lisa murkowski claimed that the president has effectively declared war on her state. and the energy industry accounts for as much of 90% of revenue. we're back with dan henninger, kim strassel and editorial board member joe rago. kim, let's start with you. the same week that the president made this move in alaska he also opened up some new areas off the atlantic coast for drilling. which move is more important? >> the alaskan move is far more important. the move off of the atlantic is still just a possibility. we don't know how long it will take for them to open that up for leasing, it's not very much. and we don't really know what's proven out there. >> okay. >> the alaska move is significant. the alaska is an engine of energy production, and the pipe line is vital to the degree that the obama administration continues to wall off any federal oil and gas going into that pipe line the more likely it is it gets shut down. >> the current pipe line could get shut down? >> yes. the trans -- transalaska pipe line. >> wow. that would be a huge blow to alaska. so this is a re

i don't know what to do except to fight back and i'm gonna do it. >> woodruff: alaska senator lisa murkowski, we thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: and now for the obama administration's perspective we are joined by the cabinet special implementing this policy the secretary of the interior, sally jewell. secretary jewell welcome. >> my pleasure. >> woodruff: it's clear there's a fire storm the administration has set off. what do you say to this alarm articulated by senator murkowski, that this amount of land if you set it aside 19 million acres, that it's just beyond reason? >> i appreciate the senator 's efforts for the state and she's helped me understand the perspective of alaskans. i have made many trips to alaskan and worked on elements of the pipeline in college, i visited the wildlife refuges in 2013. i saw polar bears at the airport and flew over some of the areas in the 10-02 area and coastal plain and in the mountains where reactually got off and liked around and could see what an incredible place it is. it is a large area. it is one of the most special places on earth and we ar

murkowski on the senate energy committee next year as opposed to the chairwoman mary landrieu? >> when it comes to the climate action plan it is the main guide , to what we are doing in the energy space supplemented by energy security concerns and obviously driving the economy through the manufacturing programs, etc. we are exercising all of those programs through existing executive authority. we will continue to do that. >> so you don't want to deal with the senator? >> we have a good relationship with the senator. i think it is very well known that we have worked very well across the aisle and across both chambers. that will continue and we have continued as as world to aggressively pursue our programs with our executive authorities. >> it's a pleasure speaking with you. [applause] >> next we have the chairman president and ceo of southern company. next spring a new coal-fired power plant is being erected in the pine woods of oral mississippi. tom fanning has called the money $5.5 billion counting a bitter pill to swallow. but with these high costs come higher returns. most o

now of course as you noted would be the chairmanship's switching lisa murkowski of alaska is the republican who will be the chairwoman of that panel el. and we're going to see that all over the place. and we'll see it not just on legislative issues, but we'll start to see a lot more oversight hearings as well in ways that maybe the administration would not like to see. if you are's the white house you're going to have people on the hill all the time to consider things. >> srennivasan: so does this set up a veto test for the president? whether it's keystone or other pieces of legislation where it's almost a kind of strategic trap if let's say republicans can get lots of legislation passed get it to the white house's door and say look, here's the guy that is the obstructionist here is the guy using his veto power and not getting anything done in washington sm. >> absolutely. the test, keystone will be the first test. i think everyone sort of expecting that the president would, in fact veto that item. the test really will be how far can the republicans go down the road of sending things to the

the decision was immediately denounced by alaska republican senator lisa murkowski who called it, quoting now, “a stunning attack on our sovereignty” that would do economic harm to the state. alaska's governor, independent bill walker, said oil and gas development on state lands might accelerate to compensate for the new federal restrictions. the federal aviation administration has warned commercial airlines that electronic cigarettes may pose a fire hazard. it wants them put only in carry- on luggage, not in checked bags, because a fire on board can be extinguished more quickly than a fire in the cargo hold. e-cigarettes have been linked to at least two fires since august- - one on a plane; another in an airport baggage area. a trade group representing the airlines said it is closely reviewing the faa safety alert. the impact of today's vote in greece is likely to affect people around the world. to help understand how, we are joined now by john authers. he is the senior investment columnist for the "financial times." what does it mean if the party takes control of parliament whether

heres 14-year senior senator from alaska, republican lisa murkowski echoing the position of ronald reagan in 1987 recommending oil development in the refuge and denouncing the barack obama designation of alaska as a wilderness. >> we feel that this is a frontal attack on the state of alaska and our ability to develop resources for the good of alaskans and for the good of the country. this is not just about alaska. our oil comes to you guys, down here. >> if you think senator murkowski sounded angry, listen to how 40-plus years in congress alaska representative don young describes the president. >> he lectures the legislative body, youre not important, im the king. disgusting for the nation, disgusting for the people. this man this person has gone completely wacko. this is an attack upon the state, attack upon previous laws, attack upon the nation. >> newly elected senator dan sullivan thinks the environmental lobby is living in another era. >> we have ways in which whether its ice roads, ice pads for drilling only in the winter. where we do these things shoot 3d seismic that literally has

. >> earlier today on the senate floor, lisa murkowski and maria cantwell discussed the keys to excel pipeline, -- xl pipelane. -- pipeline. senate plans to hold a vote on its version of the bill on monday. this is 45 minutes. morning those of us on the energy and natural resources committee had an opportunity for good discussion about our nation's energy future and more specific to the agenda of yesterday's business meeting was a bill that would allow for a much delayed project, the keystone x.l. pipeline, allow for that project to advance. it moved through the committee favorably. it moved through the committee with bipartisan support. and as i noted to several colleagues yesterday the discussion that we had in the committee about the significance of this pipeline, the significance of its contribution to our nation's economy from a jobs perspective from a resource perspective were considerable. obviously there was debate on both sides. i think good, healthy debate. and it's debate that i hope we will see reflected on this floor in the next week and perhaps the week following as we h

. >> the white house's request has already drawn reaction from alaska senator lisa murkowski. on twitter, she said this white house ran on hope but is decimating alaska's economic hopes through moves like today's and more. the u.s. conference of mayors held its meeting in washington last week. the in bed -- the event included a discussion between the house sector carry -- they talked about their experiences as former mayors and how it helps in their current jobs. they hope to encourage relationships between state and federal officials. [applause] >> yesterday, he heard from dr. barber who wrote a book called "if mayors ruled the world." i'm starting to think president obama read that book because he's appointed three former mayors to his cabinet. we have to applaud for that. three former mayors in his cabinet. [applause] he just appointed a past resident of his organization -- we've had an incredible presentation over the last couple of days and a great relationship with this administration. i thought it would be interesting to bring before mayors back to the meeting and have

. ♪ >> the white house request has drawn reaction from alaska senator lisa murkowski. on twitter she says -- this white house ran on hope, but is decimating alaska's economic hopes that moves like today's on anwr. now it look at white house communications strategies and the relationship with press corps. you hear from anita fdunn and tony fratto. this is an hour. >> welcome back. i would like to introduce our moderator for the panel the white house -- view from the inside. ann compton has covered 10 presidential campaigns. she also served a one-year term as president of the white house correspondents association. ann has traveled to all 50 states and six continents with american presidents, vice president, and first ladies. she has been a panelist on presidential campaign debates. ann has won an emmy as being the only broadcast reporter on air force one on september 11. she has been inducted into six halls of fame's and is a recipient of multiple on a very university degrees and lifetime achievement awards. one fun fact about ann is that her husband found she was numbe

murkowski where we expect among other things they will encourage the president to change his mind and sign the bill. patti ann? patti ann: mike emanuel live on capitol hill, thanks. jon: a legendary treasure hunter who found one of the greatest shipwrecks of all time now in custody after spending the last two years on the run. it started in 1983 when tommy thompson set out to find the ss central america wreck, the so-called shut up of gold that sank in the 1800s. after seeking out investors, he received nearly $13 million in support money. in 1988 thompson found the shipwreck and recovered thousands of gold bars and coins. he sold it for more than $50 million. twelve years later his company sold that haul, as i said, but investors say they didn't see a dime of the profits. so in 2005 two of them sued. but it wasn't the only legal action facing thompson. a team of it cans who claim they were promised part of the treasure also filed suit. seven years later a judge issued an arrest warrant for thompson after he skipped out on a court hearing, but he disappeared and was for more than two

murkowski. the refuge is home to caribou, polar bears, great wolfs and more and setting aside more than a million acres as wilderness would stop any oil drilling and any mining and even constructing roads there. the announcement came in a youtube video. ♪ ♪ >> alaska's national wild life refuge is an incredible place, pristine undisturbed. it supports caribou and polar bears, all manner of marine life countless species of birds and fish and for centuries it supported many alaska native community, but it is very fragile and that's why -- >> that's part of the announcement that the president made. already senator murkowski calling this a quote, stunning attack on her state. she joins us now from washington. thank you for being here. >> thanks for the invitation to be with you tonight. >> reading some of your comment, your reaction to this outside it is clear this administration does not care about us and sees us as nothing, but a territory. you are going to fight this. what is your strategy? >

this hearing chaired by senator lisa murkowski of alaska is about two hours. >>> meeting of the energy committee this morning. thank you to members and thank you to those on panel joining us. as you know, we've had kind of a busy week here on the committee. senator cantwell and i have logged a few hours standing up in chambers there trying to move a keystone bill through. and our hope is that we're on the final run of that. but i appreciate committee members coming a little bit earlier. we had initially noticed this for 10:00. but in an effort to try to get through this important hearing, then tndend to our business on the floor, we bumped it up. so thank you to our witnesses for the accommodation. i want to recognize the lead bipartisan sponsors of s-33. we'll have some remarks this morning so i'll keep my comments brief this morning. i want to recognize, congratulate them and their co-sponsors, senator capito on the committee, hoeven and gardner, as well and senators udall, toomey. i have long argued that exports of liquefied natural gas should be expedited from the united states to

this is not just lisa murkowski saying i think this takes us the wrong way. the department of energy has looked critically at this issue of keystone x.l. oil being exported and whether or not that makes sense and in their analysis -- they state it pretty succinctly. they say without a surplus of heavy oil in pad three that's the gulf coast area, there would be no economic incentive to ship answer oil sands to asia via the point it's coming out of. the department of energy's conclusion was pretty -- was a pretty broad discussion about it but that conclusion was then reinforceed by the state department. in its final completely e.i.s. for keystone, which is -- it's a document that everybody should read. now, granted it's a thousand pages long or thereabouts but there is an executive summary that really does help to condense so much of this, and in the state department final e.i.s. they say that such an option that being export, such an option appears unlikely to be economically justified for any significant durable trade given transport costs and market conditio

senator donnelly has introduced bipartisan legislation with senator joe 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 t

bill: lisa murkowski the senator from alaska said this, quote, what is coming is a stunning attack on our sovereignty and ability to develop a strong economist. people talking about the state of alaska. i can not understand why this administration is willing to negotiate with iran and not alaska. you make a very interesting point. just the designation itself keeps it keeps it protected. unless congress acts, correct. >> right. so what's going on is, you know obama is officially asking congress to digs nate it a wilderness. congress, this congress will never, ever, do. that the problem is that once the federal government asks for that designation, it automatically sort of goes into equivalent of escrow. and it can't be touched or develop and forces congress to sign off on this one way or the other, effectively defacto getting exactly what obama wants anyway. murkowski is entirely right. the amount of land in alaska is privately held is 1%. this is a state that is four times the size of california and only 1% of it is privately held this administration wants to basically, you know, the

. >> i am senator lisa murkowski of alaska. this past week, president obama laid out his plans for america. as a part of his speech, he called on congress to pass an infrastructure bill that would create jobs and make the nation stronger for decades to come. i welcome that message and the fact is, we have already started . for two weeks, the senate has been working hard on a bill to approve the queue stone accell -- keystone xl pipeline. this would create thousands of jobs, kerrycarry oil in the safest way, and keep energy affordable. after more than 200 days of presidential indecision, it is important to act. the world is watching to see if the united states will lead as a energy superpower. i believe we are ready for that role and our leadership can start with the approval of keystone xl. the republican congress has only been in office a few weeks but already we have made strides to make congress function again and get washington back to work. we are fulfilling the promises made in the recent elections considering legislation

senator lisa murkowski chairs the committee. maria cantwell is the ranking member. >>> meeting of the energy committee this morning. thank you to members and thank you to those on panel joining us. as you know, we've had kind of a busy week here on the committee. senator cantwell and i have logged a few hours standing up in chambers there trying to move a keystone bill through. and our hope is that we're on the final run of that. but i appreciate committee members coming a little bit earlier. we had initially noticed this for 10:00. but in an effort to try to get through this important hearing, then tend to our business on the floor, we bumped it up. so thank you to our witnesses for the accommodation. i want to recognize senator heinrich as well as senator bar osso who are the lead crimeary sponsors of s-33. we'll have some remarks this morning so i'll keep my comments brief this morning. i want to recognize, congratulate them and their co-sponsors, senator capito on the committee, gardner and hoeven, all members, as well as se

lisa murkowski has great ideas. there will be other opportunities. >> see it on the floor. [inaudible question] >> we have to give it to the desk. working to the process today. able to move it out of the senate with a good bipartisan vote. obviously we have made some changes. the house will take a look at what we have done and i am hopeful we we will be able to move a bill to the president quickly. then it is in his lap. >> we have already started talking to the house. we are having that discussion and we will see. >> any thoughts on timing? >> very soon. we are in consultation with the house and want to make sure we are talking to them before the next step in terms of conference or whether they would confer with the bill. >> trying to get it out of the senate. >> and we have to finish up this afternoon. we had the nine democrats that indicated they would be with us on the bill. so we are pleased and moving forward. >> ready to go. finish it up. thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> before the final vote on the keystone xl pipeline a number of de

as my friend senator lisa murkowski often says no one political party has a monopoly on good ideas. i know i speak for everyone in this room when i say we look forward to working together with alaska's federal delegation. donna and i were honored to attend the swearing in of senator dan sullivan earlier this month. i've always spoken with senator murkowski and congressman don young. we pledge to work together to make the most of our god-given resources. and, yes, this means that long last responsibly accessing the vast oil reserves under anwar. we can we must, we will. it's beyond time. members of this legislature, i am so honored to stand before you. i look forward to working together to overcome the challenges before us. the men and women in this room are no strangers to adversity. some of you have beaten cancer. others have known childhood poverty and overcome tremendous challenges in life. you are fishermen, educators, lawyers, farmers and veterans, contractors, health care providers, pilots engineers, account abouts, a miner and yes, even a reindeer herder to list just a few. u

we will hear from senator lisa murkowski who chairs the energy and natural resources committee. this news briefing is 40 minutes. >> well usually we don't get such a sellout crowd on alaska's specific issue but i think you have learned from the media accounts from sunday and now this morning that this administration has effectively declared war on alaska. that's my view of it. and those are some pretty tough words but what we saw on sunday with the announcement that this administration is going to move towards permanent wilderness status for anwr and what this administration is poised to do the balance of this week based on conversations with the secretary of the interior and her deputy, it is a one two three kick to the gut of alaska's economy. and we have said as a delegation that we will not stand it and we will not tolerate it and we will do everything we can to push back against an administration that has taken a look at alaska and decided it's a nice little snow globe out there and we are going to keep it that way. that's not what you do to a state, any state. our governor

. >> coming up next on c-span senator lisa murkowski of alaska responds to president obama's call for wilderness protection designations for more than 12 million additional acres within alaska's arctic national wild life issues. then journalists discuss how the media covers race issues. >> the interior department sunday announced it would be seeking a conservation plan that would designate more than 12 million additional acres within alaska's arctic national wild live area known as anwar. the issue would seal the area off from oil eaksploration giving it the highest degree of protection. it currently has 7 million acres preserved. in a video released by the white house president obama discussed his intentions to ask for congressional approval on the matter. appreciate that a great deal. mr. president, i thought i was >> go mr. president, i thought i was going to be spending the vast majority of my time this weekend going through each of these many amendments that a member's mentioned, you know, we're in the hundred -- close to 150-plus category. but my attention on keystone and the is

then senator lisa murkowski response to president obama's call for wilderness protection for more than 12 million additional acres within alaska refuge. then a later, a panel of print and tv journalist discussed how the media covers race issues. >> today, u.s. trade representative appears before the senate finance committee to answer questions to president obama's 2015 trade policies. see it live at 10:00 a.m. here on c-span. >> the house select committee on a benghazi meets today to continue its investigation into the 20 12th attack that killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans for state department officials and representatives from the cia are expected to testify. you can see it live at 10:30 a.m. on c-span 3. >> next, a discussion on government policies and they are affecting the internet. representatives from google, you all, facebook, ebay joint government officials at this event held by harper's institute of politics. this is 90 minutes. >> good morning. i feel like we should a vote on something. on behalf of the institute of politics and the internet association

this isn't lisa murkowski's numbers drawn from the air, or senator hoeven's numbers conjuring up these numbers for the bill, these are the numbers from the state department final supplemental eif. this is what they are saying, 42,100 average annual jobs $2 billion in earnings 16,000 direct jobs 26,000 indirect and induced spending. state department estimates construction workers on the seasonal basis, four to eight months per period. on an annual basis, it's 1,950 jobs per year for two years. and that's where they get the 4,000 construction jobs. but think about it the nature of the construction business is not that these are jobs in perpetuity. that means that you build things and once they're built, you move on to build something else. of course they're not permanent jobs because they're not in a permanent state of construction. the key here is to approve projects in a timely manner so that workers, good, skilled, qualified workers can go from one job to the next and have permanent stable employment not necessarily on the same project for their entire lifetime but to be able as a wel

my hat's off to senator lisa murkowski, a republican senator who has come to the floor leading this effort on the floor for the debate, but i have a special place in my heart for the democratic side where two other senators have been outstanding in bringing us to this point on the issue. senator maria cantwell is leading our effort on the democratic side in partnership with barbara boxer of california and many others. as was suggested last week, it's time for the boys to get off the stage and let the ladies come back in and consider these amendments and bring us to the right conclusion, a thoughtful debate important issues considered and a vote in the united states senate on this legislation. madam president, i ask consent the statement i'm about to make next be placed in a separate part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: thank you madam president. last week, america lost a hero and chicago lost one of its greatest. cubs hall of famerrer ernie banks passed away. he was known as mr. cub. his love for the game of gable was matched only by his passion for the

he was joined by bill manager lisa murkowski of alaska and author john hoeven of north dakota. their remarks run about eight minutes. >> our 38th roll call vote on an admin in the senate which is more than twice as many as we had in all of 2014. and, of course we are on the cusp of passing an extraordinarily important jobs bill for our country. the bill shepherded through the senate by chairman murkowski is an important accomplished but for the country. we are hoping the president upon reflection will agree to sign on to a bill that the state department says could create up to 42000 jobs. the state department says creates little or no impact on the environment. with that let me turn to senator murkowski. >> as the leader has said, we have gotten ourselves to the end of this process several weeks in the making but the discussion that we've had on this very important energy bill, this very important jobs bill i think has been good for a host of different reasons. 38 amendments to date and i think what this demonstrates is that under the leadership of senator mcconnell, you are se

this is not just lisa murkowski saying i think this takes us the wrong way. the department of energy has looked critically at this issue of keystone x.l. oil being exported and whether or not that makes sense and in their analysis -- they state it pretty succinctly. they say without a surplus of heavy oil in pad three that's the gulf coast area, there would be no economic incentive to ship answer oil sands to asia via the point it's coming out of. the department of energy's conclusion was pretty -- was a pretty broad discussion about it but that conclusion was then reinforceed by the state department. in its final completely e.i.s. for keystone, which is -- it's a document that everybody should read. now, granted it's a thousand pages long or thereabouts but there is an executive summary that really does help to condense so much of this, and in the state department final e.i.s. they say that such an option that being export, such an option appears unlikely to be economically justified for any significant durable trade given transport costs and market conditio