blackburn: i have an amendment at the desk, blackburn 13.he chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 13 printed in the congressional record offered by mrs. blackburn of tennessee. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 23 the gentlelady from tennessee and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. chairman. the department of energy has proposed new rule making that will eliminate the use of noncondensing natural gas home furnaces. on average, condensing furnaces cost $350 more than noncondensing furnaces and require as much as $2,200 in additional installation costs. the d.o.e. itself estimated that it will cost the american consumer up to $12 billion to enstall condensing furnaces nationwide. the upfront cost of installing a natural gas condensing furnace may force families to switch to alternative furnaces which are cheaper to install but cost more to operate. home furnaces fail and need to be replaced when people are

blackburn: we need a robust economy. it has been abysmal and has been terrible for our count stwri . wages have been cut all that has happened and the american people are sick and tired of it. and the obama economy has caused much of the problems that are in front of us. the . trillion that we have spent importing oil. who has been importing a lot of that oil opec. it is within of the stop and our national security challenges. it is time to drill here and grill now. it is another way to engage rank and file employees. i know other states that have used that. both democrat and republic can governors. we reduced the size and growth by the budget. we were the test case for hoipt hillary clinton health care plan. so yes, we found ourselves cutting nine cents across the board. do they send the right message? are they a step twarled getting out of control spending out of control, yes think were. wyatt now that is over 56,000 worth of the debt that he they would be response i will for for our 18.2 trillion worth of debt. . we'v

blackburn and mr. rokita. the department of energy is currently considering a proposed rule entitled standard ceiling fans and ceiling fan light kits which would impose requirements for ceiling fans sold in the united states. this regulation if implemented would increase the cost of ceiling fans by nearly double thereby reducing the purchase. the end result would be heavy reliance on central air conditioning and increased energy consumption. ceiling fans are energy efficient method of cooling using between 20 and 100 what thes during operation. that is an order of magnitude of less energy that can safe up to 14%. the department of energy's proposed standard is a regulatory solution in search of a problem. the ceiling fan industry has demonstrated a strong commitment as evidenced by the increased in energy star in the market. the industry continues to develop savings this is all taking place absent the heavy hand of government regulation. at a time when homeowners are trying to reduce energy usage we shouldn't

blackburn of tennessee. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in sport of a request for a -- those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen a recorded vote is ordered. leong lorning. -- members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 159. the nays are 248. the amendment is not adopted. the next the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california, mr. mcclintock on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. mcclintock of californ

blackburn of tennessee. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 271, the gentlewoman from tennessee, mrs. blackburn, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. chairman. first, i want to begin by thanking the subcommittee chairman for his hard work on this effort that is in front of us and for the committee identifying ways to reduce what the federal government spends, especially in the ledge branch. the fiscal year 2016 proposed funding level is $3.3 billion. that's $173 billion below the president's request, but i think there is more work that we could do and my 1% across-the-board spending reduction will save taxpayers an additional $29 million in budget authority and $25 million in outlays for fiscal year 2016. it is a targeted cut in discretionary spending that exempts the capitol police, the sergeant at arms and security maintained by the architect of the capitol. i want to recognize the work, again, as i sai

blackburn for an opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and want to say thank you to our witnesses. we appreciate that you are here. 2008 was really the year of the recall, and since that point in time we have been very interested in the work you are doing and have looked at your deliverables and to outcomes. one of the things that is of tremendous concern to us, and i've got to tell you, i heard a lot about this during small business week which was just a couple of weeks ago. when i was out and about in my district visiting with small businesses, visiting with some retailers and there are a lot of complaints that are coming about the way you all are going about your task and some of the unnecessary burdens that are being put on retailers and on businesses and changes and reporting requirements. and i've got to tell you. i think there's a lot of unhappiness with the american public and how you doing her job i would say there's probably some confusion as to what your mission statement is and how you reading that. now, i think it's fair to s

marsha blackburn is a leading pro-life and family values advocate.es as the vice chair of the house energy and commerce committee as well as four critical subcommittees. she serves on the house budget committee and is a founding member of the republican women's policy committee. ladies and gentlemen, join me in welcoming congressman marsha blackburn the great state of tennessee. [applause] ♪ marsha blackburn: good morning. are you having fun? you do you love this summit? i think this is fantastic. how many of you have chosen a presidential candidate? i like this. we can all agree on this. in 2016 we have to win the white house. that is a coal that everyone shares. it is important that you are here. i am an old party chairman. this is getting ready for the fight. we know the media will not be with us. they have never been with us in one of our great conservative victories. think about 1980 and 1984. look at 1994, two thousand, or 2010. the good thing happening now is the american people are not believing the mainstream press. there is a recent survey

last year the house included $1 million in our 2015 appropriations thanks to representative blackburnto kick start our efforts on test burden reduction. there is still much more we can do to remove unnecessary regulatory burdens in this arena and i do look forward to working with this committee on those unresolved cpsia issues. the common goal among all of us, congress, cpsc industry and consumers consumers, is safety. we are all people who have families for whom we want safe products. i have 6 children and 16 grandchildren. i do not want dangerous products hurting them or anyone. however, the united states government cannot and should not try to create a zero risk society. the solutions we seek should be balanced and address actual problems. consumers should be protected from unreasonable risks while the regulated community is protected from an arbitrary government. thank you for this time today and i do look forward to taking any questions you might have. thank you, mr. chair. >> the chair thanks the gentle lady. the chair recognizes mr. adler five minutes, please for an opening sta

congresswoman marsha blackburn is exposing the nefarious obama plot to take away our ceiling fans. >>ment of energy is so determined to redesign the ceiling fan just like stretching their tentacles into lightbulbs and so many other areas of our home. what they are doing is pricing people out of the ceiling fan market. >> now the obama administration claims the goal is to make ceiling fans more energy efficient, but what's next? where will it stop? will president obama try to take our clock radios? what about our toasters? could they? would they even banish the blackberry? wait a minute. i've got a bright idea. maybe republicans should stop spinning out these crazy conspiracy theories and start focusing on real issues that matter to real people but until then it's lights out for the right wing attacks because we gotcha. we got aubaru. it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. what? (announcer) the 2015 subaru forester (girl) what? (announcer) buil

however, there is some suspended sentence ability for this judge cheryl blackburn who is a democrat too impose six years on the counts that he pled to. >> all right. do we have a picture of this judge? yeah okay, there she is. this is what i don't understand. you both are going to explain it to me. so this industry, child pornography could not exist if people didn't bit stuff all right? because it's done for money. it's the lowest, most depraved act on the planet. all right. there is nothing worse than this. all the murdering of a child, okay. this is really murdering a child. you kill their spirit and they never recover from it. two years that's shoplifting third offense or something like that. so what was the justification by this judge? >> there is no justification. >> she didn't make any comments? >> no. >> none? >> she just said oh i'm going to go along with the plea agreement. the plea agreement was signed by glen funk, the da there in nashville. he looked at all the evidence. we're going to go with a plea agreement that binds what the judge can do at sentencing. >> why would tha

it also facilitated private business transactions between foreign entities and blackburn writes a prompt review of the tax exempt status is appropriate to determine whether it is acting in support of its charitable mission. sara westwood joins us. she's been following this very closely. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to start off, we don't have to go too much in depth, but we had heard recently there's been reports that foreign governments may have the capability of even hacking that private server. former secretary of state hillary clinton. does that pose as a big foreign policy threat? >> absolutely. one of the big concerns was it flouted private record laws. the bigger concern was the security risk. hillary clinton absolutely exchanged e-mails with foreign officials. would have then known that the e-mail address was not from a government server. could have made that leap on their own. there's so little we do know about the server. we don't know what sort of security measures were in place. we know even at the top levels of our government, the state depart

the three areas i mentioned response to congresswoman blackburn's questions is the exact relief. looking at natural word on whether or not if you use natural wood alone you have to test for certain heavy metals required by law. we keep trying to check off the list of materials and products that you don't actually have to test it to avoid these costs. that is the theme in terms of engagement and deliberation we pursue to make it worth the while. >> thank you. mckenna said. >> the chair recognizes the ranking member of the full committee mr. pallone for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. my question is there have been concerning reports of young athletes that have non-hodgkin's lymphoma and other blood cancers and also than playing sports on athletic fields that are filled with crumb rubber coming from tires which often contains cancer chemicals. this past october i wrote to the agency for toxic substances and disease registry next-line and i believe research is needed into whether synthetic turf athletic fields increased the risk of lymphoma, leukemia and other blood cancer

so the three areas i mentioned in response to congresswoman blackburn's questions have to do with providing this exact type of relief. looking, for instance, at natural wood, whether or not if you use a natural wood alone, you have to test for heavy metals required by law. we keep trying to check off lists of materials and types of products that you don't have to test to to avoid these costs, and that has been the theme in terms of stakeholder engagement and internal deliberations we are trying to pursue to make it worth the while. >> thank you. my time is up. i yield back. >> the chair thanks the gentle lady. the chair recognizes the ranking member of the committee mr. pallone. five minutes for your questions, please. >> thank you, mr. chairman. my question is of chairman kaye, there have been concerning reports of young athletes that have non-hodgkin's lymphoma and other blood cancers and who also have been playing sports on athletic fields filled with crumb rubber coming from tires which often contains cancer causing chemicals. this past october i wrote to the agency for toxic substances

three areas in response to congresswoman blackburn's questions have to do with providing this exact type of relief. looking, for instance, at natural wood, whether you use natural wood alone you have to test for heavy metals. we keep trying to check off lists of materials and types of products that you don't have to test to to avoid costs and that has been the theme in terms of stakeholder engagement and internal deliberations we are trying to provide to make it worth the while. >> my time is up. i yield back. >> the chair recognizes the ranking member pallone. >> thank you mr. chairman. my question is to chairman kaye, there have been concerning reports of young athletes that have non-hodgkin's lymphoma and other blood cancers and who have been playing sports on athletic fields filled with rubber coming from tires which often contains cancer causing chemicals. this past october i wrote to the agency for toxic substances and disease registry explaining i believe additional research is needed to look for causes of other cancers. they say they're supporting efforts by the commission in thi

blackburn: thank you mr. speaker. i rise today to talk about the 21st century cures act this is legislation that we at the energy and commerce committee are working on in a bipartisan basis. and we look forward to moving it to the house floor and seeing this passed and signed into law. why are we doing it? because we want to put the focus on tours that will enable -- cures that will enable people to live a better life. let's take just one disease. alzheimer's. five million people have alzheimer's this ecost to the nation is $215 billion a year. when you look out several decades to 2050, the cost is estimated to be $1 trillion a year by one disease. yes, we need to focus on finding cures. and there are other disorders and diseases that need that attention. take autism diabetes a.l.s., cancer, the list moves on. it is time for us to encourage and support young scientists, put the focus on our most challenging health conditions and we want the regulatory agencies to be there to encourage. this is our effort, and i encour