the e.p.a.'s ability to enforce the clean air act on the basis of most procedural and substantive grounds. mr. speaker, the c.b.o., congressional budget office, scored this bill and determined that it would cost $10 million in discretionary spending over a five-year period for the e.p.a. to cover the costs of car arerying out changes to an existing mission control standards, as long as other activities to study the need and feasibility of modifying the e.p.a.'s national monitoring net wurk -- network for particulate matter as this bill requires. since this $10 million is not appropriated anywhere in this bill, this bill would directly violate the discretionary cut-go d -- cut-go policy that this majority, my friends on the other side, voted for, that they put in place at the beginning of this congress. if we pass this bill it would mean the height of hypocrisy for this atrocious bill to get through this house. additionally, mr. speaker, on the issue of substance, i oppose this bill because it wou

for the first time, the e.p.a. links the oil and gas drilling method calling fracking to the pollution of groundwater. >> right now i don't know if i'm poisoning my family or if i'm not. >> pelley: and jim axelrod on a legacy of the war in iraq. the simple tool that saved thousands of american lives. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. tonight, a u.s. official tells cbs news there is "high confidence" that a captured american aircraft shown on iranian television is, in fact, one of this country's most sophisticated spy planes. the pentagon declined to comment but the american official says analysis of the video now confirms the r. areq.-170 unmanned drone was captured. we asked bob orr to bring us up to date. >> reporter: the aircraft presented as the unmanned u.s. surveillance drone appeared to be nearly intact, though the undercarriage was obscured by propropaganda banners draped bew the wings. the message on the left proclaimed "america cannot do

today for the first time the e.p.a. cking may be polluting vital groundwater resources in one state. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: in the small, arid town of pavilion, wisconsin, water is a precious commodity so the e.p.a.'s findings are devastating for farmer john fenton. >> right now i don't know if i'm poisoning my family or if i'm not. >> reporter: according to the e.p.a., the groundwater supplying his well contains benzene at 50 times the maximum contamination level, methane of near saturation levels and a p.h. levels of household bleach. fenton and 20 other families were warned by the e.p.a. last year not to drink or cook with their well water and to use a fan while showering. >> so we're trying to prevent the buildup of explosive gases that could result ifous blowing our homes up. >> reporter: today the e.p.a. blamed by-products of hydraulic fracturing. millions of gallons of water, sand, and potentially toxic team cals are released into the earth, shattering the stone and releasing the gas for collection. pav

in 2007, the e.p.a. adopted the exceptional event rule implementing congress' amendment to the clean air act, but this rule has proven flawed, costly and inconsistently implemented. let me give you an idea of what we're talking about here. . this is a photograph of one of the events that happened just this year in the phoenix area, phoenix metropolitan area. this was caused by the monsoon. the monsoon comes along and when it rolls along flat ground it tend to pick up every loose bit of dust or dirt that's there and it causes an event like this. obviously this is not something that the state or the local governments can control. yet we are forced to go then to the e.p.a. and beg for an exception to the cheap air act. and it's proven extremely costly when we have to do it over and over again. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to speak on this amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. waxman: i wanted to

the truth is that when e.p.a. and the energy department conducted the most exhaustive analysis of the competing studies and information out there they found that these rules are expected to produce construction jobs of two to three years for over 40,000 american workers and permanent long-term jobs operating the cleanup equipment of over 10 jobs. so, you know, those numbers that scott's putting forward were paid for by industry and stand in stark contradiction with what e.p.a. is saying. >> ifill: finally, it wasn't that long ago we were sitting at this table discussing the administration's rolling back of its plan to put tighter restrictions in place for smog regulations and you weren't very happy about that at

benefits of the e.p.a. in would outweigh the cost. nuisance dust is particulate matter that is generated primarily from natural sources, dirt roads, moving, or other common farm activities. a nuisance dust is pieces of plants plowed up during the tilling of soil, distributed by movement of livestock or bits of rock kicked up by a truck driving down a dirt road. the definition specifically precludes combustion emission, coal combustion residues, and radioactive particulate matter from mining operations. h.r. 1633 does not eliminate e.p.a.'s authority to step in if local or state regulatory efforts fall short of what is needed to adequately protect the public. the bill would allow e.p.a. to step in and regulate nuisance dust in areas where states and localities do not do so. if substantial -- it substantially hurts the public health and if benefits of applying these standards outweigh the cost. in summary, if it isn't regulated, would harm the public health, and the benefit of regulation would outweigh the co

e.p.a. didn't have a lot of time to process the comments, e.p.a. was able to finalize the rule in february of this year. they yielded the same benefits -- i think this is pretty interesting -- a rule that realized the same benefits in terms of reducing toxic emissions -- mercury, arsenic, lead, that kind of thing -- same level of reductions in those emissions as in the june 2010 proposals they made, but they cut in half the cost of compliance. that's pretty impressive, isn't it? i think. cut in half the cost of compliance. got the same amount of reductions in emissions, of the air toxic substances, for half the cost. however, e.p.a. didn't stop there. in wanting to address industry's concerns, the e.p.a. opened up for public comment yet to consider a reproposal of -- of their regulations. and i know some people think that e.p.a.'s been guilty of a rush to judgment in this -- in this regard, and i think if you go through this chronology just objectively, this is not a rush to judgment. and i hope if nothing else to convey here tonight that the e.p.a.

the truth is that when e.p.a. and the energy department conducted the most exhaustive analysis of the competing studies and information out there they found that these rules are expected to produce construction jobs of two to three years for over 40,000 american workers and permanent long-term jobs operating the cleanup equipment of over 10 jobs. so, you know, those numbers that scott's putting forward were paid for by industry and stand in stark contradiction with what e.p.a. is saying. >> ifill: finally, it wasn't that long ago we were sitting at this table discussing the administration's rolling back of its plan to put tighter restrictions in place for smog regulations and you weren't very happy about that at the time. you were not so unhappy about it. is the administration being tougher or are they not being tough enough? >> when the administration makes a wrong decision we say so. but this is a historically right and successful achievement that should be celebrated. these standards are historic accomplishments

the truth is that when e.p.a. and the energy department conducted the most exhaustive analysis of the competing studies and information out there they found that these rules are expected to produce construction jobs of two to three years for over 40,000 american workers and permanent long-term jobs operating the cleanup equipment of over 10 jobs. so, you know, those numbers that scott's putting forward were paid for by industry and stand in stark contradiction with what e.p.a. is saying. >> ifill: finally, it wasn't that long ago we were sitting at this table discussing the administration's rolling back of its plan to put tighter restrictions in place for smog regulations and you weren't very happy about that at the time. you were not so unhappy about it. is the administration being tougher or are they not being tough enough? >> when the administration makes a wrong decision we say so. but this is a historically right and successful achievement that should be celebrated. these standards are historic accomplishments

who become ill after accidently touching or ingesting it and so after thirteen years of fighting the e.p.a. finally implemented these rules and alec is. ending the few holdout rap poison manufacturers who just don't want to give in it's incredible rat poison is released it used to be made of a compound called war for which is a blood thinner and equivalent to moses bratz just believed out and it's also been used in. you know as a chemical weapon in warfare is there some connection to the military industrial complex is a good old fashioned reptoids an industry i mean you know it's rat poison is a super toxic substance and it's most dangerous but that's what in and what it's called the loose form it's a pellet form and it really gets everywhere and so it's incredibly easy for children especially poor and minority children who are disproportionately affected by this to become ill accidentally and talk alick representative recently wrote that the threat of thousands of children every year getting sick from rat poison was what he calls an acceptable risk he said that this is a useful product pr

the fastest growing industries in the country neil bush makes some money on this thing it strips the e.p.a. regulations on incinerators and boilers according the p.a. this is going to cost twenty thousand premature deaths it cuts eight billion dollars from preventative health care if freezes the pay of federal workers and forces federal workers to contribute more to their pensions it adds one hundred sixty six billion dollars to the deficit for next year this bill is so embarrassing senator mitch mcconnell in the sun block to vote because he didn't want his own reply is all. republicans in the senate to be on record as voted against this so this is where we stand and democrats need to hold strong in the past democrats have caved not because they've been wrong on principle they've been right every time every single time but instead because they've lost the messaging war so can they win the messaging war this time around joining me now to offer her take on this fight on capitol hill and the possibility of a tea party tax increase i'm joined by karen by progressive strategist karen finney kar

the energy prevention, energy tax prevention act of 2011, prohibiting the e.p.a. from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, the farm dust regulation prevention act of 2011, a waste of time that prevents the e.p.a. from regulating farm dust. even though the e.p.a. has said that it does not plan to regulate farm dust. the north american-made energy security act which we purport to force the president to approve this keystone pipeline. keystone pipeline, by the way, there's a terminal owned by the koch brothers, one of their corporate subsidiaries located in -- at the beginning of this pipeline, up in canada, alberta, canada, and then along the route, the proposed route of the pipeline are other koch brothers entities, refineries, that will profit as a result of the tar sands, oil sands, coming out of canada through the u.s. all the way down to the gulf of mexico. and then what will happen at gulf of mexico? the oil will be shipped over to china. not any of it available to americans for our energy use. it's all going overseas to the highest bidder and that's a fact. th

while the e.p.a. has backed off without legislative action, nothing prohibits the agency from regulating farm dust in the future. during a time of economic hardship, keeping the door opened for additional regulatory overreach is not the answer. actually, i'm often reminded of a meeting i had in southeastern nebraska with representatives from a federal agency. good people they are. one of them said, it had been more than 20 years since he had ridden on a gravel road. for me this meeting certainly emphasized the disconnect between washington and rural america. these were only a few examples of the regulatory burden and uncertainty facing nebraskans who recognize economic growth, ultimately depend on job creators not regulators. mr. speaker, i encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support commonsense regulatory reforms like the reins act. this is yet another step toward increased accountability improving the regulatory process and providing certainty for job creators in my home state of ne

if this continues, president obama and the e.p.a. e, continue, continue. energy is going to go through the roof and we'll have a solyndra story after solyndra story because solar and wind is not ready for a country like ours. >> and it's hard to use solar in the middle of the night to run your christmas lights anyway. >> right. i woke up in the sky unless you're in alaska where it's on for 24 hours. >> right. >> e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. and if you just saw bo the dog somewhere, let us know, too. >> right, we'd like to find that out, too. >> please! >> just in time for christmas, a group of christian pilgrims completing a 2500 mile walk from switzerland all the way to jerusalem. leland vittert joined them for part of their incredible journey and joins us now from mount of olives in east jerusalem. hello there. >> good morning, guys. certainly a dedicated group of four pilgrims who have walked an awfully long way. they're going to be back here in the old city of jerusalem here just in the next hour or so. they will complete th

the u.s. government's e.p.a. and c.d.c. and by comparing. the deaths before fukushima for fourteen weeks and after fukushima and then expanding on the data we found that there has been an increase in deaths in the united states this is been corroborated by findings of deaths of particularly of children younger than one year in british columbia which is one of the first places where the radiation would hit so you so younger than one year is that. in fact i thought that the birth the death rate for children that age actually been declining in the united states until the fukushima if we had it had it had been and then and then the death rate went up another was thousands died why i just under one year and what does this have to do with church and noble. well this is the same findings we found after chernobyl and i'm the editor of the book and i hold it up here on chernobyl catastrophe for people in the environment and what we found was that immediate children because their immune systems are not fully formed and because their detoxification syst

the e.p.a. found benzene, alcohols, and glycols in the town's aquifer, the report said. industry groups claim that fracking has never polluted water supplies, because the drilling occurs far below the water sources. >> tom: new data on california's economy shows just how hard the state was hit by the housing bust and the great recession. just under half of california families were middle income last year-- that's a new low for the state, and it was far below the national average of almost 55%. meanwhile, 36% of california families were considered low- income-- earnings below $44,000 a year-- and just 13.5% high income, earnings more than $154,000 a year. >> susie: and finally, for the first time in 86 years, coca- cola's secret formula has been moved. the company took the formula out of the bank vault where it has resided for decades and moved it to a new specially built vault at the world coca-cola museum in downtown atlanta. coke made a big show of the move, with c.e.o. muthar kent saying, "the time has come for our secret formula to come home." tom, while the new vaul

the e.p.a.'s expected announcement on the utility rule comes just after this issued another rule that will cost an additional thousands of american jobs because start january 1, the e.p.a. will begin requiring utilities to reduce power plant emissions that may cause air quality complications in neighboring states. that regulation, called the cross-state air regulation rule, or caspar, will require plants to install costly technologies in exchange for minimal environmental gains. the combined economic impact of the two regulations that i've just mentioned -- the combined economic impact of that is alarming. the indiana energy association estimates that the cost of these rulers will be between $6.5 billion and $7.3 billion just in my hone stat own state of india. and when you add the whole eastern half of the country, from mississippi on over, this number goes up exponentially. the national economic research asoarkts estimates net employment losses of 1.4 million across the country as a result of t

he would encourage the oil and gas industry to drill without interference from the e.p.a. and romney is the most aggressive candidate on the issue of confronting china, which he accuses of cheating in trade relations and of outright theft. how does a president go after china? how does that work? >> the actions a president can take are, number one, to declare china a currency manipulator and under our law that allows the president to apply tariffs in the places where the president believes china's practices are killing american jobs. >> it's a certainty that china would retaliate in some way, and very likely in a way that could harm american jobs in the middle of this fight. is this the kind of fight you really want to pick? >> i understand there's always an argument to say let the cannibal-- pay the cannibal to eat you last. but you can't sit there year after year and allow a country like china to violate the principles of free enterprise and free trade and i happen to believe that given the fact they sell us about this much stuff a year and we sell them about this much stu

. >> at 4:48, the e.p.a. is announcing a new effort to crack down on air position. >> we're back with your weather first in two minutes. you're watching 9news now. >>> 4:38 on this thursday morning. and we've got some fog down south of washington. watch out for that. temperatures, they're going to be on the mild side once again. low 50s at 9:00. cloudy day expected. highs upper 50s to low 60s. rain returns tonight. more on that and the christmas weekend forecast in the next five minutes. right now, monika, timesaver traffic. >> good morning, everybody. on the outer loop of the beltway at i-66, traffic was diverted overnight because of construction on to the westbound side of 66. turning around at nutley street. watch out for that here inside the beltway at leesburg pike, it is running smoothly. another look at virginia roadways, back to you, andrea and mike. >> time for your first money segment of the morning. >> interesting week on wall street. >> absolutely. yesterday it was kind of boring. >> comparatively

and the e.p.a. has crafted a rule -- listen to this -- that only goes after 5,500 of the 1 1.6 million boilers, the filthiest, the dirtiest. and in crafting this rule, they had peer-review science, mr. president, that showed this rule will prevent 8,100 premature deaths every single year. that's because we're talking about mercury, lead and arsenic. not our friends. so not being able to abide by this, those in the house are standing with the dirtiest polluters and they put a stop to that rule. to me, it is shocking, as chairman of the environment and public works committee, because, mr. president, if you were driving a car in a certain direction and i said to you, "if you continue to drive this car in this direction, you're going to -- you're going to hurt people and you're actually going to be responsible for the deaths of 8,100 people in the course of a year," you would turn that car around. but, oh, no, they're barreling forward. and i'm not even giving you the stats -- because i don't have them b

regulations coming from the white house or other executive department agencies so for example if the e.p.a. wants to set a new limit on how much pollution koch industries can pump into our atmosphere then it would first have to be approved by republicans in the house of representatives many of whom have received direct contributions from the koch brothers essential separation of powers that keeps our government in balance and was put in place by the framers of the constitution seventeen eighty seven would be completely wiped away by the rains act. congress writes the laws the president carries out the was that's the way it's always worked now congress wants to not only write the laws but they also want to tell the president how to carry him out too as in sure mr president you can have new clean air standards just not on koch industries or yeah go ahead make our water safer mr president but you can't put new regulations on dow chemical they gave us a lot of contributions last last election you would think that the same house republicans who insisted the constitution be read cover to cover w

the e.p.a. to enact job-killing boiler mact rules on every state and every industry in the united states or vote to rein them in. today, i'll be voting yes for the constituents of the 11th district of georgia and for my country, and with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. speaker, i yield at this time two minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. markey: thank you. last year the republicans refused to extend unemployment benefits unless the bush tax cuts were extended for millionaires and billionaires. well, here they go again, mr. speaker. this year the republicans are trying to prevent continuation of jobless benefits, and the payroll tax cut unless their wish list of goodies for america's biggest polluters is granted in full. during this christmas season, instead of goals and frankensens and muhr, they are voting on big oil

for the first time, the e.p.a. s the oil and gas drilling method calling fracking to the pollution of groundwater. >> right now i don't know if i'm poisoning my family or if i'm not. >> pelley: and jim axelrod on a legacy of the war in iraq. the simple tool that saved thousands of american lives. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. tonight, a u.s. official tells cbs news there is "high confidence" that a captured american aircraft shown on iranian television is, in fact, one of this country's most

he would encourage the oil and gas industry to drill without interference from the e.p.a. and romney is the most aggressive candidate on the issue of confronting china which he accuses of cheating in trade relations and of outright theft. how does a president go after china? how does that work? >> the actions a president can take are, number one, to declare china a currency manipulator and under our law that allows the president to apply tariffs in the places where the president believes china's practices are killing american jobs. >> it's a certainty that china would retaliate in some way and very likely in a way that could harm american jobs in the middle of this fight. is this the kind of fight you really want to pick? >> i understand there's always an argument to say pay the cannibal to eat you last. but you can't sit there year after year and allow a country like china to violate the principles of free enterprise and free trade and i happen to believe that given the fact they sell us about this much stuff a year and we sell them about this much stuff a year they're not

the e.p.a. considers implementing provisions in the bipartisan clean air act. and we must agree that the executive branch must take into account the needs of our nation's seniors who have become the subject of a dangerous debate in washington over the future of entitlement programs. it's time to put down the magic wand and pick up our voting cards and support legislation that protects the least of these. and i would urge my colleagues to support this amendment. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady's time is reserved. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. smith: i oppose the amount. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. smith: mr. chairman, i'm prepared to close so i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from wisconsin. ms. moore: thank you. the president obama has really curtailed more regulations than george w. bush. so it is really mistaken that this president has not taken into account

republicans voted to do considerable damage to the planet including one hundred fourteen votes against the e.p.a. twenty seven votes to block any kind of action on climate change seventy seven votes to block any protections of clean air twenty eight votes to block any protections of clean water forty seven votes to block protections of public lands all of these votes are during these. costliest year on record from natural disasters caused by global warming that all of these votes will exacerbate so hollow how many how many americans are going to die before republicans wake up and say hey wait a minute maybe we should you know get to the end here today and go back to the values that richard nixon is president made name of environmentalism is been a job killer he won't allow any drilling in the gulf of mexico he won't allow the x.l. pipeline actually doing licensing those things i'm asking about the republicans in the house yet what a their vote you're saying that their votes are causing global warming and causing the deaths of americans there's no evidence that if the federal government were to p

they are saying get rid of the e.p.a. which protects the water and our lungs, to make sure we are subject to toxic hazardous waste and pollution and then cut taxes for rich people and somehow magicically end up with a job. and i yield to the gentleman to get your views on this issue. . mr. johnson: this won't give any jobs and there's a false perception that has been unanimously by my tea party grover norquist republican friends and that is that deregulation somehow creates jobs. now, i know what kind of jobs are created when you deregulate health and safety of food, water, air quality, drugs, wal street. mr. ellison: right. mr. johnson: i know what happens when you don't have any regulations. it means you're going to have more people going to the doctor because of unsafe and unhealthy conditions, adult rated food, water. it means that you will have more -- mr. ellison: asthma. mr. johnson: people in the mortgage wear business -- mortuary business, trying to determine the cause of death for people. you will have more clean

and the kind of regulatory measures we brought forward, whether it's regulations being proposed by the e.p.a., those being proposed by the nlrb or any of the other measures, the ones that we passed on the floor today, these are measures to remove the uncertainty of added costs to our businesses, our small business men and women. today's measures and this week's measures went to the fact that we need some common sense put back into the regulatory process. we want to make sure that agencies take into consideration their actions and the consequences that those actions have on small businesses. we want to make sure that the agencies are going to a cost benefit analysis. that's a balanced and sensible approach and, yes, i think you'll find agreement among economists, if you got that kind of certainty you will lend it -- lend the process towards a better economy to create jobs, and i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his comment. i take from his comment, however, that he doesn't have an economist who has said that these bills are going to grow jobs. i agree with him that economists

and in this election, many republicans don't like the e.p.a. and ross perot did because he did feel that companies needed to be regulated. >> in 1994, the g.o.p. had an historic retaking. house of representatives. newt gingrich who is a candidate for president this year around was looked upon as the architect of that and became speaker. house and set the stage for a huge debate over the size of the debt leading to a government shutdown that very much pitted the two men, president clinton and newt gingrich, against one another. how responsible was ross perot's highlighting of the debate issue for those subsequent events? >> that's a good question. i think it was quite important. i think it started making people worry about the deficit. but again, remember, ross perot is talking about paying for it with a gasoline tax which you don't hear republicans talking about. but it became a big worry of the people by the time of -- throughout the clinton era. and i might also add when we're looking at that famous gore-perot clip, remember, nafta became popu

he didn't allow the e.p.a. o forward with some ozone rules and so, they're kind of disgruntled right now. my guess is the pipeline is going to go forward but what they're attempting to do is put that decision off until after the election. but i think it would send a pretty good message right now for him with jobs being the issue, as you say, to say look, i respect my friends in the environmental community. we're working to clean up the environment but right now, jobs are number one. this is the responsible thing to do. >> real quickly, couldn't he use cover and say i'm sorry, but this was the price to pay to get a middle-class tax cut? >> yes, he could, and may very well still. >> well, i'm glad that we all settled that around the table here. maybe we should have our own conference committee. thank you, panel. see you next week. don't forget to check out panel plus where our group picks up with the discussion on our web site, foxnewssunday.com. we'll post the video before noon eastern time. when we come back, ho

the knew marek nutrient rule e.p.a. wants to overtake, overtake the state's water system and because there are washington bureaucrats trying to create d.c. solutions for florida, the requirements they set, scientifically, scientifically impossible to reach given our state's natural phosphorus levels in our waters. complinets will require an investment of billions of -- compliance will require an investment of billions of dollars to the florida taxpayers, of course, having a new text levy on all floridians, the e.p.a. rulemaking will have statewide costs ranging from $3.1 billion to $8.4 billion per year for the next 30 years. let me put that in perspective. florida's total budget is only $64 billion annually. the reins act is what people in florida and what people in the country need. to keep the executive's rulemaking in check. you know, we heard about a number of issues on this house floor. we heard about as it relates to unemployment in the employment tax holiday. the issue is not what's in front of us today. it's abo

the e.p.a. is involved in the cleanup. >>> police are looking for suspects in an overnight shooting. it happened shortly before 11:00 last night at 16th and east 12th. witnesses say the victim was shot in the leg and the shoulder. at this point, there's no word on his condition. police say the gunfire erupted during a robbery attack. >>> sal, newschopper2, very busy watching the port protests and everything else. >> that's right. we're gonna first go to chopper 2 to show us what's going on here. you can see the protesters are still there near 50 and 56. and other port areas have been blocked. the area at the port is like a big horseshoe. so they split off and went off on 7th and middleharbor. they've succeeded to a point. the oakland police have been there trying to prevent the protesters from marching further into the port. our reporters are there gathering information. we'll have more on this coming up. now, the port protest has not affected the major freeways, any of the freeways. southbound 1

the e.p.a. to enact job-killing boiler mact rules on every state and every industry in the united states or vote to rein them in. today, i'll be voting yes for the constituents of the 11th district of georgia and for my country, and with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. speaker, i yield at this time two minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. markey: thank you. last year the republicans refused to extend unemployment benefits unless the bush tax cuts were extended for millionaires and billionaires. well, here they go again, mr. speaker. this year the republicans are trying to prevent continuation of jobless benefits, and the payroll tax cut unless their wish list of goodies for america's biggest polluters is granted in full. during this christmas season, instead of goals and frankensens and muhr, they are voting on big oil

speaker of the house john boehner has to make sure that the light bulb use did not comply with the new e.p.a. standards on energy efficiency. coming up mitt romney has gone on record to say that there's too much money in politics so why is except the millions of dollars in campaign contributions from billionaires nationwide. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to breakthrough had to be made who can you trust no one who is in view with a global missionary see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour of money is the root of all the evil in our political system is doomed most we act now and i guess tonight knows all too well how the corrupting influence of money can make or break you inside the beltway in this week's edition of everything you know is wrong wishing someone a happy holidays couldn't possibly be offensive or could and is a nice daily take i'll tell you why newt gingrich is right no really i'm no