i think that helps everyone come to consensus and create laws for everyone. >> host: trisha, fred upton as chairman coming from the republican side of the aisle. >> guest: and as a telecom lawyer ask lobbyist i'm thrilled that he's there because he does understand the issues and in terms of republican principles and governance, he has always articulated a preference for reliance on market solutions and letting, you know, technology involved. don't come up with an answer to fix a problem that isn't really there. so i think that gives a lot of comfort to folks in industry, you know, across the board in the different sectors of communications. >> host: getting back to privacy, who do you see being leading players on that? in the house joe barton has been outspoken on the need for privacy legislation. who do you see sort of stepping up to the plate in the house, who do you see stepping up to the plate on that issue in the senate? >> guest: ing i think in the house they'll take a measured view and hold some hearings. there's somewhat of a difference in approach to privacy, so i don't think y

and fred upton who will dig in to healthcare reform and energy policy. then, what effect will the new tea party backed members of congress have on capitol hill? we'll talk with two of them. incoming senator mike lee of utah and congressman allen west of florida. plus, has the obama administration figured out how to go around land impoese nn us? our sunday panel will have a fair and balanced debate. and a remarkable story of courage from our power player of the week. all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again. and happy new year from fox news in washington. all eyes will be on house republicans this week when they take control from democrats. from investigating the white house to looking for ways to undo obamacare, our guests will be key players. congressman darrell issa who will chair the house oversight and government reform committee and congressman fred upton to chair the energy and commerce committee. >> happy new year to you. >> chris: you wrote an article where the headline was with the reclaiming the right to oversight." you said the new majo

. >> coming from the d side of the aisle, as you do, were you relieved when fred upton became chairman of the house energy committee? >> what a question. [laughter] i do think that he was a good candidate for it. i wouldn't put it up as relief. i think -- i'm glad that he's the chairman and i'm glad that congressman walden will also be there. i think that he has a lot of good insight. i think that the important thing is for these committees and subcommittees to be held by people who have some kind of understanding of these highly technical areas. i think that helps everyone come to consensus and create laws that make sense for everyone. >> trashe that paoletta, coming fra the republican side of the aisle -- >> as a telecom lawyer, i'm thrilled that he's there, because he does understand the, i. and in terms of sort of republican principles and governance, he has always articulated a preference for reliance on market solutions and technology involved. don't come up with an answer to fix a problem that isn't really there. so i think that gives a lot of comfort to folks in industry across

. >> host: did you support joe barton and fred upton? [laughter] >> guest: you know, i don't want to state right now all the different candidates that we support, but i believe we've done events for several of those -- excuse me, several of those individuals. >> host: well, joe barton was a guest on "the communicators" recently. >> guest: i saw. >> host: and here is one thing he had to say, want to get your response to this. congressman barton, if you were chairman, could you see the ceos of companies such as facebook and google coming to testify on issues such as privacy in front of the committee? >> we -- i think you could almost guarantee that. >> host: mr. ramsey. >> guest: i think it's good. as he said, you can guarantee that companies are going to be having a dialogue. hopefully it's not -- it ought to be a dialogue, you know? there should be a give and take, a listening and an exchange of thoughts, concerns, ideas. and so that's what i would, that's what i would say. whoever's chairing this committee whether it's upton or whether

we heard fred upton talking about the repeal.ave you heard anything from the white house about his effort? guest: i think they feel relatively confident that that is not going to happen. he said that he felt that was -- there was momentum -- more momentum than he expected. he also talked about a piecemeal approach. i think that they are girding for that piecemeal approach. there is a lawsuit in florida that involves 20 attorneys general and governors that they view as a very significant threat. there is concern that this issue could snowball and a momentum. a deeper concern is the court of public opinion. the white house knows that they have to reprint health care. they have to script or redefine it. they are significantly concerned about the legal issues. host: fred upton said they want to have this symbolic vote before the state of the union address. what are you hearing about the timing of that and what he says is a piece by piece attempt to repeal it? guest: i would imagine, if they're going to have that vote, it would be in

this is a huge waste of time, as was said by the commentary with the fred upton. the senate has indicated and certainly the president, that they will not take up this repealed. why are we doing this? the problems that the health- care bill addressed, the lack of coverage for more and more americans, and premiums, they are not going away. this was an honest attempt to come up with a solution to try to provide more coverage, and to try to stabilize premiums, and to provide patient protections. why would you want to start the new session with an outright repeal? it seems to me that it makes a lot more sense to let this unfolds. the patient protections are gradually unfolding. the coverage rules will gradually take in. on general one, 80% of the premiums have to go towards -- on january 1, it kicks in that 80% of premiums would have to go towards it. this is having a very positive effect. if you are reasonable about it, we will say, let this unfold. have some oversight hearings and propose some changes as we go along. that is fine. we can work on a bipartisan basis. t

this is a huge waste of time, as was said by the commentary with the fred upton. the senate has indicated and certainly the president, that they will not take up this repealed. why are we doing this? the problems that the health- care bill addressed, the lack of coverage for more and more americans, and premiums, they are not going away. this was an honest attempt to come up with a solution to try to provide more coverage, and to try to stabilize premiums, and to provide patient protections. why would you want to start the new session with an outright repeal? it seems to me that it makes a lot more sense to let this unfolds. the patient protections are gradually unfolding. the coverage rules will gradually take in. on general one, 80% of the premiums have to go towards -- on january 1, it kicks in that 80% of premiums would have to go towards it. this is having a very positive effect. if you are reasonable about it, we will say, let this unfold. have some oversight hearings and propose some changes as we go along. that is fine. we can work on a bipartisan basis. t

perhaps will come to know better is the chairman of the house energy and commerce committee, chairman fred upton of the great state of michigan. [applause] he has a lot on his plate not the least of which includes the portfolio energy so we look forward to working with you, mr. chairman. i'm going to introduce the consumers. we have a very diverse head table to become a first former governor bill graves of the great state of kansas who is currently the president ceo of american trucking association. [applause] next to him as tom gibb said the friend and currently president ceo of the american odierno and steel institute a very intensive institute. thanks for being here. as shall be mentioned during my spare time working in the house and the senate i was privileged to attend an esteemed institution here in town called the george washington university and i have the privilege now to co-chair the council on political affairs, a graduate school of political management and employees to welcome the president of the george washington university thank you for being here today. [applause] a new found tre

now he's been replaced by fred upton from michigan who calls himself a fan of the oil sands and has writteno secretary of state hillary clinton saying let's move this faster. we can't wait to read this is a big economic issue as well as an energy issue. and what's interesting, peter, is after 9/11 all of the attention was on security but now we've had a recession, unemployment at 9.5%, and all the issues are starting to be framed in terms of jobs and in terms of ey. warsengeneedocus now onelhodoege t border moving more smoothly in addition to keeping it secure? and how do we use this energy relationship to help the economy in both countries? and i think that is where canada, despite the little bit of attention that it gets on an average day, is able to yb t e antn w both e whe use d t cgrs setheseisuett canadians have been talking about for quite some time. >> luiza savage come thanks for getting started tonight. appreciate it. now we will broaden the discussion and bring andrew quinn and paul wells. if you watch the conversations theory is you know they will not be seeing eye to eye on thi

the first one that you all know well as the new chairman of the house energy committee, chairman fred upton, of the great state of michigan. chairman? [applause] >> he has a lot on his plate, not the least of which includes a portfolio of energy. we look forward to working with you. let me introduce two consumers, former governor bill graves of the great state of canada -- kansas, the president and ceo of the american trucking association. [applause] >> next to his tom gibson, a friend, and currently the president and ceo of the american iron and steel institute, an energy-intensive industry. thank you. [applause] >> as shelby coffey mentioned, during my spare time working in the house and senate, i was privileged to attend an esteemed institution called the george washington university. i have the privilege dollars to co-chair the council on political affairs, the graduate school of political management, and then pleased to welcome the president of george washington university. president, to life for being here. [applause] -- thank you for being here. [applause] >> and, a new-found friend.

the incoming chairman of several high profile house committees including energy and commerce of fred upton: yes, this -- this set of regulations is almost tailor made for the incoming republican house majority. it's a new set of regulations on industry, it's, you know, it's coming from the executive branch. it's very environmental, and so it's an environmental regulation and so this is definitely -- the incoming republican majority in the house has made very clear this is going to be a long with health care one of their absolute top targets as they look at pieces of the administration agenda to attack. it is going to be a very -- it's going to be sort of blown up into this very political, symbolic kind of fight. you know, several leading members of the new house majority and these new chairman have made clear it's a top priority. we can expect to see that narrative unfold starting pretty quickly. >> host: what do the new rules mean? i have a story from npr elizabeth, and jeff who headed the epa under president bush says it will increase energy cost and halt construction. that's because the

this is a huge waste of time, as was said by the commentary with the fred upton. the senate has indicated and certainly the president, that they will not take up this repealed. why are we doing this? the problems that the health- care bill addressed, the lack of coverage for more and more americans, and premiums, they are not going away. this was an honest attempt to come up with a solution to try to provide more coverage, and to try to stabilize premiums, and to provide patient protections. why would you want to start the new session with an outright repeal? it seems to me that it makes a lot more sense to let this unfolds. the patient protections are gradually unfolding. the coverage rules will gradually take in. on general one, 80% of the premiums have to go towards -- on january 1, it kicks in that 80% of premiums would have to go towards it. this is having a very positive effect. if you are reasonable about it, we will say, let this unfold. have some oversight hearings and propose some changes as we go along. that is fine. we can work on a bipartisan basis. t