last thursday night the majority decided that they would not allow for a debate on an amendment i was propounding that would have imposed a tax upon the canadian oil as it is being transported through this proposed pipeline in the eventuality of an oil spill that the canadians would have to have contributed to. and the majority did not make it possible for me to speak for even one minute on insuring that the canadians had to pay the tax in the event that there was an oil spill with their oil in the united states of america. while americans would have to do so. but here's the question i'm going to propound to the senator from california. right now we know that there is increasing carbon pollution in the atmosphere, which stacks the decks, increasing the chances that our country our planet would draw an extreme weather joker that would have catastrophic consequences for our country or for any other place in the world. and we

markey: mr. president. the presiding officer: yes there is. the janes are ordered. mr. markey: i ask unanimous consent that be allow one minute to speak on its amendment before it is voted on. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. mcconnell: i object. mr. markey: parliamentary inquiry, mr. president. mr. durbin: i suggest the absence of a quorum. mr. markey: parliamentary inquiry, mr. president. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. vote: the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. the clerk will continue to call the roll. vote: the presiding officer: is quorum is present. the yeas and nays have been previously ordered on the motion to table. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: any other senators wishing to vote or change their vote? if not the ayes are 53 and the nays 42. the motion to table is agreed to. the senate will be in order. the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i call for the regular order with respect to the carper amendment number 121. the presiding officer: the amendment is now pending. mr. mcconne

markey, proposes amendment number 25. mr. markey: i ask that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. markey: and i ask that the amendment be put in order for debate. ms. murkowski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: mr. president we now have in front of us six amendments that are pending on the republican side, six amendments that are pending on the other side of the aisle. we indicated we wanted to try to get these up alternating back and forth. i think we've got a pretty good range in front of us. and recognizing that it is important that members have an opportunity to take a look at the now 12 amendments that are pending i think it's our hope that we would be able to, as the chairman and the ranking member, sit down and figure out how many of these we might be able to move to a vote this evening dispense with some of them. i think it's pretty clear that we will have a difficult time perhaps advancing such a plan with everything tonight. so if we could have a little bit of time to work through

reed of rhode island 74, flake 103 leahy 30, cruz 15, whitehouse 28 moran 73, carper 121 daines 132, markey 25. further, that all amendments on this list be subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold for adoption, and that no second degrees be in order to the amendments. i ask consent there be two minutes of debate equally divided between each vote and that all votes after the first in the series be ten-minute votes. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. durbin: mr. president reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the assistant democratic leader. mr. durbin: mr. president the majority leader came to the floor this evening and commendedded the senate for the work we have done. he pointed out the constructive, bipartisan good-faith efforts that have been made on both sides. earlier today we disposed of ten separate amendments, five on each side. those amendments were given to us yesterday. during the last 24 hours there's been active negotiation back and forth. in fact, the republican senator from missouri, the republican senator from nebraska asked to modify their ame

markey: thank you mr. president. the amendment offered by the senator from texas is drafted -- a senator: the senate is not in order. the presiding officer: the senator is correct. the senate is not in order. the senator from massachusetts. mr. markey: the amendment by the senator from texas is drafted so broadly that it allows just about every nation which is a member of the world trade organization to automatically receive natural gas exported from the united states of america. the process is just eliminated, automatic. what will that do? one, it will increase prices to american consumers. the energy information agency has already determined that the -- that the l.n.g. export facilities already approved are going to lead to a 50% increase in the price of natural gas here in america. it would jeopardize american manufacturing. we've seen 700,000 new jobs created in the last five years in america largely because of low-priced natural gas. it's going to increase carbon pollution because it's going to slow the pace of