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Now, good morning. I call this hearing to order. We have quite a full house today. I welcome the audience. This is a formal Senate Hearing in order to allow the committee to conduct its business. Im going to maintain decorum. That means, if theres any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience, that person causing the disruption will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. First, id like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, the honorable scott ...

Held by a house to oversight subcommittee, this is an hour and a half. All right, good morning, everyone. And welcome to our hearing in oversight and information subcommittee on energy and commerce. Finish the subcommittee convenes its hearing today to examine unimplemented recommendations by the Environmental Protection agencys office of Inspector General and Government Accountability office. Acting on these recommendations would improve epas ability to carry out its core mission. Protecting hu...

Suspending autonomy to the regions president refused to back down on independence Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will hold a Cabinet Meeting on saturday to trigger the process allowing madrid to impose direct rule over catalonia. Spains political crisis is deepening after failing to comply with the Spanish Government catalonia will now be stripped of its autonomy more cylindrical mock you for in the absence of a clear response we note that he has not answered our request and therefore we will cont...

Iraqi forces. A bridge was blown up near the town of prayers the size exchanged mortar and rocket fire the kurds took up positions on the road between bell and kirkuk on thursday three days after they pulled out of the city Stephanie Decker has more from the erbil kirkuk highway. We have seen smoke in the distance and just looking at the road really tells you a story immense military reinforcements being sent by the peshmerga Counterterrorism Forces also a lot of trucks with ammunition a new che...

Iraqi forces have claimed control of the whole of Kirkuk Province after intense fighting against Kurdish Peshmerga forces the army says its captured the last town of capri which is situated near a bill with the help of shia militias just a few seventy deca reported from the battle zone with some of the peshmerga feel theyve been betrayed. A new front line opened early friday iraqi forces together with. Move towards positions. In kurdish its around thirty kilometers south of erbil on the road to ...

Spanish government to take control of the autonomous region plans to dissolve the Regional Parliament election because of catalonia referendum. That. This attack or these measures the Spanish Government is trying to i think. This is outside their rule. Is an associate professor at Georgetown University she says mediation may offer a way to resolve the crisis. The Spanish Government has argued that they will call for elections in periods of like six months so theyre going to be new elections in c...

Earlier years havent improved much. Still to come on aljazeera human Rights Groups urged the french government to speak out against abuses on day gyptian president uphill fight to end sisi. And loving arms artists promote peace in the battle against gun crime in the United States. With. With. Hello there heavy rain is pouring in some parts of europe for out of this weather system in the southeast is just drifting its way down towards parts of turkey its going to some very heavy downpours in the ...

The agenda at a conference in italy the countrys been the First Destination for thousands of migrants crossing the mediterranean from north africa the two day meeting is being hosted by the organization for security and cooperation in europe according to the u. N. More than one hundred forty thousand people have crossed the mediterranean into europe so far this year the majority of from nigeria syria and getting. Reports now from palermo where the conference is taking place. The focus of the con...

Take you to a conversation on islamic extremism at the Washington Institute for near east policy. We will be there live at 12 30 p. M. Eastern right here on cspan2. Until then well show you epa administrator scott promotes testimony from yesterday on the president s 2010 budget request for his agency. This House Appropriations subcommittee hearing runs about two hours. The committee will come to order. Good morning. Today we continue to keep all those affected by yesterdays events including our ...

Visitors to the hill. We have a few of them here today with us. Thank you for all the work that you do. We thank you. Now turning our attention to the hearing, we are joined by the 14th administrator of the epa scott pruitt. Congratulations on your confirmation. You have joined a distinguished group. We look forward to hearing your vision and working with you to provide the resources necessary to lead an agency. We are also joined by holly greaves. I believe this is your first time testifying be...