senator barrasso hi, i'm dr. john barrasso. me tell you a story about a family in my home state. andy johnson is 32. he works as a welder. he and his wife katie have four kids. they live in the country. they have a few cows and horses. two years ago, they want to do -- wanted to build a small pond in their front yard. they got their plan approved by the state, and they use the pond to provide water for their animals. they thought it was a beautiful addition to the dry landscape. birdsnd attracts other and animals. everything was fine until the johnsons got a visit from the united states environmental protection agency. even though the state of wyoming had approved the pond, the federal government had not. the johnsons now face fines of more than $37,000 every day until they remove the pond. this is what has happened to government in america. it has gotten so aggressive, so inflexible, and so unyielding, and seemingly for so little purpose, and it's going to get worse. the obama administration is seizing new authority to control

barrasso: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, back in august, several western states and indian tribes suffered an enormous environmental disaster. it's been called the gold king mine spill. in this disaster, the environmental protection agency spilled three million gallons of toxic waste water into a tributary of the animas river in colorado. this plume of toxic waste threatened people in colorado, new mexico and utah. it stretched to the land of the navajo nation and the southern ute indian tribes. last month, i chaired a hearing of the indian affairs committee that looked at the spill. the e.p.a. was there to testify. the e.p.a. claimed that it was taking full responsibility and that it did everything it could to deflect actual blame. they said they're taking full responsibility. then they did everything they could to deflect actual blame. the agency administrator actually told our committee that this bill was inevitable, inevitable, she said. does that sound like someone who's actually taking full responsibility? w

senator john barrasso of wyoming gives the republican response. he talks about the costs of federal regulations. obama: hi, everybody. yesterday, we learned our businesses created 118,000 jobs in september. that makes 67 straight months of job creation and 13.2 million ne

barrasso: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, last friday the obama administration released the latest numbers on unemployment and on jobs. once again, the numbers were grim. experts predicted that our economy would create 200,000 new jobs in september. instead they fell woefully short, got just 140,000 so they're about 60,000 jobs short. now, that's a big miss and it's nowhere near as many jobs as american families need right now. so here's how "investors business daily" pout -- put it in a headline monday. october, 5, yesterday. "private hiring pace is worst in three years. labor force shah -- shrinks." worst in three years. wages have gone almost nowhere in six years -- they actually declined in september. and 74 straight months with wage growth below 2 1/2%. before the recession, we routinely got 3% growth month after month. president obama seems to be satisfied with this limping progress. he bragged over the weekend about how many jobs have been created while he's been president. is missing expectations good enoug

barrasso: thank you, mr. president. mr.resident, i'd like associate myself with the remarks of the majority leader and point out that in today's "new york times," wednesday, october 21, figure headline, "insurance out of reach for many despite law." despite this law, insure insuras out of reach for many. and i know that my colleagues who are back home visiting with people around their home states last week, listening to what was on constituents' minds, heard exactly this, the problems of the health care law. i was home in wyoming, heard from a lot of people, very concerned about president obama's collapsing health care law. and that's what this law is doing. it is collapsing. people in wyoming just learned that one insurance company, wen health, will no longer be selling insurance through the obamacare exchanges in our state. the company said it had to stop selling obamacare plans because there was just no way to make money without big taxpayer subsidies coming from washington. now, mr. president, this company was already p

. >> chairman barrasso, thank you very much today. i think you're right, it's very appropriate for us to have this hearing at this paint and thank you mr. stern before appearing before our subcommittee today. we face an urgent task in paris, to bring the international community together, to chart a more sustainable future for our children and our grandchildren. nasa estimates that 2015 is 93% likely to be the warmest year on record. and the current record holder, last year, 2014. global warming is one of our greatest challenges. it requires a global effort. through a comprehensive international agreement. that's the only way we can tackle this problem. it's an environmental challenge, an energy challenge, a public health challenge and it's a national security challenge. it is a challenge to preserve our planet. and no one, no country, is imflun thi immune from that challenge or can meet that challenge alone. for years the global community has looked for answers to the problem. we have gone through various international agreements and

allen ginsberg was a genius in terms of poetry and made american and poetry barrasso a genius in terms of publicity. he had worked in marketing and advertising in the new what it took to use for the word for ago he was fearless in terms of promotion. they were riding but there wasn't something that was called that beat generation until he came along to give it a tag line. he went to "the new york times" and "the new yorker" to get them to review their books to see public performances with the poetry evening in san francisco october 1955 they sent out postcards and kerouac went out to buy red wine and they passed that around. and then the york times heard about this before happened and they sent out a reporter to write about the poetry scene and san francisco. so "the new york times" wrote about it before was published as of book when it was still the spoken word. i don't know any other poem that "the new york times" has covered gore has written about. it was a new cultural phenomenon or you could go to the museum of modern art. usually the poet as his or her face buried in the book and

senator barrasso? >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> morning. >> good to see you. and thank you later today. i'll be chairing a hearing in the indian affairs committee to better understand how the epa's actions are impacting indian tribes downstream from the gold king site. and i thank you for agreeing to appear. and i anticipate we again will have a similar robust discussion. you know, senator bennett who is on the panel before you came in said there is no denying that epa caused this disaster. he is very thoughtful. this has happened in his home state. there is bipartisan concern about what happened. and my question to you, isn't it true that when a private company is accused of violating the clean air act of the epa on your specific leadership has aggressively pursued civil fines against the company and individuals within the company? and isn't it true that if there was a 3 million gallon toxic spill caused by actions of private citizens that the epa would act aggressively against that company, against those citizens? i mean, how large of a fine would the epa be

stuart: joining us now in new york, fortunately, senator john barrasso, wyoming.d trump put 9/11 smack dab into the middle of the campaign election season. >> it's all about presidential politics, you expect these sorts of things. it's easy to be a monday morning quarterback and it is monday morning. there was a bipartisan commission and said there were failures in the intelligence system in the united states and these things started long before george w. bush got into office. stuart: do you welcome this? >> we'll see more of this through the campaigning. stuart: you don't want this, do you? >> i think we ought to be unifying, multiplying our numbers. stuart: you don't want this. >> i want to make sure we get a nominee that can get elected in 2016 the most conservative person who can win. stuart: we're sitting eye to eye and i'm pressing the boy. you don't want 9/11 popping up into the election either side of the fence, you won't say that, will you? >> i want to say we want in 2016 anything that will unite a nominee. stuart: do you think this unites the party? >>

want to recognize and thank all of the original cosponsors who joined me in this bill, senators barrasso, cornyn, isakson, sullivan and toomey, and purdue. now, because of this bill, any illegal alien who illegally reenters the united states and has a prior aggravated felony conviction or two prior illegal reentry convictions will face a mandatory sentence of five years in prison. we must send the message that defiance of of our laws will no longer be tolerated. whether it is by the sanctuary cities themselves or by the illegal reentry offenders that they harbor. the problem of illegal immigration in this country will never be solved until we demonstrate to the american people that we are serious about securing the border and enforcing our immigration laws, until we have a president willing to and in fact committed to actually enforcing the laws and securing the borders. this bill is just a small step, but at least it is a step in the right direction. and yet, mr. president, there will be two consequences from the vote this afternoon. the first, it will be an opportunity for our friends

and we'll ask john barrasso about the looming debt ceiling.wk box" will be right back. box". futures right now indicated down about 30 points or so. interesting not piggybacking off some gains we saw earlier in europe but maybe europe is responding to friday and morgan stanley, probably didn't help. we'll get to that in a second. among other earnings this morning, valiant pharmaceutical beat estimates by four cents. revenue is in line. drugmaker raised its full year for sales. hasbro earned $1.58. revenue was in line with forecasts, results were helped by sales of "star wars" and jurassic movie franchises. lean in equal pay ceo barbie. >> good idea. sorkin, i know you're with me on this. >> i love it. i don't understand why you haven't been in touch -- >> three even. >> let me tell you about some other news. oprah winfrey is take 10% stake in weight watchers and joining the company's board. winfrey said she believes in the program and wanted to be a partner in the company's evolution. shares of the company has fallen more than 40%. you wonder

let's bring in the senator john barrasso, not republican policy committee. to new york as always. what do you think donald trump said there? is he right? >> she was clearly underwhelming as secretary of state, very ineffective. after all look at our friend around the world, do they trust us more? no. do our enemies fear us more? no. jimmy carter former president of the united states, i don't like to quote him, he can't think of many places around the world where the united states had a better relationship with those countries than when president obama and hillary clinton came into office. she is the one that pressed the reset button with russia. take a look how that worked out. russia subsequently taken over ukraine and crimea. russia set up this axis now with iran, with iraq, with syria. they have troops on the ground and planes in the air in syria bucking up assad. it was president obama that said assad must go and drew his red lines. we've seen many failures under her leadership as secretary of state. martha: so we think about this benghazi hearing that i

senator barrasso. stan thank you mr. chairman and madam secretary want to thank you for your incredible commitment to this country as first lady and a member of this body as secretary of state and i have seen you work yourself to exhaustion. not to your own benefit but to the benefit of this country in and the country is grateful for that. i agree we need to make sure that something like this never happens again and i've looked at it like the challenger explosion where we lost the severn -- seven astronauts. we didn't see it coming that we could have seen it coming and should have seen it coming. as you said you never saw the security requests. vice president biden in the presidential debates said no one told us. .. >> >> we obviously had a strong security presence obviously there was a significant security presence and i believe that was not the case. i would estimate you believe we had a significant strong presence in libya at that time perhaps we want that for all of our ambassadors. >> senator, we had a security pres

. >> thank you chairman barrasso. one of the things i think, mr. stern, that i'm really impressed with what you've done is gone and tried to learn from kyoto. you have tried to take in account what republicans and democrats said as a result of kyoto and one of the big concerns for many republicans has been that there should not be an international agreement that imposes climate action on the united states beyond what the u.s. already plans. beyond what we have in law. do you expect the paris agreement will obligate the united states to meet an emissions target that goes beyond what the united states has already pledged? >> no, i don't, senator. >> and another big ask from republicans is enforcement should not be left up to the united nations, that black helicopters shouldn't pounce on the united states if commitments are not met. do you expect the paris agreement will include compliance penalties, sanctions or other external enforcement on the united states? and i think the key word there is other external enforcement on the united states. >> that'

want to recognize and thank all of the original cosponsors who joined me in this bill, senators barrasso, cornyn, isakson, sullivan and toomey, and purdue. now, because of this bill, any illegal alien who illegally reenters the united states and has a prior aggravated felony conviction or two prior illegal reentry convictions will face a mandatory sentence of five years in prison. we must send the message that defiance of of our laws will no longer be tolerated. whether it is by the sanctuary cities themselves or by the illegal reentry offenders that they harbor. the problem of illegal immigration in this country will never be solved until we demonstrate to the american people that we are serious about securing the border and enforcing our immigration laws, until we have a president willing to and in fact committed to actually enforcing the laws and securing the borders. this bill is just a small step, but at least it is a step in the right direction. and yet, mr. president, there will be two consequences from the vote this afternoon. the first, it will be an opportunity for our friends

coming in, let me sheraton basis of the rivals on the republican side, it will be browns, sullivan, barrasso and crapo. on the democrat side, boxer, merkl merkley. >> and markley? >> and markley. >> should it be boxer, cardin and markley is my understanding. >> okay. >> boxer, cardin and markey. >> okay. but carver is not even here. >> oh. >> well, here. redo that. >> outside of that, it was good. >> okay, good. >> the administrator mccarthy, why don't you give us your opening statement. you have heard a lot of comments being made by others. and we want to give chance to respond. >> well, thank you. good morning chairman inhofe, chairman boxer, ranking members of the committee. again, i thank you for the opportunity to appear today and to discuss the august 5th gold king mine release and epa's subsequent response. this was a tragic and unfortunate incident. and epa has taken responsibility to ensure that we clean it up appropriately. epa's core mission is to ensure a clean environment and to protect public health. and we're dedicated to continuing to do so. our job is to protect the environm

. >> thank you, chairman barrasso. one of the things, i think, mr. stern, that i am really impressed with that you've done is gone and tried to learn from kyoto. you have tried to take an account what republicans and democrats said as kyoto. one of the big concerns from many republicans has been that there should not be an international agreement that imposes climate action on the united states beyond what the u.s. already plans, beyond what we have in law. do you expect the paris agreement will obligate the united states to meet an emissions target that goes beyond what the united states has already pledged? >> no, i don't, senator. >> and another big ask from republicans has been that enforcement should not be left up to the united nations, the black helicopters shouldn't pounce on the united states if commitments are not met. do you expect the paris agreement will include compliance penalties, sanctions or other external enforcement on the united states? and i think the key word there is "other external enforcement" on the united states. >> no, th

senator barrasso. stan thank you mr. chairman and madam secretary want to thank you for your incredible commitment to this country as first lady and a member of this body as secretary of state and i have seen you work yourself to exhaustion. not to your own benefit but to the benefit of this country in and the country is grateful for that. i agree we need to make sure that something like this never happens again and i've looked at it like the challenger explosion where we lost the severn -- seven astronauts. we didn't see it coming that we could have seen it coming and should have seen it coming. as you said you never saw the security requests. vice president biden in the presidential debates said no one told us. .. >> >> we obviously had a strong security presence obviously there was a significant security presence and i believe that was not the case. i would estimate you believe we had a significant strong presence in libya at that time perhaps we want that for all of our ambassadors. >> senator, we had a security pres

senator barrasso hi, i'm dr. john barrasso. let me tell you a story about a family in my home state. andy johnson is 32. he and his wife katie have four kids. they live in the country. they have a few cows and horses. two years ago, they want to do build a small pond in their front yard. they got their plan approved by the state, and they use the pond to provide water for their animals. they thought it was a beautiful addition. the pond attractive birds and other animals. everything was fine until the johnsons got a visit from the united states environmental protection agency. even though the state of wyoming had approved the pond, the federal government had not. the johnsons now face fines of more than $37,000 every day until they remove the pond. tos is what has happened government in america. it has gotten so aggressive, so inflexible, and so unyielding, and seemingly for so little purpose, and it's going to get worse. the obama administration is seizing new authority to control what it calls waters of the united states. thi

legislation with senators toomey, grassley, cruz, johnson, cornyn, sullivan, purdue, isakson, rubio, barrasso and thune. we're introducing this legislation. we're getting a vote tomorrow to end the practice of sanctuary cities violating existing federal immigration laws. this legislation takes a commonsense approach to this problem. and there are three key parts to the bill. first, this bill changes the incentives for cities by creating penalties for states, local governments and law enforcement entities that choose to have them, these policies in place. these penalties come in the form of the removal of certain streams of federal funding for sanctuary jurisdiction and the penalties apply to whatever government entity is actually making that bad decision. in cases where a law enforcement entity like a jail or police department has a policy or practice that refuses to comply with federal immigration law, they will be prevented from receiving community oriented policing services grants or state criminal alien assistance program grants. so that entity