mr. manchin? >> aye. >> mr. heinrich? >> no. >> mr. king? >> no. >> ms. warren? >> no. >> on this vote, the ayes are 13. and the nos are nine. >> the -- >> and the bill is reported. >> the bill is reported. i thank members for that. i know that there are several of you who have not yet had an opportunity to speak and would like to welcome your comments at this point in time. and again, apologize that we don't have the full committee here to hear your comments but know that they are equally important and considered. >> madame chair, i just want to make the point, we will be filing minority reports to the bill. >> we intend to file minority views. >> minority -- >> we'll have three days with which to file them. >> i appreciate that. i think we left with, i believe it was senator heinrich, who is up next. >> thank you, madame chair. and let me start, as well, by saying congratulations. i think we proved at the end of the last congress that we can get some things done around here. and i'm very much looking forward to working with you in this congress on a whole range

mr. manchin? >> aye. >> mr. heinrich? >> no. >> mr. king? >> no. >> ms. warren?> no. >> on this vote, the ayes are 13. and the nos are nine. and the bill is reported. >> the bill is reported. i thank members for that. i know that there are several of you who have not yet had an opportunity to speak and would like to welcome your comments at this point in time. and again, apologize that we don't have the full committee here to hear your comments but know that they are equally important and considered. >> madame chair, i just want to make the point, we will be filing minority reports to the bill. we intend to file minority views. we'll have three days with which to file them. >> i appreciate that. i think we left with, i believe it was senator heinrich, who is up next. >> thank you, madame chair. and let me start, as well, by saying congratulations. i think we proved at the end of the last congress that we can get some things done around here. and i'm very much looking forward to working with you in this congress on a whole range of issues. i want to start by addre

mr. manchin, proposes an amendment numbered 99. ms. cantwell: i ask that further reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. cantwell: mr. president i want to yield to senator boxer so she could call up her amendment. the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i call up amendment 113. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from california mrs. boxer, proposes amendment 113 -- mrs. boxer: i would ask it be considered as read, and i would ask to have two minutes just before the vote starts to explain this amendment. ms. murkowski: mr. president. the presiding officer: without objection. is there objection? ms. murkowski: reserving the right to object, i just want to make sure that we are understanding here the vote is scheduled to begin three minutes ago, and as part of the unanimous consent agreement there was not any time allowed for the boxer amendment for senator boxer to speak. i don't have a problem in giving -- mrs. boxer

mr. manchin: i want to thank the senator from north dakota, my friend for taking the lead on this and working with him so closely. and i really am excited about the process we're in right now an open amendment process learning a lot debates a lot of good ideas come out before and when it's all said and done we should have a better piece of legislation. this is not about pipelines. if this was about an x.l. pipeline or any of the pipelines, we wouldn't have 100,000 of miles of pipelines in america already. since l industrial revolution, we have not built all the pipelines that are needed to carry all the energy that's needed to run this country. so this is not about a pipeline. this is about basically the concerns we all have about greenhouse gas emissions and the development of the oil sands in canada. nothing to do with the pipeline. and with that being said, we got to be very clear canada is going to develop the oil sands whether or not the keystone x.l. pipeline is built. that's a fact. and we've talked about this. the state department, our own state department in this great country of our

mr. hoeven: along with senator joe manchin and actually a total of 60 sponsors, i have filed s. 1, which is the keystone approval bill. it's a very simple, straightforward bill. this is legislation that we've seen before in this body. what it does is under the commerce clause of the constitution it authorizes congress to approve the keystone x.l. pipeline project. i have got this chart here to show you the project. it runs from hardisty in alberta, canada, all the way down to our refineries in texas along the gulf coast. this project will move 830,000 barrels of oil a day. some of that will be oil from canada. some of that will be domestic oil from the back an region -- bakken region in montana and north dakota. this is part of the building the infrastructure so we can build a comprehensive energy plan for our country. we're producing more and more oil and gas in our country from the shale place in places like the bakken and north dakota and montana. the eagleford in texas. natural gas from places like the barnett and the marcellus in new york pennsylvania and ohio. and what we're workin

mr. manchin: you're absolutely correct, and i thank you for this opportunity not only to work with you but also to bring the facts to the floor. we have heard many times we're all entitled to our own opinion. we're just not entitled to our own facts. so if you start looking at what we are consuming today in america, at last count seven million barrels of oil is purchased -- crude is purchased every day in america from other countries. seven million barrels of crude a day. so this line would possibly furnish 830,000 barrels of that dependency that we have. let's look and see where it comes from right now. 2 1/2 million barrels we're already purchasing from canada. the best ally we could possibly have the best trading partner the number-one trading partner 35 of the 50 states have. so it's not unknown there. so let's look where we're purchasing the rest of the oil. we purchase 755,000 barrels a day from venezuela. 755,000 of heavy crude from venezuela. and let's look at venezuela where it's -- where it's an authoritarian regime. it violates their citizens human rights and puts down protests

mr. chairman's. >> thank you senator manchin and that is her second top priority item for this committee in the coming session. senator tell us. >> thank you mr. chairman and gentlemen thank you for being your new leadership and your service to our nation. i apologize for being out. i had a committee and judiciary for the appointment of the nominee. my question to you is i came from north carolina legislature. we had a budget crisis in 2011 we had to cut. what i heard from the heads of the various administrations members where they could absorb some of these cuts if the legislature was willing to provide them with the flexibility to determine where they needed. potentially changing some of the processes alluding to what the admiral said on procurement processes. has there have been much of a comprehensive focus on if you could make changes to the way you procure deploy and prioritize spending and provide that feedback to the congress that's one. another question with respect to sequestration i don't know that much about although i do know i will vote to repeal it. can you describe what ki

mr. chair. >> senator manchin. [inaudible conversations] >> could i say that i thank you both not only for your appearance here, but for your many years of outstanding service to the country and your wise and knowledgeable advice and counsel that you provide you have provided to many presidents, and you've proven again can today before this committee. obviously, there are some disagreements but i might make mention that the head of mi5 recently gave a speech a week ago saying that he believed that isis is planning an attack on the united states of america. i don't disagree with him. i think that would change the outlook of the american people about the degree of our involvement if there was such a thing which we hope will not happen. but when you have thousands of young men who are going into this fight, will be returning from the fight i think that it's something that is not beyond the realm of possibility. but i would like to say that i'm very personally very honored to be in the company of two individuals who ha

manchin? >> thank you, mr. chairman.he forci and thank you all for your outstanding service to our country and we appreciate it very much.ors i don't know a person in west virginia that wouldn't sacrifice for our military not one that i wouldn't do without, that wouldn't give up something that they're getting now or benefit. for our military. i don't know of one. that but they do ask the question, can we do it better? can we make it more efficient? and i just remember the bill we just passed there was $5 we d billion of new equipment in there for the department of defense. that i understand nobody asked for. so i'm sure if it was built in my state or some other state, we weref wanting y'all to abide and pushing it on.nse th there's got to be a more my effective, efficient way of procurement. we've got to have enough resilience. i know the chairman has foughtwou on this forever. i heard him whenf i was governor ent. of the state legislature. t there's got to be a better way. and when eisenhower said beware i w o

mr. chair. >> senator manchin. where's he going? >> he's going. >> could i say that i thank you both not only for your appearance here but for your many years of outstanding service to the country and your wise and knowledgeable advice and counsel that you provided to many presidents and proven, again, today before this committee. obviously, there are some disagreements and in fact, might make mention that the head of mi-5 gave a speech saying he believed that isis is planning an attack on the united states of america. i don't disagree with him. i think that would change the outlook of the american people about the degree of our involvement if there was such a thing, which we hope will not happen. but when you have thousands of young men going into this fight who will be returning from the fight, i think something that is not beyond the rem of possibility. but, i would like to say that i'm personally very honored to be in the company of two individuals who have served our country and continue to do so with such distinction. thank yo

manchin. >> thank you mr. chairman for this outstanding hearing and thank you the preview for attending here. it's such an honor to have your expertise and your history knowledge in this country to hopefully get us where we need to be. you said in her testimony united states is not faced such an array of crisis and the world were two. my generation is vietnam. the generation of today is 9/11 and afghanistan and iraq. now it's kind have gone into another direction of concern that we all have. i would like to hear from the preview and i think you have touched on it about how we would approach it that when you look at where does the united states of america truly willing to spend its treasure and contribute its blood which is a horrible thing for any of us to have to ask americans to do but if we are going to give treasure and blood where are we going to be addressing the greatest threats that we have and we are limited in such an array of complex problems that we have. which ones would you identify first and i w

mr. manchin: i want to thank the senator from north dakota, my friend for taking the lead on this and working with him so closely. and i really am excited about the process we're in right now an open amendment process learning a lot debates a lot of good ideas come out before and when it's all said and done we should have a better piece of legislation. this is not about pipelines. if this was about an x.l. pipeline or any of the pipelines, we wouldn't have 100,000 of miles of pipelines in america already. since l industrial revolution, we have not built all the pipelines that are needed to carry all the energy that's needed to run this country. so this is not about a pipeline. this is about basically the concerns we all have about greenhouse gas emissions and the development of the oil sands in canada. nothing to do with the pipeline. and with that being said, we got to be very clear canada is going to develop the oil sands whether or not the keystone x.l. pipeline is built. that's a fact. and we've talked about this. the state department, our own state department in this great country of our

manchin? >> thank you, mr. chairman for this outstanding hearing. thank you for attending. it is such an honor to have you here with your expertise and knowledge of who we are as a country. hopefully help us get to the place we need to be. dr. kissinger, you said united states has not faced a more diverse array of crises since world war ii. my generation's vietnam. the generation of today is 9/11, afghanistan, iraq. now it has kind of gone in another direction of concern that we all have. i would like to hear from the three of you. i think you all touched on it, about how we would approach it. but when you start looking where does the united states of america -- where is it willing to spend its treasure and contribute its blood, which is a horrible thing for any of us to ask americans to do, but if we are going to be addressing the greatest threats we have and we are limited in such an array of complex problems that we have, which ones would you identify first? i would ask simply, we have gone to afghanistan because of 9/11. we turned left and went to iraq. we can talk abou

manchin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for attending the three of you. it's such an honor to have you here with your expertise and knowledge of history is where we are as a country and hopefully get us to where we need to be. with that dr. kissinger calmly said the you said the united states has not faced a more diverse or complex array of crisis since the end of world war ii. i look around at all for generations. my generation is vietnam. the generation of today's 9/11 afghanistan iraq. now it is kind of gone into another direction of concern that we all have. i would like to hear from the three of you and you have all touched on how we would approach it. when you start looking at where does the united states of america truly willing to spend its treasure and contribute its blood, which is a horrible thing for any of us to have to ask her do but if we are going to be doing treasure and blood where we are going to be addressing the greatest threats that we have yeah yeah yeah problems that we have, which will tonight at i first? .. in terms of danger. th

mr. hoeven: along with senator joe manchin and actually a total of 6 spo i hav >> now with sen. senator joe mansion and a total of 60 sponsors i filed s1 a keystone approval bill. legislation we have seen before in this body. what it does, it it authorizes congress to approve the project. it runs from canada to refineries in texas along the gulf coast. this project some oil from canada, some domestic oil from the balkan region in montana and north dakota which is part of building the infrastructure so that we can build a comprehensive energy plan for our country. we are producing more and more oil and gas. in texas natural gas new york, pennsylvania, ohio and what we are working toward is energy security. what does that mean? we produce more energy than we consume. obviously it is a global market. but the.is working together with our closest friend and ally, canada we produce more energy than we consume. it is important because it is about creating jobs economic growth, a national security issue. why do we continue to rely on oil from the middle east, sending dollars to the midd

manchin. we heard from opposition to the bill. this is about an hour. >> thank you, mr. president. i would like to address my comments to the keystone xl pipeline. and approve the bill, that is approving the motion to proceed with this legislation. the cloture on motion to proceed on this legislation was passed 63 votes in favor to 32 votes last night. i want to thank my colleaguess for that tremendous bipartisan vote and of course the good news is that, that advances to the bill. vote move to the bill, today we're working through. we're working to agreement to hold the vote. we're inpo a position where all o members of this body can offer amendments. republicans and democrats alike. we'll have an open amendmentment process. we will have regular order. we can have energy debate. members of this body will get to do whate they haven't been able to do, offer their amendments, bring forward their ideas and let's have the energy discussion. let's have these amendments brought forward, debate them, if the they can garner 60 votes they will be passed and attached to the legislation. thisw

mr. franken: i rise to talk about an amendment i coauthored with senator murphy and senator manchin. our amendment recognizes the importance of the iron and steel industries in our country and ensures that if the pipeline is built, it is built with american iron and steel so we can create more jobs and strengthen our economy. mr. president, the congress has had a long history of using buy america provisions in order to maximize the economic benefits of infrastructure projects. "buy america" provisions make sure that more goods and manufactured items used in infrastructure and other projects are produced here at home. in fact, as recently as 2013 congress passed a provision in the wrrda act to require the use of iron, steel and other domestically produced goods in water infrastructure projects. and that's important because it means that we keep jobs and profits here at home instead of sending them abroad. unfortunately, mr. president there is no such requirement when it comes to construction of the keystone x.l. pipeline. in fact, according to trans-canada itself, half of the pipe for

mr. president. first, i want to congratulate my colleagues senator hoeven and senator man children the cosponsors of this -- manchin the cosponsors of this legislation. i also want to commend the energy committee chair senator murkowski. this is important legislation. it's long over-dhiew we yoaf due long overdue that we take this up. mr. president, the senate is national in order. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. could the senators please take their conversations out of the chamber. the senate will be in order. the gentleman is recognized. mr. toomey: thank you mr. president. a couple of things about the keystone pipeline and then i want to talk about an amendment that i'm going to be offering. first, i think one of the encourage things about approving this pipeline is the benefits for the environment. the fact is we'll be moving oil on a pipeline which is a cleaner, safer way to do it than think available alternative. that's good news. it's good news that it's going to create jobs across our country. the state department has estimated 42,000 jobs in the development of this pipeline. that's terr

manchin and senator lisa murkowski that would do just that. it is the 40 hours is full time act, and i urge all of my colleagues to join us in supporting it. thank you mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from new york is recognized. mrs. gillibrand: mr. president i rise today to introduce three important amendments to s. 1 the keystone x.l. pipeline act. first of all, i want to make it very clear that i strongly oppose the keystone x.l. pipeline plan. i have serious concerns about the affect this project would have on all health and safety. i have serious concerns about the environmental impact. and i am skeptical of the real permanent jobs it could create. this project has many risks and very few advantages and i will be voting against it. but if this legislation does pass the senate, we should at least try to make it a better bill. there's no excuse why we can't turn the keystone x.l. pipeline act into an opportunity to protect our clean drinking water and ensure that polluters have to pay to clean up their own messes. first, i've introduced amendment number 48 which would remove the halliburton loophole from the safe drinking water act

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 capacity that we are b

mr. manchin: mr. president? the presiding officer: rog. mr. manchin: mr. president i ask unanimous consent. i ask unanimous consent for one minute to reply. the presiding officer: is there objection? the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: mr. president it's my understanding that a motion to table is not debatable. the presiding officer: it is not debatable. the senator is correct. mr. manchin: i'm asking for unanimous consent sir. the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia is asking for unanimous consent. mr. manchin: i don't think it will change anything. ms. murkowski: i would object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. ms. cantwell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. ms. cantwell: mr. president the original agreement said that further that all these amendments be listed -- limited to 60-vote affirmative threshold adoption except for cornyn and menendez and that no second degrees be in order. so the original agreement we entered into allowed for this vote. the presiding officer: the consent agreement was

mr. manchin: is there any time remaining? the presiding officer: all time is expired. the yeas and nays have been ordered. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber who wish to vote or change their vote? on this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 45. under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment the amendment is not agreed to. under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment number 29 offered by the senator from rhode island, mr. whitehouse. mr. whitehouse: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. whitehouse: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president thank you. colleagues i almost hate to use my minute because i am so eager to hear what is said during the minute that our energy chairman will follow me with, but i'm hoping that after many years of darkness and blockade, this vote can be a first

mr. manchin: i want to thank the senator from north dakota, my friend for taking the lead on this and working with him so closely. and i really am excited about the process we're in right now an open amendment process learning a lot debates a lot of good ideas come out before and when it's all said and done we should have a better piece of legislation. this is not about pipelines. if this was about an x.l. pipeline or any of the pipelines, we wouldn't have 100,000 of miles of pipelines in america already. since l industrial revolution, we have not built all the pipelines that are needed to carry all the energy that's needed to run this country. so this is not about a pipeline. this is about basically the concerns we all have about greenhouse gas emissions and the development of the oil sands in canada. nothing to do with the pipeline. and with that being said, we got to be very clear canada is going to develop the oil sands whether or not the keystone x.l. pipeline is built. that's a fact. and we've talked about this. the state department, our own state department in this great country of our