mr. waxman: yes. the speaker pro tempore: all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. further proceedings on this vote will be postponed. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1. the chair declares the house in recess until ap journal." "washington journal" continues. host: our guest is scott hodge, president of the tax foundation, to talk about debt negotiations and tax revenue issues that are out there. here is one of the headlines, "new york post." "before catastrophic damage, summit snags on tax fight." would you like to see happen? guest: we would like to see fundamental tax reform, and as a means of making the tax code simpler, more efficient, and more economically beneficial, but not as a means of raising more revenue to the government. we think taxes are as high as they need to be. spending is the problem right now, and we need to tackle the spending issue. tax reform is import

mr. waxman, each will control 15 minutes. the gentleman from florida, mr. mica, and the gentleman from west virginia, mr. rahall, each will control 10 minutes. the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, and the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey, each will control five minutes. the chair will recognize the gentleman from kentucky once the house -- will be in order. the gentleman will suspend. the committee will be in order. will always member please take their conversations outside. the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky. mr. whitfield: madam chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. whitfield: madam chairman, i rise today to support h.r. 1938, the north american made energy security act and give a lightning overdue green light to the keystone pipeline excel project. the keystone expansion project would allow up to $1.29 million barrels a day to flow into the refineries in the midwest and gulf coast. a 700 barrel per day increase over existing capacity from canada. more oil means lower

mr. waxman and mr. markey just said. if you have joe barton and mr. marky on a bill you cover the political spectrum not only of this committee but of a congress and i couldn't agree more with what former chairman waxman and current ranking member waxman said that privacy is not a partisan issue and i do believe as he said that it is time to act and hopefully this hearing and several others we already had with the testimony we hope to hear from our administration officials will lead to action in this congress. i am co-chairman of the privacy caucus and have been an advocate for privacy for almost 20 years in congress. in this year alone i have sent letters, most of them with mr. marky or mr. walden or others to facebook, at&t, sprint, the college board, act and even the social security administration questioning activities they have engaged in that appear to impinge on our citizens's privacy. i have also introduced h.r. 1895, the do not track kids act of 2011. this legislation has five important things. it updates the online privacy protection act of 1

mr. waxman for five minute. >> i want to thank our chairs for holding this hearing today. as the wall street journal pointed out firms are stepping away internet users's anonymity and, quote, gaining the ability to decide whether or not to be a good customer before you tell them a single thing about yourself. the collection used and dissemination of consumer information provides many benefits to consumers, businesses and the marketplace but they raise legitimate concern about whether consumers have adequate control over personal information that is shared. sophisticated business models and rapidly evolve in technology allow vast amounts of data to be collected, aggregated, analyzed and sold in ways that were not manageable ten years ago. many of these business practices conflict with consumers expectations of privacy. i understand the republican majority is wary as any piece of legislation called new regulation. we heard repeated calls for a self regulation. the problem is self regulation isn't working. this week stanford researcher jonathan mayer reported tracking the tra

mr. waxman. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. today will examine the safety of the nation's oil and natural gas pipelines and begin to consider legislation to update and strength in our pipeline safety laws. during the last 12 months from a litany of tragic failures has reinforced the need for stronger pipeline safety laws since last month's hearing on the topic, exxon mobil pipeline ruptured in montana, spilling an estimated 31,500 to 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the yellow stone river. it may have been carried as far as 240 miles downstream. pockets of oil have been confirmed at least 90 miles down the river. ranchers are struggling to prevent the contamination from destroying their livelihood. we don't yet know the cause of this bill, though much of the focus is on whether the pipeline. beneath the river was uncovered by a russian or exclusion from degree. through may of this year, and spills occurred on the first keystone pipeline, which brings canadian tar sands to refineries in oklahoma. she is a brand-new pipeline. it

mr. waxman. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. today we will examine the safety of the nation's land and natural gas pipelines and begin to consider legislation to update and strengthened the power plant safety law. during the last 12 months, a litany of tragic failures reinforced the need for stronger pipeline safety laws. since last month's's hearing on the topic, exxonmobil's silver tip pipeline record in montana aspelin estimated 31,500 to 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the yellowstone river. it appears that the oil may have been carried as far as 240 miles downstream. pockets of oil have been confirmed at least 90 miles down the river. ranchers are struggling to prevent contamination from destroying their livelihood we don't net yet know the cause of this bill the much of the focuses on where the pipeline is buried beneath of the river was uncovered by either version from flooding and became vulnerable to a collision from tiberi. during may of this year come to serious bills occurred on the first keystone pipeline, which br

mr. waxman for five minutes. is it five minutes? five minutes for his opening statement. stomachs before mr. chairman. this is the fourth hearing the subcommittees have on the issue of regulations. the others have been the president's executive order, and the third focused on health regulations recently adopted. now we are looking on the independent regulatory agencies. the president's the executive order applies to those agencies under the office of management and budget. they are not independent. the agencies before us are determined by law to be independent. that doesn't mean they don't take into consideration the cost and benefits in the issue regulation. the of the comet and get full input. i think that what we need to do is to make sure the we don't have regulations that are unnecessary, but these hearings that we have had dissolved into forms for questioning health environment, consumer protection law that my colleagues on the republican side of the yolly will find objectionable. i was struck by the comment of the last speaker that we don't want these independent ag

mr. waxman. anyway, let me now yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. ms. jackson lee: thank you, ms. slaughter, for your generosity and i want to thank the gentlewoman from maine for recounting the prayers of americans and i would ask them to continue to pray because compromise is part of the democratic way. but my friends on the other side did not tell you correctly why we are now involved in frivolous activity on the floor. we're not raising the debt ceiling. and the reason is there are 53 senators in the other body that have signed a let that are said they're absolutely not going to vote for this draconian presentation and the reason -- and let me call the roll. the reason they're not going to vote for it, because it is a short-term solution to a long-term problem. it has no revenues along with cuts. 64% of the american people say, balance it, cuts with revenues, to invest in our nation. let me read the roll why senators are not voting. the other body is not voting. democrats re

mr. waxman, for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. this is the fourth hearing this subcommittee has had on the issue of regulations. the others have been on the president's executive order, and the third focused on health regulations that were recently adopted. now, we are looking at the independent regulatory agencies. the president's executive order applies to those agencies that are under the office of management and budget. they are not independent. the agencies before us are determined by lot to be independent. that does not mean they did not take into consideration costs and benefits when the issue regulations. they have to have notice of comment and get full input. i think what we need to do is to make sure we do not have regulations that are unnecessary, but these hearings that we have had devolved into forums for questioning consumer protection laws that my colleagues on the republican side of the i'll find objectionable. i was struck by the comment of the last speaker that we do not want these independent agencies -- they do

mr. waxman: i hope the press and the american people are paying attention to what's going on the house floor. i know the news is all about raising the debt ceiling and all the cuts or revenues that might be involved before we can get legislation to do something that has been routinely done almost automatically done -- done, almost automatically done every year or two for decades, but what is happening on the house floor deserves the attention of the american people. this is the most anti environmental house of representatives in history. the new republican majority seems intent on restoring the era where there were no controls on pollution from power plants, oil refineries and factories. this year we witnessed weather disaster after weather disaster, there have been massive floods, recordbreaking fire, recordbreaking droughts and now recordbreaking heat waves yet earlier this year the house passed a bill that repealed e.p.a.'s scientific finding that climate change is occurring. it's caused by man and is a serious threat. we don't hear about the connection between these weather events and cl

mr. chairman, you're exactly right. there was only one no vote on that bill in the house. and chairman barton and ranking member waxman and a bunch of us , even the other bodies sat around for a long time trying to figure out what to do with this standard. i remember it so clearly. when we drafted the new standards what we decided was that determining total lead content was preferable to risk assessment. because what happened with risk assessment is it was dependent on a product by product determination which you couldn't do because of the large number of children's products in the marketplace. and so in addition, although with most chemicals, a traditional risk-base model can work. if you have persistent, accumulative talks, like lead, science demonstrated traditional models are inappropriate and exposures inevitable. and we spent a lot of time in that conference committee talking about what we do about bikes and a.t.v.'s and things like that. so it's not like congress never talked about these things. i think what we need to do now that we've passed -- and it wasn't one of these provisions slipped in in the middle of