sullivan: and the other is called a bipartisan energy deal overriding biden's new nepa rules blockades essential for fossil fuels and solar and wind power development. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sullivan: thank you, mr. president. the labor is international, led by great american terry o. sullivan. these came out. these are the largest construction union in the country. these are the nuclear weapon who bid thiks -- these are the men and women who build things in our country. they came out against these nepa rules saying they would delay the building of american infrastructure, particularly energy projects -- wind, solar, oil, gas. the biden administration issued that three weeks ago. so those are just three examples, mr. president. but it's not just they're still very focused on shutting down the production of energy and the people of our great country know it. they know joe biden did that. but they're doing it in a way that is not transparent, and to be perfectly blunt, is dishonest. let me give you two examples. again, unfortunately, directly impacting my state, m

nepa. for permitting major construction projects, so secretary -- mallory says it will provide uncertainly and instead of reducing conflict, it will cause more litigation and delays and raise construction costs if they don't kill projects outright. speaking further and later on in the piece about nepa, whyile the 1970 law was intended to prevent environmental disasters. it's become a weapon to block developments. the repblican administration sought to fast-track projects of -- nepa reviews on environmental effects that are directly foreseeable. for example, a pipeline's construction would affect -- cost us. some liberal judges, however, have interrupted nepa broadly to include a study of effects that indirectly result in the project, such as emissions. now, the biden administration is mandating this, and i would interject at this point, i certainly hope that this does not continue to be the case. continue to, quote, as he accuses -- to require agencies to calculate the indirect and cumulati

location and some acceptable alternatives basically, in total i think six swinney to do under the nepa process and evaluation of environmental impact as well forget some of the considerations before we finalize the decision. normally the process would take four months total, three months doing the assessments and another month of public comment. i'm very hopeful one way or the other get a final decision. >> what will be the actual timeline to stand up in huntsville assuming speedy to stand up after the decision? i would have to get to that for the record. i understand requires a new building to be built for the headquarters and there's a lot of leadtime associated with tha that. >> i see the fy 23 fy '23t seeks to cut more than 100 100 aircraft in order to focus on the air force modernization priorities. and they understand and support your attempts to modernize u.s. air force to tomorrow's challenges, but concerned about the price in terms of aircraft and force structure that the budget proposes to pay to modernize. furthermore, even while we modernize we must stay laser focused on de

unprecedented depatsana sanctions of the country of the muslim side, the muslim and arab world of the nepa aimed at development cooperation with russia feeling with russia today shares. strange, comparison does everything does everything. all everything that's in the swing. and first of all, first of all, national and international and interfaith relations from natasha honor replicating replication on their own natural fakes, police, fiction. songs of units of the clans of russia sixty fifty three countries fifty four countries 59 regions of russia is the way. these are the ways of rapprochement approaching the east with the current. not just establishing and not just establishing such contacts with her. well, moments like this the project is especially relevant, who is really never and when the stock is closed, the west is closed from the declaration openly, when you are open you are an abstract arab countries over the past three years over the past 3 years, the trade turnover of russia and islamic and islamic countries has increased by a quarter agro- industrial complex point of contact.

and a half barrels a day less than we were pre-pandemic, and the environment review policies, the nepand pipelines, they are also stopping, bridges, highways, roads, they are going to do a lot of damage to the infrastructure bill because of the highly restrictive permitting policies and ironically going to do a lot of damage to the green new deal stuff. wind mills, energy panels, so forth. it's going to be hard to build that under these highly restrictive environmental review policies. it doesn't make any sense to me. >> jacqui: larry, you point out one thing, it stuck out to me when i heard the president a little over a week ago mention rick scott and the ultra maga plan. as john rightly pointed out it has not been adopted by the party, a significant risk when it first came out and makes me think are they trying to shift their messaging. what they have right now does not make a lot of sense. clinging to the fact inflation is transitory, will come down later next year and then also blaming putin. no end date to the war on the calendar. if it's putin's fault and because of the war we do

in fact, it waves nepa on federal lands where we can demonstrate a reduction of methane emissions.learly, if you're capturing your reducing. i want to make sure that the whole of government is working together. you are consulting with interior, they are seeking your systems. i think we can get to the schools, whitehouse, kramer, you have, i get the courts off your back. do the right thing with the product that's more valuable, then being flared oriented. how is that for -- i almost did under five minutes. >> a for effort. >> if i can get an a for effort from him, it's a good. a >> lake rating on her. >> i can assure you on that topic, d. o. e. interior epa, ceo, we're all looking at all the resources we have, all regulation to make sure there are going in the same direction. i >> appreciate it, thank you. >> next is senator markey. saturday, you would be next in line, senator -- if you could possibly go ahead of you, that we very kind of. you >> i love being on this curve. everyone's averaging six a half minutes. it's really five. the work done with the epa, the transportation and

streamlining permits should be a priority for the grid yet the administration has established new nepa rules last week making it harder to permit pipeline -- or grid pipeline. sorry. gridlines. so, madam secretary, do you agree that achieving 100% emissions by 2035 is still scientifically possible? >> with respect, it was 100% clean, meaning zero carbon energy, that includes nuclear, for example, that includes decarbonized-- >> the question is do you still think it's possible by 2035? >> absolutely do think it's possible. >> interesting. for the batteries, we've heard somewhere referenced to. in the last three years, the cost of nickel went up 85%. cost of lithium. 670%, copper at a 10-year high. the congo, we know from the united nations report, the congo uses child labor to mine cobalt so we are going to have more mines in the united states to meet these demand for electric vehicles and grid batteries. the center for strategic international studies expect that we'll need 500 to 1,000% jump in demand by 2050. so, has this administration granted any new permits for mining critical mate