what we need to do to prepare for climate change. >> we have called on the line for congressman gary palmerm first to alabaster and obama, for public and mike, this is apparent, good morning. >> good morning representative palmer. i agree one 100% with every think you are saying a lot of the climate change, the windmills democrat are trying to build across the country a right now, a lot of these -- and i'm not sure exactly but a lot of these people are invested in these companies and making a lot of money. i don't know if you want to talk about that but thank you for this, get ready for the calls because they are coming. >> regard to renewables, but we had a hearing on this yesterday, the lifespan typically about 20 years but after ten years, it declined dramatically whereas natural gas, the lifecycle is about six years and for nuclear right now is about 80. for the next generation it might be longer. if you look at britain europe in regard to power generated winter, they just had a situation about a month ago the north sea stop operating, natural gas pricing hit a record and they had to tu

and we'll talk to gary palmer of alabama and vermont democratic representative peter welch. as always, join the conversation by phone or share your thoughts by text message, facebook comment or tweet. ♪ host: the house yesterday voted to hold former trump white house adviser steve bannon in contempt of congress and today will conclude legislative work for the week without taking up president biden's social spending build back better plan, once pegged at $3.5 trillion now being negotiated closer to $2 trillion. the president told the cnn town hall last night he'd like to see the measure passed but was open to the senate later changing the filibuster rules to take up a voting rights bill and other bills as well. it is friday, october 22, 2021. good morning and welcome to washington journal. we'll ask you as we begin, your top news stories of the week could be the developments on capitol hill as we mentioned, new vaccine for kids and booster shots or other issues you're following. call us on the republican line if you'd like to. those of you lean republican, 202-748-8001 or dem

. >> gary palmer, representative from alabama, thank you for joining us this morning on "washington journal". >> my pleasure, bill. >> we are joint next by congressman peter welch of vermont, he is a member of the energy and commerce committee, vermont at-large member, congressman. good to have youou back on. >> good to be with you. >> start with reconciliation package, social spending treasures the biden administration is pushing as you hear from of the dollar figure being compromised and adjusted, what are your concerns about what might be out of the package once. >> we have to make painful decisions, we don't have the single most in the house without to make some adjustments there are two ways to look at this summer in the neighborhood of two below in terms of the priorities preserved. there are three elements to at the biden's plan ist about. one is finally confessing families. i would use the work investment because we need childcare and artist true whether you voted for trump for biden. pre-k is for parents, not only your place for their kids, they have education for their kids. we ne

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