the majority wants to attack nepa and judicial review. attempting to use this as a wedge issue, attempting to wedge between people that care about self-dermentation and environmental stewardship. we can have both. we could have successful energy development in independentian country while retaining the environmental protections that will ensure future generations, they could enjoy the benefits of that energy development. i urge my colleagues to abandon this. i would plead with my colleagues to bring legislation to the floor addressing indian health care, indian education programs and codified process for tribal consultation with federal agencies that respect sovereignty and oppose the trust responsibilities we have to indian country and a fix, finally a fix. with the current cloud hanging over the status of trust lands. i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from arizona reserves. the gentleman from alaska is recognized. mr. young: i would like to mention one thing. i do have an amendment -- i do have an amendment on nepa. we don't change th

nepa has a simple premise, look before you leap. this landmark law gives us -- gives the public an opportunity to review and comment on actions opposed by the government, adding to the evaluation process, unique perfect specsives -- perspectives that highly specialized mission-driven agencies might otherwise ignore. we should be preserving and protecting this important tool for the public participation rather than undermining it. i urge my colleagues to support the dingell amendment and yield back the balance of my time -- reserve the balance of my time. secretary clinton: the gentlelady reserves her time. the gentleman from colorado, for what purpose does do you rise? mr. lamborn: i rise in opposition to this am. secretary clinton: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. lamborn: i would urge rejection of this amendment because it would make the permitting process for critical and strategic minerals even worse than it currently is. it's already seven, 10, or more years. it's dead last in the 25 major mineral producing cou

and blockade that is causing chaos on both sides of a nepa nepalese issue. >> violent protests have spread from the occupied west bank to gaza. the palestinian ministry of health says in october, 14 have been killed by israeli forces and around a thousand injured. four israelis were also killed in a series of stabbings and shootings. hoda abdel hamid reports. >> it took six days to rush to body of the teen abler, his funeral was a show of solidarity and defiance. defiance that later turned into violence. palestinians took their anger into the street. here on betel on the northern edge of ramallah. many muslims suspect israel is seeking to change the rules governing the holy site which allows jews to enter the exowpped but nocompound but not. this was denied by prime minister netanyahu. after several hours there is no sign of the situation easing up. actually the palestinians youth were able to spread out in those fields, past the positionest of the israeli army. now, similar clashes were happening elsewhere, in the west bank. and also in gaza. the violence was the deadliest in gaza. earlie

the climbers at everest camp 2 were now beginning to understand the scale of the devastation across nepa 7.8 earthquake and its powerful aftershocks. and they were hearing more details about the avalanche that had obliterated most of their base camp, pummeling their friends with rock, ice and snow, injuring three of them, including eve, their beloved camp doctor. but at 21,000 feet, the climbers had their own concerns. suffering from altitude sickness when he left camp 1, had not made it to camp 2. his daughter haley had been worried sick waiting for him, when suddenly he came into view. >> i actually get up and i go outside of the dining tent, and i see him at afar. and he's coming towards me, barely walking, sort of stumbling. i get to him. and he's completely confused, delirious. and he sort of sets his pack down and kind of collapses there. he can't breathe. he's not again making much sense. so, at that point we know that he's suffering from hape, which is high altitude pulmonary edema. >> reporter: and it's often fatal. haley jumped into action. >> we get him on oxygen. they start p

member, senator boxer, for helping us in some of the areas where we are able to shortcut some of the nepa requirements, expedite some things that couldn't be done. otherwise -- let's keep in mind if we went ahead and did what we've been doing since 2009, we wouldn't be doing this. we wouldn't be doing any major bills, no bridges, no major bills. and so this is a great day to see the assurance that this is going to take place, and i applaud senator boxer and the joint effort we had on the left and the right in this body. you don't see that very often. mrs. boxer: no, we don't. i want to tank my friend. it is -- i want to thank my friend. it is such a privilege to work with him on these infrastructure issues. i often care we don' often say k together on environmental issues, but right now in this life, we worked really well on infrastructure. so does our staff. i am so proud of them. and i just want to say, you know, came down here to try and change a part of this extension. i'll explain it later -- that had to do with delaying a safety requirement on the railroads. i feel strongly in my he

the streamline you get, the -- many of the nepa requirements, the requirements, environmental requirements can be offset if you're able to get to a long-term bill. but you can't do it -- you can't start any large projects, none of these big projects -- the bridge projects and others, you can't do on short-term extensions. so we haven't had an authorization bill since 2005, and i believe it's time for congress to fulfill its constitutional duty to fix our roads and our bridges. as i stated earlier, i'm confident the senate and house will work together to get this bill to the president's desk within the next few weeks. it's my wish my counterpart on the house side, shuster, the best of luck in moving forward. he's going to get this done. he kept his word in getting the job done last thursday and now he's going to be able to get this bill up so that we can conference it together. i anticipate we can do a conference in a matter of just a few hours. it wouldn't take the normal time. so, that's good news. it's good news to come back on a monday and find we're going to be doing what the constitut