>> coming up next, eps administrator gina mccarthy, she testified on her agency's 2015 epa budget request. after that, air force secretary deborah lee james addresses the women and international security organization. and later the senate returns at 2:00 eastern time for a debate on the so-called doc fix legislation involving how much the government pays doctors who treat medicare patients. >> last year virginia state senator kay deeds suffered a personal tragedy when he was stabbed by his mentally ill son. before the incident a judge had issued an involuntary commitment order for senator deeds' son to receive treatment but no beds were available. today at the national press club, senator deeds will talk about his efforts to change the mental health system in his state. you can watch his remarks live starting at 1 p.m. eastern over on c-span. >> bend is a timber town. you wouldn't know it to look at it today. the timber qualities are almost completely removed, but, yes, bend was a timber town to begin with. at the height of the timber industry, so if you were to drop into bend in, say, 19

epa adman -- administrator gina mccarthy presented the budget. this is two and a half hours. >> the meeting will come to order. thank you for rearranging your schedule for the hearing. we are having vote for get away day so i appreciate you working on this. welcome to fiscal year 2015 budget hearing for the environmental protection agencies. we are joined by gina mccarthy and mary ann forlic to discuss the budget. i believe this is ms. mccarthy's first meeting. thank you for being here. we look forward to the budget and discussing your ongoing work. the budget proposal is a level of 7.89 million which is 3.8% below the enacted level. the budget is reduced for the fifth consecutive year. the budget proposal is good bringing the budget in line with historic level and in line with the levels under sequestration but avoids employees furloughs and other things with across the board cuts. we make targeted cuts about how we spend the money as we rein in the deficideficit. i apprec appreciated eyeate the agency's payroll tax being investigated. this has

. >> coming up next, eps administrator gina mccarthy, she testified on her agency's 2015 epa budget request. after that, air force secretary deborah lee james addresses the women and international security organization. and later the senate returns at 2:00 eastern time for a debate on the so-called doc fix legislation involving how much the government pays doctors who treat medicare patients. >> last year virginia state senator kay deeds suffered a personal tragedy when he was stabbed by his mentally ill son. before the incident a judge had issued an involuntary commitment order for senator deeds' son to receive treatment but no beds were available. today at the national press club, senator deeds will talk about his efforts to change the mental health system in his state. you can watch his remarks live starting at

today we are joined by gina mccarthy and acting chief financial officer, marion follett, to discuss the proposed budget. mccarthy, i believe that this is your first formal budget hearing. i know that our members on both sides are interested in what your budget proposes and we look forward to discussing your ongoing work. overall the fiscal year 2015 budget proposal is that the level of 7.8 9 billion, 310 million, 3.8 are sent below the active level. at this level the budget for the epa would be reduced for the fifth consecutive year following the historic increase in fiscal year 2010. i see that this proposed reduction is good for the first step of this year's budget cycle , bringing the budget in line with more historian funding levels. it also brings the agency's with levels under sequestration. but does so in a way that avoids furloughs and some of the other consequences associated with indiscriminate cuts. make targeted, strategic decisions about how we spend our money as we reign in the deficit. with that said, i appreciate the epa and its appearance in identifying strategic -- str

. >> epa administrator gina mccarthy told energy executives in houston there isn't a need to choose betweennvironment and a healthy economy. >> you will see we have been very effective in understanding how we can address pollution and still grow the economy. >> the 2015 obama economy has about $20 billion for a climate resilient fund. they didn't buy the pitch and passed a bill thursday to limit the epa's rules on power plants. >> we would be one of the few countries in the world where you could not build a plant because the legislations are so high. it is simple, it says you can regulate greenhouse gases but these are the standards for new coal-fire plants using the best technology that's available out there, and that's all it does. >> the bill's sponsor in the senate is joe mantion who says the united states cannot unilaterally stop using this fuel force. >> the united states of america uses one eighth of the amount of coal burned in the world. we're not going to clean it up ourselves if we stop using it. >> they recognize environmentalists are a critical component of their base so they h

well, the first is the leader of gina mccarthy at the e.p.a. her background working republican governors, her reputation among business leaders as being tough but fair, and her experience navigating the ways of washington make her well-suited to look at the bigger-picture issues. as someone who comes from an ag state, i understand full well how the e.p.a. can sometimes get bogged down in minor issues, from my perspective, taking on things that create a huge firestorm but actually don't solve the problem. i believe that this administrator, gina mccarthy, is going to look at the larger mission of the e.p.a., especially when it comes to climate change. secondly, i'm optimistic because we still have some good things going on. the washington post ran an editorial last fall where the editorial board wrote, "the overwhelming problem is that congress hasn't faced up to the global warming threat. instead of building a policy that addresses the unique challenge of greenhouse gas emissions, it has left the e.p.a. and the courts with a strong and sometimes

melissa: gina mccarthy is the new head of the epa and is making comments at sierra week, an annual conferencen in houston every with the bigwigs in the industry and she is saying she is going to support efforts to build natural-gas vehicle fleets around the country. she says cleaner electric generation is key to global competitiveness. it won't put the brakes on business. you can see energy trading higher on the day, heating oil the only one in the complex that is trading lower. increasing natural gas in exports to the fight that could be coming to a head thanks in part to the crisis in ukraine. a few hours ago the u.s. prompted russia with economic sanctions and today a bill was brought to the floor to ramp up the approval process for liquefied natural gas exports from the u.s.. ohio congressman bill johnson is on the energy and commerce committee and says this is of great way to hit russia where it hurts. he joins us on the phone. do you think you have a chance of getting l and gee exports out of the country and making the bucks? >> we should. the secretary of energy has already expressed h

we are joined by gina mccarthy and mary ann forlic to discuss the budget. i believe this is ms. mccarthy's first meeting. thank you for being here. we look forward to the budget and discussing your ongoing work. the budget proposal is a level of 7.89 million which is 3.8% below the enacted level. the budget is reduced for the fifth consecutive year. the budget proposal is good bringing the budget in line with historic level and in line with the levels under sequestration but avoids employees furloughs and other things with across the board cuts. we make targeted cuts about how we spend the money as we rein in the deficideficit. i apprec appreciated eyeate the agency's payroll tax being investigated. this has been a priority for the subcommittee since 2011. i am glad to see we are aligned. i am pleased to say that the fy 2015 fte reduction compared to 2011. previous budgets often proposed payroll levels above the onboard personal leaving us to wonder how epa would use the funds. as we move forward, i have concerned about the state of the aging water infrastructure and the califor

on c-span two, gina mccarthy president's the 2015 budget request. and on c-span3, the education committee holds a hearing on the student federal loan program. gentlemen from-- iowa. >> without objection. >> mr. speaker, it's time to take the mask off this institution. it's time to expose the check writing scandal i like to call rubber date -- rubbergate. it is time to bring honor back to this institution. nine months ago, i sit on his floor with other freshmen and took the oath of office for the very first time in our career, and it was probably one of the most important days of my entire life. i've never been so proud. but to go home to my district over this weekend and to have people laughing at congress, laughing a congressman, laughing at this institution, brings dishonor on all of us. i will give you a couple of examples. i was out at a pizza hut this weekend with my son and daughter gentleman from the booth behind me asked me, are you going to pay with this -- pay for this with a check, congressman? that is not the kind of jokes that we need.

we are joined by gina mccarthy. to discuss the president's proposal for epa's fy 15 budget. i believe this is your first formal hearing before the subcommittee. i know members on both sides look forward to discussing some of your ongoing work. proposal -- budget proposes a level of $7.89 billion. three percent below the enacted level. at this level, the budget would be reduced for the fifth consecutive year. i see this proposed reduction is good for the first step in the budget cycle as it brings the agency's budget in line with more historic funding levels. inbrings the agency's budget line with levels under sequestration but avoids employee furloughs and some of the other consequences associated with indiscriminate cuts. the epa appears to be identifying strategic it it's these in its work force. for the been a priority subcommittee since 2011. i'm glad to see we are aligned in this mission. i appreciate that epa's budget 2000sal reflects a reduction compared to 2011. a level not seen since the late 1980's. budgets previous proposed payroll levels that were higher. we were

. >> the head of department of protection agency, gina mccarthy will be on capitol hill this morning to testify about her agency's budget request for nasa -- next fiscal year. you can see live coverage on a companion network c-span3 at 9:30 a.m. eastern. >> i do recognize that is enough will be exists. if it expires irrational fear of islam and, therefore, negative attitude towards the committee i am as a against it. if it's part of xenophobia, xenophobic is nothing than xenophobia versus one group, judeophobia, christian phobia or any other form fully. it's part of it. but what happened is that the islamist lobby, the brotherhood lobby and iranian lobby have hijacked that notion and the into a weapon to anybody was put aside a policy issue has nothing to do with religion, with the five pillars. there has been accused of islamophobia and i think this is very close to what the national socialist in germany would have a come anybody was criticizing their policy of being against the german race. even at the national level it has become very dangerous. >> walid phares on u.s. policy iin

december of 2012, and a few months later, in february of 2013, gina mccarthy, then assistant administratora., wrote me a response but she did not provide any of the requested data relating to the average global temperature of so-called increases. then in april, three months later, she was nominated to be head of e.p.a., miss mccarthy was, and i asked her -- and she said she would provide additional follow-up information to support the president's statement that the claimant is increasing faster than was predicted. -- that the climate is increasing faster than was predicted. on april 30, she responded in writing to me -- i'm on the e.p.w. environment committee. she responded, but not with any requested analysis of the chart that i asked for that would show official predictions versus actual global temperatures. she simply stated -- quote -- "e.p.a. has not produced its own analysis, but we expect a definitive comparison in the forthcoming ipcc fifth assessment report." close quote. then on may 29, president obama did it again. he claimed -- quote -- "we also know that the climate is warming