mr. graham: yes, you did. now here we are years later, the families have no clue as to what happened to their loved ones and quit blaming the dead guy. this suggestion that chris stevens had fault for his own death, chris stevens was in benghazi, because that's where he was supposed to be, doing what he was supposed to do, trying to hold libya together. senator ayotte, you have followed this as well as anybody. can you tell us, from your point of view, the unanswered questions and whether or not you think there's evidence that this was a preplanned terrorist attack versus a protest? ms. ayotte: i want to thank my colleagues, the senator south carolina and the senator from arizona, who have been relentless in finding the truth about what happened in benghazi where our ambassador and three brave americans were murdered. let me -- there are so many questions. i would start with the accountability question that the senator from south carolina raised. no one has been held accountab accountable. who's been held acco

mr. graham: i'd be glad to respond to senator mccain. number one, to the average american, i understand being war weary. iraq and afghanistan have been long, difficult wars, cost a lot of money and a lot of american lives. but the point of the war is to make sure that radical islam is contained and eventually defeated and that's going to take an effort on our part. does it matter that the al qaeda flag flies over fallujah and ramadi? i think it does. i think when al qaeda occupies a city anywhere in the world, it potentially affects every city throughout the world. imagine the nazis having come back in germany and occupied part of germany. we didn't let that happen. we had a follow-on force in japan and germany to make sure that the transition from totalitarian, dictatorial states to functioning democracies would occur. we're still in japan and germa germany. we're not taking casualties. to go into the mideast and replace dictatorships and think you can do it just in a matter of months or even a decade i think is probably not going to ho

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mr. graham described as vocal opposition on fox. am concludes, the tone was different in the debate, and noto one-sided. it wasn't amnesty every 15 minutes. think about this. this is a united states senator, served in congress, arguably among the most well known members of the republican caucus. he's going to roger ailes to beg his indulgence. that's just a glimpse of the enormous power of this one individual who oversees a media empire that produces a billion dollars in profits a year, is watched by millions of people, and has completely changed the way american media works, from this building to the "new york times" and everyone in one. joining me is the author of that biography. the graham story is fascinating because there's a question here about, does the gop, is fox a mouthpiece for the gop, or is the gop a mouthpiece for fox? this relationship is fascinating. >> yeah. the idea that a u.s. senator is essentially flacking for a news executive is unprecedented in american culture. i think what it shows is that fox has surpassed t

mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, senator hagan. senator graham. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for having this hearing and all the things you've done over years to keep us focused in congress about what's the right thing to do for our military. i really appreciate your leadership. >> thank you. >> it seems to me, as senator reed said, we've all reached a consensus are that we would like to undo what we all consider to be an unfairness here. as far as timing, i think the sooner the better, and i would just make this observation. senator wicker kind of expressed the idea that nobody thought we would engage in sequestration, but here we are. or so i just think the sooner we can go back to status quo, the better. there's enough anxiety among our military service personnel now. we don't need to add any more. of that'd just be one thing off their plate. that's why i would advocate doing it now. and i'd also like to associate myself with senator kaine, you know, it's good to have a budget. you make mistakes in the budget process but, quite frankly, i'm very pleased with my c

senator graham. >> thank you, mr. chairman. for, one, hosting this hearing. i think most americans are concerned about a lot of things. and syria's hard to get people's attention about. not because americans are hard-hearted but the complicated world in which we live in. hearings like this are very important. i want to compliment the ranking member here. i think he understands exactly what's going on. ms. groom, in 2014, does congress need to do anything pretty soon to make sure that we can achieve our fair share of e refugees in changing the laws? do you have any proposals? >> i don't have any proposals to offer you today. but we have offered to work with the senate -- >> i guess what i'm saying. i don't see a comprehensive immigration bill passing any time soon. so when it comes to changes in our laws, exemptions, if you need something beyond the ability you have within the body that you work, please let us know. because i think a lot of us may have different views about immigration, but would be willing to accommodate some legal changes if it would help ex

mr. hamm is here. graham bernett and amy meyers jaffe is here as well. and daniel weiss, the senior fellow and director of climate at the center for american progress. we welcome all of you and will make your statements part of the record. there is great interest among the senators. mr. hamm go ahead. [turning mike on] >>good morning. chairman wyden, ranking member murkowski and members of the committee: thank you for inviting me to testify before you today. in october 2011, depa put a stake in the ground and predicted american energy independence by 2020.1 america's independent oil and gas producers have unlocked the technology and resources that make this a reality. as a result, we can today mark the recent 40th anniversary of the opec oil embargo by ending the era of oil scarcity in america and, along with it, ending the last of shortsighted regulations passed during that period. the federal laws passed in the 1970s artificially controlled the supply, demand, and price of u.s. energy and brought about unintended consequences. for example, one law even

graham. senator blumenthal. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you both for being here today. thank you both for your extraordinary service. to our nation. i would agree with my good friend, senator graham, in his assessment that we are on a path to repeal the very unfortunate and unwise cola cuts in retiree pensions that were a flaw in the bum agreement. i would disagree with him only on his reference to glide path which implies an ease and unimpeded track that is rarely pound in -- found in the congre. and i think it will take some doing to have of that path achieved, but i think the debate and discussion here this morning, and your testimony's been very helpful to reaching that path which i think we have an obligation to do. i voted for the budget agreement like so many of my colleagues. i did so with the understanding that that flaw would be corrected. and that it would be corrected before the next ndaa, as soon as possible, right away. for all the reasons that you've outlined so well, the effect on the morale and really the dedication of our armed services and the brave me

senator graham. >> thank you mr. chairman one for hosting this hearing. most americans are concerned about a lot of things in syria is hard to get people's attention about not because americans are hardhearted but it's the public hated world in which we live in. i want to compliment my ranking member. i think he understands exactly what's going on. ms. groom in 2014 does congress need to do anything pretty soon to make sure we can achieve our fair share of refugees in changing the laws? do you have any proposals? >> i don't have any proposals to offer you today that we have offered to work with the senate. >> i guess what i'm saying is i don't see a comprehensive immigration bill passing any time soon when it so when it comes to changes in our laws and exceptions if you need something beyond the ability to have within the body that you work, please let us know because i think a lot of us may have different views about immigration but would be willing to accommodate some legal changes if would help expedite this process. that's an opportunity for you. >> a

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. >> republican lindsey graham, who was just in afghanistan, is skeptical that mr. obama is committed to working out a deal to keep at least a small u.s. force to lock in security gains. >> he is awol when it comes to leadership, and when it comes to afghanistan, we have a chance to get that right. he hasn't talked to the afghan president since july. >> carney noted mr. obama briefly exchanged greetings with afghan president hamid karzai at last month's memorial service for nelson mandela. >> how could the two leaders not talk in month? >> they have had discussions in the past. there's not a lot of mystery about our views on this document. >> allies of the president, meanwhile, are raising questions about a curious passage near the end of the book where gates writes the president ended a meeting about iran by warning if anyone was writing memoirs, he had not made a final decision about the matter. gates writing, goat, i was offended by his suspicion that any of us would ever write about such sensitive matters. of course, gates ended up writing about a whole series o

mr. roberts: madam president, earlier today, senators graham and mccain spoke to this issue. i was to speak at that time. i had a conflict, so my remarks certainly are pertinent to the issue that they talked about. madam president, it has been an agonizing 16 months, but this week, through the investigation efforts of the house armed services committee, the senate intelligence committee, we have learned that circumstances surrounding the terrorist attacks on our u.s. consulate at benghazi and the murder of four americans, as told by this administration, simply are not factual. a year of news reporting and these congressional findings confirm an egregious disconnect between what the administration has alleged and the facts of what happened. as we say in kansas, simply put, "it just doesn't add up." we now know this tragedy did not have to havmen happen, and most certainly the hard-to-understand actions and behaviors of those involved have added unneeded hubris, scandal, and conduct difficult to comprehend. this is a mess that still has to be cleaned up. it demands clarity, hon

congresswoman collins, all the women, deborah graham and emma mitts, representative camille lily, viola thomas, senator pelt, commissioner mcgowan. ms. lillian drummond, mrs. wear, mrs. irene norwood, representative collins. mrs. davis. mrs. boone. deeds, olph record of mayor perkins of maywood, illinois. ms. barbara miner, ms. gus cunningham and countless other women who have provided leadership and have been actively involved in the struggle for self-direction, community improvement and self-determination. erlene went to city hall, the state house and the white house. through her interactions, she walked with kings and queens but never lost the common touch. erlene's two main issues were health care and education. she was a founding member of the mile square health center and the national association of community health centers. i remember meeting we were having at the university of illinois school of public health and its people introduced themselves, they'd always be introduced as doctor or they'd say john smith, m.s.w., or joy jones, fach. when it came erlene's time she said, i'm mrs. erlene lindsey, csta. there were a group of medical students prese

graham burne burnett. ms. amy myers jaffe, executive director of energy and sustainability, graduate school of management, transportation studies area, university of california at davis. mr. daniel weiss, senior fellow, director of climate at the center for american progress. we welcome all of you. we will make your prepared statement a part of the rugged. thank you -- i think there's great interest among senders and you'll plenty of time. mr. hamm, welcome. [inaudible] >> okay. i'll start again. good morning, chairman wyden, ranking member murkowski and members of the committee. my name is held in. i served as chairman and chief executive officer of continental resources in oklahoma city. we do not have refineries. based -- it i is in our to addrs today on the critical substance of exports and where the barrels of go, -- summit and the same with his critical product we're talking about, crude oil. we need to lift this restriction sooner rather than later. as chairman of message producers alliance, ceo of a company that could develop the first appeal ever drilled exclusively with horizontal drilling, and the country that is the largest leasehold and most after drilling i

mr. guam's former congressman and a retired brigadier general in the united states marine corps. ben passed away last night at the age of 85. ben was a long-time friend whose lifetime of service to graham and our nation has been an inspiration to generations. as a survivor of the japanese occupation of guam during world war ii, ben had a strong sense of patriotism and duty to our country. he was commissioned as an officer of the marine corps in 1951 and went on to become the first to achieve the rank of brigadier general. in 1984, ben was elected to serve in this house of representatives. where he represented the people of guam for four terms. throughout my time in congress, ben has been a strong source of support and guidance. i'm grateful for his console and friendship and i'll miss him dealer. i join the people of guam in mourning the loss of congressman ben blaz. our thoughts and prayers are with his sons, mike and tom and their families. and i now ask for the house to observe a moment of silence in remembrance of congressman laz. ms. bordallo: i thank my colleagues who have joined me here, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady