as i said right from the start, many have acknowledged within the administration that this administration has a war on coal, this provides certainty. it's contrary to where the administration wants to go because it does provide certainty with our energy production. i would urge rejection of this amendment which would take us back to a rule that would be more potentially lit gus in nature to something that has certainty. with that i urge rejection of the amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. all time on the amendment has expired. the question son the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. mr. lowenthal: i request a recorded vote. the chair: the gentleman requests a recorded vote. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california will e postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 2 printed in part b of house report 113-374. for what purpose does the gentle

our district winners of the association of california administrators asa, the administrator of the year awards and they will recognize the outstanding performance and achievement by individual administrators who are recipients and active active members who show strong support to the teams who lead in the leadership in the school programs and commitment to the professional growth and so congratulations to all of our administrators and enjoy your week and for all that you do to support us in the schools. >> we have the stomp contest, the 50th anniversary, justice, equality and opportunity, and this was held on january, 22nd, and this was an opportunity for the students to develop language skills and provided a forum for the students to demonstrate excellence in oral, language, speaking comprehension, collaboration and presentation and knowledge of ideas in their subjects student demonstrated several standards and focused on the standards and for speaking and listening. before i introduce the winners, i also want to thank everyone from our community that came out last saturday to the schoo

minutes of their administration. instead of seeking to guarantee clean water for all americans. so they spend years trying to uncover that conspiracy, all the while forcing the department of the interior to spend tens of thousands of hours of staff time and millions of taxpayer dollars in order to comply with their demands and now their subpoenas. and they have come up empty. the inspector general for the department of the interior confirmed in december their were -- there were no political shenanigans. there was no misconduct. there was a poor choice of contractors, yes. and a debate between -- among career staff about the proper way to move forward. could it have been handled better? maybe. but there was no misconduct. meanwhile, the rule put in place by the bush administration, the very rule that this bill would force states to adopt, was thrown out by a federal court two weeks ago because the real misconduct was from the bush administration. which decided that it didn't even need to consider the effects that dest

but our administration made it clear that for right now, they don't want people like this. >> administrationcs are openly wondering why the justice department has invested so many resources in fighting them. >> the president is advocating for the legalization or citizenship of 12 million people. surely, you would think the administration would find it in their heart to support one single family that just wants to exercise its right under our first amendment, in my judgment, to educate their children according to their religious views. >> while the justice department wouldn't comment today, in one of their briefs, they argued that the family, quote, can't establish a well-founded fear of persecution on account of a protected ground. >> i think it's persecution when the government tries to take the children away from you. >> although the family's legal options have been exhausted, the administration does have some discretion about whether it will begin formal deportation procedures. the attorney told me he's hopeful the administration will show the family some mercy. >> shannon, thank you. >>>

and we have to have better training for the teachers and the administrators. dan, his research, and i read it, and he's an advocate for ucla, and i represent individuals as part of my practice that were victimized and bullied. so i've heard of hundreds and hundreds of victims and families over the years that talk about the issues. it starts out with cyberbullying, and harassment and gender issues, and harassment and physical bullying, so i'm not talking about bringing weapons to school. i'm talking about that there are students out there in the country that have been victimized, with what you call bullying or schoolyard hostility or fighting, that type of behavior falls within the parameters of zero tolerance. if it's an example of throwing a piece of popcorn at someone, these teachers have to use discretion. it's a serious threat. >> i think that what everyone agrees on is the level of discernment and defining the areas in areas that are lacking. so can it hinder their chances of success? first, another way that you can interact with our show. [ chanting ] [

that is the logic which our administrators work in. and to see her pearce veerctiontionv, her determination to continue going to school, she's currently still going to classes. ~ perseverance she's taking three classes even though she's not registered. [cheering and applauding] >>> that is absolutely unbelievable. what is even more unbelievable is yesterday's events in which she participated. it is absolutely unfathomable that an undocumented student has to face in this city's community college police brutality. the police wielding their baton, police he swinging their baton, facing a police punching a student, facing the possibility of getting pepper sprayed from undocumented student actually have to face deportation in this city's community college is ridiculous. only to fight for her education and she's not the only one. it's happening to dozens and dozens of other students who are undocumented. i was there when i met another undocumented student who has recently come from ojaca. she was coming to register only to find her class, on

welcome administrator mccarthy. this is your first hearing and we want you to know we greatly respect your dedication to public service and that of your staff particularly taking on this role which is about as difficult a role as any in the entire administration. but you have a long record of protecting the public's health and environment which is presumed to be an unpartisan objective. and you worked for the then governor mitt romney. so i would trust this is a non-partisan, non-contentius hearing. i understand you came from the air side of the epa, but i expect we will send a considerable amount of time on the water regulations that were released on tuesday. they have been a long time coming and i do support and appreciate the fact you have taken the initiative to do what has needed to be done for a long time. i want to say thank you for listening to my colleagues and issueing a proposed rule instead of just guidance. we hear the guidance skids the rulemaking. so hopefully that complaint is off the table now. i am

you were in the clinton administration and intelligence council and obama administrati administration tell us if you look back on the clinton administration, obama and it may start with bush i. >> host: in my book i discuss since the collapse of the soviet union i should point out i was in policy planning in the last 18 months of the administration and then at the national intelligence in the bush administration. both times when i served in government we were already on a downward slide in the relationship. so i think the first was briefed because president george h. w. bush and with president yeltsin for a year was on the focus and oof course general scowcroft was the national advisor when the focus was on disarmament on the controls into deep nuclear rising say ukraine and making sure after the collapse of the soviet union to nuclear weapons was safe there was probably not enough attention given to helping out the new russian government financially, economically and i know president nixon himself was in favor of that but that was very much a perco where the intent to renew focused o

bush administration would. >> those gasoline prices are going up. you know why? there have been no energy plan. >> the fact we don't have an energy policy out there is one of the major storm clouds on the horizon for our economy. >> rewind a year before that election. dick cheney is ceo of the oil services firm halliburton, speaking at the institute of petroleum's fall conference in london. he says, for over 100 years we as an industry have had to deal with the pesky problem, once you find oil and pump it out of the ground, you have to turn around and find more or go out of business. looking ahead to 2010 by which time he says world's energy needs will have increased by millions of barrels of oil per day, cheney asks where is the oil going to come from? "the middle east with 2/3 of the world's oil and the lowest cost. it's still where the prize ultimately lies." arguing that oil is the fundamental building block of the world's economy, the future vice president says "governments and the national oil companies are obviously controlling about 90% of the assets." "c

wherever the decision is whether it's from the administration and the bush administration to withholdformation from congress, i thought of that. but you don't find that without a price because they come at you and they don't always told the truth about it. now, whether that has motivated some, i don't know. and it's not to place -- to paint everyone with the same brush that whatever the situation is it should be reviewed. i don't think there's any question. i completely agree with senator feinstein that this is a matter of great seriousness the attitude that the cia has with the right of congress in all of this and whatever else there is that should be examined in terms of what happened. this may be one of the healthiest things we can do but i know one thing. whatever it was, this is the intelligence community writes the report on it and they leave and write a book on it and it becomes conventional i wouldn't say wisdom, but congressional gossip that this is what happened, and we really have to have the ground truth. president obama on the first day in office stopped the controversial

some administrators are being paid now more than administrators have ever been paid before at city college. finally, what happened yesterday, the use of force against students has never happened before at city college in the 77-year history. (applause) >> district funds were spent to bring out san francisco police to use force against students. this was a really poor management decision. and whatever else you can say about it, it shows -- it makes the point that supervisor campos is making here, that without oversight by the public, there is no accountability in the management. the students need to protest because there is no forum, there are no board of trustees meetings. so, the only outlet students have is to protest, to try to get their point across. (applause) >> leadership -- what they don't understand, the value of democracy and the value of public oversight, it's that leadership and management learned from the public. it learns what the public wants. it learns what the public needs. it gets ideas from the communities. the board of supervisors know that. the school board knows that.

>> yeah, more than any other administration. they also have the luxury of invoting the nsa act of 1959 which the nsa argues exempts it entirely from the freedom of information act. and the release of records which will paint them in a positive light, unsurprisingly, the nsa only complied with 2% of its requests last year. so absolutely we're facing a crisis. >> our community has tweeted in, and there is a facebook post from andrew . . . and speaking about the nsa, brad tweets in . . . check it out. another reacted document there, lisa. and then rich goes . . . all right. horace i want to go to you. look, ryan mentioned the nine exemptions that the go uses to get out of foia requests. the one used most frequently is documents are in the interest of national security. do you believe the obama has abused that? >> i'm not sure of that. i would settle for if osha or the mine safety health administration or epa or department of transportation, if they would make this kind of information and data available, that there has been terrible

i'm wondering why the administration would propose a cut. i think you're hearing something, unless i heard it wrong, something that usually don't hear from all members of a committee and that is asking the question, how can you continue to function at a level that does credit to a program that obviously works and has the support of many members of this committee. >> you know, clearly our drug free communities program is one of the back bones of our prevention infrastructure in the united states. obviously we had to look at how did we have restraints spending in fy 2015. again, i think the proposal if enacted would be we didn't eliminate any of the existing grantees but have about 50 less new grants in fy 2015. >> so you don't think it will be a result of reducing 672 to 614. we went by those numbers. there would be a reduction to 614 or not? >> it would be an overall reduction but it does mean we would eliminate any existing grantees. that money would continue. it just means we would have less money about -- we would be able to award 50 less

he is an administrator of the aeronautics space administration. he spent 13 years at a nasa office. he traveled into orbit. this was between 1986 and 1994. prior to his nomination, he was nominated that she was the chief executive officer of a small business enterprise. it was a consulting firm. spoken testimony is limited to five minutes. members of the committee have five minutes each to ask questions. >> thank you. members of the subcommittee, thank you for this opportunity to discuss nasa's 2015 budget request. a more detailed summary has been made available. my verbal testimony will touch on the highlights for there is a bipartisan strategic explanation plan agreed to by congress in 2010. it ensures that the united states will remain the leader in space exploration for years to come. it is an investment on earth for the benefit of the american people and the global economy. i have a chart i would like to put up. i will refer to this chart off and on as we go. nasa is on a steady path. there is a stepping stone approach to meet the president's challenges. as you see on a chart,

today the administration said that the u.s. cannot yet prove that these forces are russian. >> it's pretty clear that they're russian troops. >> i think it's clear, but general dempsey, what evidence do we have. we don't have any evidence as yet. i think evidence could likely become available over time. >> just as an fyi, several of those troops have told reporters that they are russian. meanwhile, nato is cutting back its ties with russia, suspending its first joint mission to escort a u.s. ship as part of efforts to disarm syria. nato says forget about any more meetings with the russians at least for now. the crucial meeting between kerry and lavrov took place around the same time the u.n. envoy to ukraine was forced to end his mission in crimea at gunpoint. armed men threatened him according to the u.n., forced him to hole up in a coffee shop, a reporter from iwas in that shop and tweeted out this photograph shortly before police escorted him to the airport. anna coren in crimea, give us more details about what happened with

this is the 37th major delay, or so-called unilateral administrative action, and each of those actions and delays represents a significant change in the law passed by congress and signed by the president in 2010. the obama administration had promised repeatedly since the previous delay that on february 10th that there would be no more delays. it was only two weeks ago that the centers for medicare and medicaid services declared they didn't have the authority to order such an extension. and then secretary is sebelius testified before two separate committees that the march 31st deadline would not be changed. listen to these outright declarations that as of today are, well, no longer operative. >> we have no plans to extend the open enrollment period. open enrollment ends on march 31st. in fact, we don't actually have the statutory authority to extend the open enrollment period in 2014. >> are you going to delay the open enrollment period past march 31st? >> no, sir. >> the open enrollment deadline that was set to end march 31st will end march 31st. >> well, there's the secretary unsucces

with the president and administration not behaving as a super power.ngageing in two losing conflicts, iraq and afghanistan, a matter of stale mate, if not failure. now this president, who is allowing and a set of european leaders in european union allowing putin to do as he wishs with ukraine. you hear from them, sort of a historic rationalization that, there a you know, hundreds of years history between ukraine and russia, therefore is is all right, to invade, seems to be the implication for their own inaction, where do you see u.s. headed? is this another indicator of a great nation in decline? >> i think it is weak america leadership that can be turned quickly by a leader with a sense of america's role in the world and how dependent other nations are on u.s., and in particular its leadership, i don't think this is something that is unfolding for a generation. this can be turned very quickly by a strong american leader, we just don't happen to have one right now, that is what is causing these issues that we have. people are losing confidence, remembe

most of them unilateral administrative actions of dubious legality.ll this is being built into the premium structure and will increase premiums going forward next year. it's raising questions about the larger viability of this law. is this going to be reopened, what are the rules going to be going forward? >> the money is just not coming into the insurance companies. it's just not there, is it? >> no. we've seen much lower sign-ups than were predicted. a lot of people who were expected to sign up just aren't. >> kim, it is a delay, an extended delay. i'm sure it's designed to help endangered senate democrats. will it? >> the useful thing about this announcement is that the administration actually laid out actually which democrats it was designed to help in that they came out and said this fix was engineered with the consultation of, then they listed the names of various vulnerable senate democrats like kay hagan in north carolina, mary landrieu in louisiana. these are senators who have all been in trouble because they are on record of saying if you li

is this urgent in the eyes of what the administration's sending out?id they -- is there a sense that the administration is treating this as an urgent thing? >> we were talking about this earlier. i have been covering the white house for quite a while. i made a point to not criticize any president. the truth is presidents never have vacation. they need a break. and the truth also is that the american public really doesn't care where he was last weekend, but putin notices. these people overseas notice. you have to wonder with him on vacation, is it sending a signal to the folks overseas, maybe he's not taking it that seriously. steven made a big deal on twitter the fact after he gave a somewhat strong statement on friday, he was at the dnc talking about happy hour. he made a point on twitter, is this a signal you want to send? optics do matter overseas. whatever you think about the policy, optics do matter. i question if they have been strong on the optics. >>> next up, snowden bashes the u.s., streaming live from russia. so our business can be on at&t's

every administration gets behind the eight-ball. every new administration should have the top 100 people in by may 1. requiressible, but different expectations and different levels of corporations between the incoming administration and congress. he should be focusing on that goal right now. number two, we need to build out the success of -- to reduce the number of says confirmed positions. be changing at least the management positions away from senate-different political spot to career positions. no need for them to be political appointees. it creates great disruption. number three, we need to ensure that appointees are well prepared. today it is misery. the attention is focused entirely on taking -- picking. time is not being used well. yunnan is leave they cannot do anything cause the senate would be offended, when they should be preparing to do their jobs well. in this committee and the senate, they should be signaling that they should be getting ready to do the job well, and that would have a huge impact in making sure they sta

how does administration see crimea? >> well, their first priority since this happened is try to prevent it from spreading. they recognize that it -- actually reversing putin's hold over crimea will not happen. first party was pete haven'ting from going on earlier and creating a split country. whether or not they can live with crimea as an annex part or enclave, that's what the play book has been before. they have done this in georgia and other parts of the soviet former union. >> rose: i would have loved to have been on the conversations. >> president obama and president putin have talked for an hour at a time, taken up by translation that cuts off the actual amount of conversation but lot of, i think, putin talking about his grievances, trying to explain how he sees crimea and the ukrainian government as illegitimate product of western interference. president obama is pushing back trying to get him to agree to some sort of off ramp, that's the phrase, president putin is not taking the off ramp. >> rose: how far is the

i don't hear the administration doing this. we just passed a resolution out of my committee directing them to do this, and i don't expect them to until we pass statutory legislation which we're going to have to do in the house and hopefully in the senate, dick kating this policy. >> critics have said that the obama administration have gone beyond appeasement in this case to almost a gandhi-like passivism when it comes to putin's aggressions. do you agree with that assessment? or should we be talking a stronger military stance in this case? >> we need leverage. you heard the commentary made by the secretary of state. this is not -- words are not what work with putin. what works with putin is something that changes his calculation about how much it's going to cost his country. the one thing he cares about is the income that supports his military. you take that away, you break the monopoly and tell eastern europe, all of whom have written to the speaker of the house, four countries, four heads of state have written to our speaker

here we are in year six of the obama administration, and not even that was able to get done? >> i think if we're looking at legislation, you know, for us we have been focused all of last year in passing and pushing the legislation, right. we needed a legislative solution because that's really the only permanent solution and the only way to get people on a not fast track to citizenship, because it's 13 years of hard obstacles to be able to reach that citizenship at some point. but while we were focused on really first getting dreamers to come out, and then getting families to come out because we needed to show as dreamers, as undocumented immigrant use we are who we are today because of our parents, and if america got to know who we are, and the work that we led for many years by coming out, sharing our stories, that we also believe that america would welcome and accept our parents. and other undocumented people in the community. oftentimes people can act from a place of fear and ignorance. if you don't know who these people are, if you understand that we are your neighbors, y

tell us if you look back, according to the administration, the bush administration and the obama administration if we can start with which one. you seem to be favorably disposed to the whoosh and i'm talking about bush 41. >> guest: in my book i discuss for resets that i count since the collapse of the soviet union. i should point out i was in policy planning in the last 18 months of the clinton administration in six months of the bush and administration and then the national intelligence and the bush of administration but both firms when i served in government we were on a downward slide in the u.s. russian relationship. so i think the first reset was brief because obviously president george h.w. bush overlapped with president yeltsin for about a year but that was very much when the focus of course of general scowcroft was the national security adviser when the focus was on disarmament on arms control issues on denuclearizing the ukraine in other words making sure after the collapse of the soviet union the nuclear weapons were safe and there was probably not enough attention given to helping o

that was more of an administrative change. november 14th, a policy was rolled out for plans to reinstate plans that didn't meet the mandates. on december 19th, the administration announced people whose policies had been cancelled could buy catastrophic coverage, and provided a hardship exemption from the health care mandate for those with cancelled plans. on february 10, hhs delays the requirement that businesses with between 50 and 99 employees provide health coverage another year. on march 5th, cms extends the renewal period for two more years for insurers whose plans are not compliant. and then quietly extended the hardship exemption from the invisible mandate to two years. joining me is jonathan cohn who has examined this law as well as anybody in the country. jonathan, good morning to you, sir. >> thanks for having me on the show. >> all right. let's talk first about the enrollment issue. we've got about two and a half weeks left. they seem like they have a lot of work -- a lot of work cut out for them, particularly on th

he's been involved in foreign policy throughout the administration.he view of the white house is that putin is in this for playing a long game and trying to destabilize ukraine, the first step is this military incursion. call it what we will. but it's very much in his interest. pursuing a russian empire. he's made that clear. an empire to compete with the west and ukraine is essential to that vision however much people in the west think the vision is delusional. and he is playing very hard. he's got economic levers. he's looking at leverage. he's going to pull back now. there can be a military off ramp. somebody like former premier schrader, foreign minister schrader of germany might go there to talk to him about getting the military out, but we're going to see a long program of destabilization to keep ukraine from moving too far west and he's determined to do it and at the same time it's clear the ukrainians most of them want to move west and there's a long way to go with this and he's got a lot of instruments in his power and he's threatened also to

madam administrator.ight here is where a good part of the fight is going to take place, in this assembly committee. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. today by ms.oined lloyd, here with us and ranking member of the full committee. do you have an opening statement? >> thank you, mr. chairman. member, rogers, ranking it is a pleasure to welcome you to the first budget hearing before the appropriations committee. to be blunt, the fiscal year 15 budget request of the environmental protection agency of $7.89 billion is unacceptable , $310 million below current levels. last year i voiced concern that americans don't see the importance of the work of epa in their everyday lives. despite existing environmental programs, the successes of the epa in improving the environment with the passage of the clean air act, amendments from 1990 and the laws of 1980, establishing a superfund program addressing some of the most egregious threats to our well-being. my colleagues, my friends, although we may have forcefullyts

here's huck bee. >>> the barack obama administration pushes for military budget cuts.military be ready to fight off future attacks? >>> and harry reid says obamacare nightmare stories are made up lies. >> there are plenty of horror stories being told. those tales turned out to be just that, tales. >> trying telling that to a woman who lost coverage for our cancer medication. >>> plus arizona's governor vetoes the state's religious freedom bill. >> i sincerely believe that senate bill

it makes the administration look sloppy.hand, what the administration is saying, this is like election day. if you're in line at the polls at 8:00, we'll let you vote because you've shown a good faith effort. these are people who want to sign up for obamacare. why would we deny them that? >> again, it's the flawed policies with this legislation. and if elected members of congress would have done it right the first time going through everything, we won't see these tweaks. also, shannon, i think people are upset about the waivers. the unions lobbied for this registration and they got waivers not to implement obama care in their unions. a lot of people feel it's unfair. >> i want to talk about another poll we had. one of the goals stated when working on this was to lower health care costs. that's a goal everyone can agree on. when you look at the polling about how people feel about this, 65% think the health care law is making their insurance more expensive because we hear stories about people losing care, being shifted to diff

will the administration support this policy? >> as you know, the president has supported a long-term fix of the sgr long before the affordable care act was signed into law. is included it in every budget and yes, we do support the bicameral position. >> the other issues going to be paying for this, and this will be a difficult fight obviously and it certainly can become a partisan fight. in interest of trying to get something done, will the administration come forward and work with congress, work with the senate to try to get to a solution on this? >> we would be eager to do that. the first couple of budgets that the president put forward have specific pay-fors. those were rejected. he does assume that the sgr is fixed. fixed. we put that in our baseline for the next 10 years. we would be happy to work with congress. >> pursuant to the same question, the president in the past put on the table some medicare reforms that would help improve the outlook of medicare over the long haul. one being combining medicare part a and part b i

that already stretched my administrative capacity very far.e president met today with a number of immigration advocates, including the president of the national council of laraza who recently referred to president obama as the deporter in chief. joining us now, genevieve wood of the heritage foundation. she is senior contributor to the foundry as well. great to have you with us. your reaction to the president's impression of just discovered new-found powers. >> yeah. lou: that lives him latitude? >> when he said stretch, there are some folks who would say you stretch to the point of breaking the law because the president has basically chosen when it comes to immigration, among other issues, to decide what parts of laws he wants to enforce and what parts he doesn't. when it comes to immigration, he's already i would say gone beyond what were his powers and i think right now you see a white house that's preparing to try to do the very same thing again. the truth is, he's not the deporter in chief. i wish that that tag was a little truer than it

first, does the administration agree with this policy? will the administration support this policy? >> as you know, congressman, the president has supported a long-term fix long before the affordable care act was signed into law. yes, we do support the bicameral positions. >> the other issue is going to be paying for this. this will be a difficult fight, obviously. it can certainly become a partisan fight. in the interest of trying to get something done, will the administration come forward and work with congress, work with the senate to try to get to a solution on this? >> we would be eager to do that. the first couple of budgets put forward by the president had specifics that were rejected. sgr is assume that the fixed. that is in the baseline for the next 10 years. we would be happy to work with congress. >> in the past the president that on the table some medicare that would help, i think, improve the outlook of medicare over the long haul, what being combining part a and part the into a single structure, making it work more like a modern insurance program. the second was limite

we are also working with the larger administration to look at all of the challenges that the administration sees as potential solutions for reducing methane across a number of industry sectors. the president's climate action plan indicated that the ministers would be putting out a methane strategy. you will be seeing that shortly. >> very good. i appreciate it. and i yield back my time. >> thank you so much, senator. sender inhofe. >> thank you, madam chairman. i want to ask three questions real quick and talk fast here. ms. mccarthy come on january 10, 2014 to send a letter to the president of the natural resources defense council to which he detailed several initiatives bp is undertaken led to shale gas, gas development. in this letter you state that epa is continuing to work on its national research study on the potential, potential impacts of hydraulic reduction or drinking water sources but as you know we can call as many things up as potential impacts as we won't. would you commit to meeting, to the extent the state evaluates potential impacts, the epa will work with industry to deter

administration. so it wasn't that the brotherhood that moved in that changed their line that the explosive growth of the protest affected on the one hand the brotherhood and on the other hand of the u.s. administration. they were both drawn. >> we have a different perspective but if we are talking about the game changer, the tens of thousands that to the square in the 50 to 60, 70, maybe 100,000, it was the narrative of the administration that is between our ally. if they wanted to have these people when they've asked mubarak to go down. so i would ask why would you not a demonstration became the demonstration because the didn't really change the nature of the demonstration. if the brotherhood came in. the administration was badly advised in the sense that only when the brotherhood would go in you would let go of mubarak because i it may have been a god intention there is always this concern because there is no trust in the civil society so there could be many interpretations. >> i want to raise anot