Senate Proceeding on Jun 26th, 2008 :: 3:49:41 to 4:00:35
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Speech By: Chuck Grassley

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Chuck Grassley: remarks the letters be placed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. grassley: i'm going to keep pounding home the facts about this. behind the relationship between food

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Chuck Grassley: prices and biofuels because it's not supported by economics, it's not supported by commonsense and it's not supported by sound science. the fact is biofuels are increasing our national security. biofuels

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Chuck Grassley: are helping our balance of trade. and recusing our depend -- and reducing our dependence on middle east oil and the whim of big oil. every barrel we use of biofuels is $135 not going to some foreign

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Chuck Grassley: country where they train terrorists to kill americans. so it's time that we clear the air, it's time we look at the facts and it's time we recognize once again that everything about our domestic renewable

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Chuck Grassley: fuel industry is good, good, good. if i could emphasize that, it's good for the environment, less co2 in the air; it's good if good jobs in rural america because a lot of these ethanol refineries

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Chuck Grassley: are in rural america where we never thought we would have good-paying jobs; and a lot of tse refineries respond to another problem. we don't have enough oil refineries in this country but in a sense

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Chuck Grassley: every ethanol plant and every biofuels plant is a refinery. it's good for our national security that i think i've made very clear a nd it's good for agriculture. it's good that we don't have government

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Chuck Grassley: supporting surplus grains. we're not having taxpayers money go out to farmers. farmers are getting their money from the marketplace now that prices are higher. i don't know how many times i have to

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Chuck Grassley: say it but there's no negative ives -- negatives about biofuels. everything about it is good, good, good. i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call

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Lisa Murkowski: the roll. quorum call: ~ quorum call: mrs. murkowski: the senator from alaska. mr. president, i rise today -- excuse me, request that proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding

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Speech By: Lisa Murkowski

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Lisa Murkowski: officer: without objection. under the previous order, the time until 2:15 is under the control of the junior senator from alaska or her designee. the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: thank you, mr.

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Lisa Murkowski: president. today is -- it's an opportunity for us in the next 45 minutes to talk about a celebration. we've had some pretty serious business under discussion here on the senate floor, and today i

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Lisa Murkowski: and my colleague, senator stevens, joined by others, rise to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the senate passage of the alaska statehood act. the act which event ually conferred -- which eventually conferred

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Lisa Murkowski: statehood upon the great state of alaska after a fight for equal rights and representation that lasted literally decades. after a long and a contentious battle, both in congress and across the country,

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Lisa Murkowski: the senate passed the alaska statehood act 50 years ago on june 30 by a vote of 64-20. the act was signed into law seven days later by president eisenhower and alask officially became a state on january

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Lisa Murkowski: 3, 1959. this wasis the -- this was the headlines in the "anchorage daily news" announcing, "we're in." our territorial governor, mike stepovich, and president eisenhower and secretary sea ton are in

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Lisa Murkowski: this photo that we looked to in our state's very young history with great fondness. this year across the state there, will be celebrations all over pout by communities, by clubs -- put on by communities,

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Lisa Murkowski: by clubs, by businesses, by the state government. and to help kick off this celebration, i'd like to briefly remember a little bit of the history of -- of a very rough journey towards statehood.

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the territory of alaska was bought from russia in 1867, and i know many students when they're looking at their history books, they -- they learn that it was dubbed "seward's folly." it was world

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Lisa Murkowski: war ii and the cold war that really transformed the face of alaska, however. having a strategically critical locationor both wars, alaska saw a large increase in federal money and population in the 1930's

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Lisa Murkowski: and the 1940's.~ the aspiration for statehood existed for many years and alaska has a delegate in congress since 1906 but in this time period a serious and a motivated and modern statehood movement rose

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Lisa Murkowski: up and captured the attention of alaskans across the state. alaskan statehood committee was formed in 1949, a committee of 11 alaskans. it was bipartisan. no more than six could belong to the same party