since the e.p.a. proposed these new boiler mact regulations in april of 2010, there has been widespread bipartisan alarm over the cost of the implementation and potential job losses. it has been our shared goal to ensure that the final rules crafted by the e.p.a. protect public health and the environment while preventing the loss of thousands of jobs that we can ill afford to lose. enactment of this legislation is necessary to protect and to grow america's manufacturing work force. this is all about jobs. we have urged the e.p.a. to set a emission standards based on real-world capabilities of the best-performing boilers currently available. after all, that's what boiler mact is supposed to be all about. unfortunately, the e.p.a. did not begin its rule making with that goal in mind, and the consequences are so serious, the forest products industry is the life blood of many small, rural communities in my state of maine and many others. i was therefore, and remain alarmed by a study commissioned by the am

the e.p.a. is making progress in reducing the costs and coming up with a more practical approach to the boiler mac. rules. but we have no idea where they are going to end up. they are a moving target, and we have had promises not fulfilled by the e.p.a. before. i believe that we can achieve the health benefits that we all desire, and i know we're going to hear on the floor that somehow i'm trying to harm children or delay health benefits, and that's not true, mr. president. i'm trying to allow the time that the e.p.a. itself says is needed to get this right. we can achieve health benefits that we desire without putting thousands of people out of work and stifling the economic recovery. the bipartisan amendment that is before us will help ensure that result, and i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this commonsense amendment to preserve jobs and strengthen our environmental protections. thank you, mr. president. mrs. boxer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from california

they have the state, they say the e.p.a. will, of course, fully comply with the supreme court's decision which the agency is still reviewing as we work to protect clean water for and future generations by using the tools provided by congress to enforce the clean water act. what are you hoping ultimately will come out of this? in the small -- the small victories for you and the larger victories for the rest of the country. >> well, this whole case has been about the due process and getting your day in court and that's all we ever asked for. we asked for it early on and the e.p.a. denied us our day in court. that's all we want is for every american that owns property in this country. >> the land has been sitting there. you were ordered immediately to restore the land to its natural state or risk fines of up to thousands of dollars a day. how have you dealt with that? >> we've just sat and watched the weeds grow. and you know, the other thing is not only did they demand us not to do anything to our property, but if the e.p.a. ha

in fact, just yesterday the e.p.a. announced their latest set of regulations that will effectively ban the building of new coal powered power plants by dramatically decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. whether the president and environmentalists like it or not, coal currently amounts for almost half of the elk terrorist it generated in this country. effectively eliminating coal-fired plants is only going to increase the cost of electricity to american families. we can no longer allow the white house to say one thing and do another when it comes to energy. if the president truly supports the republican all-of-the-above energy strategy as he claimed he did, then he needs to follow through. it's time we start to take advantage of all the god-given natural resources this country has and to have american-made energy, american-made power that will power this nation. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from california, ms. wo

the e.p.a. is threatening to regulate this production out of existence by forcing rules that end hydraulic fracturing. in our part of the country, hydraulic fracturing takes place two miles below the surface of the earth and nowhere near any water supplies. it is time for this administration to stop using phoney excuses. america needs to return to government based on common sense. three presidential candidates have visited north dakota, and i have told them all the same thing. build america back on the same blueprint that north dakota has adopted, and our country will surely be rewarded with the same great economy our state is enjoying. thank you for listening. >> next, a senate hearing on the 2013 budget request for the u.s. agency for international development. then ron kirk talks about the obama administration's efforts to increase exports. and later a house hearing on the 2013 budget request for the securities and exchange commission. >> now the senate foreign relations committee looks at the

illegally taking over oklahoma's authority in the clean air act. e.p.a. 2 years. >> the e.p.a. is everywhere. the e.p.a. has a particularly horrendous example, brian, because the congress defeated some regulations that the e.p.a. enacted so you have the people's elected representative saying no and you have a bunch of bureaucrats appointed by the president saying yes and they have the force of law behind them. that is not the way the constitution is supposed to work. >> you know, he knows so much about the constitution, it's a good thing he's written some books. >> mr. borgnine. >> let's not talk about borgnine. >> i know. >> air wolf. >> there you go. >> pleasure. >> thank you. >> well, it's super tuesday and more delegates are up today for grabs than any other day of the year. we'll break down the numbers and tell you where each candidate stands at the top of the hour. >> plus disorder in the court! and the bailiff didn't stand a chance. >> uh-oh! ok, guys-- what's next ? chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with th

the lower federal court said that the clean water act precludes preenforcement challenges to e.p.a. liance orders o. so the issue before the court was rather technical. do these orders constitute final agency action? there's a presumption in favor of judicial review if they do. justice scalia was in the majority on this one today and he... >> brown: he had a busy day, too, today, didn't he? >> i think he was much happier with this case. this was also a unanimous decision. he said that e.p.a. compliance order have all the elements of final agency action. there was nothing in the clean water act that precludes judicial review and so the couple in this case could go forward to challenge e.p.a.'s jurisdiction over their property. >> brown: not clear will they can build yet but they go back... >> that's right, they get their day in court. >> brown: and does this have wider implications for e.p.a. or other agencies? >> certainly for e.p.a. which issues an estimated 1,500 to 3,000 compliance orders every year. not just individuals like that sackettes but individuals and corporations as well

the e.p.a. has overstepped its authority. that ruling coming down this week from a federal judge in washington, d.c. >> the judge's ruling said the e.p.a. exceeded its power when it attempted to block what would be west virginia's latest surface mine. >> joining us to discuss is vice president for policy of the u.s. chamber of commerce's institute for 21st century energy, christopher guth. good morning to you, christopher. >> good morning, steve. >> so the judge said hey, e.p.a., you have completely overstepped the bounds. you cannot veto a permit after you give somebody a permit? >> absolutely. we were very pleased with her ruling. obama appointed judge said that this was some facet of magical thinking on e.p.a.'s part and that this created the sort of uncertainty that the clean water act was to some extent designed to prevent. if you can come in three years after the fact and say oh, by the way, this permit is no longer valid, you have to stop, then no business can have any certainty and therefore can't -- can't be expected

what if newt's plan went into effect and we crushed the e.p.a. and had plosion everywhere and drilling in your back yard, how much would we produce then? well, if we did the new drilling by 2030, you did the east and the west coast the florida gulf coast, you would have a whopping 500,000 extra barrels a day. now remember, world output per day is ate 2 million-barrels. this is literally a drop in the bucket. it wouldn't moor gas prices almost at all. this doesn't help our gas prices. you know who it helps? these guys, the guys making all the oil the gas companies make a lot more money from it. would you look at that? the republican party takes a lot of money from the gas and oil companies. i didn't see that coming with that whoa! in fact, newt is not alone. by the way very important point here. the relevance on foreign oil has gone down recently. we're below 50% in the oil we import into the country, the lowest in three decades. the domestic production that newt complains about is at an eight year high. we do have more drilling, you're lying about

according to the e.p.a. twelve percent of that is food waste that means we throw away two billion eight hundred eighteen million pounds of food saving just one percent of valets food waste would equal nearly thirty million pounds of food that's almost triple what the food bank is short every year. in ways happens on all levels of production and consumption on farms in transit in the making of highly produced foods in grocery stores in restaurants and in our homes but grocery stores are the obvious choice for redirecting wasted food to hungry people. i decided to go to the trader joe's headquarters since it's only a fifteen minute drive from my house but i was a bearded mangy dumpster diver and thought i'd better clean up before talking with sophisticated business people about policy changes in their companies a haircut and a shave in the time i did absolutely nothing for me we didn't have a camera rolling or anything we just walked in and i asked to speak with someone and they said we're going to have to ask

as republicans in congress and state governments across america launching an all out assault on the e.p.a. with the help of quote brother funded right wing think tanks like the american legislative exchange council and the cato institute you oil barons are getting more and more preferential treatment in the united states all the while gas prices continue to climb americans get sicker and sicker and ecosystems are ruined for future generations so let's take the politics out of this debate republicans can point their finger the president all they want but what they are ignoring is the bigger picture there we are now still reliant on the nineteenth century energy strategy of fossil fuels all the rest of the moral world is moving out of the twenty first century strategy of renewable energies and we're stuck because we've got oil barons by our elected lawmakers and sabotage any efforts to end our addiction to dirty postle fuels these people are hell bent on sucking out the last trillion dollars of oil from the ground embedded in rocks fracking and out of the deep underground underground deep u

production from shale, the e.p.a. is threatening to regulate this production out of existence by forcing rules that end hydraulic fracturing. in our part of the country, hydraulic fracturing takes place two miles below the surface of the earth, and nowhere near any water supplies. it is time for this administration to stop using phony excuses. america needs to return to government based on common sense. three presidential candidates have visited north dakota and i have told them all the same thing. build america back on the same blueprint that north dakota has adopted and our country will surely be rewarded with the same great economy our state is enjoying. thank you for listening. >> this week on the communicators, we are going to be looking at cyber security legislation which is currently working its way through the congress. coming up in just a few minutes, an interview with senator joe lieberman who is chair of the homeland security committee and senator susan collins who is the ranking republican on that same comm

say that the two are fairly similar but in the same time we've seen some blows this week we saw the e.p.a. say when it comes to the case of to make pennsylvania that the water there was ok and that practice of fracking had actually contaminated it well and that's great news i mean from an environmentalist perspective what we want to do is make sure that you and i are able to turn the tide and ensure the clean water that we expect in america so it's not about going after that industry it's about making sure that industry is safe and we've seen in texas and north dakota and new york huge problems with water poisoning. that being said this industry the natural gas industry is also proposing right now nine new export ports if this is really about energy independence why are they proposing to export this abroad and so i think we have a duty to take a step deeper and look at the profits that are behind this explosion and really think hard about whether that's getting america in the right place for you and i you know the rest of american consumers are it's when i just want to export it then i gu

trade association isn't a good thing and then you know lo and behold after he left office he joined the e.p.a. i think you get like a millionaire have to our salary is its first year and he is pushing all sorts of laws for the for the movie industry that really honestly does not champion the public interest and that we see things like super pacs a barrier you have more special interest money going into politics they were to what extent do you think super pacs also contribute to this problem where you know the more money you happen or you can in fact be political politics the way things are running the country and i think you would pack so absolutely terrible and in the sense that they allow an unlimited amount of spending by corporations and also unions to sort of impact elections at this point they've been utilized to their fullest extent i mean we've seen them to some extent in twenty's and into some extent and the republican primary but i think they're really going to start to ramp up in the presidential election which many democrats and republicans as they both try to outgun each other to

suggest to her that -- in fact let me just put it this way -- going back to the administration of the e.p.a., i asked her a question at one of our hearings, and that's televised. i said if we were to pass that, at the time it was, -- would this reduce the c.o. 2 emissions worldwide? she said no, because the problem is not here. in the china and other places where they don't have emissions. i eff -- guest: for example, we have not put any new coal fair to generating plants in the united states. they are cranking out three a week in china. so this is the problem we have. back to the lady's question. if they'll go back and look, the same people, the same people who are saying now that global warming is causing catastrophic warming -- they were the ones in 1975 that were saying another ice age is coming. let me just mention one thing, and of from 198 then from 19 25-1945 was a warming period. then from 1945-1975 was a cooling time. the time where there was more emissions coming out was world war ii. around 1945. but that was of effeff -- host: this is sal, who is a democrat. caller: how are you

through you know that all but ten republicans voted in the house yesterday actually would have ended the e.p.a. it would have radically cut back he was da inspections that would have radically cut back f.d.a. inspections of our drugs and things i mean not only might bill be gates not have become you know well educated in the society he might have died at the age of sixteen from bad food how do you get that through to people. you know i think we again i think a lot of americans do know this and they recognize this i think some of the challenges we have to make that that invisible visible you know we hope to be doing it through the book but there's a lot of people out in the country across the country really lifting up on these these these things that we all benefit from that makes them rich is all our lives and makes our life safer and the lives of our children safer and it's important and you know one of the things that we really focus on in the book and i want to i want to point out another thing because this is how we fund you know the business leaders that we profiled in this book again the

and the food inspection service and the e.p.a. and then and then food stamps i don't get it is this really the vision of america that you publicans want to run under and actually the wrong you're wrong i mean you're saying that austerity is crashing music on a museum it's too much government these government spent too much did these big welfare states look at the sweden has a much larger welfare state that gives the least a look at their debt to g.d.p. ratio or greece is not doing is they're not enforcing it only tax court greece's biggest problem other than the fact that goldman sachs put them in this situation the first place fly by putting together an illegal scheme you know about this. which is what got greece and it will be odd that they don't tax their millionaires that is that there's too much government in greece and the people is not so much never it's they have a huge welfare state all the way has to be interwoven sweden has a bigger one sweden they are having dinner one day hasn't happened in their home and it's going to

natural gas in this country i think is a great thing but what we think is happening and what even the e.p.a. has acknowledged a little bit is that these chemicals were leaking out of the area that they were supposed to stay in and they were getting into the land and into the wells these people's homes and you sound people were having or getting sick. had skin reactions has it been proven that that was in fact a result of fracking well i think if you're going to take this to a court of law which they're in the process of doing you have a street an entire street and many other homes in the area in which people were just fine they agreed to have drilling for take place on their land and all of them started getting the same symptoms and you know we showed in one of the stories that i did something similar. as the documentary gasland which are fox said were this person and we saw it with our own eyes he lit the water from his sink on fire so i don't know anyone that's going to tell you well that's just normal anyone that put the match to their sink water is going to see that no it's not so when

and ignores the horrible economy he has overseen and what is he coke with the regulation excess of the e.p.at is all in order to break the becomes of the middle-class. >> the main issue is the media covering this up. if president obama was doing drugs in college with, a little bit of gold or ... >> we are out of time. >> want to talk about made up issues rather than romney and the failure to provide a vision. >> he has a vision of

the e.p.a.'s new coal regulations will cost the economy $184 billion and 1.4 million jobs in mining, transportation, manufacturing, and power generation. of course the expense will be passed along to consumers. families in my state could see about $400 more a year in their electric bill. and it begs the question, is the president trying to make good on his promise to bankrupt utilities that use coal? these new costs would come at a time when higher oil prices already mean families are paying $2,400 a year for gasoline than they were three years ago. as gasoline prices approach $5 a gallon, the average family will pay over $3,000 more a year. that's a couple months worth of groceries or college loans or payments on a new car. unfortunately instead of increasing oil supplies to bring down prices, domestic oil production on federal lands has fallen 13% in the last year. the president said we have only 2% of the world's proven reserves conveniently overlooking the recoverable oil under lock and key i

what does the e.p.a. say? they want to count the mussels, count the mussels in the river, and then he had they want to estimate will there be more mussels or less mussels after you build a new sewage plant? guess what, when you build a new sewage plant, the sewage won't go in the river which is what we all intend and in the end what will happen, but in the meantime, we waste time and money. this small town of like 300 people will have to spend $100,000 on an e.p.a. study to hire someone to count the mussels. while they are counting the mussels, they will have to hire someone to count for the indian artifacts. if they find an arrowhead, it may delay it indefinitely. we have gone crazy with these regulators. we want some rules. we don't want anyone to pollute your neighbor's property, but the e.p.a. is out of control. what we need to do is in emergencies or urgencies, when a bridge collapses or a roadway is washed away, we don't need to spend a year or two or four or five years doing an e.p.a. study which basical

next $25,000, that's how much the e.p.a. mpany so they can teach kids about pollution in a creative way. fantastic. finally, $100,000. that's how much justin bieber's new sports car costs, the karma fisker given to justin on his 18th birthday on the ellen degeneres show. all of us can relate to that story. >> thank you very much, brian. media matters, the liberal left wing organization with close ties to the white house may end president obama's hopes of getting re-elected in november. those words now coming from a well known harvard law professor, professor alan dershwitz and he says media matters is "posting anti-jewish, anti-israel hate speech on their site" and that their rhetoric is dangerous for the president. and said attorney and harvard law professor joins us from miami. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. thank you for having me on. >> great to have you. you have declared war on media matters. why? >> well, you know, i'm a liberal democrat. but i can't tolerate bigotry on any site of political spectrum, media

the proposed e.p.a. rule would require scientifically unproven and costly process controls to be installed on the two -- on the two facilities and the e.p.a. has ignored the warnings that if the proposed rule is finalized it will not be economically feasible for these plants to continue to operate. furthermore, if this rule is finalized, american steel companies will be poresed to import this vital raw material from china or other foreign sources. tailed i will begin work with my house colleagues to ensure e.p.a. does to the go forward with job killing rule w that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition? does the gentleman seek unanimous consent? >> yes, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. walz: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to bring an important concern to my colleagues. every one of us here is a sacred commitment to care for those warriors willing to serve us overseas. one of our major concer

, bringing the e.p.a. -- >> one blended fuel domestically, bringing the e.p.a. out of it. there's a couple of other things that you can do to bring the price of gasoline down. he may be increasing his oil production but failing miserably at gasoline prices. >> let's move on to how the people feel about president obama. what it comes to being re-elected there's a new poll out this morning that more than half of the american poll believes that president obama will be re-elected and now says 54% say yes to that. in january, only 46% said yes to that. and i guess you could argue, you know, the economy appears to be on an upswing. there are jobs created the last time that you were here, eric, before the end of the week and the unemployment number has remained at 8.3%. it hasn't gone up. >> and also when you have republican candidates dumping on each other in a robust way, every day, i think you're going to see that number inch up. i think it's probably going to move 50/50 as time goes on. and in time, there's a

if anything, the e.p.a. is trying to restrengthen. that is why the production is up., we should have hadden explosion of that production. yet, he restrained it. that is one of the reasons that the oil prices are high and we're still highly dependent on other sources. >> bret: won't be the end of this topic. next up, israel and iran. would have should the u.s. hand the situation? [ dad ] i'm usually checking up on my kids, but last year my daughter was checking up on me. i wasn't eating well. she's a dietitian, and she suggested i try boost complete nutritional drink to help get the nutrition i was missing. now i drink it every day and i love the great taste. [ female announcer ] boost has essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to help keep bones strong and 10 grams of protein thelp maintain muscle. and our great taste is guaranteed your money . learn more at boost.com. [ dad ] i choose great taste. i choose boost. >>> at this stage, it is my belief that we have a window of opportunity where this can still be resolved diplomatically. that is n