the e.p.a. could go back and redo the process. but i can tell you from my personal experience of working with people in my district who are affected by regulations every day, most people genuinely believe that there's not anything wrong by having other government agencies review the impact of the cost of regulations on the economy, on jobs, on the price of fuel. and that's precisely what dr. cassidy's bill does and i think it's a commonsense approach, something that the american people need as additional protections and with that i would like to reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. waxman: madam chair, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. waxman: this republican bill onsimply a disguise to solve e.p.a. rules that protect human, health and the environment. that's why the white house has said that the president would veto this bill if it g

and the e.p.a. will play a pivotal role in the execution and implementation of the president's recently announced climate action plain. with this edict from the president, e.p.a. is further emboldened and will strengthen its grip on the nation's economy. now, e.p.a.'s significant rule making agenda is not only estimated to cost billions of dollars, but it suffers from inherently flawed foundations. and in the recent past has resuscitated the consideration of multiple rules after they were promulgated. for instance, reconsideration and revisions to the mercury and air toxic rule, the boil ermc rule, the oil and gas rule and the portland cement rule. so there alone you see the deep flaws in what they have been doing because they've had to back up and clean up the mess. e.p.a. needs to show the public the truth and the ultimate consequences of its action. the extent of the economic harm of the rules put forward during the last four years and those they're talking about for the next four years, not just

the e.p.a. alone would have to spend $21 billion and hire an additional 23,000 bureaucrats to do this. that's not my figures. that's their figures. so you have to stop and think the cap-and-trade bills cost 4 50bdz -- $400 billion at the level of regulating the he'll mitigators of 25,000 tons or more a year and just imagine what it would be when you drop it to 250 tons. the second thing the president doesn't want to talk about is the fact that it is a unilateral effort. if you passed a regulation in the united states of america, it's going to only affect united states of america. and i've always had a lot of respect for lisa jackson. lisa jackson was the administrator of the e.p.a. under the obama administration. while she is lmb and -- liberal and i'm conservative, she was always honest in her answers. i asked her the question, if we pass by legislation or any other way cap-and-trade in the united states is that going to reduce worldwide co2 emissions? and the answer, her answer was no. because

rush: not only did they turn their back, but the illinois e.p.a., the state e.p.a. refused to even investigate this matter. i had to get the u.s. justice department and the u.s. e.p.a. to end this atrocity. if this bill is ever enacted, it will bar the federal government at the very least last rving as the backstop for the american people against polluters who seek to skirt the law without with regard -- without regard to the families they serve. mr. speaker, i ask that the people who are members of this a gress who have a heart and mind to not only put the american people back to work but also to protect the environment. vote no on this bill. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. shimkus: thank you, mr. speaker. the administration has not issued a veto threat on this bill. i now recognize the gentlelady from tennessee, mrs. blackburn, for two minutes. the chair: the gentlelady from tennessee is recognized for two minutes. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman from west virginia for his outstanding work on thi

the e.p.a. the authority to protect the public should a state fail to enforce these standards. i ask my colleagues to support this legislation. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. chairman, i continue to reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from illinois. mr. shimkus: mr. chairman, i'd like to recognize mr. bucshon from indiana, a neighbor across from my congressional district, for one minute. the chair: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for one minute. mr. bucshon: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of this legislation. every single coal mine in the state of indiana is in my congressional district. coal not only provides thousands of jobs for hoosiers but provides over 90% of our state's energy. coal is a vital part of indiana's economy, helping to create -- keep energy prices low and supporting a robust manufacturing sector. i d

but as the head of e.p.a.'s air division, she's overseeing the implementation of numerous job-killing regulations. these regulations along with others promulgated by the e.p.a. have had a devastating effect in states like mine. they have helped bring about a depression -- that is depression with a "d" -- in parts of kentucky and parts of central appalachia. there's no reason to expect a course correction if she were to be confirmed as administrator. one assumes she would be expected to care for the president's plan to impose centrally by executive fee at even more disruptive policies, policies similar to those already rejected by democratically controlled congress. as someone sent here to stand up for the people who elected me, i cannot in good conscience support a nominee who would advance more of the same. someone who is not willing to stand up to this administration's war on coal. and, remember, this war talk -- that's not me taking is a; the war on coal is exactly what's needed. that's what one of the white

e.p.a. to go back to the drawing board. do a fair, do an open-ended cost-benefit analysis not designed to reach a particular conclusion, but just designed to truly objectively compare costs and benefits. as a result of our discussions, e.p.a. has committed to intervene an independent panel of economic exerts with experience in kphoel -- in whole economy modeling and they are going to review the ability to measure full regulatory impacts. that is sort of a bunch of gobbledygook, but that is where we need to do true cost-benefit analysis to look at all the macro impacts, all the impacts of a rule on the whole economy. not very narrowly define the analysis in order to get to a certain conclusion. a good example is we need when they're doing rule making to understand impact on energy prices throughout the entire economy. that is often a huge impact of their rule making, particularly, say, in their recent air rule making, the so-called war on coal. we need to see how many jobs that really cost us in the whole economy. otherwise t

on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved b.p. to use corrects it under the surface of the. water b.p. and its contractors started injecting thousands of gallons of corrects of a day into the coal when they decided to do the subsurface injection that you serve a robot or to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the gulf that had never been done before. four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b.p. would continue to use carex it. will be shared was a set up to protect e.p.a. . and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of dispersants and the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut it back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a gra

use a tremendous amount of this persons and the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut it back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same amount. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make the decisions that are a series of tradeoffs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released who are the head of the fisa if you say i would to either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i do chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know going in but but that's a question you needed to know from day one ms jackson forget about cleve forget about. both a natural resource to average just for

the e.p.w. committee and e.p.a. has provided extensive information to members of the senate in connection with this nomination. this is the longest the e.p.a. has gone without an administrator. how is this the right thing to do? this is the united states of america. this president deserves to have his people in place. sol would a republican -- so would a republican president. gina mccarthy has a deep understanding that the health and safety of the american people and a growing economy go hand in hand, and she will lead e.p.a. in a manner that is consistent with her past track record of success. so, from my perspective, approving gina mccarthy to head the e.p.a. is a very important step toward protecting the health of our children and future generations, and that is a most sacred obligation. we need her strong bipartisan commonsense approach to lead the e.p.a.. now, it's no great secret that in this last election, both parties were fighting for the votes of women. it was a knock-down, drag-out battle, and the democrat

use a tremendous amount of this persons in the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so the people back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make the decisions that are a series of trade us and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p. . penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released who are the head of the t.s.a. so if you say i would either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i did chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know going in but but that's a question you needed to know from day one ms jackson forget about cleanup forget about a natural resource to average just for releasing

the e.p.a. and the corps of engineers did not have the authority to regulate nonnavigable waters under the clean air act. now, you might disagree with that supreme court decision. tough luck. hey made the decision. in accordance with this decision, the term navigable waters has long been the phrase used to limit federal intrusion with regards to the clean water act's authority. not navigable waters are currently regulated by the state. everybody that stands ups and talks assumes that if it is a nonnavigable water, that nobody is regulating it. in fact, the states are regulating those things. however, last year the corps of engineers and the e.p.a. issued guidance that would expand the jurisdiction of the clean water act to non-navigable interstate waters, effectively resulting in a massive expansion of the federal government's authority to increase the number of waters subject to the water quality standards including irrigation canals, drainage ditches and other things. deciding how watcher is --

on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved b.p. to use carex it under the surface of the water b.p. and its contractors started injecting thousands of gallons of carets of a day into the coal. when they decided to do the subsurface injection the use of robot arms to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the gulf that had never been for. four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b.p. would continue to use carex it. was a set up to protect d.p. . and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of dispersants and the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so the people back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineerin

apple just hired somebody who used to be the head of the e.p.a. so it looks like everybody has to make their payola in order to protect themselves from the fed but getting back to the federal reserve itself it looks like bernanke he's leaving town is it possible that the fed itself is set up for some kind of reorganization hyperinflation is just very. very bad for the government is it possible they plan for another solution maybe the fed being nationalized under control of congress of although i don't think they're going to certainly it's not going to be in it's not in their interest to fund the government's interest to have hyperinflation it's very destabilizing certainly not in our interest the rest of the people of america not in our interest to have the dollar go through weimar like zimbabwe like experience i don't believe they will let it happen i don't think we face that on the other hand we face you know currency controls and price and wage controls and capital controls them and all that sort of thing you know a bet that that may happen wher

these are the e.p.a.'s figures. and you won't hear him talking about it because he knows it's a losing argument. in fact, the day before the president gave his speech, he had his campaign send out talking points to all of the activists that he has working in his behalf. they told them exactly -- they meaning the white house -- told these people exactly what to talk about and what po to* say and -- what to say and exactly whatnot to say. we recovered this. they found this is the talking points that the president sent out to people so america would be, this is what they would be listening to. i think it is worthwhile for us to go over this right now. on this first chart, you have his overarching three-point strategy. point number one is we have an obligation to act. the memo continues, we have a moral obligation to future generations to leave them a planet that's not pollute and damaged by carbon pollution. now, notice they're not talking about climate change anymore. they're not talking about global warming. the new w

in fact, the e.p.a. states that the primary goals are to, quote, protect human health and the environment, to reduce the amount of waste generated and to ensure that wastes are managed in an environmentally sound manner. closed quote. for the first time there will be a uniform national standard for disposing of coal ash. however, as you just heard, you hear opponents of this legislation, this legislation does not protect human health and the environment. but quite frankly, that's not the case. h.r. 2218 not only includes nine different references and sections which protect human health and environment, but also incorporates the existing part 258 regulation. to use the words of the e.p.a., quote, e.p.a. believes that part 258 criteria represents a reasonable balance, ensuring the protection of human health and the environment, closed quote. . from the e.p.a. . the opponents of this measure seem to lack a fundamental understanding, mr. speaker. there are jobs at stake here. 316,000 jobs across america. it's

the e.p.a.'s out-of-control regulatory overreach costs hardworking american taxpayers billions of dollars and thousands of jobs every year and all too often is put into place with a lack of oversite or public input. the energy consumers relief act is an important step in making the e.p.a. accountable to the american people. this bill blocks the implementation of rules that harm the economy and ensure that before the e.p.a. finalizes any rule costing more than $1 billion, it informs congress of the rule's impact on the economy and on energy prices. another important bill, the coal reuse and management act, brings much-needed regulatory certainty to job creators and helps keep energy costs low by taking the power out of the e.p.a.'s hands and returning it to the states where it belongs. these commonsense proposals will help keep energy costs low for american families, protect thousands of good-paying jobs and ultimately ensure the e.p.a.'s accountable to the american people. thank you and i yield m

the spending about e.p.a. in two thousand and eleven the house of representatives voted to chop the environmental protection. agency's budget by twenty seven percent which is fairly astonishing. probably one of the very biggest cuts since richard nixon signed that agency into law in one thousand nine hundred seventy i guess or seventy two and so the significance of this is that a lot of the freshman class of republicans who were elected in two thousand and ten . the vast majority of them seventy five to eighty percent of signed the pledge more than that i think and they all received money from charles and david koch anything pledged to cut the e.p.a. so what and but how does how does cutting the benefit charles do well because there are they are in the many many enters their giant conglomerate one hundred fifteen billion dollars a year sixty thousand employees there are a b m with one of the largest privately held companies on planet earth but or oil and gas interests fossil fuel industry in other words that is

department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of of concern for human hailed the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that back around is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says nine detect not in fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. and then they knew it. was the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the. oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are applied to will in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the y

that the e.p.a. administrator is likely to go forward almost immediately. so we really are down to the three positions where there has been a united states appeals court decision, which arguably could be viewed as an extraordinary circumstance. mr. reid: i t say to my friend, this isn't the first time we've dealt with this. senator mcconnell was one that led the charge years ago. i yesterday part of his statement. it would seem to me that it would be appropriate for you folks to understand what i just said. it doesn't take -- doesn't take somebody who's been here as long as senator byrd was. to say to me now, hey, we're going to do mccar thivment she is only waited 150 days. we're going to do perez. we'll do him right now. that's the problem. we shouldn't be waiting around here for months and months and months to get a vote on one of these nominees. that's the position. i appreciate your position. i'm going to go to my office and meet a few people that -- do you have a question for me. i am a happy to answer any questions while i'm on the floor. mr. corker:

as he is giving the speech yesterday in tennessee on jobs, the new e.p.a. administrator was talking about new jobs and regulations on climate change. this is something they have been doing for four years, and it's running more manufacturing jobs out of the country. he has declared war on the coal industry, literally shutting down coal plants around the country. killing jobs. the keystone pipeline, the president talked about that. with the president's pen today he could create 25,000 new jobs today and he laughs at that like it's some insignificant number. that is just the beginning, and lso a path to getting energy security. every million barrels we get from canada is a million barrels we do not have to get from middle eastern countries who do not like us. if the president was for a sound energy policy he'd get it. he thinks it's some kind of joke. even the labor unions, who are not typically friends with republicans, they support our man that we passed with a big bipartisan vote in the house, like the keystone pipeline. these would create jobs in the privat

without such directives coming out of the e.p.a. over the last 40 years, such advancements by polluting power plants would never have been voluntarily made. we can transition with incentives and a patchwork approach and compromise. several weeks ago when the president made a major drive on combating climate change, it's too bad he had to bypass congress to do it. as a member of this body, i don't blame him. i'd love to say we here in this chamber could be part of the solution, but i understand why he believes we cannot. since congress has abdicated its desire to pass climate legislation, natural gas has become a panacea for fossil fuel. it's dirt cheap and cleaner, they say, but it's brought about a renaissance of dirty extraction like hydrofracking or xtracting gas from shale and oftentimes neglect and toxic manner. also our nuclear energy can't compete with china's solar energy. china provided over half of the solar panel cells in the u.s. that's over $3.1 billion within our domestic market. $3.1 billion we could be capitalizing on

department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high minimum detection levels that say that back around is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says nine detect nine in fact not intact they need exact ten to fifteen. and then they knew it. was the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the. oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all pluggable in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portions of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why th

her background was serving as head of the e.p.a. in the state of massachusetts, the state of the presiding officer, under governor romney. she was governor romney's cabinet official for the e.p.a. in massachusetts. she not only has credentials, she's clearly bipartisan in her approach. and so her name came before the regular senate process. what did the other side do? they submitted a few questions for an answer. no, not just a few. they broke all the senate records. they gave her a list of 1,100 questions to answer before they would consider her nomination. that's what we're up against. clearly tactics to delay and staupl even good people from serving. holds on nominees that go on indefinitely. these sorts of things have got to end. if we're going to end the obstruction in this senate, if we're going to give to the president the power and the authority to lead this nation as he was elected to do, the senate can no longer stand as a blockade, an obstruction though that exercise of authority granted to the president by the people of t

everybody was there for the democrats, the e.p.a. committee. we shouldn't be doing stuff like that. that isn't what it's all about. we can't reward bad behavior over and over and over again. >> you can see the entire event on our website, cspan.org. the senate is neat meeting to discuss filibuster rules. the meeting began just a short while ago. and on c-span 2, we are having live discussion and interviews about the issues involved there. we are tracking your reaction to the filibuster. we are asking who is responsible for the stalemate in the u.s. senate -- derges republicans, or are both parties to blame equally? sign in at facebook.com/cspan and join in the conversation. >> earlier someone touched upon the idea that women real little could not predict their role in entering into the white house. but i did find one political observer who commented at the 18th election, that marry mary started with no -- that lincoln was called -- mary lincoln said she did not see them in the white house more than -- she was a determined woman. she did talk about mr. lincoln's role perhaps of enteri

to launch a war an our freedom of speech and used the e.p.a.launch a war on our farmers, ranchers and energy industry. >> she's not running against another republican that's been in that seat, senator mike enzi. he was caught off guard by this. he noticed that she was kind of touring the state and he was wondering why. apparently he had talked to her and she said i'm not going to run against you you don't have anything to worry about. when reporters asked you why did you tell him that, here's what she said. >> well, anybody can run against anybody they want in the primary. that's how the system works. >> you were surprised. >> this, she's been traveling around wyoming for a long time. i'm not surprised. i'm only surprised that she said if i ran she wouldn't. she announced 30 minutes after i more specifically stated my intention. i'm an old shoe salesman, i know there is a custom write up, i listen to the customer and when i see how that works with the inventory we've got that's legislation. >> what she mentioned there i switched the tapes on an

the initial regulatory proposal, the e.p.a. rule-making assumed that c.p.s. technology would be commercially available within 10 years of plant initiating perations. do you agree this proposed rule coal ffectively ban plants without c.p.s.? >> i can't comment on the rule in that it has not been published and in written form at the moment. what i can say, is the department of energy had an important role in shaping that, and it is important we work with e.p.a. and industry to make sure these technologies are commercially ready and are being developed, that we are making the right investments and that these industries are being created here in the united states so we are creating that opportunity here for our country. that's the role that the department of energy plays in hat process. >> would you agree that for c.p.s. to be part of this, a lot of the old issues will have to be resolved? >> i agree there are a mere yad need yad of issues that to be addressed. >> with that in mind, what is the earliest time frame you can state with confidence that c.p.s. will be

admitted over twenty four million tonnes of carbon dioxide in two thousand and eleven according to the e.p.a. so it should come as no surprise that the koch brothers would want to protect their perceived right to pollute our environment and do irreversible damage to our planet more than four hundred republican lawmakers in washington and across the country have signed their pledge promising to oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue and number includes seventy six republican freshman in congress the entire g.o.p. house leadership and just about every republican lawmaker in the state of wisconsin including governor scott walker nearly a quarter of u.s. senators have also signed on to the koch brothers play which once again millionaires and billionaires are corrupting our american democracy buying off our politicians and putting money and greed ahead of the well being of the american people and in this case the entire world we can't continue to let billionaires like the koch brothers buy off politicians left and right while everyone

that would save a lot of money we spend on the e.p.a. reagan used to say trust but verify. the byword for this administration is trust and hope -- hope you aren't being defrauded. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentlelady from california is recognized. ms. chu: last month the senate passed historic comprehensive immigration reform and now is the time for the house to act. it is because of our family values that we cannot wait another year, another month, or another day to finally fix our broken immigration system. we must pass a bill that keeps families together and we must do the right thing, the humane thing, and bring 11 million immigrants out of the shadows and into society. we must ensure that all who want to call this country home have a fair and reasonable road map to do so. i urge the republican leadership not to choose the partisan path. instead, we should come together and pass bipartisan comprehensive legislation that will fix our immigration system and finally re

president obama's picks for the national labor relations board the consumer finance protection bureau of the e.p.athe department of labor. ending the filibuster for executive branch nominations of course is only the first step, the next step would be ending the filibuster for judicial nominations and for legislation to get rid of it altogether. go, harry, go! former senator byron dorgan will give us his thoughts on that and a whole lot more when he joins us on the program on monday. have a great weekend! [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: okay. we have no jacki schechner. all right. you know what, chris, some days you just feel like the foam dummy in the zimmerman trial. had a wtf story for jacki in florida, but we'll wait. marcia clark who has been so great all over the tv on this

despite this clear expression of congressional intent, however, the corps of engineers and the e.p.a. in recent years have been trying to sir kim vent the -- circumvent the exemptions by attempting to interpret a limited recapture provision in section 404-f-2, in such an expansive way as to virtually swallow up the exemptions in 404-f-1. we have a result where congress clearly provided a regulatory exemption from permitting in one paragraph of the clean water act only to have the corps and e.p.a. now take it away through a creative interpretation of the next paragraph. the corps and e.p.a. cannot take away administratively what congress gave legislatively. these administrative efforts to undermine congressional intent have resulted in excessive and overzealous efforts to expand regulatory powers into farming and ranching activities exempted from regulation. in one instance, a family farm attempted to convert pasture land irrigated by ditch to a piped irrigation system to improve their water efficiency. a laudable goal from any perspective. this is activity clearly exempted from regula

the e.p.a. a different breed of republican than we see today. er enduring legacy that needs to be said, you can't wish away, is the dark nixon. anti-hero of american politics that still hangs a shadow over our te ba our debates. used as a metaphor every time something untoward happens in the white house. >> a fantastic discussion. history lesson for some people. ben stein and john avlon, thank you. >> let's do it again. >> you viewers be the judge. you heard these two gentlemen opine. don't miss the special tomorrow night 9:00 p.m. eastern. "our nixon." >>> coming up next, a promising medical student found dead in his apartment of a single gunshot wound. friends, they're demanding answers. that's next. uld save you fiftee or more on car insurance. yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know some owls aren't that wise? don't forget i'm having brunch with meghan tomorrow. who? meghan, my coworker. who? seriously? you've met her like three times. who? (sighs) geico. fifteen minutes could save you...well, you know. for aveeno® positively radiant fa

. >> we've got gina mccarthy for the e.p.a. and tom perez for secretary of labor.ditionally, a president gets to appoint members of his team. >> get them in place and get up and running but if you think about that group of nominations it reflects a deliberate strategy to disable organizations that fight for working americans. fight for the values of americans. >> bill: sure. >> here, we have an organization, the cfpb that is dedicated to any predatory practices that disable and disorient families. if you want to have family values you want successful families. you don't want predatory practices. and yet here's republican party claiming it's the family of -- the party of family values. deliberately disabling an agency designed to help families succeed. and it's deeply outrageous. needs to be pointed out if you look at the set of folks being filibustered, it is an attack on working people. it is an attack on families. >> bill: an attack on middle class families across the country. so what changes might -- are we talking about? are we talking about getting rid of the