mr. waxman: mr. chairman, we're going to reserve our time. might i inquire of the gentleman from colorado how many more speakers you have? mr. gardner: we have two additional speakers. mr. waxman: we'll continue to reserve our time, and then i presume the gentleman from colorado will want to close on his bill, so after your two speakers we'll close on our side and you can close. mr. gardner: at this point we have two remaining so thank you. the chair: the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from colorado. mr. gardner: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. poe: i thank the gentleman and i thank the gentleman for sponsoring this legislation. mr. speaker, five years ago companies were building terminals to import natural gas at the cost of billions of dollars because analysts agreed that the united states economy was going to need natural gas were overseas. today that's that scenario has flipped on its head and import terminals are dormant. t

mr. waxman: mr. chairman, i listened carefully to the comments of the gentleman from kentucky, and i couldn't really follow a lot of it. after all, if the price of , that would oes up perhaps help the coal industry because the coal industry is not able to compete economically when the price of natural gas is low because if you're building a utility you might as well buy a natural gas. it's cheaper. of course, the coal people say, it's the government that's doing it. but it's the marketplace that's doing it. and the other comment i found peculiar, we don't need to have the national environmental policy act evaluation because we got the endangered species act evaluation. well, the endangered species act is looking at endangered species, but what about the rest of the environmental review that would be eliminated if this bill were adopted? especially when we're talking about the impact on climate change and all the other environmental considerations. so i must say while i came here with a clear view, i'

mr. waxman and experts. our system really does work, and over the next however many months, the country will see political system and medical system at its best as we work together to decide how to take things out of the laboratory into everyday life. well,f you i know very some of you i have worked , but chairman upton is an honest broker, and he is absolutely making this a op p rarity -- trop fire priority. i look forward to having the dialogue, and coming up with solutions that make america and the world a better place. thank you. >> thank you. when we send out the invites we sent a couple of questions to me thought. i would like to see where that takes us over the next couple of hours. the state of biomedical innovation in the united states? biomedical innovation mean for american patients and jobs? u.s. compared to other countries with respect to biomedical innovation and how can we make sure that we lead the way in the 21st century? steps does congress need to take to accelerate the is covering, develo

mr. waxman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. on june 2nd, administrator mccarthy released a central piece of senator obama's plan, proposed carbon solution limits on power plants. they may identify this as the moment that america got serious about tackling climate change. we know that carbon pollution from fossil fuels is accumulating in the atmosphere, trapping more heat and warming the climate. we are experiencing the results all around us in every part of the country. we also know that power plants are our largest source of carbon pollution, yet today there are no limits at all on the amount of carbon pollution they can emit. the good news is that there are many cost-effective ways to reduce the pollution. as the proposed rule demonstrates, the power plants can operate more efficiently. reduction can shift from the dirtiest and oldest coal-fired plants to modern, natural gas plants. retirmements of nuclear power plants can be postponed. investments can be made in clean renewable energy. and we can all contribute by becoming m

mr. waxman. over the next however many months that the country is going to see america's political system at its best as we work together to decide how to take things out of the laboratory. some of you i've worked professionally but chang upton is an honest broker and he is making this a top priority and you are going to see real results created the american people are going to see real results and i commend you mr. chairman and i look forward to having the dialogue and ultimately coming up with common sense solutions for the cures that make america and the world a better place. >> when we send out the invitations, you send a couple of questions. i would like to see where that takes us over the next couple of hours. and we asked these questions. one, what is the state of biomedical information in the united states? number two, what does biological information in for the american patients and jobs. three come out as the u.s. compared to other countries with respect to biomedical integration and ho

mr. waxman did not care that cost an estimated $24 million to recover every single one of those e-mails. this committee aggressively said they had to do it and they did image backing restorations. had you done image backups and retain them prior to your arrival but had the irs done it would have cost probably tens of thousands of dollars to maintain six or seven years worth of those and we wouldn't be having this same discussion today would we? >> it costs a lot of money to get the e-mails off of those recovery tapes that that's right. if we had family could then spend the millions of dollars it would take to pull it off the disaster recovery tapes that is not what the disaster cover recovery tapes are meant to do. >> what is interesting is the disaster recovery tapes, the reason they cost so much to the white house is they wanted every e-mail retained a recovery. we only wanted lowest learners. i would like to enter into the record now a document given must do by the national archives and i will show it because it's a little hard to see but there we go. it's a little hard to read from h

mr. waxman was year because a's are a the will live job losses i invite you to come by to lose their jobs under flexible system controlled by the state in the state made the decision to close the mine with told hundred workers so talk about the debate we're trying to save our jobs in this country and the president promised to make electricity generation and by call so extensive he would drive that out of our market. promises to the "san francisco chronicle" well-documented use following upon his promise of those of us in the coal regions of this country are under attack can we have to deal with this with a constituency and the debate. that is why there is a lot of the motion as you can imagine also the nuclear portfolio there is some curious things about this rule that creates a problem based on the states and had clean burning nuclear power or generators that have shut down but still have the standard by which they cannot meet to incentivize the nuclear power if if we are in to clean air or climate change we should be incentivize. for nuclear reactors premature to close one was the plant

mr. waxman is here because he and many of our friends on the other side have seen this poster before. these are the real live job losses in a unique last clean air act. kincaid illinois i invite you all to come back. 1200 miners lost their job and a flexible system controlled by the state. states made the decision. the mine closed, 1200 miners. so those of us talk about the debate, we are trying to save the coal miner jobs in this country. and the president promised to make electricity generation by coal so expensive that he would drive that out of our market. the sentences go comical was well documented. he's just following up on his promise. so, those of us in coal regions of this country are under attack coming and we have to deal with this. with our constituency into this debate. so that's wha where there's a lf emotion as you can imagine. also part of my portfolio here is the nuclear portfolio, the nuclear side. side. and so, there are some curious things about this rule that begs and that creates a problem based upon state that have cleanburning nuclear power or generators that

mr. waxman: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate that congressman gardner's proposing some changes in an effort to address some of the problems with his bill. the base bill would require the department of energy to make final decisions on almost all of the pending l.n.g. export applications in 90 days without the benefit of complete environmental reviews. now they look at their bill and they appear to understand this would be bad policy. the amendment would establish a different deadline. now d.o.e. must issue a final decision on an application within 30 days of completion of the nepa environmental review. that's an improvement because it at least ensures that major l.n.g. export projects are not approved without an environmental review. however, this amendment, if adopted, the bill are main unnecessary and problematic. the bill is un-- will remain unnecessary and problematic. the bill is unnecessary because it doesn't have any legislative action for l.n.g. exports. hey proto streamline their review. that's already happ

mr. waxman, tell me the consequences of our decision today. >> your consequences -- justice sotomayor: do you put them out of business, or do they have to go and negotiate a license with every copyright holder? you are, in fact, telling me they are not a cable company, they are not a satellite company, so they can't go into those systems of payment. what happens then? >> the consequences really gets back to the chief justice's question, which is, if they actually provide something that is a net benefit technologically, there's no reason people won't license them content. but on the other hand, if all they have is a gimmick, then they probably will go out of business and nobody should cry a tear over that. justice breyer: once you take them out of the compulsory licensing system, they're going to have to find copyright owners, who owns james agee's pictures? who owns something that was written by -- like a french silent film in 1915? i mean, the problem is that they might want to have perfectly good things that people want to watch and they can't find out how to get permission. that is a p

mr. henry waxman. the amendment would allow the burbank bob hope airport to implement a nighttime curfew between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. thousands of residents of southern california's san fernando valley live under the flight paths or near the terminals at bob hope airport, endure the house-shaking noise of air traffic during the day and suffer the jarring interpretation of their sleep caused by roaring jets sometimes late at night. to address the concerns of those affected by airport noise across the nation, the f.a.a. established a process to consider an individual community's request for a curfew. however, the process was designed to be difficult, so difficult that in the decades since it was established by the f.a.a., only one airport in the nation has successfully completed an application, bob hope airport, and then it was turned down. when congress enacted the 1990 airport noise and control act, it intended for anca to permit airports to obtain noise restrictions if they met certain requirement

henry waxman, one of the safest members of the house, a challenger to henry waxman got 46% of the vote on a head to head with mr, i can tell you, it's bipartisan. people are passionately worried about the commit, an. we've been driving our businesses out of the state and out of the country. and people are deeply frustrated and that's democrats and republicans. they're looking for canned who can really represent them and bring the kind of change to washington that we need. instead of the same, you know, hyper partisanship and inability to move the country forward that we now see out of congress. >> that is elan carr, the republican nominee. top vote getter in california's 33rd district. thank you, mr. carr. let's turn now to your likely democratic opponent in the fall, state senator ted lieu joins me on the phone. state senator, let's first just talk about the logistical challenges of campaigning in a race in which there are so many candidates. how can did you go about doing this is it. >> that is the beauty of our democracy that so many people ran and i commend all the candidates who did run. we focused on bein

mr. speaker. i rise today in support of the passage of this legislation. traumatic brain injury re-authorization act of 2014. i want to thank chairman upton and ranking member waxman, chairman pitts, my friend, ranking member pallone, mr. green for their thoughtful consideration and support for millions of traumatic brain injury survivors and their families. additionally i want to thank any co-chair of the traumatic brain injury task force for his leadership on this issue as well. throughout my 13 years working on this issue, i have witnessed firsthand how these programs make a difference in people's lives. you've heard the numbers. let's go beyond the numbers. traumatic brain injury has become the signature wound of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. 20% of our soldiers deployed are estimate to have had experienced a brain injury. many returning service members suffering from t.b.i. will receive care and rehabilitation services within the department of defense and veterans' affairs. but as they're suffering from t.b.i.'s that are initially undiagnosed or misdiagnosed will later look to the civilian community and local resources for information and services. that i