ms. markowitz. thank you. >> that was good. >> yes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] o >> tonight on c-span, the body of nancy reagan is brought to the reagan presidential library ahead of her funeral on friday. politico hosted a discussion on u.s.-canadian relations and talk about u.s. foreign aid policy. former first lady nancy reagan died on sunday at the age of 94. today, her body was brought to the presidential library in california where her husband is reposeand will lie in until her funeral on friday. her body arrived by casket earlier today.

ms. markowitz. >> good morning, all. i'm secretary of vermont natural resources. i know if senator sanders was not in florida he would be introducing me today. vermont is a regulated state. this means we take responsibility for the oversight and implementation of federal environmental programs. we implement the resource conservation and recovery act, the clean-water act and the the national pollution elimination pilot program and the clean-air act and the safety-water act. vermont chose to take the federally delegated programs. epa did not force us to do so. the federal government didn't require it. vermont chose to take responsibility to implement the important regulatory programs in the state because we know how important they are to vermonters safety and prosperity. not only do we rely on clean air and clean water and clean throond protect the health of our people, vermont has a land-based economy. our top industries include tourism, agriculture and forestry. people come from all over the world to swim in our lakes and fish in our rivers and ski in our mountain

ms. markowitz if i could. >> all right, barbara. >> that was good. >> i think so. [ indistinct voices ] [ indistinct voices ] [ indistinct voices ] [ indistinct voices ] [ indistinct conversation ] >>> you can watch this hearing on epa regulations again as well as house and senate debate on the issue and other programs about the epa. go to our web site, cspan.org. >>> coming up later on c-span 3, a hearing on the president's budget for indian country which includes native american tribes and programs, federal officials from hud, justice, interior and health and human services departments testify along with a representative from the national congress of american indians. live coverage starting at 2:15 p.m. eastern time. and on c-span this afternoon, agriculture secretary tom vilsack goes before a senate appropriations subcommittee to talk about his agency's budget. again, that's live on c-span at 2:00 p.m. >>> join us this thursday for life coverage of the white house state dinner for canadian prime minister justin trudeau. beginning at 6:15 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> housing and urban de

ms. markowitz, new york and vermont share lake champlain and both are part of the lake champlain basin program. working with epa to improve the water quality of lake sham plain is very important to both our states. it's my understanding that the epa and state of vermont have been working together to establish a new total max many -- minimum load for lake champlain. could you elaborate with how the epa has worked with your agency for this agreement? >> thank you, this is a perfect example of an issue that could have been seen as an overreach but instead really has ended up with a path forward that offers us flexibility and an innovative approach to cleaning up our waters. lake champlain suffers from terrible algae blooms from phosphorous pollution. unlike in the '70s and '80s, it's not because of what's coming out of the waste water treatment facilities as much as it's coming off the landscape. so rather than being point source, it's nonpoint source pollution. precipitation driven pollution. so as we were working on a new tmdl for lake champlain, is we've been working on it for four years, they