>> but it's too far to fly back to appalachia this evening. >> no. didn't you just take the train, grandma and grandpa? >> oh. heh heh. guess we just love flying, but i'm looking forward to riding the train this evening. >> maybe our old friend mrs. conductor will be on board running things like she always does. >> heh heh heh. well, mrs. conductor is retired. her son is the conductor now. >> what?! little sonny boy is the conductor now? well, la dee loo. >> ha ha ha! next time, you can come visit us at the old pteranodon colony in appalachia. >> please! can we go to visit grandma and grandpa soon? >> rawk! absolutely! >> hello, pteranodon clan. ooh! and hello, grandma and grandpa pteranodon! >> well, hello. i'm glad to see you grew up to be such a fine-looking conductor, sonny boy. >> heh. yeah. remember when you were little and you tried to say, "all aboard," and your voice would kind of warble and everyone thought it was so cute? >> hmm. uh, well, no. actually, i don't remember. anyway, ahem. all aboooard! [all laughing] >> so long! come see us so

born and raised in appalachia. very proud of it. very proud of it. >> all right, in appalachia.

that communities all across the country in new york city, here in austin, in the north carolina appalachia in the, the farm i work on, people are organizing to figure out how to sort of marble community resources -- marshal community resources, urban gardening opportunities, businesses that take raw materials from farms and turn them 52 food that people can eat -- into food that people can eat. how to marshal this into things that work for every community and broaden access to fresh, healthy food. those are very necessary but at the same time when you have got a massive population of people making so very little the federal government has got to step in. and you know it's not -- it doesn't make economic sense to have people going hungry. when people go hungry they get sick. when they get sick someone has got to pay the health care bill for them. they obviously don't have the resources to pay health care themselves, so it's an economically -- societies that feed the hungry are making a positive economic decision. and it's obvious. >> bill thompson how much of these broader conversations are

. >> host: appalachia. >> guest: right, right with this enormous migration also comes the migration ofideas. the scottish universities played a key role in helping to modernize the colonial american colleges both scottish faculty who come to teach in the americas and scottish ministers at come to govern over some of the schools and loads of american students, colonial students who had to scotland to study science and to study medicine and then come back to north america to do things like establish the first medical schools in the north american colonies. actually established by american colonial students in places like philadelphia who had off to scotland. >> host: now the scottish and correct me if i'm wrong time for they are one of the principle players in the slave trade where they? >> guest: they weren't the usual suspects that you look at. there's a trade that comes out of scotland just like there's a trade that comes out of the small towns in bristol. we have to remember small towns like russell and how massive the slave trade is. part of what the book is about in many ways is th

hold, the rest of the country will be made aware of this disaster that is already taking place in appalachia. already, one fifth of the nation's coal-fired power plants, 204 plants across 25 states, closed between 2w50eu7b and 2012. the rest will shutter prematurely in the years following implementation of the new source performance standards. seven, e.p.a. regulations already proposed over the last our years are forecast to cost $16.8 -- $16.7 billion annually once implemented. the new source performance standards will trump that figure, constituting the largest energy tax of all time, implemented by regulatory fiat without the consent of the people's elected representatives in congress. that's because this president's own party couldn't enact this radical environmental agenda through cap and trade in the first two years of this president's administration. the loss of 69,000 mega watts of coal-fired power will ripple through the economy, costing an estimated 887,000 jobs in the mining, utility, shipping and manufacturing sectors, per year. the president had pledged to spur growth in manufac

toward georgia and appalachia. with this enormous migration comes a migration of ideas. the scottish universities played a key role in helping to modernize the colonial universities. the scottish faculty that come to teach and the ministers that come to governor over the school. loads of americans students, colonial students who head to scotland to study science and medicine and come back to north america to do things like, for instance, establish the first medical school in the north american common any -- alcohol -- >> host: correct me if i'm wrong, they aren't one of the principle players in the slave trade, were they? >> guest: they're not suspects you look at. there's a trade just like the small town. we have to remember small town like bristol. we have to remember how massive the slave trade is. part of what the book is about is the enormity of the africa trade in the 17 and 18th century. the way in which the trade shaped the atlantic world. and that trade instituted the economy that convicted europe to the americas to africa to south america. and created in fact a

. >> prior to pill addiction, both men used to rely on a substance more traditional to appalachia, moon shine. >> i'm from harlan county, kentucky. i got uncles down there bootleggers. like 190 proof, you're on fire. >> last time it was like $10 a jar. i don't drink no more, all my money goes to pills, now. i don't drink no more, i don't smoke pot. all my money goes to the pills. >> prescription pills create problems inside the jail as well. >> several nights ago we had inmate workers observe on camera passing what appeared to be pills. the officers reacted. they recovered 21 pills which were identified as valium. so those inmates had urinalysis done and we have those results back. >> van winkle. >> one of the inmates who tested positive was destiny van winkle. but she says pills are not her drug of choice. >> i've been smoking crack since i was 12. i was good all the way up until i was 12. i started running away when i was 12, i met a 19-year-old man when i was 12, i started you know dating him, had a kid with him. >> soon after, vanwinkle's drug use resulted in a long string of arrest

imagine if they made these types of decisions for example in appalachia were not in top removal is destroyed and evict the stall many broadway communities. do you think they would vote for mountaintop removal? this is not necessarily a socialist policy. send me a policy to begin to recalibrate the balance between capital and communities in this culture. and it's one that i hope everybody will consider. i want to speak briefly about the role of journalist because essentially a travel the country and are the most inspiring stories of my life and witness and eviction blockade and home liberation and then i went and shuddered myself in my own apartment and room for about a year. so what is the role of the journalists of the storyteller of the social cliques i'll never forget something my mom told me who's here today and it thank you for coming. she said to me, people who feel powerless gravitate to powerful stories because their own stories are so disempowering. right now she said, many of us feel powerless. so our challenge is to make a story that is more powerful than the current narrative. ju

imagine if we made these types of decisions, for example, in appalachia, where mountain top removal is destroying an evicting so many rural white communities. do you think they would vote for mountain top removal? this is not necessarily a socialist policy. it's simply a pot sigh to begin to recalibrate the balance of community in the culture, one i hope everybody will consider. i want to speak briefly about the role of journalists because, essentially, i traveled the country hearing exciting stories, witness an arrest campaign, home liberations, and i went home and shuddered myself in my apartment and wrote for about a year. what is the role of the journalist, the story teller in a social movement? well, i'll never forget something my mom told me, who is here today, and i thank you for coming. she said to me, people who feel powerless gravitate to powerful stories because their own stories are so disempowering. right now, she said, many of us feel powerless. our challenge is to make a story that's more powerful than the current narrative and just to remember what the current narrative

principal caregivers of family members, and ellen also came from rome, georgia, which might technically appalachia also. she was interested in crafts. she remodeled the president's room with quilts and hangings and fabrics. she set up a scholarship fund. in memory of her brother with the earnings she got from her paintings. was the oneel she who focused more on the appalachian nature or your more than -- or character more than dith did. >> she met woodrow wilson ellen died.r she became first lady very quickly without much preparation. did hen after that become ill, and how much did she of him?e >> she was nursing to the president another four and half years. >> and he was incapacitated for how long? >> just under three years. >> he dies when? >> february 4, 1924. >> how was he memorialized? was there a big public funeral ? >> yes, it was lovely. at the houservice presided over presbyterian and the washington bishop. edith is a cotillion, and she did not change to presbyterian -- anan ep skip alien episcopalian. by the time moved they finished the principal part of the good he drove. of the cathedr

be affirmative action, in other words what i'm saying to you is that the poor white person from appalachia may be entitled to affirmative action just as a poor african-american or hispanic person. >> host: to put it in an economic framework to one of the things people understand about the speech and you make a beautiful analogy in terms of metaphors like catching lightning in a bottle. in riverdale he comes up here and you were working on the speech together, or part of of the time, not all the time. so it's finished and everything. >> guest: no, we did not work on the speech as a finished entity. what we did work on was ideas. we worked on content. he even considered the language that might be appropriate to express the idea. ultimately you know i read things that says clarence jones the co-author of i have a dream. that is not accurate. every speech that stanley leveson and clarence jones worked on for martin luther king jr. they were martin luther king jr.'s. they were clarence jones' speeches. the materials which i am pleased to have contributed for this draft textual material to refer

another words, what i'm saying to you that the poor white person from appalachia may be entitled as a poor african-american hispanic person. you know, people understand that's. >> i think it is a beautiful analogy in terms of a metaphor. lightning in a bottle the lightning in a bottle the speech. so you come up there, you are working on the speech together. so it is finished and everything. >> we do not work on the speech as a finished entity. while we were gone was ideas. we worked on content and thinks it should be interesting. even considering the way would be appropriate to express this idea. but ultimately i read things. and it's not always accurate. that is an overstatement. every speech that clarence johnson contributed to, they were the speeches of clarence jones. material, which i am pleased to have contributed for him to refer to and include in his final separation, i am proud that he included it. but once he did, i want to make that very clear. the whole institution, the truth cannot be anymore clear of a contribution or not. so whether or not it was a lawyer. and i have gi

that's what hardworking people along appalachia, ohio, remembers. they dreamed of a future for their children and their grandchildren because they lived that kind of character, they still live it today. i want to thank my colleagues for coming tonight and joining e in this effort to stop the administration's war on the coal industry and, mr. speaker, with that i yield back the alance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair would remind members to direct their remarks to the chair. does the gentleman have a motion? to adjourn? -- have a motion to adjourn? mr. johnson: mr. speaker, i move hat house do now adjourn -- i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. mr. johnson: aye. the speaker pro tempore: the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands >> this time, it is about double that. the budget is $39 billion in cuts, compared to the cbo ten- year baseline. that means

i have taken to telling some people, i represent the new appalachia and you visit the suppressed communities when the last mill closes and i talk to the owners and they said you know if your bill had passed, we would be miring 100 people instead of firing 100 people. this means keeping those mills open or maybe adding shifts. this plan will keep the raw log here at home. rather than exporting our timber to places like china. now, for the environmental community, many of whom have totally disregarded or created propoganda about this bill, it is the first ever legislative protection for mature and old growth forests in oregon. let me repeat that. they aren't legislatively protected. if the northwest forest plan is ordered fully implemented, impending litigation in a court here in d.c., that home growth will be the first to be harvested. since i have come to congress, i have been attempting to preserve the old growth. this would do it. .2 million acres of old growth preserved. habitat that is preserved. best areas to recreate. the bill increases wilderness by 50%, doubling the size, adding devi

also came from rome, georgia, which i think might technically be called appalachia also. she was very interested in the appalachian mountain craft. she remodeled part of the white house, the president's room, with quilts and hangings and fabrics. she had set up a scholarship fund there in memory of her brother with the earnings she got from her paintings. i kind of feel she was the one who focused more on the appalachian nature or character event edith did. host: as we finish up, i really want to frame her life. she met woodrow wilson shortly after ellen died. he proposed very soon. she became first lady very quickly, without much preparation for the role. how soon after that did he become ill, and how long did she take care of him? she was first lady to a functioning president about four and a half years, and she was nursemaid to a president another four and a half years. host: then he lived for how long incapacitated after the white house? guest: that would include the time -- guest: just under three years. host: he died when? guest: february 4, 1924. host: how is he me

i would ask you to commit whether it is my district or one of the others in central appalachia has beent so hard, if we set up a trip would you him down and see what is happening to the people and see where the jobs are disappearing? there are lots of empty towns -- there are lots of towns at empty storefronts. about half of the reduction so far have been from shale gas revolution, purely market- driven. another part of it has been from the, especially in the transportation sector, the efficiency standards holding demand down. >> those are based on regulations, is that correct? though >> i would like to represent the gentleman from new york. >> that me say that i am applauding our committee for finally having a hearing on climate change. i want to say that it is obvious to me and to everyone else the science is undeniable and it is time for us to act and congress has been ducking this issue. even going so far as to deny the basic science of climate change. i have seen the devastating effects right in my area when hurricane sandy hit new york, new jersey and connecticut. my district seve

from appalachia to southern illinois. to in the west. i, too, want to make sure we unlock strategic minerals, the so the united states has them available when it needs them. but i don't believe the tradeoff has to be at the expense of every community that could potentially be the site of a mine. mr. chairman, i actually strongly urge my colleagues to vote yes for this commonsense amendment to restore an environmental analysis process that in fact has worked. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired, the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. lamborn: i would like to remind my colleague from virginia that this administration has streamlined nepa for several uses during its time in office. for renewable energy projects, for highways, for the so-called stimulus that we had in 2007. so this administration at times anyway, sees the need to balance the creation of jobs with protecting the environment but not allowing environmental regulations to be used to endlessly delay projects. your amendment, i'm afraid, would, mr. ch

with the appalachia regional commission.alking about that elephant. >> yeah. >> doesn't the fcc have the authority to reach, make the reclassification if it so chose and go from title 1 to title 2? yes, there would be follow-up from that, at least be able to make that reclassification? isn't that in their ability to do that right now? >> they do but they have to have a reasonable basis for doing so. it will go to court again but it's clear from the brand x decision that the commission has that authority to do that but it must be able to explain why it is doing that. >> brand x back in 2005, not the fcc is correct in its determination on the merits here. it just said the fcc has the discretion to do this. they can decide that broadband internet access service is not really a telecom service and is in fact a information service, whatever those things mean in the statute. justice scalia in 2005 didn't agree with that. he said no. fcc got it wrong. they don't have the authority to read the law this watch. they have to read it th

we have a group running around in taswell county, virginia, pretending to part of appalachia community word is out there some people will do door-to-door. would i now draw your attention to the, exhibit 2. you will notice in that proposal in the second paragraph it says that they proposed going door-to-door. so, even some of the proposals and some of the people who are supposed to be doing this apparently have a misunderstanding they're supposed to go door-to-door. one other questions i have for you and you i will come back to exhibit 2, you might leave that open. state corporation of virginia, bureau of insurance or approved or certified as acceptable plans, plans at the end of july. it was their assumption they would have some information by now. they as of this morning don't know whether or not they have their plans, virginia is not doing their own exchanges, going to the federal exchanges. state insurance were sending plans up that were approved. they haven't heard anything back. as of this morning so they don't know whether these plans are actually going to be approved or not. i w

again, i say johnson in the folks campaign in appalachia. he widened the face of poverty and deracialize the base. there are more poor white people than brown or black people. those folks work every day but without health insurance. when they cut public transportation you can't goat work. i would hope as we discuss this today and so forth, the decision of the institutional right to vote must be on the agenda. i submit that for appeal. [applause] the constitutional right to vote, which we don't have. we have the state's right. every state has its own agenda. we have fifty elections. within the starts you it's just like -- [inaudible] there's no way to -- there is no -- you can judge a basketball came whether you're in california or new york. we can centralize the authority for protection of vote. we cannot protect the vote in texas from chicago. we cannot protect the right from north carolina to virginia. [inaudible] >> you're the man. >> well, we need to constitutionalize the right to vote. you've said that and i think everyone here agrees.