the nepa process has lost sight of that goal. over the years step after step has been added to the nepa process, creating a frankenstein of a regulatory regime. today's proposal would empower lead agencies to make executive decisions when more than one agency is involved in the process, and will streamline the permitting process without compromising environmental protections. this streamlined approach to nepa will free up countless career employees to focus more of their time protecting the environment instead of protecting the jobs of attorneys who sue to stop each and every project. nepa was not meant to be a welfare program for trial attorneys. i want to congratulate the president for his leadership and our sister agencies who put so much time into this proposal this. proposal is yet another bold step this administration is taking to modernize the federal bureaucracy and permitting programs for the benefit of all americans. thank you, mr. president. [applause] president trump: thank you, mr. president. president of the north a

nepa needs to be changed. it's a 50-year-old regulation that needs changes. we need to be thoughtful about environmental impact. not to rush it through to harm the environment or workers. but it needs to be changed. and we have too many gutless politicians here in washington, d.c. and across the country that are pandering to extremists on all fronts who licking their fingers and seeing which way the political winds are blowing instead of talking with us in the sector, business, labor, suppliers and the like, to figure out how we move our energy policy forward in a way that we don't have the keystone excel pipelines, we don't have the 10 east or the atlanta coast pipeline, on again, off again, because of political whims. between changes to nepa, having politicians that actually start standing up instead of licking their fingers, and some other things i think that we're just scratching the surface of this energy ren nance. it's good for business, it's good for the economy and good for working men and women that all they want to do is be able to keep a roof over

and that's what's at stake with this rollback of nepa.hey're just trying to not give the public an opportunity to know how they're going to be impacted, have an ability to push back, and have an ability for the law to protect people and give them their right to clean air and their right to a and give them their right to clean air and their right to a healthy future. >> all right. gina mccarthy, thank you so much. that's all "all in" this evening. "the 11th hour " starts right now. >>> tonight, a campaign rally during a tense time with a major military power. the crowd hears trump make new claims about why he ordered the air strike that killed the top iranian general. he also unleashes new and personal attacks on congress while making his case about why he should be able to go it alone. >>> plus, iran lashing out again as some there are calling for further retaliation against trump while their government tries to explain away what appears to be a horrible and brutal truth -- iranian missiles shot down that commercial

and that's what's at stake with this rollback of nepa. the public an opportunity to know how they're going to be impacted, have an ability to push back, and have an ability for the law to protect people and give them their right to clean air and their right to a healthy future. >> gina mccarthy, thank you so much for sharing your time tonight. >>> that's "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >>> the vote was 224-194 in the house tonight. the house of representatives voting to invoke the war powers act to block president trump from waging war on iran without congress' explicit say-so. the war powers act and resolutions under the war powers act asserting congress' ability to constrain a president from waging war on his own say-so. this is hard-fought, very contested constitutional territory, going back to the waning days of the vietnam war and congress passing the war powers resolution and nixon vetoing it and congress then

so nepa needs to be changed. it's a 50-year-old regulation that needs changes to it.still need to be thoughtful about environmental impact, that's not to rush it through, to harm the environment or workers, but it needs to be changed. and we have too many gutless politicians here in washington, d.c. and across the country that are pandering to extremists on all fronts, who are licking their fingers and seeing which way the political winds are blowing instead of talking with us in the sector, business, labor, suppliers and the like, to figure out how we move our energy policy forward in a way that we don't have the keystone xl pipelines, we don't have the penn east or the atlantic coast pipeline where it's on again/off again because of political winds. so between changes to nepa, having politicians that actually start standing up instead of licking their fingers, and some other things, i think we're just scratching the surface of this energy renaissance. it's good for business. it's good for the economy. and it's good for working men and women, that all they want to do

management of public lands not nepa issue interior department issue and matter for private landowners. so understanding government actors and logic of private sector play a significant role as part of the transformed structure of governance. a beautiful essay in this book former chief climate change negotiator of the united states makes the point in climate change context to implement that agreement we have to have the wto implement or the world bank or who, all these entities have to come together to contribute to a more unified effort particularly human huge problems like climate change. a fourth reality that is already absorbing the changes so if we see the end of these externalities already playing out of producer responsibility so even before the government gets to legislating you see companies starting to respond and recognize if they are causing harm, increasingly that will be called out and questions raised fragoso even as we start this process there is already pressure leading people to pay attention and that is quite positive. it's in a number of arenas, not just climate cha

modernizing nepa regulations will allow schools, bridges, and other vital projects to finally move forward safely and efficiently. i pledge my support for these updates and look forward to the continued improvement of america's infrastructure. r. speaker, i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, for five minutes. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. it's my honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the united states house of representatives. i come to the floor today to raise the issue and be thankful of the progress we have made with regard to trade. we have been through a year and a half or more of intense trade negotiations and i have watched as our markets took a hard hit and tailspinned down for a couple days down the limit a while back. and slowly creep back in again. we produce a lot of corn and soybeans and cattle, hogs, eggs, renewable energy in the fourth congressional district of iowa. it is the number one egg producing congressional district in all of america. and so we saw a publication on the part of bloomberg tha

it's known as nepa, the national environmental policy act.e of the biggest proposed changes would include: exempting smaller projects from these reviews at all. projects that don't use significant federal money would also be expt. limiting the length of many reviews to just two years. and allowing agencies to ignore the cumulative impact of proposed projects, which could include a project's potential contribution to climate change. amy harder covers energy and climate for axios, and she joins me now. welcome back to the "newshour". >> thanks for having m >> reporter: so before we get to the administration's proposed changes,an you just remind us this law was signed 50-something years ago by richard nixon. what's the intent, the original intent of the law? >> well, this was signed in ation ofong with the cre the environmental protection agency itself by president nixon, and the purpose of it is to make sure that everything that the governmena hand in is good to the en so whether it's a road or ar bridge oil pipeline, tre needs to be an environ

related to health is the statement from the administration that they're no longer going to enforce nepa, national environmental protection act. this means more polluters will be right there next to the water supply of our children. that's a public health issue. in they're denial of climate, they are going to not use the climate issue as anything to do with environmental decision-making. public should know this. denial, denial about the climate crisis in the midst of fires in australia, and we have them in our own country. and then i'll close by just talking about how proud we are of the work that our members have done for the people, we have moved to lower healthcare costs by lowering the cost of prescription drugs, hr-3, wildly popular in the country, hopefully, pass the house before we left. so we're proud to pass the mexico-u.s. -- u.s./mexico/canada trade agreement sitting over in the senate. it is sitting over there with 400 bills we sent over, 275 of them bipartisan legislation. one of them, we observed yesterday, the ninth anniversary of the assault on gabby gifford's life, a bul

related to health is the statement from the administration that they're no longer going to enforce nepa, the national environmental protection act. this means more polluters will be right there next to the water supp supply. that's a public health issue. they're going to not use the climate issue with anything to do with environmental -- the public should know this. denile about the crime at crisis in the midst of fires in australia and we have them in our own country. and then i'll close by just talking about how proud we are of the work that our members have done for the people. we have moved to lower health care costs by lowering the costs of prescription drugs, hr-3, wildly popular in the country, hopefully passed the house before we left. we also were proud to pass a u.s u.s u.s.-mexico-trade agreement which is sitting over there in the senate. it's sitting over there with maybe 400 bills we've sent over, more than 275 of them bipartisan legislation. one of them we observed yesterday, the assault on gabby gifford's life. it's of the highest priority. because if they would pass this

we need to modernize the endangered species act, we need to build on president trump's nepa reform so we can get critical energy infrastructure built. and forest management products projects approved in a timely manner, these are not theories or academic discussions these are pragmatic common health bring health back to the forest reduce the danger of wildflowers thank you for the witnesses being here in sharing our experiences it's very important to us and with that i yield back. >> thank the gentleman yields back the chair now recognizes the chairman of subcommittee on health gentlelady from california mrs. new for five minutes. >> thank you mister chairman and to the ranking member for allowing me to waive on to the subcommittee today and thank you to each of the witnesses i have been here for a while i've been listening hard and i have learned a great deal from you. so thank you. i want to start today i know the name and the title of the hearing impact of wildfires on our power sector in the environment. i would like to rename it if i might, the impact of wildfires on our power se

we're interested in nepa reform. we're interested in esa reform. let me take a step back from that list of issues and look at a tom line issue of how we look at issues in terms of america's electric cooperatives. and that is revalue a policy having flexibility. and that may sound pretty straightforward, but it really does matter to us. flexibility is so key, because it's very inappropriate to paint all co-ops with a broad brush. we reflect so many different circumstances, across the country. each co-op responds to their own unique circumstances and it is a local control and decision making, it is something that is sort of core to who we are with electric co-ops. as i said, we serve one in eight americans. and you've heard of the rural nature of what we serve. we serve wide open spaces whether it is one, two people per mile and the cost of serving those areas is tough but we don't just serve rural area, we serve a lot of fast-growing communities and metro dc and atlanta and other suburban areas in the country as well, but rural 80 years ago when fdr