To officially recognize jerusalem as israels capital. Host good morning. Its thursday, december 7, 2017. Pearl harbor Remembrance Day across the country. It marks the 76th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. Flags have been lowered to halfstaff at the u. S. Capitol. The house and senate will both reconvene at 10 00 a. M. Today. At some point this morning on the senate floor, minnesota democrat al franken is expected to make an announcement about his political future, one day after new allegations of inappropriate behavior emerged and after over 30 of his fellow Democratic Senators called for him to resign. Thats where we begin this morning on the washington journal, as we take your calls and hear your thoughts. Phone lines republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. A special line this morning for minnesota residents, 2027488003. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. A very good thu
Levels through december 22. An update now on negotiations. At roll call. Walk us through the next 48 hours in terms of government funding and efforts to stave that off by members of the house and senate. Guest well, good morning. It seems like the crisis is going to be averted, at least for about two weeks. The house is going to move forward, already gone through the rules committee, as i understand it, and theyre going to move forward on a twoweek continuing resolution. It wouldnt do much except for change the date of the expiration of the government funding. And also make sure that they dont run out of money for Childrens Health Insurance Programs between now and then, making a little bit of a technical change there. Which really pushes the whole issue off until december 22. All indications are that pretty much as soon as the bill arrives from the house, that the senate will ask to pass it as well, and thats if they dont ask before they move. Sometimes the senate will come up an agre
But there is a weight given to cost . Im sorry . There is a weight, there is a consideration gifsh to costs . Whenever we do regulations theres an evaluation of costs and of benefits. Okay. I guess that thats im about out of time anyway. Morgan stole some of my notes and asked some of my questions. So anyway, with that, mr. Chairman, i yield back. At this time the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Flores. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Ms. Mccabe, thank you for joining us today. How does the market price risk . If you know something and you know what the cost is of something, it has a price. You know that price. But if you dont know something, then the price is higher because you have risk, right . Um yes, okay. In 2010 the epa, when they proposed going to 60 parts per billion, said that that would cost 90 billion. Cost the economy 90 billion. In 2014, you reduced it to 40 billion. What happened over that fouryear period to make the cost go down . So, i think what youre comparin
Then they wouldnt be waiting in the middle of the town. We all have requirements on how long we can block thank you. And just if i could, just one more question on distracted driving. Right now only one state received our funding for the distracted driving grant which we would really like to have changed. Theres a ton of money sitting there and we have an emerging problem. Thats why senator hoven and i have sponsored a bill with senator booker to change that criteria to get that money out to states for engsducation efforts. I thought id ask you, ms. Ault, whats kinds of technology . We know thats drivers are doing things they shouldnt do in the cars. A lot of them have admitted to this in sorry have as and ss ss survey surveys. Weve had more than 3,000 People Killed that we know of from distracted driving. Again, these are individuals making decisions on their own. Are there any technologies you think from the Car Companies that could be helpful with this . I can speak not from the Car
Opportunity to work with lawmakers and Law Enforcement officials to try to do what we can to improve the situation purported is difficult but then we have the ability to get information under which the companies are operating so for those as represent companies definitely let us know that you cant be more specific we can raise these issues said in conversation with specific examples otherwise it is just dead generalization. Under what circumstances so let us know because we do gather that information we will have those conversations with those issues. But there are certain levels at government so we are still seeing to encourage your clients with the cooperation what michele said to bring concern there is the agreement between russia specifically on intellectual property for the obligations of the government that have committed to work on to be as specific as possible whether or not they respond is a different question but there were some very specific concrete concern said is a possib