we are goined by bob goodlatte. a member of the house judiciary committee. a member of the internet subcommittee. you will be holding hearings on this deal. what are you looking to find out. >> obviously two things. we want to determine if this deal is a good idea. if it is creating the largest wireless company in america. it raises competition issues with services and pricing. is this going to be helpful to the consumer or harmful. and secondly, we are just beginning this process. they have a responsibility to review this under our anti-trust laws. we have to make certain they are reviewing this. we have an oversight responsibility. to ensure that they conduct the review with the fairness and commitment that -- committment that is -- commitment to this. we are in the fifth day of it. there is not yet allowed to be determined, but we want to make certain that we pursue this aggressively and diligently, and we will try to provide a forum for the individuals and we will debate the implications of this merger. and this is obviously a way for the constituents an

we are joined by bob goodlatte, republican of virginia, who's remember of the house judiciary committee, in fact, he's chairman of the intellectual property, competition, and the internet subcommittee. congressman goodlatte, in news report, you said you will be holding hearings on the proposed deal between at&t, and t-mobile. what are you looking to find out from these hearings? obviously, two things, one we want to determine whether it deal is a good idea. whether creating what will be the largest wireless company in america, obviously raises very significant competition issues in terms of the availability of services and in terms of pricing, you know, is this going to be helpful to the consumers, or is it going to be harmful. secondly, we are just beginning this process, the justice department and the federal communications commission has a responsibility for reviewing this under our antitrust laws. and we need to make sure that they are pursuing this in an appropriate manner. in other words, we have an oversight responsibility on the judiciary committee of the department of justice a

goodlatte sponsored an amendment that passed the house to stop federal funding for the claimant of the day. this thing was a total maximum days take control away from the states and the states a claim the states are making progress, even though it's taken more than two decades to get to this point. where is the and clean. what prompted epa's issuance of the total mac among those and are? and if the goodlatte amendment was included in the final appropriations bill, how much of that 67 million with localities without him in terms of their efforts to clean up a quiet [inaudible] >> hello? i was just going to leave it on. so sorry. the total maximum daily load from the day was the result of lawsuits, which are basically joined by the chesapeake a foundation and others who said progress was woefully inadequate in meeting the goals that it didn't set the epa for improvements in the day. we've seen some slight improvements, but i don't need -- i would not characterize the we've turned the corner and the issues we have. the deal is meant to assign to each state. here is how much pollution you