Obama Administration Rules on methane and ozone pollution. In addition, Democratic Committee members pressed mr. Pruitt about his travel expenses and views on Climate Change. This is two hours. I want to thank my colleagues were coming back as quickly as we could and asked the staff to get the center doors closed and other members staff, someone . The subcommittee will come to order. When we recess it was mr. Mckinleys turn to be recognized. With that, i want to recognize the gentleman from West Virginia private. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you administering her for participating in this. Over the years we have asked your predecessor now, mine is up. Come here. We asked your predecessors to come to a particularly as it relates to section 321 a. To see the impact and some of the regulations were having in the coldfield. They declined to do that but i am appreciative of the fact that one week ago or two weeks ago the epa you sent other folks came to West Virginia to get the impact of
Now, mine is up. Come here. We asked your predecessors to come to a particularly as it relates to section 321 a. To see the impact and some of the regulations were having in the coldfield. They declined to do that but i am appreciative of the fact that one week ago or two weeks ago the epa you sent other folks came to West Virginia to get the impact of what these regulations are having because it is pretty clear in the statute that we have to abide by the economic impact. We have to take that into consideration and they didnt do that and i know that you might have had that conversation that you want to follow the law clearly and i know a federal judge is already ruled that the epa in the past considered them discretionary and not mandatory and i think your position ive heard is that you think they are mandatory and you tend to abide by them. Am i correct . Yes, cognizant. We did indicate that he sent representatives to us in virginia as part of the proposed withdrawal and i think it is
Are children. The medicaid system if we do work requirement reforms the youre good ow about this math, doesnt work. A 500 billion cut to medicare and medicaid, those two combined, 72 billion to disability programs, and in my state we are one of the poorest states in the country so i want to go about this with a minute left a little differently. 20 of new mexicans live in poverty. We have some of the hungriest families in america. A third of us are on snap. We have some of the highest unemployment rates in the country. We have a governor who i would say applied many of these same principles to running state reforms or d to cuts. This is the worst coverage. I was wondering i think theres Nothing Better than a partnership and i would like to invite you to come with me to new mexico and i would like to take you, we can go to some of the Navajo Nation and some of e remote nations and i would show you these beneficiaries. A list of them that would keep them afloat and some that would keep th
Social security was much closer to going bankrupt and then it is today. The reason we have it today is the work the commission did, the surplus that was piled up in the intervening years until finally the baby boomer generation began to retire and are drying it down pretty rapidly. An opportunity to do that again, if we could reform Something Like that, we prevented this for three consecutive congresses by this president could be the person who saves Social Security, put it on firm footing and it would be done in a bipartisan way. My friend on the other side of the aisle are always concerned this means cutting but look what Ronald Reagan did with that commission was to bowe neil and Ronald Reagan the next year won reelection with 49 states and to bowe neil remained speaker of the house, you can do this in a bipartisan way as long as you are protecting the program because it is a popular program. The way they did it is gradually raised the age, i was 34, told me youre going to retire at
The 2016 gop president ial nomination. And well have it for you here tonight. Who stood up, who stood out, who stepped back and two did best . Without a doubt, much of the attention focused on frontrunner, donald trump. He showed off his direct manner and his plane plain spokenness. You call women you dont like, fat pigs, slobs, dogs and disgusting animals. And your twitter account only rosie odonnell. No, it wasnt. Like i said, Something Different is at work in in process. The early debate. F, social media, google and twitter chatter suggesting that Carly Fiorina won the debate with lines like these. I didnt get a phone call from bill clinton before i jumped in the race. Did any of you get a phone call from bill clinton . I didnt. Maybe its because i didnt donate to his wooifs senate campaign. I would begin by reminding people that by this point in president ial elections, jimmy carter couldnt win, bill clinton couldnt win and neither could a barack obama. The opening moments of the d