mr. mckinley: mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 3 printed in part b of house report 114-744 offered by mr. mckinley of west virginia. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 863, the gentleman from west virginia, mr. mckinley, and the member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from west virginia. mr. mckinley: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, chairman. look, i rise in support of this amendment. it's a really simple amendment, and it will prevent employees any ther officers of executive agency from using their private email accounts from discussing pending regulatory actions. in so doing we'll ensure there is a clear record of communication throughout the rulemaking process while making certain no favoritism is received privately to a particular organization or outside groups when drafting a rule. private communications -- that's the key word -- private communications betw

mr. mckinley, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you again, mr. secretary, for coming to participate in that panel, and the trip to long view power plant. we hope it was beneficial to you. i have a couple of comments. i want to build up a little with my friends from california because when i read the written statements and listened to your opening statement, there were two it admissions that i heard. one is you didn't talk about water as being part of our national economic security, which i thought was -- but even more so you didn't mention -- i think it deserved to have some mention as part of our national economic kurt of this country on that. let me go to some questions, however, quickly. we've had testimony from phil mohler when he was back, and he has since confirmed again that we've apparently talked about grid security reliability and that we've lost somewhere in the naubd of 70 gigawatts. it's an intermittent low. not a base low. we're still at a net loss, but much of that gain that we've made that replacement is over renewables, which we

mr. mckinley for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you again, mr. secretary, for coming to west virginia to participate in that panel and also the trip to longview power plant. i hope it was beneficial to you. i've got a couple comments. i want to build up what my friends were california were talking about because when i read your written statement and listened to your opening statement, there were two omissions i heard. one was you didn't talk about water as being part of our national and economic security for this country, which i thought was -- but even more so, you didn't mention coal. other than the fact that the gas is going to supplant coal, perhaps, in near to long-term future, so just getting past that, we're just going to have a disagreement. i think it deserved to have some mention as part of our national economic security of this country on that. but let me go to some questions, however, quickly. we've had testimony from phil moeller when he was back with furc, and he's since confirmed again that we -- apparently talking about grid secur

mr. mckinley, five minutes for questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i they i'm going to address my remarks primarily to mr. slavitt, if i could, please. last fall, i asked if you could get back to us on why the premiums are so high in west virginia. we have the seventh highest rate premium rate in the country. we've not heard back from you since last fall. almost a year ago. we're still waiting for the call about it. because we only have one exchange in the state. and we've seen the premium increases continue to increase. so i need that answer. i'm expecting that answer. but i'm also saying that look, this past year, we had a 24% hike in our premiums, and now, excuse me, that's what we had was 24%. then this year, there was approval of 32% increase. and this coming year, we've had a small group trying to penetrate to give us a second option to west virginia and they're asking for a 49.8% increase, and from what we understand, they are likely going to get it. my question to is you what is the incentive for the regulators in west virginia or any other s

mr. mckinley five minutes for questions. >> i think i'm going to address my remarks to mr. slavin. last fall i asked you if you can get back to us on why the premiums are so high in west virginia. we have the seventh highest rate in the country. we have not heard back from you since last fall, almost a year ago you still waiting for that call about it. we only have one exchange in the state. and we have seen the premium increases continue to increase. so i need that answer. i'm expecting that answer but i'm also saying that this past year we had a 24% hike in premiums. and now that's what we had was 24. then this year there was approval of 32% increase. and this coming year we have had a small group trying to penetrate to give a second option to west virginia and they are asking for 49.8% increase. from what we understand they are likely going to get it. my question to you is what is the incentive for the regulators in west virginia or any other state to hold down premium increases if we are going to be subsidyi subsidizing so many of them? >> the unemployment rate dropped from 17%

mr. defazio had done all of the safeguarding, background check. position. >> before his retirement defazio , spent 30 years teaching here at racine's mckinley school . tonight, he faces up to 250 years in prison. patrick: defazio is free on $5,000 cash bail and ordered to , have no contact with kids or the internet. developing right now a suspected , armed robber arrested in a wauwatosa neighborhood. police say the gunman ran out of the subway at high10 capitol and tried to hide among some houses. he was taken into custody and a gun was recovered. no one was hurt. kathy: a dreary start to the weekend, take a look at this video from south shore marina, the strong winds sending waves crashing into the breakwater and boats rocking in the marina. mark joins us now. mark it's going to be a wet , night. mark: it is. if you're headed out this evening, this is what you want to know. this is not what you want to is where our rain is coming from. at this point, it is not that bad. there is rain in sheboygan. most other areas are drive. that will change in this will continue to move in. out the door, showers at 7:00, more showers at 9:00, more showers again at