under president obama, appalachian kentucky has lost 7,000 jobs in five years putting the employment to its lowest levels since records were first kept in 1927. this amendment would strengthen the regulatory reform legislation by holding accountable those agencies. and i thank my friend from pennsylvania for his leadership on this important amendment and i yield back. mr. rothfus: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from georgia seeks recognition? mr. johnson: i rise in opposition to the rothfus amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. johnson: this would add additional analysis in the regulatory process that examines whether or not regulations have a negative impact on jobs and wages. adding this additional requirement that is highly speculative and annual it call would further slow down the rulemaking process adding more red tape. i invite the gentlemen to support my amendment, amendment number 9, which we will get to shortly, that would exclude from the bill any rule, consent decree or settlement agreement th

kentucky. those appalachian counties that barack obama couldn't -- doesn't have much support in. obama coalition of african-americans, college-educated middle-class, upper middle-class voters, and then bring in the working-class whites that bill clinton i think can still appeal to and also hillary clinton, you're getting very close to a majority in kentucky. so i think she's going to ignore rand paul and say to bill clinton, please come as often as you can and send your wife here too. >> i want to look at what matt bevin -- talk about why matt bevin isn't getting more traction against mitch mcconnell with all the help he's getting from ted cruz and others in washington. let's look at what matt bevin's problem is here. it could be matt bevin. >> i'm matt bevin, and i approve this message. >> mitch mcconnell betrayed conservatives to give obama a blank check. matt bevin opposes raising the national debt, period. the choice is clear. conservative republican matt bevin for u.s. senate. >> now, e.j., that's what went up as soon as ted cruz forced republicans to vote on the debt ceilin

the northern arkansas, that pink shaded area, southern missouri, all the way through kentucky into the appalachians. that's where we could be dealing with power outages and freezing rain. that's much worse than snow any day. how much snow with this storm? we're looking in the midwest, somewhere around six to 12 in the purple stripe. i think someone will end up with 16 to 18, but that will be isolated, not widespread. that six to 12 from about kansas city, right along i-70. if you're along i-70, that's what we call the jackpot area, sleet, st. louis, three to six, chicago, you're in the northern fringe of this. i got you right around two to four, but you could fluctuate on that. then the area that still has a foot of snow on the ground from ohio through pennsylvania, southern new england, northern jersey, you're likely going to get at least another eight to 12 inches on top of that. what's interesting about this snow, two parts, one, probably millions of kids off school on monday. people are already losing days from their spring break because we have had so many snow days. philadelphia and new york

the province a part of a bigger effort to boost farming in the appalachian region of eastern kentucky>: >>mark: othello avenue. when firefighters arrived at the house it was fully engulfed. a second alarm was quickly called because the fire was threatening other homes. firefighters attacked the fire the best that they can, but had to pull back because of a gas leak. please break down jeff bush's pkg in the 11 to a vo sotvo 15 people in san jose are without a home tonight. . after a 2-alarm fire in the 26- hundred block of othello avenue. this cell phone video was shot by a frightened neighbor. you can see how big the fire was on this normally quiet street. it was a little after six o clock. firffighters arrived at this house on othello ala called at this house on othello ala called threatening othe where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos. we thought we'd show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco made with jennie-o ground turkey cooked thoroughly to 165. i feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. i think they are light and they are just fresh tasting

kentucky, could be the poster child of this regulatory onslaught. according to the commonwealth's recently released figures, more han 7,000 coal miners in the appalachian coal fields have eceived pink slips since 2009. 2,232 of those jobs were lost last year alone. thanks in large part to the overreach of the e.p.a. the percentage of coal miners in our state is the lowest number of coal miners since 1927, in the coal labor market, and that's since they actually started keeping those statistics. so, whether it's deadlocking the permit process or trying to effectively ban coal-fired electricity through disastrous greenhouse gas regulations, e.p.a.'s army of unelected bureaucrats have been very direct about their efforts to reshape the entire sector of our economy. in fact, the president's own climate advisor was reportedly -- was reported as saying, a war on coal is exactly what we need. so, what bothers me about this is that there is a total disregard for the human cost to hardworking americans, to their families who have lost these paychecks, who have been laid off with no other economic opportunity. there is a problem with upward mobility in this coun