mr. rahall. >> good morning. >> caller: i have two points. first, the xl pipeline is not paid for by taxpayer dollars will create a number of jobs. >> true. >> caller: second, we're going to cross the allegheny river. in order to do that they're going to have divers go in. they marked every plan in the area where the bridge is going to be built, move them down the river and then return them to the exact spot when the bridge is done. is that responsible use of the taxpayers' money? i expect it will be built. regardless of what the final word of the congress is. as i referenced also, earlier, it's just turned into a political football, unfortunately, in the congress. and it should not be allowed to stop the transportation bill which is going to put many more workers to work and many more states across the united states in the keystone project would. but, yes, the keystone project does mean jobs. as i said in the beginning i support the keystone project. >> just to explain, you said it's a private company. is that because of the trans border cro

mr. rahall, that's it for our time. thank you for being here this morning. >> thank you. enjoy it. >>> we're up to the white house coverage this weekend on c-span. senator lmarco rubio gives the key note address. we'll also hear from the two u.s. senator, lindsey graham and jim demeant. that's live tomorrow starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span radio and online at c-span.org. >>> bonnie frank is the top democrat on the financial services committee. he was first elected in 1980 and retiring at the end of his current term. congressman frank it was first congressman to acknowledge being gay. 2010 he and former senator christopher dodd wrote the financial regulation law that bears their names. barney franks joins us on "news makers" on c-span sunday. >>> when people are saying to him don't take the vice presidency right now you are the most -- you are a powerful majority leader. don't take the vice presidency. you won't have any power. johnson says, power is where power goes. that is i can make power in any situation. his whole life i said, nothing in mislife pre

mr. rahall. it's an expanded program which leverages dollars 30-1, so that's an additional million jobs. so i want you all to know from the house in particular, this is, this bill, a real reform bill. it consolidates 90 programs just in the highway part alone into 30. it eliminates earmarks. i have gives states flexibility. it establishes performance measures, accelerates project delivery that i know is so important to you, and it sets up a new freight program. the country needs us to pass a surface transportation bill so we can fix our aging infrastructure, put people back to work, boost the economy. the health of our businesses and our workers depend on it. and again, why do we have the wind at our back? look at some of the groups that are supporting us. just look at this. things really amazing. just a few of the 500 triple-a, afl-cio, the public transportation association, the transportation building, the civil engineers, the truckers, the general contractors, the equipment dealers, the distri

as some of you may recall we start on the house side with mr. rahaland went across the country to hear from the american people and a lot of the stakeholders of people who don't have jobs and communities that are waiting for the congress to make a decision on infrastructure. we conducted a bipartisan, bicameral hearing, probably the first i recall in los angeles together. i think there's a strong commitment not only from our committee, but everyone who has gathered here. under the other side there were six extensions on the transportation. there was a shutdown would make that mr. oberstar and i were going for a six-year bill. that was not to be. i regret that. mr. oberstar was a wonderful individual who did all he could to move this process forward and i was saddened when the administration that that time i did actually to cut his legs out from under me 10 from a short-term measure. that's really what puts us in the slate. a lot of people say this can't be done, but i've got senator rockefeller and i've got senator hutchison over there and we had 17 e

mr. rahall in this bipartisan effort, mr. lucas and mr. peterson, mr. gibbs for their actions. these bills do not change or roll back any current protections under the clean water act. they simply stop the e.p.a. and the corps of engineers from moving forward and making these unprecedented regulatory changes through a guidance document. the e.p.a. needs to withdraw this guidance document immediately if it wishes to make changes to the clean water act, it should go through a complete and proper rule-making process under the administrative procedures act. that's why it's there, so that people will know in america the cost of what these regulations mean to them and what they do and do not do. so why do it under the veil of guidance when they should be doing it out in the open? and that's what we want. and that's all, really, that we are asking for. now, i mentioned that i'm introducing a bill today. going back and refreshing my memory on what happened with the overreach of the e.p.a. we might remember the -- it was from this podium i guess two weeks ago -- it was on a friday -- th

mrs. brooks accepted there was an element of leadership there. >> yes. and they're very good at marketing itself. the daily mail promotes itself as the voice of england, the guardian, the leb rahal intelligentsia, but i don't think that's in a sense where what you call their power necessarily comes from. i think it's a useful thing for them to say. i'm not sure it's necessarily right. >> i'm going to read -- if you have a view on a particular issues, particularly if it's -- at which point the viewpoint is already in a direction by the direction the paper has taken. you say your own assessment, this is three lines down that, they have more influence on the terms of the debate than actual power to dictate policy. >> yup. >> so the terms of the debate went into areas such as the culture of negativity and matters you've outlined elsewhere. >> it's also what's important, i mean, a news bulletin running order is a set of decisions that are made by executives. if a at the moment pornography on the internet, for example, involved in a campaign, perfectly legitimate, serious issue, is that more likely to make the politicians think that they might look at it, try to address it? yes. is th