ms. mccarthy for being here today. today is toward february 25, 2015 and earlier you told chairman whitfield that you were confident of going forward with the clean power plan under 111-d, and i'm just wondering, your document, your budget document also states clean power plan is president obama's top priority for the epa and central element of the u.s. domestic climate mitigation agenda. has there, yes or no has there ever been a time since it was announced by the president in june of 2014 that the epa has considered not finalizing this rule? yes or no. >> no. >> has there have been a time since it was announced by the president in june of 2014 that you have considered as the administrator of the epa have considered not finalizing this rule? >> no sir. >> so then in the case of murray energy versus epa and regina mccarthy, when your lawyer said that the epa may not adopt the proposal related to final action in the proposed section 111-d related to the clean power plan, your lawyers did not tell the truth, the whole tr

ms. mccarthy and i will recognize myself five minutes for questions. first question i would just ask you is how confident are you that you can defend the use of 111b to implement existing coal plant rule? >> i'm sorry, could you repeat that question? >> how confident are you that suck successfully defend the use of a 111d to implement the existing coal plant rule? >> thank you. i feel very confident. one of the reasons i say that is because of the extensive outreach that the agency has done to each and every state, to all the stakeholders, including the environmental and energy stakeholders. i feel confident that we are seeing plans develop now that will be very sound and that we can move this forward in a way that will both be beneficial -- >> so you think the outreach would preempt what the explicit language says? that's your position i take it? >> i think the outreach has helped inform the explicit language so it's reasonable and fair and will allow states to move forward. >> now, in your submission you talk about further efforts are required consis

ms. mccarthy for being here today. today is february 25, 2015 and earlier he told chairman whitfield you were confident going forward with the powerplant under 111d and i'm just wondering your budget document states the powerplant is president obama's top priority domestic climate mitigation agenda. yes or no has there ever been a time since it was announced by the president in june of 2014 at the epa has considered not finalizing this rule? yes or no? >> know. >> has there have been a times as announced by the president in june of 2014 that you have considered as the administrator of epa considered not finalizing this rule? >> no sir. >> in the case of murray energy versus epa and virginia apartheid when your lawyer said the epa may not adopt the proposal related to final action of 111d related to clean power plan's your lawyers did not tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. is that accurate yes or no? >> sir the proposal is proposed may not be what we move forward with but there is forward with bu

ms. mccarthy. i will recognize myself five minutes for questions.u that you can defend the use of 111 d to implement the existing coal plant rule? >> can you repeat that? >> the use of 111 d to implement the existing coal plant rule. >> i feel very confident. one of the reasons i say that is because of the extensive out outreach the agency has done to each and every state. i feel confident that we are seeing plans develop now that will be very sound and that we can move forward in a way -- >> so you think the outreach would preempt what the explicit language says? >> i think the outreach helped inform the explicit language. >> now in your submission, your budget document, you talk about further efforts are required to put the country on an emission trajectory consistent with the president's long term climate goals. and i assume that you're talking about the commitments he maid in copenhagen and china in which he said he wanted to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 17%, below 2005 levels by 2020 and then 26 to 28% below those levels by 2025. is that

boehner vice president biden, senate majority leader mcconnell, house majority leader mccarthy house minority leader ms. pelosi, senate minority leader, ladies and gentlemen of the congress, please allow me to thank you for your gracious invitation to address this unique forum of deliberative democracy. above all else i'd like to begin by thanking the people of the united states whose generous support for my country has been such immense value in advancing the cause of freedom. more than one million brave americans have served in afghanistan. they have come to know our snow-capped mountains, our valleys our wind-swept deserts, our parched fields our rivers and our plains of waving wheat, but more important, knowing our gentlemenography, they've come to defend and to know our people. in return, the people of afghanistan recognizes the bravery of your soldiers and the tremendous sacrifices that americans have made to keep afghanistan free. we owe a profound debt to the 2,350 service men and women killed in the more than -- and the more than 20,000 who have been wounded in service to your country and ours

we want to look at the law we thank commissioner mccarthy and supervisor christensen for calling for this and thank you to the committee. >> thank you, ms. rogers i'm going to turn it over to supervisor campos in a second i have a few questions to follow up on the comments perhaps those are in line where mr. brown about the details that the appointment process so for we certainly read in the newspapers i got an e-mail from a constituent she was told there were 6 thousand people making appointments it is circle to the statistics to date from is making restraining order prospective in if 6 thousand opted being rented that figure is probably wrong who up and down only one hundred and 59 applications and it seems to me a little bit be a uptake a whuts our general sense you know to date again, we're a month into it whether or not we think we're going to have all people that are trying to rent their units most of them are trying to you know attempt to apply for the permit and comply that the law we're going to struggle with the resources we pitted into booking the registrations and so on and so forth so we're not deploying the resources that

boehner vice president biden, senate majority leader mcconnell, house majority leader mccarthy, house minority leader ms. pelosi senate minority leader, ladies and gentlemen of the congress, please allow me to thank you for your gracious invitation to address this unique forum of deliberative democracy. above all else, i'd like to begin by thanking the people of the united states whose generous support for my country has been such immense value in advancing the cause of freedom. [applause] more than one million brave americans have served in afghanistan. they have come to know our snow-capped mountains, our valleys, our wind-swept deserts, our parched fields, our rivers and our plains of waving wheat but more important than knowing our geography they've come to defend and to know our people. in return, the people of afghanistan recognizes the bravery of your soldiers and the tremendous sacrifices that americans have made to keep afghanistan free. [applause] we owe a profound debt to the 2,315 service men and women killed in the more than -- and the more than 20,000 who have been wounded in service to yo

ms. waters, the ranking member. truly asking the questions that needed to be asked but then finally reconciling on some of those issues. also, the chairman, chairman hensarling has been in the same position. leader mccarthying this bill to the floor as he has, i would like to express that to all. with that i'd yield as much time as he might consume to the gentleman from oklahoma mr. cole. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. . . mr. cole: i thank the gentleman for yielding. very important when we look at this extremely significant piece of legislation to recognize, as my good friend from wisconsin said,s that trust obligation of the united states government. this isn't a housing handout. this isn't some special deal. this is something, an obligation we assumed in negotiation with tribes over many decades, mr. different situations. and if people are living in indian country, particularly on reservations, and don't have adequate house, the federal government has a responsibility to do something about it. something we've recognized since the 1960's something as my friend mr. pearce said we institutionalized in 1996. this has been a good program far long time. it's been a block grant program