the e.p.a. has the authority and the responsibility to act. and three supreme court decisions made it clear that you're acting within that authority. let me quote what the chair mentioned. justice scalia what he said very recently and i quote "that if there is mention that the e.p.a. is getting everything that it wanted and sought to regulate sources that are responseable for 60% of reenhouse emissions from statutory sources nationwide. they will be responsible for 83% of those emissions. and then quoting from the clean air act or not comboting, clean air act. they give you plans for this rule are talking about achieving a 30% net reduction in carbon solution using 2005 as the baseline by 2030. you have the authority. you have the responsibility. you're acting. and thank you for the flex blingt that you're providing. you're putting the states in charge. you're giving them the power they need to do what's right for their community. we can work in regional, among different states. that's what you have

we know the authority the e.p.a. has been given. i think we could have a legitimate debate about whether that authority's been properly used or not. but there is no legitimate debate about whether the e.p.a. is trying to go way beyond what the congress has authorized. this idea that the administration has that the pen and the phone will replace the constitution of the united states is not worthy of -- of this country, it's not worthy of what we do, it is a -- it is a disastrous course to set to believe, okay, congress, you deal with immigration in the next 60 days or i'll just do it on my own. "congress, you change the clean water act or we'll just change the clean water act with regulation." "congress, you change the clean air act or we'll change the clean air act..." there is a reason for the constitutional process and i hope missourians in the next 24 hours are given a chance to remind administrator mccarthy of what that reason is and there are reasons that the congress is looking for ways to remind the president of what that is.

but if we look at the history that e.p.a. has seen of industry reaction to proposed environmental regulations, all four republican former e.p.a. administrators who testified in those very seats ms. mccarthy and over hat over the industry concerns were exaggerated. they did not prove true in the actual fact. whether that was because they were exaggerated for rhetorical purposes at the beginning or because innovation was brought to bear to reduce costs, both can be true, but let me ask you. you've been in this business for a long time at the state level as well as the federal level. you have worked for republican governors before. what is your view on what the track record has been of industry projections and warnings about the costs and consequences of environmental regulation by e.p.a.? >> history tells us that they always exaggerate the costs. they always project environmental benefits as somehow being contrary to economic growth and goals. and it just simply hasn't come true. it never. and so one i think one of the points that

precious state and bank the e.p.a. has said it will not take part in a bailout of met joe the indebted myna has been hit by weak prices for its products and was hoping for a convertible bond scheme from the bank the company has already gone through several debt restructuring. let's go over to the headquarters now and see what tim cabbie has been up to on the business desk because he was stuck with sevastopol once again so how does it walk out for the second wave well not as good as the first time i lost sixty five dollars but that's ok i'm still way ahead and waste of money also meant that you had to spend a hundred u.s. dollars on what have you found said last time it was pretty certain what to do. well how are your thoughts since it's summertime most people in america might have a cool coca-cola or something but here's the summertime drink costs for russia you know i will tell you what's in it because it'll sound unappetizing book tell you two things one solution to it contains no animal parts so well i hope you like it

when used according to the label, the e.p.a. has built a significant margin of safety. communities without established mosquito control districts are being deprived the economic and health benefits of mosquito control. historically, a local contractor could be hired to provide spraying services with the understanding that if they followed the fifra label they would be in compliance with the law. now, these local applicators , st apply for an npdes permit create a pesticide discharge management plan, publish a notice of intent to apply pesticides and wait for approval from the state or e.p.a. in most states, the permits are not free. the steep fines under the clean water act and the cumbersome administrative process have caused local applicators to discontinue mosquito control services. the effort to have these same products today doubly regulated through the clean water act permitting process, is unnecessary, costly and ultimately undermines public health. it amounts to a duplication of regulatory compliance costses for a variety of public agencies and doubles their leg

e.p.a. has overreached on making every drop of water in the united states its jurisdiction. whether if falls on the field, in your driveway or is collected in a rain barrel or puddle, they want to be in control of it. before indiana holiday the other day, they entered another rule where they seek to be the judge, jury and executioner on deciding what the fines are going to be and how they're going to carry them out, without jurisprudence, without having an oversight by an independent party. they seek to instead be the ones that collect the fines after finding somebody guilty of a possible alleged violation. e.p.a. has already nearly triple the -- tripled the amount of fines it has taken in since 2009 so is this about the environment or revenue generation and putting people on the defensive? i think they need to pull back this rule and they need to hear from the american people, mr. speaker, about how devastating this is for the economy and for the well-being of americans. mr. speaker, i yield ba

unfortunately, that's exactly what the e.p.a. has proposed. despite the supreme court rulings interpreting the regulatory scope of the clean water act more narrowly than what the federal government asserted, the new rule moves in the opposite direction. all waters could be potentially be subject to regulated permitting. the obama administration and the e.p.a. said that it was to limit ambiguity and create better protections when in fact it will create more regulatory burdens, more ambiguity and more uncertainty. gene mccarthy talked about the waters, which has come from both republicans and democrats as, quote, ludicrous and silly and summarized the backlash as a growing list of misunderstandings. madam speaker, it is no misunderstanding. e.p.a.'s new waters of the u.s. role is a historic power grab which affects our way of life in pennsylvania and for commubtse across the country. -- communities across the country. what is more ludicrous is a punitive one-size-fits-all approach to environmental stewardship is the best way forward and i yield

but if we look at the history that e.p.a. has seen of industry reaction. they did not prove true to the fact. both can't be true. but let me ask you. you've been in this business for a long time at the state level as well as the federal level. you have work ds for republican governors before. what is you're view on what the track record has been of industry projections and warnings about the cost and consequences of envierntsal regulation by epa. >> history tells us they always exaggerate the costs. they aumgs project as somehow being contrary to economic growth and goals. and it just simply hasn't come true. never. and so one of the -- i think one of the point that is we haven't talked about a little bit senator is one of the great benefits of looking at setting up a course for climate change that is long term and flexible is that what we're actually sending is a tremendous investment signal. and what the united states values and cares about, it will unleash innovation and investment money. this is not about a scrubber at the end of a pipe or a smokestack

he said upstairs, e.p.a. has basically won most of this case. that was an interesting scramble.a lot of people put stories up on the web saying court strikes down greenhouse gas regulation based on what the court seemed to say. at the end of the opinion, it basically said, well, actually, e.p.a. won most of this case. i'm glad you didn't pick that one. those stories were all around the beginning. >> that was the a.c.a. decision a few years ago. the chief justice went into what was all around. he said, but, it's constitutional. a lot of news organizations had reported that it was struck down. with the hobby lobby decision, the justice went out in the opening part of the decision to lay out clearly exactly -- you knew by page two what happens and an attempt to avoid a situation with the first a.c.a. challenge where no one understood what happened in the beginning. >> well, i used to tell people to find out what the majority rule, you should read the decent first. but i think the common thread in all of these discussions so far. , there is spin going on with the majority saying, oh

e.p.a. they say the agency has exceeded its authority. and a street altercation involving new york city police is drawing more attention today. cell phone video obtained by the "new york daily news" shows a police officer apparently using a chokehold to bring down a man they believed was selling untaxed cigarettes. eric garner, a 43-year-old asthmatic, died at a hospital an hour later of a heart attack on thursday. the father of six can be heard on the tape saying repeatedly that he could not breathe while an officer pressed his face into the sidewalk. two of the officers involved were put on desk duty. new york city police department policy forbids the use of chokeholds. and a new study found that banning the use of handheld cell phones by drivers does not necessarily reduce the number of traffic accidents. a professor from the university of colorado boulder who examined data for six months preceding and following california's law that forces drivers not to handle their phones while driving thinks the conversations on the phones might be

e.p.a.'s requesting millions of dollars to conduct a study of hydraulic fracturing. a technology that has been safely utilized by the oil and gas industry in texas since at least 1947. in at least three cases the e.p.a. is has -- has blamed hydraulic fracturing on water contamination and all three of those cases they were forced to retract their conclusions. therefore i suspect the purpose of their study is only to justify further regulatory actions. most importantly we cannot forget that the administration is planning to repropose a new rule on ozone this december. originally proposed in 2010, this regulation was widely cited as the most expensive regulation in history, which would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and put over 80% of our nation out of compliance. 80% of our country in nonattainment when it comes to ozone regulations. mr. speaker, i would offer that the e.p.a. needs to use common sense when it comes to that. unlike our counterparts in the senate the house has passed legislation to expand domestic energy production, has acted to hold the obama administration accountabl

e.p.a. apparently has to approve the -- the transfer of those vehicles because they may not satisfy the clean air standards. so what seems to me to be a commonsense solution to the need for fire equipment, including trucks, is now being halted because of concerns of whether or not those vehicles, those old vehicles, no longer used by the department of defense, meet the emissions standards. well, i would certainly first remind folks that these trucks are very important when there is a fire but there's not a fire every day. it's not as if these vehicles are on the road in a constant fashion day in and day out. and i would also indicate that the fire as that they put out increase emissions. and so the -- the marginal increase in the amount of emissions because you may be using a firetruck that doesn't meet the emissions standards is well overcome by the fire that burns the grass, the forest, the trees or a home by what that fire puts into the atmosphere. since january 1 of this year, there have been nearly 92,000 acres burned and more than a thousand wild -- land fires, grass fires, across kansa

as a result of the decision, e.p.a. has not been required to develop or impose the permitting process in the clean water act to permit pesticide use. e.p.a. estimates that about 5,000 pesticide users, including mosquito control districts, ranchers, scientists and even everyday citizens that perform some 5.6 million pesticide applications annually would be affected by the court's ruling this substantially increases the number of entities subject to permitting. federal and state agencies are expending vital funds to issue and maintain permits in a wide range of public and private pesticide users are facing increased financial and administrative burdens to comply with the new permitting process. despite what the fear mongers suggest, this comes with no additional environmental protection. compliance costs and fears of potentially rues now legislation associated with complying with the new requirementers in use of pesticides are facing -- are forcing mosquito control and other pest control programs to reduce operations and redi

e.p.a. is flexing muscles claiming it has the authority to garnish wages of anyone accused of breaking ruleshis government overreach? can they just take your paycheck if they want to? the tale of the tape. police have video of an alleged high end hooker shooting a deadly dose of heroin into a google exec? legal panel takes it up a notch. big case all in california. >> bill hemmer just said, she said shooker. >> i did. the facts are the facts. >> save me. 11 minutes, sister. i may be outnumbered but now it's my turn with the story. you know when you're watching a sport on tv, it's inevitable when there's a break in the game, the camera ends up on an attractive woman in the stand. usually wearing something attractive. >> like that one. >> very little. >> am i right? there's a name for it. it's called the honey shot. pioneered by nfl director in the 1980's. now many are saying the honey shots objectify women and imply that only men like sports. disgust. >> honey shot like the money shot. in journalism we know that's the closeup that you sell the story on, right? so the money shot is the one tha

andy johnson, he has been threatened by e.p.a. with penalties calculated to reach an estimated $187,000 a day, a day, for building what he believes is a stock pond on his property. in a month's time, he could be liable for more than $5 million in penalties. so what are homeowners to do when faced with this kind of threat? they can choose to fight city hall with their limited resources or give had to strongarming by the federal government. given the agency's plans toax panned the jurisdictional limits of the clean water act, e.p.a. to usely use the rule to bankrupt small landowners for something as simple as building a pond or a ditch anywhere near a wetland or stream. mr. president, congress never intended for the clean water act to be used this way. to me, it defies logic to think that this proposed rule will benefit anybody but bureaucrats in washington who are far removed from the communities between the coasts. i think it's time for the e.p.a. and the army corps of engineers to really keep out of the lives of our constituents'

e.p.a. and the army corps over the waters of the united states rule which has to do with jurisdiction that falls under the e.p.a. and army corps. >> and on that russia issue the house of representatives appropriations on another issue. what's the provision we're hearing about that would allow firearms to be carried on lands overseen by the army corps of engineers? >> there's an attempt at the can he level to allow that. and that something has been debated in the past the argument that there's already hunting that's allowed so that's something that's -- that we may see again here at this level. >> a couple of concerns here on the clean water act. what would the 2015 spending bill on energy and water say? >> there are two different riders there one which has come before which is the redefinition of fill material as rie relates to mountain mining the second is related to an attempt this spring e.p.a. and army corps of engineers issued an intention that they are going to redefine what are navigable waters under the clean water act. a part of this saying this is going to cause broad overreach that al

e.p.a. according to a new report by the center for public integrity so congressman since then has been working very hard to allow more arsenic unknown dangerous toxin in the drinking water of his constituents can you guess why it's not because he's necessarily an evil villain it's because it's expensive to build water filtration facilities he'll trade places a big financial burden on small towns with lots of arsenic it's a budget nightmare for them to meet these standards so in says ma and he's helping his constituents by fighting to allow them to drink more arsenic and that is the kind of weird logic that is a direct result of the fact that we live on planet money that's what we get for worshipping money and if we keep putting money above everything else it won't be known until our government figures out that the cheapest constituent to care for is a dead constituent i wouldn't be surprised if they already have tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident. in the crosshairs as israel appears to be preparing for still another assault on the gaza strip on this editio

e.p.a. authority will apply to any body of water that has a bed, a bank or a high water mark. hoosier farmers explained to me this new rule means that large puddles left after a storm will fall under the e.p.a.'s jurisdiction. farmers may have to get a permit to form even the most basic task on their homeland. my constituents brought me these photos to show me what changing the rule will mean. as you can see, this is not a stream. it's not a navigable body of lawyer or a long-standing body of water. it should not be regulated by the e.p.a. it happened just after a large rainfall. mr. speaker, this rule change will prevent farmers from doing their jobs, put people out of work and increase food prices. it's bad for our nation's landowners. it's bad for our nation's farmers and it's bad for americans trying to put an affordable meal on the table. mr. speaker, i ask e.p.a. to withdraw this rule and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut seek recognition? >> request permission to address the hous

has bridge climbing experience. no connection to terrorism or politics. the e.p.a. sending out an apology. that's after a very bizarre tweet went out from the official e.p.a. account. it promoted the kim kardashian hollywood game. the e.p.a. tweet said i'm now a c list celebrity and kim kardashian hollywood come join me and become famous too by playing on iphone. the e.p.a. said that was an accidental auto generated tweet. whatever that means. >> and bad news from buckingham palace, queen elizabeth's race horse testing positive for banned substance. banned feed product could be responsible. the horse could be stripped of second place finish world cup. that's tonight's speed read. thank you for being with us tonight. see you tomorrow night at 7 p.m. eastern. just a reminder if you are just getting home and tuning in before bill o'reilly. pick up a dvr remote and set a series recording each night. gretawire.com. a very special question for you. what politician would you most like to have a beer with in the choices are on gretawire. go to vote in the poll. good night from washington. >>> toni

e.p.a. and the u.s.d.a. seem to offer very favorable reviews with final decisions expected next summer jeffrey m. smith author of seeds of deception has joined us before to talk about the effects these crops can have on the environment and i'm not. brave now monsanto is trying to get crops on the market because you can stand doses of two for deer or beside which is a component of agent orange there's other things i've learned in any of these things could create major environmental catastrophes but once it's released into the environment there's no full recall that you can do because the genes propagate through holland and it becomes a cell propagating to do any collusion that could outlast the effects of global warming or nuclear waste that given these three decade length of the natural west virginia study and the pace at which newly engineered crops are being approved it begs a few questions if truly damaging medical evidence is eventually found then what will agribusiness giants be called to account when they continue to genetically engineer crops to the detriment of our health well this so-called pesticide treadmill continue in was

e.p.a. reduce the renewable fuel standard because that helps renewable fuels and dependency on foreign oil. good for america. it hasn good for agriculture created good jobs in the state. see?at problems do you >> one of the biggest problems is finding enough people with meet the skill set to jobs that are created in this state. this year we passed something home-based iowa. there are federal cutbacks in lotmilitary and there are a of talented people. we're limiting the tax on military retirement. offering in-state tuition to military people, all the people leaving the military and their spouses and depend denneds. we're matching them up with good career in iowa if they will come to iowa. something called skilled iowa to try to upgrade the skills of iowa yans who skills to meet the jobs that are available in manufacturing today. company that offers readinessal career certificate. we're encouraging our high that and we'rer offering it free of charge if skills sopgrade their they can meet the job requirements that are there in workplace today. much different manufacturing was 20-30t than it years ago. >> where do you

e.p.a. regulations that could stick a knife in the back of the coal industry, the gas industry and the oil industry. the energy industry haspropelling this economy, maria. this is a big deal. we'll see what the president moves forward. >> thank you for joining us. happy july fourth weekend. >>> on the buzz beater from new york this sunday -- president obama blaming the media again for avoiding substance in favor of the political circus. >> if you watch the news, you just see, okay, washington is a mess and the basic attitude is everybody is just crazy up there. >> but is he using the media as a scapegoat for the problems and the paralysis? >>> monica lewinski in her first television interview in a decade blames the media in part for humiliating her for the affair with bill clinton. >> to be called stupid, a bimbo and to be t

e.p.a. regulations that could stick a knife in the back of the coal industry, the gas industry and the oil industry. the energy industry hasling this economy, maria. this is a big deal. we'll see what the president lou: good evening everybody. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu ordering reprisals or the kidnapping and murder of three teenagers in the west bank. the three teenage boys were kidnapped two weeks ago. they were found shot to death yesterday. one of the three boys an american citizen of the terrorist group hamas celebrated the event. said a seething israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised quote, hamas will pay. as you can see on yr screen, prime minister netanyahu lived up to his threats, ordering bombings overnight of 34 suspects hamas strongholds. president

e.p.a. as an independent agency, for the department of the interior which has the jurisdiction over things likeu.s. fish and wildlife, the u.s. park service to get involved in this process and make some determinations, and if the answer is that there is not sufficient authority in law, then to address it so that we can address it here as a matter of legislating law. madam president, i want to make the senate aware of this particular threat, potential threat to the florida everglades. i yield the floor and i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: i want to ask my colleagues as well as myself to think about how many times that we have made pessimistic sounding statements about america's future. i want to remind my colleagues and myself about what i see as excessive pessimism about our great country, because as public figures often what we say maybe has co

e.p.a. cannot enforce that's standard under the rule that we are talking about? is that accurate? ben mcfadyen is one of the issues raised because epa often hasan to some of which we and for san some we don't. >> under current law you could maybe? >> the one certainty we have is to enforce the amount of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel facilities if the rule goes as proposed. >> it would be a broad expansion of the authorities the epa has over the states with the broad political impact. isn't that exactly what they ruled against as the supreme court the expanse of authority? >> i don't think the supreme court indicated we were expanding or authority in that case but the questions have been raised with the plans and how it is implemented in real working through those with the state's bottle the epa is doing is regulating >> but you are proposing a rule you don't have the authority to do to enforce today. >> no. i believe we do have clear authority. >> i am talking to under the current system. >> i not think we are expanding our authorities. >> it appears that you are in this short period of time i will try to get this out of the way. from what

mean california has already banned several waste wells as they are can solve in direct response to what they confirmed was seismic activity as a result of those the question is what the e.p.a. is going to do about it the environmental protection agency the g.a.o. an independent watchdog. agency of the federal government just released a study blasting the e.p.a. for doing a terrible job in overseeing these waste wells now there's more than one hundred seventy thousand of these things scattered around the country but there's been a huge increase in the use of them. as fracking has taken off because fracking has really just boomed since two thousand and eight or so and so we've seen a huge growth in the need to dispose of tens of millions of gallons of contaminated fluid tyson think that maybe the f.d.a. is not doing their job because there's such a revolving door in washington and a significant number the people who are charged with making ultimately making those decisions are looking at the possibility of a million bucks a year when they retire working for the industry that might be and i think more of it has to do with the fact that the obama stray ssion has decided that n

of misinformation and much of it deliberate, i'm afraid, that has been circulated, farmers do not need a corps of engineers or even an e.p.a. permit to dig a ditch, to till a field, to create a reservoir, to irrigate their fields. congress collarified this issue more than 35 years ago when it passed the 1977 amendments to the clean water act. those amendments established a well-reasoned and practical approach that ensured far-reaching protections over the nation's waters but also ensured that practical day-to-day operations of farmers, of ranchers, foresters, a host of other industrial sectors, could continue without the need for clean water act regulation. section 404-f of the 77 law -- 1977 law created a list of activity-based exemptions for normal farming, ranching and forestry activities. but it also included safeguards to ensure that these exempted activities were not exploited by large scale commercial interests. i'd also like to register my strong opposition to other attacks against the clean water act that are already a part of this bill and i refer specifically to section 105 and 106. section 105 blocks the corps

e.p.a. cannot enforce that's standard under the rule that we are talking about? is that accurate? ben mcfadyen is one of the issues raised because epa often hasan to some of which we and for san some we don't. >> under current law you could maybe? >> the one certainty we have is to enforce the amount of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel facilities if the rule goes as proposed. >> it would be a broad expansion of the authorities the epa has over the states with the broad political impact. isn't that exactly what they ruled against as the supreme court the expanse of authority? >> i don't think the supreme court indicated we were expanding or authority in that case but the questions have been raised with the plans and how it is implemented in real working through those with the state's bottle the epa is doing is regulating >> but you are proposing a rule you don't have the authority to do to enforce today. >> no. i believe we do have clear authority. >> i am talking to under the current system. >> i not think we are expanding our authorities. >> it appears that you are in this short period of time i will try to get this out of the way. from what

what it has done, it has taken and provided, number one thing when it was created, was to move the fuel tanks away from the waters that the e.p.a. said they couldn't be close to. these communities could not do that. and the process of the federal government and the other agencies were taking too long. so we moved these fuel tanks across. and yes it was used for clinics and, yes, it's been used for sewer and water. 44 of our villages don't have water yet. don't have sewage. they carry honey buckets. why they call them that i have no idea. but i will say, this is what this commission's been, to take and provide the proper thing for, just as your constituents use every day and take it for granted. this commission has worked. we want to keep the money and i want to thank the chairman for understanding this. because this amendment's been offered time and time again. as he said, this is a very small amount of money. that's not what i'm arguing. it's money well spent. if we don't spend it on this type of thing, the cutoff of the middleman, they keep saying they're other agencies, this is not true. those agencies do not function. most

. >> even the e.p.a., wimp is the first and mother most place you would go don't have any regulations, and that's the government. at this point, you have to trust a company that has the most experience. we've been doing this now for 30 years, we've been in the industry of hazardous waste and 10 years of methamphetamine clean ups. it's tough one have to look on line, better business bureau to find the companies with the most experience. >> i have read that it is difficult to completely get rid of the cox ins from meth. at what point do you know you've reach safe levels to be able to live there? >> each state has their own regulations at this point, almost all states having onboard with .05 to .15 as a regulation. it cannot be any hirer. the kits we sell are test to go at least .05 or less. if our test cannot register it, it is such a minute amount of .5 mike chrons me million, means it's virtually undetectable by any methodology. >> thank you for joining us. >> the peace corps getting an overhaul, first time for the organization, allowing volunteers to choose the country they want to serve in. they are trying to be more flexible and get the best recruits, making i

but the administration has continued to use the calculations that they said they set aside. they use thosal clations for the recent e.p.a. rules increasing emissions by 30% for existing power plants by 2030. my amendment would prevent the department of energy from doing the same thing. this is a rule that that isen -- that has been set aside. it's a number that has not been agreed to and there was no public comment for they cannot change a regulatory number without any notice and comment, without any public input. this would prevent them from doing. that the doe rulemakings have the potential to raise the cost for everyday activities and purchases for all americans. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from oklahoma reserves the balance of his time. does any member seek recognition in opposition? the gentlewoman from ohio is recognized. ms. kaptur: yes. i -- the chair: for what purpose does does she seek recognition? the gentlewoman is recognized for five minutes in opposition. ms. kaptur: mr. chairman, this amendment tells the department of energy to deny the latest climate change scienc

e.p.a. administrators one day, mr. president, folks are going to look back at this time, and we are all ghg to be judged very -- going to be judged very hardly with the dread power that history has to inflict on wrong. the polluters and their instruments will be judged har harshly, and the republican party will be judged harshly for letting itself be led astray by polluters from its most basic conservative values. unless they step up, republicans will leave, to borrow language from russell kirk, the principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests. that's about as good a description of where they are right now as i could muster, and it comes from the conservative ruvmenruvmentruvment ssell kirk. we can't leave this alone, not with the numbers we have. republicans and democrats alike must approach this climate problem head-on, with the full quisks ouconviction of our ideat working torktworking together yn good faith, and working on a common platform of fact and common sense to protect the american people and o

it has a lot to do with this building and the one down at 1600 pennsylvania avenue and couple in southwest washington at the e.p.a. and our friends at the corps of engineers, there's law after federal law that says to the state of georgia, no, you cannot expand your port without our permission. now, that would be a source of great difference of agreement in this body about whether we ought to have the kind of federal regulatory burden we do in order to make these decisions. in fact, that's the law of the land today and so we must deal with it. we're talking about deeper channels, we're talking about wider docking areas, we're moving not twice as many, not three times as many but 3 1/2 times containers tomorrow as we were moving yesterday and we have been battling as georgians, as folks in the southeastern united states, as people trying to grow the economy, we have been battling the federal red tape machine not for a week, not for a month, not for a year but almost a decade. i say almost a decade. it's really been more than a decade, mr. speaker. but it's being going on for more than a decade in earnest and we've