the e.p.a. regulations are those communities that rely on affordable, reliable, coal-fired energy to light their homes and run their businesses. these communities are the least able to afford increased unemployment, increased energy prices, and the illness that results from unemployment and being unable to afford fuel. and i might say that when the e.p.a. does their analysis, they never look at the effect of the health of the children of the people working in the coal mines and the utility plants who lose their jobs. and there is an impact on it. but i think this is a good amendment that would help the analysis and i would like to ask -- tell the lady from wisconsin we would be happy to accept this amendment. ms. moore: you would be happy to accept it, you say? mr. whitfield: yes, ma'am. ms. moore: i do thank the gentleman for accepting this amendment. do i repeat that the two -- i do repeat that the two parts this bill had formally included part to your accepting my amendment would have made it

the e.p.a. in the last year or so. for example, there are a number of costly new rules impacting coal fire-to-electric power plants. these include cross-state air pollution rules, greenhouse gas rules, coal combustion residuals and others. each of these rules alone will force some existing power plants to shut down while also blocking new ones from being built. this is bad enough not just for jobs but also because it will raise electricity prices. but the combined effect of all these rules is far worse. in fact, it could even reduce generating capacity enough that it would jeopardize the reliability of the nation's electric grid system. and we need to know all of the information that we can obtain about these regulations so that we can move forward in a legitimate and contentious way. now, if america's going to remain competitive in the global marketplace, it is going to have to have reasonable electricity prices, and that's going to be essential if we're ever going to stimulate this economy and

in speaking of the more rowdy you know the e.p.a. as it were you know what what's the world of government all these things the same people who don't trust the the e.p.a. to keep the air clean do trust the government put people to death troy davis was put to death a couple of days ago and all his appeals were denied former president and governor of georgia jimmy carter so if one of our fellow citizens could be executed was so much doubt surrounding his guilt in the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated. isn't jimmy carter right isn't it time for us to join the other civilized nations in the world and say enough already. i don't think it's time for us to throw out the death and only necessarily i think a question whether or not you know the requirements for putting someone to death are strict enough because this was a very interesting case was circumstantial evidence however the supreme court did not intervene it why didn't they you know you have it's a very balanced court you have several liberal justices who could

the e.p.a. is costing mississippi consumers, farmers and small businesses and state and local governments. these are just a few examples of the frustrating regulations that have come out of the obama administration. lastly, we must concentrate on tax reform. the joint committee has the opportunity to lay the foundation for fundamental tax reform, but they must not enact tax increases. the american people don't need or want more solutions from the federal government. they want the federal government to get out of their way. by tackling our spending problems, removing excess regulations, and guaranteeing that taxes will not increase, we will unleash the american economy and give businesses the confidence they need to grow and create jobs. thank you, madam speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california, ms. lee, for five minutes. ms. lee: thank you, madam speaker. as founder of the congressional out-of-poverty caucus, i rise today to continue sou

the e.p.a. regulations that are being proposed are actually having a detrimental effect on jobs in this country and in fact as the studies, i just entered so the record indicate, thousands of new jobs into clean energy environment will be created decision to the -- digs to the -- if digs to the thousands of thousands of lives will be saved because of the better environment and millions of people whose respiratory illnesses will be diminished. i just want to say it's easy to talk about regulatory reform and nobody in this room including administrator jackson believes that we should have overly burdensome regulations. on the other hand, we need to look clearly at science when determining what those regulations should be and we need to balance in a scientific and careful way job creation and the prergs of public health. that's what the e.p.a. is trying to do. i commend them for a very difficult, difficult evaluation and i urge them to keep it up because we need to protect the health of americans whi

the e.p.a. has to involve itself at this point in time. but when i karl with e.p.a. -- quarrel with e.p.a., as i do, i don't do it in a way that demonizes the agency. i do it in a way that's looking for a solution. one thing that i have learned in the years that i have been in this institution is that whether you have a right or left or center ideological perspective, to begin demonizing certain people suggests to me that those people probably have been successful. i don't know lisa jackson, the environmental protection agency cabinet official. but i do know that the way people are screaming about the work that she has done suggests that she must be having some success. it's time to call my friends out on the other side for their shenanigans and show the american people that they are more interested in helping big business and the wealthy than the middle class and working poor americans who continue to struggle all across this nation every single day. if we start cutting the regulations that prot

. >> we're going to stop the e.p.a. from going forward with any of these regulations they've got. >> stop damaging the economy with job-killing regulations. >> there is no other agency like the e.p.a. it should really be renamed the job killing organization of america. >> stephen: yes, government regulators like the e.p.a. are killing good jobs, like pelican scrubber or next-of-kin caller. fortunately some brave corporations have found a way to protect themselves from big government telling them what to do, and it's the subject of tonight's "word." i think, therefore i brand. nation, these days no company is taking more flack than google. last week google was publicly accused by presidential candidate and cursed doll come to life rick santorum of bias in their search results. eight years ago santorum reasonably compared gay sex to "man-on-dog." so gay advice columnist dan savidge successfully led a campaign to make the top google search for santorum a filthy, juvenile phrase i'm not going to say because this is family sh

that money because they're afraid that they're going to spend some money with the e.p.a. they're afraid down the road that we're going to spend money on. increased energy costs because we are shutting down every aspect of the mess to energy in the united states they're going to have to you actually are going to leave if that's how absolutely all fair costs are going to a lot of companies hire people because there's demand for the top and i don't know i don't know how often you talk to companies out there that want to hire people or think about how i'd run companies and i have every day i'm pleased that i have brought his knowledge over to us and the people in generated more than a quarter of a billion dollars and you want to and you want to do business certainty in your i never hear about certain a quote i did about was customer she did down the road you were looking down the road what your costs were going to be and how you can manage those costs down the road and if your energy your sort of your customers i feel absolutely i have ok been pinned you know that it's custome

well, over the next seven years, if all those e.p.a. rules go into effect, the e.p.a. 1.4 million jobs. all that stuff, ok, so you would lose 1.4 million private sector jobs. but on the plus side, you would create 230,000 government jobs. fantastic! >> it's following a trend because under the obama administration, government jobs have increased by 7% while the rest of the jobs in the private sector have gone down so it's interesting to see sort of a shift in society to more government workers. >> the president trumped his own e.p.a. about two weeks ago and she almost quit because of it. i think he has to step in and regulate this. it's hurting his economy. this is his report card. >> let's see if he does that. in the meantime, can you say oh bummer? it turns out akorpgd to a report in "the new york post" this morning that the president's people went to mtv, you know, the same outfit that does "jersey shore" and, you know, known for the music videos originally. and they have young viewers. that's the key here, folks. they have young viewers. apparently, the advisors to

only person who would sit in the e.p.a. office and think that the farm products magically appear at their grocery store would know that you can't get nauf a muddy field an plow effectively. you can turn up some moisture at the right time and you can keep dust down and farmers do. they don't want that topsoil blowing away like it did in the dust bowl. they've learned their lesson about that and they're doing the best they can. and i would commend them for doing it. i went to school in lubbock, texas, back in the 1960's. at the end of what we call the dust storm era. and because of modern farming methods and so forth, they still have dust storms up there but nothing like what they had in the 1950's, nothing like what we had in the 1960's and i would argue because of good, modern farming methods, they keep the dust to a minimum but we still sometimes have half the state of new mexico blowing through the panhandle of texas. who are you going to fine? the state of new mexico? new mexico farmers? texas farmers where it lands? who

according to the e.p.a.'s own analysis, the guidance would significantly expand the waters of the united states subject to federal control and regulation. the american farm bureau has said the guidance -- quote -- " defines jurisdiction in the broadest way possible." unquote. well, this is a page straight out of this administration's play book. -- playbook. if their policy goal is rejected by congress, they use their regulatory power to accomplish their agenda any way they can. stretch the law, ignore the law, claim that the statute is ambiguous, circumvented, put out a guidance document to interpret it, and that's exactly what they're doing. we have seen this playbook used over and over again by this administration and its federal agencies. they should have gotten the message after an unsuccessful attempt during the last congress to vastly expand their jurisdiction over virtually all waters from irrigation ditches to farm pods. but like a child who hears "no" from his parents, they jump ahead. the administra

the e.p.a.'s war on coal affects power plants that provide roughly half of the nation's electricity. in michigan, d.t.e. energy says the new rules will take 20% of its capacity offline within three years. without an assured supply of energy, companies will not invest in new facilities. that's the clip from "the detroit news." "wall street journal". many of the suggestions are familiar. the c.e.o.'s want lower corporate taxes in the u.s., which has, among the highest corporate rate in the world and moratorium or rollback of business regulations. the government needs to be a better partner with the business world, says the health services c.e.o. the sentiment is expressed by many, c.e. omple of ernst-young. the regular tower -- excuse me, the regulatory policy from 2013 by halting nigs or i am i am pleatation could harm jobs or economic growth. those are two quotes out of the newspaper. and there are more here. but the point being, that the people who create jobs, the job creators, small, mid sife

according to the e.p.a. twelve percent of that is from waste that means we throw away two billion eight hundred eighty million pounds of food saving just one percent of valets food waste would equal nearly thirty million pounds of food that's almost triple what the food bank is short every year. food waste happens on all levels of production and consumption on farms in transit in the making of highly produced foods in grocery stores in restaurants and in our homes our grocery stores are the obvious choice for redirecting wasted food to hungry people. i decided to go to the trader joe's headquarters since it's only a fifteen minute drive from my house but i was a bearded mangy dumpster diver and thought i'd better clean up before talking with sophisticated businesspeople about policy changes in their companies a haircut and a shave in the tide did absolutely nothing for me we didn't have a camera rolling or anything we just walked in and i asked to speak with someone and they said we're going to have to ask y

to the pacific northwest for instance tuna fish travel thousands of miles in the continents are the e.p.a. is not routinely measuring the fish then of course they have no plans to do so the japanese people are at great risk they love this seafood almost everything is fish all rise their rice fifty percent of their rice crop is grown in the fukushima proper province or near near the reactor so and that's just about to come the harvests now are god know is what they will google. and found very hot spots here on they are found radioactivity even south of tokyo so the accident is not over it could be another earthquake could have been three actually melt through which is unheard of in the history of the nuclear age milk through the container on to the onto the onto the floor they could be massive harvesting explosions still or steamy explosions and buildings or is very unstable and it's got a very hot cooling pool on top of that and there is another earthquake that we were called collects the building contracts and god knows how much radiation police state no one knows how and when this accid

couldn't build the hoover dam today because they discover a snail darter in the colorado river and the e.p.a. would stop it you know and let's compare for a second the plans that we have here in the u.s. to china people you know people would be displaced animals would be killed and trees would be cut down but whatever it is that needed to be built in china most likely would get violent so i'm wondering what you think you know if we want to get these dogs going will there need to be a drastic change in some of these regulations. sure i mean often it feels like i think it could be a low over done it often feels like the one thing that everyone can agree on and united states right left and center is to stand in the way of a good project that we obviously need on the other hand we are capable of getting things done we want to get them done even if they do a lot more than damage some snail habitats etc we are fighting multiple wars with real human casualties every day we do it live with fifteen million unemployed people twenty five million on him under employed people we live with a situation of

in their statement about that rule, and pulling back the e.p.a., they said the economy is simply too fragile for us to do right now. that's a republican point that overregulation is hurting the economy. that the obama administration by extension is hurting the economy by imposing all sorts of new regulations on -- obama basically played into the republican argument on that. that's one of the things. in addition to the environmental issue, itself, but conceding the case is what has the base so frustrated. >> what turns this around? what is there on the horizon that could possibly turn this terrible job situation around? and make it look a little better? gwen: and in time to please people like the congressional black caucus which is not very happy about these jobs numbers and don't see a way out. and getting increasingly vocal about it. >> that's what the problem right now. there's nothing really on the horizon that's going to turn this situation around. i mean, people expected that this would have been turned around long ago. and economists were saying we should start to see growth. w

we saw him make that move with the e.p.a. rolling back some of those regulations so yeah this was an important moment for him. i do think we could be in a post-bully pulpit era meaning that barack obama might not be the best bully we know he is more of a compmiser but i don't think that presidential speeches are any longer sort of appointment t.v. and that people sit around and watch them in the way they did when reagan was president or even when clinton was president because there is just... there's a divided media and people watch this speech and if you like president obama going in you probably liked him a lile more after you hed this speech and if you dn't like him, if you thought he was a big-spending liberal, than everything he said probably only confirmed that with this already 447 billion price tag on all of these programs that people think is really just... some people at least think are the overreaching hand of government in people's lives. >> i just think what's key here is that consistency. we always try to put to

tension over the issue there anyway when it comes to concerns over the proliferation of arms in the e.p.a. and its potential impact on regional peace everyone seems to be on the same page and the security council has clearly expressed those concerns the amount of weapons in the view that are out for grabs is the screen really worrying more clear he's hardly left behind are bringing with the weapons and the rebels have helped themselves those weapons may very well wind up in the hands of people who have other agendas then defeating could offie that's the kind of concern that russia has raised on a number of occasions saying in a chaos like the one unfolding in libya the weapons will inevitably end up in the hands of extremists and terrorists and not just in weapons but maybe nuclear materials that lead to possibly has to. palestinians are determined to have their state officially recognized so how do they feel about libya's former rebels being given instant official status. the sense of sorrow and loss in our first place from anger later in the program we speak to palestinian politician hu

all of our problems are caused by too much or too incompetent a government and they don't trust the e.p.a. not to screw up businesses can't trust the government to determine or collect their taxes don't trust the government schools educate their children and how can they trust that same government to decide if they should die if they're found guilty of a crime especially if like troy davis they may be innocent as you can imagine that argument usually brings most debates to a grinding halt but the bottom line is this taking another human life is simply inhumane no matter what the justification for it maybe it's a violation of the first law of every human society don't kill other people so when we behave brutally even via our state we brutalize ourselves in our society which is why most of the civilized societies on planet earth have ended the death penalty and why we should too. our next viewer comment is from the ramp line last night i was joined in the studio by david stockman economist former congressman and director of the reagan era office of management and budget and republican is cr

the to see this week and republicans begin their assault on the e.p.a. oh and romney has this doozy of a job creation idea to tell. the day one i'm going to put in place five executive orders the first one is going to direct the secretary of health and human services to grant a waiver from obamacare to all fifty states so we can stop that attack actually repealing president obama's health care reform will actually kill four hundred thousand jobs over the next decade and i suppose that really wasn't supposed to be an idea to create jobs just to get some tea party support so consider in this is most of the same stuff george w. bush did and is now responsible for the financial crisis of two thousand and eight the regulating banks to be regulating companies that regulated everybody a second republican great depression and the worst job creation record of any president in u.s. history why should we expect romney's plan to have any better results your offer his take is brian darling economist of human events contributing to red state government and director of

i've introduced a bill that will affect the e.p.a. was shocked to discover that they are not required to consider the impact, adverse impact on jobs that their regulations could have. don't think that's very reasonable. i think they have to make that consideration. because that's part of the costs they need to weigh against any perceived benefit. my bill would require that for any future regulations, the e.p.a. would have to weigh the costs of jobs lost and publicize that so that the public and congress and the various states affected would be able to weigh in and hopefully push back. i mentioned the orphan drug act. i'm looking to repeal the medical device act. anwe have some broad support for that. i don't know if we've got enough but we're going to keep working on it. some of the unfunded mandates. this came to my attention earlier this year. that we had a transportation department rule that was going to require every municipality in america to replace all their street signs. anybody hear about this? replace all your stree signs. ta

transportation and now he's saying to cut global warming disasters we have to cut programs from the e.p.a. to cut global warming he's also proposing cutting first responder programs that are paid for by fema to pay for fema what am i missing here you're missing i mean is it what is wrong with eric cantor he was wrong in two thousand and four and he's right now there's absolutely nothing wrong with the idea of cutting spending to make these payments today for a real national disaster which clearly i mean there genius experience some real difficult times with an earthquake and with the the hurricane because nothing wrong with cutting spending we waste all over the because spending all day long isn't the whole point of the federal government having the ability to borrow or earn or generate surpluses so the. during times of crisis it can spend money in order to deal with those prices this ingenuous crisis people would we have the money elsewhere just. a matter of cutting if you got strong word it's more of a matter of allocation earth follower is insane and you know rock he's saying cut fema

i've introduced a bill that will affect the e.p.a. i was shocked to discover that they are not required to consid the impact, adverse impact on jobs that their regulations could have. i don't think that's very reasonable. i think they have to make that consideration. because that's part of the costs they need to weigh against any perceived benefit. my bill would require that for any future regulations, the e.p.a. would have to weigh the costs of jobs lost and publicize that so that the public and congress and the various states affected would be ablto weigh in and hopefully push back. i mentioned the orphan drug act. i'm looking to repeal the medical device act. and we have some broad support for that. i don't know if we've got enough but we're going to keep working on it. some of the unfunded mandates. this came to my attention earlier this year. that we had a transportation department rule that was going to require every municipality in america to replace all their street signs. anybody hear about this? replace all your street signs.

me back ten years ago your predecessor christine today whitman you took over when she left to run the e.p.ayou recall where you were? >> i was at the governor's mansion. and i was hosting a meeting of the holocaust commission. that's when the state trooper said in my ear that a plane had flown into the world trade center so we'd better get out of there. we didn't have any information. all the lines of the communication are at the top of the world trade center. so i sent a fellow over by helicopter to get information for me. we sent people to liberty state park to wait for injured people. we sent doctors, personnel waiting across the river for people to come and be helped. and i went over there be and i watched. >> in addition to the close to 700 that died in new jersey, the now immortal flight united 93 originated in newark. how did that day change you? how did it change new jersey as a state as well? >> that day i'm sure pataki and mayor jewel -- giuliani felt the same way. let's let the tins know we're working to ensure their safety. the second part of it, the families of the victims and

caller: i think the government should regulate the e.p.a., whatever it is that regulates the air the atmosphere. what is emitted into the air from cars, from factories it goes up. unless it escapes and goes into the universe it is going to come back down. host: even if it has an adverse impact on jobs? caller: yes. what is the point of working these jobs when you are going to make the people that's working now die early and the ones that -- the offsprings of those ones, they are going to die early too. it is not that we are not going to have modern technology to help take care of these diseases. but yet and still if we had modern technology and less people with asthma and other type of lung diseases that they will get from breathing in the smog and all kind of other things that are in the air we could live longer. then maybe they can talk about i want to -- i want to talk about another subject. cutting social security and something like that. host: the problem with cutting the cost of regulation, is that there have been few studies after such costs have been imposed. researching the

attacks on the federal government, the e.p.a.has said he would do away with if he were president. so there's nothing really new here. governor perry is a very strong states' rights conservative. he is going to run that way. and no one's run that way in american politics in the mind of memory of man right now. we'll see if it works. i think that's what he's going to do. >> is there an authenticity appeal. you may not agree with what i have to say, but you know where i'm coming from? >> yes. i think that's really helped him. i think it's true here that he doesn't get a lot of respect from the political crowd here and he reciprocates their disdain. he real doesn't care what people think. and he is who he is. he's going to do what he's going to do. and i mean, one of the most amazing numbers is there was a poll last week that showed him ahead 40-16 among seniors. 65 plus. what is rick perry going he's attacking social security. how does that make sense? >> good point, paul. with a beautiful shot of the texas state capitol behind you,

and according to the e.p.a. knew marek criteria standards, these standards would cost the state of florida, my home state, over 14,000 agriculture jobs alone. and the g.d.p., i might say, that grew this year at just .4% in the first quarter. the american small business people, mr. president, deserves real results. they will expect that tonight. they will expect that from this entire body from this point forward. american small business people are real people. people like jay trumble. jay is a personal friend. i've known him for a long time. he lives in my congressional district. he is an independent dealer for culligan water, offices in panama city, tallahassee and fort walten beach. he's been in business for over 30 years installing water softeners and drilling wells throughout west and southwest florida. jay told me he's never seen conditions as bad as these three years of this administration. jay estimates his personal business has dropped over 25%. jay says with continued economic uncertainty has made it diff

the president recognized that the e.p.a.'s new smog standards would lead to job losses but he played politics and only rescind the standards until right after the election. i also introduced the invest in america act which would spend the capital gains tax for 10 years, providing more certainty to families who are being penalized for selling their homes, their investments and farms. mr. fincher: instead of spending money we don't have on initiatives that don't work, these bills provide actual help to americans. so they can get back to the business of making america great. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from maryland rise? without objection, the gentlelady from maryland is recognized for one minute. ms. edwards: thank you, mr. speaker. just as john paul stevens warned that the supreme court's ruling in citizens united threatened to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation. how right he

if you're in manufacturing not understanding what the e.p.a. >> he says other people are going to pay for this. >> yeah, his -- >> his committee. >> told me that he's going to pay for it. so let's take him at his word for this part of the discussion. >> how? >> if that's the case, right, he hasn't told us yet. next monday he will. let's say it's paid for. would you consider voting for it? >> i would consider working for the president on infrastructure spending. that was our stimulus bill. his $787 billion stimulus bill doubled the size of government. we had a bill that cut infrastructure and he's going back to where we started. i would work with the president but i'm not going to raise anybody's taxes in this environment to pay for it. if you want me to raise taxes on job creators to pay for this bill, i can't help you. >> if someone wants to know what's going on in the international stage especially when it comes to the two wars, you go to the wars, you talk about it in your open. they offer us a way in and they say they're concerned about the

manufacturing by getting the e.p.a. off people's backs. labor by getting the national labor relations board to be fairer, the medical industry by repealing obamacare, consumer spending by eliminating the threat of future tax increases. that essentially what he's doing is taking each segment of the economy and relieving it from the threat of obamacare -- of obama's policies, the fifth one was banking in repealing the dodd-frank bill. it's a brilliant plan. whoever is the president, that's going to be the plan. >> thanks for the cliffnotes version of that. it's 69 points and 161 pages. dick morris will stick around to preview tonight's g.o.p. debate for us. if you got to spend five minutes with rick perry today, what one piece of advice would you give him? don't say it yet! wait until after the break. religious leaders were invited to ground zero. another slap in the face? at the washington national cathedral where the president is going to be on sunday night, why aren't they allowed there either? it's a church, isn't it? we'll explain. thisn

there are all kinds of regulations coming particularly out of the e.p.a. but not exclusively the e.p.a., coming out of agencies of this government that are creating greater uncertainty and making it more difficult and more costly for small businesses in this country to create jobs. so why not focus on that issue? why not focus on getting the free trade agreements, three of which are -- three free trade agreements that were essentially negotiated during the previous administration have been languishing now because they haven't been submited to congress for ratification. the president talks about promoting free trade and creating jobs through exports but you've got three free trade agreements that were negotiated back in 2006 and trefpb. khropl -- and 2007. colombia was 2006. panama and south korea were june of 2007. the president gets up and talks about i want congress to approve these free trade agreements. we can't do that until he submits them to the congress. we would love to approve those free trade agreements. it would mean thousands of jobs in this e