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Remarks focussed on the regulatory reforms that have been made already and they have been significant. things like the power structure that would have raised utility bills, so-called clean power rule, waters the u.s. to require epa to be involved in so much of the economy. these were huge overreaches and on taxes the president said in his two principle observations what our members are saying on the floor and in all of their comments. this is about tax cuts for working individuals and hard working families. and at the other end of the spectrum it is about creating opportunities for our country to be more competitive so that the jobs people have are better than the jobs available now. not very complicated if we stay with those two principles. we will see this economy grow and families and individuals who work hard for a living benefit from it and that s clearly where the president is and where the ....
Gone about it methodically and has put out a new order withdrawing the old clean power rule and then beginning a process to get public input on what ought to be done to reduce actual pollution that existing coal-fired plants. sandra: we ve seen criticism by even members of the president s own party that this president isn t getting things done. you have this happening today and the epa saying he is speaking directly to people in coal country how the rule negatively affected the whole industry and promised he would do this. he is doing this. there is optimism it will bring jobs back to the coal industry. can this be seen as a big win for this administration? it s a big win but a regulatory win. the president has a number of things like this that he can do by the power of the executive order or by administrative rules from the department. one of the biggest victories the president has had is simply ....
Movement on all three of these things. he s kind of pushing them forward and saying here s where i stand. what do you think? i think it s less well organized than you might anticipate. the epa action has been in motion for months. it s very difficult to repeal a regulation, you have to do it in a very deliberate fashion. this is actually got two parts to it, one is to withdraw the clean power rule and the second of all is to open up a public comment session on things that could be done reasonably to control pollution and some of these coal-fired plants. this has been underway for a long period of time. i would say that s being done in regular order if you will. as has been planned, they ve been working on it, it simply came to fruition at this time. the immigration thing i think is a reaction. president trump cut the deal on daca comments that i want to have a deal on daca in a meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and it s starting to get a life of its own at the white house r ....
Million kentuckyans access to health insurance and over the course of the campaign, a red state, he backed off of that. final debate before the election, coin of saying that he would slightly narrow eligibility, maybe require people to pay some kind of premium but not kind of talking about pushing people off of the health insurance. so we ll see how far he tries to go now that he actually has power but if he does try to go far it sets up the stage for the first real effort to roll back the medicaid expansion under the affordable care act and quite a fight. democrats still control one of the two legislative chambers in kentucky. there was also a talk about what he might do for the coal industry in kentucky. yeah. the democrat had actually only attorney general among the democrats to sue the obama administration over the epa clean power rule but bevin promising to go even further. he ll push really hard on coal ....
Two senior epa executives concerning jena mccarthy s speech in which she said coal will continue to provide more americans security than any other fuel source in 2035. they all knew this was a lie. they were saying what they thought they would have to say just to get by. reporter: in another memo an epa staffer writes a colleague is it possible for you all to put together a short summary of the arguments that the sierra club made on why greenhouse gasses are currently regulated under the clean air act? jena would like to get a copy. in yet another, a sierra club lobbyist writes how epa can craft a standard that no coal-fired plant can meet while an epa lawyer responds on his yahoo! account saying attached is a memo i didn t want to send in public. epa administrator said they reached out to a full spectrum to craft the clean power rule. you know how i know we got ....