mr. beyer: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment number 41 rinted in house report 115-830 offered by mr. buyer virginia. the chair: the gentleman from virginia and a member opposed each will control five minutes. mr. beyer: my amendment would strike section 431 which repeals the clean water rule. without this clean water rule the public drinking water to one out of three americans. everyone agreed that clarity was needed that created about the scope of clean waters. calls for e.p.a. to issue a rule came from organizations from the national cattle men's associations, the western business round table and national organization. waters they scoped of and that waters and that included a lengthy process that included 00 days for comment period and was steppeded twice. the time rule reflect the over 1 million comments. the majority supported the rule nd had meetings sm the final clean water rule was robust and taking into account, the wetlands to large rivers and lakes. the requirements of the rule addressed security to

mr. beyer, you may proceed. tite subcommittee, good morning. i am the associate chairman, ranking members and members of the subcommittee, good morning. i'm the associate administrator for the office of response and recovery for fema. on behalf of secretary nelson and administrator long, thank you for the opportunity to discuss lessons learned from the 2017 historic hurricane season and our ongoing progress made under one fema strategic plan and two, our preparations for the current 2018 hurricane season. irma, as mentioned, hurricanes harvey, irma, maria devastated the nation at a time when fema was already supporting dozens of openly federally declared disasters across our country. during the response to three catastrophic hurricanes fema responded to four wildfires in california, an estimated 47 million americans were affected by last year's hurricanes and wildfires, approximately 15% of the entire u.s. population. following the 2017 hurricanes we have reviewed preparations for the immediate

mr. beyer: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise to oppose the rule that would permit a house vote on most shortsighted anti-market sense of the house on a carbon tax. for decades economists across the ideological spectrum have argued that carbon price is the most efficient way to discourage the use of fossil fuels. the best way to encourage the growth of energy efficientcy measures, and market decisions on everything from housing to transportation. indeed, this is the preferred solution to climate change by those on the right. by the republican public intellectuals, think tanks which is why it is baffling that republican leadership would want to attack their preferred policy option. we tax the things we want to discourage. and the scientific evidence continues to accumulate in prodigious amounts, the pollution is changing our earth. the costs are staggering into the billions. carbon pricing is the most market oriented policy action we can take to combat this. designed well, economic dividend, this will put much more

bye every, had been dispoe -- mr. beyer, had been disposed of. proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in house report 115-830 on which further proceedings were postponed. amendment number 1, amendment number 25 by mr. grijalva of arizona, amendment number 27 by o'halleran of arizona, amendment number 29 by mrs. adams of north carolina. amendment number 39 as amended by mr. grothman of wisconsin. the chair reduces to two minutes the time for any electronic vote in this series. the unfinished request is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 1 printed in house report 115-830, on which further proceed wrgs postponed, on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. clope agent number 1 printed in house report 115-830, offered by mr. biggs of arizona. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. two-minute vote. [captioning

mr. beyer. >> mr. walker, i was fascinated listening to the many different perspectives and trying to sport them out. mr. svanda's arguing for a strong regulator and a monopoliststic provider, mr. bhatia with choice for the consumer, mr. spiotto arguing for doe resolution, stable board, changes in oversight. then mr. emmons talking about the hopelessness of the debt situation that that with the c.a. credit rating, who's going to want to be interested in it, and how do you somehow be restructure all this debt to make it creditworthy. how as the representative of the administration, the executive branch, to you put these together -- do you put these together? >> well,l, it's pretty simple. it's similar to what i told my team. simply, we need to get back to basics. and with this casee what we've got is a utility that, by virtue of many u varying factors, very complexy issues, has fundamentally gone awry. however, i thinkyou take all the things that have been said is here, number one, i think -- and the ad