s action were a power grab not justified by the statute. the obama administration is committed to a war on coal and is appealing this clear decision. this appeal will consume tax dollars and time in our courts, and for what? to destroy good important jobs for americans. that's the goal of this administration's appeal. they want to destroy jobs and expand the power of the e.p.a. to have new power to revoke comments. this sub committee hears discussions about certainty. should the administration win this case and grant epa the power to revoke permits, it would destroy all certainty in permitting for projects across the united states. this would be terribly destructive for the american committee. this permit isn't the only one the epa has withdrawn that has cost jobs and destroyed the livelihood of americans. supplied power to the hundreds of thousands of homes. the obama administration's war on coal can be felt. east, west, apallachia and farmington, new mexico. americans should be concerned with this trend to pull permits, destroy jobs and hurt the economy. today we will hear from folks

s jobs to hundreds of sands of home. that permit after being issued was withdrawn by the epa. the obama administration's war on coal could be felt throughout the country. americans should be deeply concerned with this friend and the administration's ongoing effort to retroactively pull permits, destroy jobs and hurt the committee. they would we will learn from folks that will talk about other topics than the reference for the law as demonstrated by the epa in this instance. none of that is the topic of today's hearing. >> mountain top removal mining can be one of the most destructive practices on earth for the health of local communities, our climate and our environment. according to the environmental protection agency, since 1992, nearly 2,000 miles of appalachian streams have been filled with debris resulting from mountain top removal mining. streams in appalachian are being buried at a rate of 120 miles per year. mountain top removal mining has also did forested an area the size of delaware. the epa has concluded that these mines will transform the appalachians from high quality habitats into sources of

. >> reporter: how obama has shocked critic &s and supporters alike. >> this is sort of an anti-war presidentregion. >> vali nasr served under president obama at the state department and david sanger who writes about the president's surprising willingness to allow focused strikes against america's enemies. few expected barack obama to move from a leader who early on won the nobel peace prize and spoke of ending hostilities. >> we do not want to keep our troops in afghanistan. >> reporter: to become the president to order the bin laden raid and escalating the drone strikes and stepped up cyber attacks against iran's nuclear program. >> what does it is a about his view about america's view in the world? >> i think the president still understands that one of his primary duties is protection of the homeland. i think he understands that there are still threats out there from either states like iran or north korea as well as still threats from al qaeda, and i think this came home to him with the christmas bomber and the times square bombing. >> sanger also writes of a president surprisingly hands-o

s are trying to save coal while the democrat senators from those same states are carrying out president obama's war on coal. least being let's look at what's happening in west virginia. the state government just sponsored a three-day forum last week on e.p.a.'s war on coal. this is west virginia. larry puccio, the democrat party chairman of west virginia -- quote -- "a lot of folks here have real frustration with this administration's stance on coal and energy." also recently on a west virginia radio show, cecil roberts, the president of the uinto thed mine workers of america, said on that show that e.p.a. administrator lisa jackson -- quote -- "shot the coal industry in washington just as the navy seals shot bin laden." as roberts expanded, quote, "we have been placed in a horrendous position here. how do you take coal miner's money and say, let's use it politically to support someone who e.p.a. has pretty much said 'you're done? '" it doesn't get any stronger than that. these are all democrats. let's not foaght that west virginia i is the state where president obama lost several primaries to a co

s. bosnian war including the seven it's a massacre where some eight thousand muslims were killed. the u.s. supreme court has given the go ahead to president barack obama's health care legislation under the law most americans are obliged to get health insurance by two thousand and fourteen all pay a fine it was agreed that the penalty will be in the form of a tax that congress can impose using its taxing power as republican state officials challenge the act claiming it was against the law to force people to buy a private product the court's verdict is seen as obama's major victory in u.s. internal affairs as he's facing election later this year. well and now let's get to the business with artie's done a bushell standing by for us. good to see you daniel angela merkel has sensationally been forced to go back on her word show news what all of you are getting some initial claims that she's agreed to a common euro bond that today's e.u. summit in brussels now that marks a real shift because she was categorically against that just this morning more and more economists say common boring across the eurozone is the only way to bring down low on course for greece

s. bosnian war including this robberies a massacre were eight thousand muslims were killed. u.s. democrats were applauding a ruling by the supreme court calling president barack obama's health care legislation constitutional under the controversial law most americans are required to purchase health insurance by twenty fourteen or pay a fine the reforms were opposed by nearly every republican lawmaker claiming it was against the law to force people to buy a private product the courts verdict is seen as a major victory for obama as he's up for reelection in november. now do you have an opinion to share on obama's health care reform to let us know on our website r t v dot com well right now as you'll see very shortly seventy percent believe it will benefit both the american people and the u.s. economy thirteen percent feel obama is just electioneering and thirty two percent think it's a red herring distracting the nation from a looming economic crisis and a majority that's about thirty eight percent say it's designed for insurers benefit only so do others now what do you think of this issue by logging on to our website r t v dot com. all right straight to the world of b

obama has said he will no longer defend it and he wants it overturned. so you have got war against women, war against students, war against gays and lesbian s and now they day have a war against public employees. you probably heard about this over the weekend. friday, while i was on a plane to chicken president obama held a little brief news conference, made a statement, took some questions in the briefing room at the whitehouse where he made a statement that mitt romney immediately jumped on. this is what the president said about the economy: >> we created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months. over 800,000 just this year along. the private sector is doing fine. that was -- that was immediately leaped on by mitt romney. later in the afternoon the president clarified, when reporters qaim into the oval office president obama clarified his remark: >> it is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine. >> that's the reason i had the press conference. >> now, what was the president saying? i will tell you what he was saying. he was telling the truth for one thing. it is true. compared -- what he was saying is, compared to the public sector, the pri

obama the story. sunday starting 6:00 p.m. eastern a video record of his travels. live david takes your calls and questions. s a this weekend conservative commentary blames liberals for ongoing warn ideas using the tyranny of cliches. american politics is distorted for the last century or so by the idea that the further you move away from the left, the closer you get to bad things. one of the words thing we use is racist, home phobic and in some ways that's working definition of the fascist is winning an argue. >> that's on sunday night at 9:00. on book tv. this weekend on c-span2. >> many of you might not have been born in 1973 and '73 when watergate took place. richard nixon won in one of the biggest land sides in the history united states. meant mo americans who voted voted for him. yet, when facts came out suggesting that laws were violated, the american people including the overwhelming majority who supported him said congress, you have to investigate. we have to have a special prosecutor, the laws have to be enforced no matter what. and in the end, when the house and shared committee acted in a bipartisan basis, to vote for the impeachment of richard nixon the country over

war ii. politically what is the impact on the presidential election? >> i don't think you can overstate how bad this bad news the s for president obama heading into this election that will most certainly be determined by the state of the economy. with every single passing month where we have more bad news and with every new gloomy statistic that comes along it makes it harder to continue blaming the bad economy on george w. bush and policies of republicans. we saw he didn't try to blame congress and republicans in congress. it just gets to the point where i think voters start to say, no, at some point you own this economy. by now he does. >> gregg: let me ask you about that, because the president has been blaming republicans for blocking his policies. one could argue that he pretty much got what he wanted, stimulus, housing bailouts, he got dodd-frank, two payroll tax holidays. would you expect republicans could hammer away, wait a minute eighth his policies, that is the problem? >> i think quite frankly we've seen mitt romney doing a very good job. a lot people didn't expect him to be a terribly exciting candidate. he really isn't the most exciting g

s. con. res. -- sequesteration. as one example of the conflicting statements coming out of the obama, defense secretary leon panetta sent a letter to senator mccain saying that the sequesteration would not impact war funding. in april the o.m.b. comptroller testified before the house budget committee that the issue of whether war funding would be reduced by the sequester was still being evaluated. last week it was said war funding would in fact be kpwabgtd by -- be impacted by the sequester. congress needs a precise understanding from this administration as to the full effects of sequesteration on all accounts across the federal government including national security funding. that's why i've introduced a bill along with budget committee ranking member jeff sessions that would require the administration to bring some much-needed transparency to the scheduled across-the-board spending cuts. our legislation sent a bill 3228, the sequesteration transparency act would require the administration to submit to congress a detailed preview of the sequesteration required by the congressional budget office. it would require the president to submit a report to congress by july 9 of 2012 that includes an estima

s war on coal. i hope they will join senator manchin and senator nelson and me and several others and stand with the constituents instead of president obama and his e.p.a. which will make it painful every step of the way for them all. we need to pass s.r.j. 37 and put an end to president obama's war on coal. you know, this is the last chance that we have to do this. there is no other vote coming along. if you don't want to kill -- if you don't want to kill coal, you have got to support s.r.j. 37. it's our last chance to do it. again, we don't know when this is going to come up. it is locked in, in a time limit unless we by unanimous consent increase that time, and i have no objection to putting it off until after the farm bill because that's a very important piece of legislation, so we'll wait and see with that what takes place. with that, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands in recess until 2:15 p.m. you. >> a debate now on conservism and the republican party. two american enterprise institute political scholars laid out for and against the perception that the republican has become too ext