the e.p.a. science advisory board reform act of 2017. this legislation will reform the environmental protection agency or the e.p.a.'s science advisory board to ensure that it is unbiased and transparent in performing its duties. the s.a.b. was first established by congress in 1978 and plays a vital role in reviewing the scientific foundation of e.p.a.'s regulatory decisions while also providing critical advice to us here in congress as well as the agency. the information it reviews is used to justify important policy decisions at the e.p.a. and should be held to the highest standards, because it is imperative that the regulated community and the public can have confidence that e.p.a. decisions are grounded, that science should be both reproduce i believe and transparent. however, shortcomings with the process have arisen in recent years, including limited public participation, e.p.a. interference with expert advice, potential conflicts of interests and serious deficiencies with the process to se

if the e.p.a. is prevented from using the best available peer-reviewed research data on air quality, asthma will be causing more attacks and, yes, even deaths, in children across our country. let's see this legislation for what it is -- an attack on science, a giveaway to corporations who benefit from pollution, who don't like the fact that the e.p.a. is using sound science, who want to create and live in their own fictional reality where their actions somehow don't matter. we need the truth. the american people deserve the truth. we deserve the benefit of the outcome of the process of objective science and this bill undermines that byburgying the environmental protection agency -- by burying the environmental protection agency under immense red tape and not have the best studies that will lead to the best protections possible. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia. mr. woodall: thank

at that time the e.p.a. was forming a science advisory panel to review evidence of arm from second-hand tobacco smoke. thanks to the tobacco industry, documentes that have been made public, we now know that the big tobacco made a concerned effort to stack the science advisory panel with tobacco industry hacks. we take it for granted now that tobacco smoke is dangerous, but at that time in the early 1990's, big tobacco had succeeded in muddying the and ific information tried to defraud the american people. if h.r. 1431 had been in effect back then, big tobacco likely would have succeeded in could he opting the science advise -- co-opting the science advisory board. what would the effects have been on the public health to have e.p.a. review body controlled by tobacco interests? that's why a number of public health and environmental interest groups have come out against h.r. 1431. in a letter penned by the american lung association, the american public health association and several other health groups, the effe

isit ncicap.org] >> wrag up hoar with senate democrat leaders on the e.p.a. rules that will begin to overturn the obama administration's clean power plan to combat global warming. if you missed any of this briefing it's available on our website at c-span. check the c-span video library and search clean power plan. u.s. house will be back at 3:00 p.m. eastern. we will have live coverage here on c-span. right now we'll bring you back to the house republican news conference from earlier today where speaker paul ryan and other house republican leaders outline their plan to move forward with the health care bill.

scott pruitt, our new secretary of the e.p.a., has talked about putting in place plans to repeal plans on climate change. the president signed a rule to essentially roll back progress on the clean water act and talking about cutting agencies and staff of the e.p.a. across the country. the reality is we need to be thinking about how we preserve our planet for the next generation. afe 20-year-old son and he says to me, mom, this is one of the most important things you can do is preserve the planet for me and my kids. and that is what we need to do. look at the science of climate change and look at the ways we can strengthen our ability to protect the environment. instead of what this president has said what he will do, which is to repeal so many of the rules that the obama administration put in place, to make sure that we check the notion that cooperations should be able to mine our land for profit while destroying it for the future. budget and taxes. now this was a really interesting one, one of the most common refrains, is that he was going to drain the swamp. he promised he would do i

caller: this is the first two uests this morning regarding e.p.a. announcing new director and assigning projects back to state and also questioning experts this is a really bad states let the administer e.p.a. programs, what in 1996 in the state of virginia, governor allen decided e.p.a. wanted to radford army ammunition plant on the super fund list because it provided a significant risk to the here, governor allen decided it would not be allowed on super fund, along with a dump saltville, in southwestern virginia. now what that meant for the the new riffer value blacksburg and radford, living around radford, children are sick and dying from exposure that was not prevented by the virginia deq. e.p.a.'s super fund designation of the radford living around radford, children re sick and arsenal had been upheld, the governor hadn't tried to be an expert, the children here wouldn't be sick with thyroid disease and adults wouldn't be dying with cancer, there would been oversight at a federal level and that is not to excuse numerous elected politicians rick

the e.p.a. the agency for clean water, clean air and human health and i think that would cover a lot of what the e.p.a. does. the e.p.a.'s cut is going to result in 3,200 lost jobs. 22% of the department. programs would be cut domestically and around the world and clean power plan and numerous restoration projects including a project in the puget sound would lose 93% of its funding. there are places in districts across this country that are going to suffer and see environmental protection being rapidly undone. president trump has made it painfully clear that he and his administration are enemies not only of the environment but the science that tells us that we must address climate change because it is real and manmade. and we are fighting efforts to consistently undermine the research and science that shows us exactly where we are as a country and what we must do in order to protect our environment. let me talk about education for a second. with the appointment of betsy devos, president trump has

the e.p.a.'s waters of the united states rule. historically states have had significant authority over water management. governors have worked with local and tribal leaders to set up their own laws and regulations to ensure that water is properly allocated, that water meets certain quality standards and that water in their state is protected from misuse. the e.p.a.'s wotus rule is excessive and burdensome because they disregarded the role of the state in crafting waterway regulations. the agency held no substantive consultation with governments prior to issuing the rule. despite states' role, despite experts who could have helped the e.p.a. craft regulations, and ensuring that federal agencies consult with state, local and tribal officials before issuing a rule, ferble officials never gave state, local and tribal officials the opportunity to explain how their states were currently handling the situation and how this rule could negatively impact their jurisdictions. since the e.p.a. bureaucrats ba

human activity as being the primary driver, and this is true through researchers at places like the e.p.a., where mr. pruitt, you know, is now the administrator. also, nasa and noaa and international groups of scientists have found this as well for many decades now. the interesting thing is that it didn't just put him at odds with scientists or with environmental groups. you know, even large-- some of the nation's largest businesses now agree that the climate is warming in this way and that this is a problem that needs to be dealt with, companies like shell and conocophillips, and others, expon, have supported the paris climate agreement which aims to tackle this problem. >> sreenivasan: if the headline of the e.p.a. doesn't believe climate changed is cause by humans or carbon dioxide. >> it raises a lot of policy qelz and all you have to do is look back to the last administration. the obama administration made this a priority and probably the signature effort was a regulation known as the clean power plan, which sought to limit carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's power plants. sco

>> great day here at the e.p.a. the president is coming to visit the e.p.a. ast several years we have anti-fossil fuels, antigrowth, anti-jobs type of approach as to how we do environmental regulations. when you look at our history we have always had pro-growth, pro-jobs and pro-environment approach. since 1980 we reduced some key pollutants in our air quality program by 65% across the country. we have made tremendous process while at the same time growing the economy. this past administration didn't do that so it's good to see the president coming to the e.p.a. to set a new course to say we are going to be about pro-greta, pro-jobs and pro-environment. ainsley: you are dismantling this. big announcement is today. what does it mean to the average american family. >> it means opportunity. when you come in the generation of electricity as an example as a consumer. when you say you are not going to generate electricity through coal. when you're not going to generate electricity through fossil fuels and shift your entire portfolio or a good portion of that portfol

maybe it's the head of the e.p.a. blowing smoke up the oil industry's ass. ( cheers and applause ) oh, tom brady is back in the news. you all know tom brady. i'm sure you know that guy from the super bowl. >> jon: hut! hut! >> stephen: thru have it, whether you love him or hate him, those are definitely the only two options. and now the thing is, tom brady is endorsing a meal subscription service called purple carrot, which, of course, is named after one of the healthiest euphemisms for a penis. and the company is offering a new line of meals that follow brady's notoriously healthy diet, including: by the way, if you're not gingering your amoranth, you're an idiot. do you, jon? >> jon: i can't say they do. >> stephen: how many super bowl rings do you have? >> jon: i don't have any. >> stephen: that's why. brady clearly excitedly about the partnership releasing the following statement: okay, but here's the thing-- eating like tom brady isn't the part of his life that you fantasize about. ( laughter ) please, let me know

you know what the head of the e.p.a. might want to read? the e.p.a.'s own website, which states clearly that "human activity, like burning fossil fuels, release large amounts of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas contributing to recent climate change." you really shouldn't contradict your own website. that's like buzzfeed saying they don't believe a quiz can tell you if you're a lumiere or a cogsworth. ( laughter ) lumiere, by the way. >> jon: oh, yeah, uh-huh. >> stephen: but maybe pruitt is right. maybe c.o.-2 isn't the number one cause of global warming. maybe it's the head of the e.p.a. blowing smoke up the oil industry's ass. oh, tom brady is back in the news. you all know tom brady. i'm sure you know that guy from the super bowl. >> jon: hut! hut! >> stephen: thru have it, whether you love him or hate him, those are definitely the only two options. and now the thing is, tom brady is endorsing a meal subscription service called purple carrot, which, of course, is named after one of the healthiest euphemisms for a penis. and the company is

the arts is one. e.p.a., unfortunately, the e.p.a.her than, you know, adding to our economic growth drew all of its regulation has really pushed some of that growth to the background. and so i think you can get rid of certain things here and be strategic. we need to think about what matters to our future. and right now it's security. >> harris: it's interesting when you hear the democrats, you know, kind of skirting the issue of a showdown, a shutdown, shut down the government over. this which person among the democratic party that was paying attention didn't know that this is where the president was going to go? >> trish: i know. >> harris: if their only argument in far in after the election we are going to shut down the government, how does that make them taking the high road as hillary clinton said that everybody should be on in her party, how does that make that palatable for them? don't they have any other options? >> meghan: the v.a. is so important. he ran on this. do you remember donald trump had a special event during one of

trump's new head of the e.p.a. e with science today to say that he is not convinced that carbon dioxide from cars, trucks, and power plants is driving the rise in global temperature. here's chip reid. >> reporter: scott pruitt, the new head of the e.p.a., dropped a verbal bomb on the environmental community today saying this about the role of carbon dioxide emissions in climate change: >> so, no, i would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the-- to the global warming that we see. >> reporter: it's not the first time pruitt has hinted he's a climate change denier. last year, he wrote that the debate is far from settled. but he seemed to change his tune during his confirmation hearing last month when he was asked if he agreed with president trump, who called climate change a hoax on the campaign trail. >> i do not believe that climate change is a hoax. >> reporter: today's apparent change of heart infuriated environmental groups. the sierra club said the arsonist is now in charge of the fire department. brend

the e.p.a. has grants but these small communities can't qualify for them. you have to have a full-time engineer on staff to figure out how to fill out the forms which they don't have. so we have a rural water system where people go out and help these small communities apply for these usda grants. so there's other cuts in there that have been made to various programs that we have authorized and the other thing that's going to happen here is a lot of people -- that people don't get or don't understand is this is going to create a tremendous pressure for more chimps and i don't know how many people know what thimps chimps are but they are changes in mandatory spending that have been increasing year after year after year where they have gone in -- appropriators have gone in and raided money from our mandatory spending so that they can make up for the shortfalls that are being pushed on them by the budget people in the appropriated programs. and if this budget goes through, this is going to create chimps on steroids. they are up to over $1 billion they take away

they are cutting $10.1 billion from the state department budget. e.p.a. see a 31% decrease, which will include the eventual elimination of 3200 jobs. hhs will see a 15.1 billion-dollars reduction that's 17.9%. that will include a dramatic reorganization of the national institutes of health. the president also proposes to end funding for the national endowment for the arts and corporation for public broadcasting among other agencies. and then as well other doubts funding, the global climate change initiative will go away and united states will end payments to the u.n. green climate fund. the omb director mick mulvaney said it's what the president ran on and what the president got elected on and what they are delivering today. here he is. >> you had an america first candidate. america first president and now america first budget. more money to defend the country. more money to enforce the laws and secure the borders. more money to take care of our vets. more money for school choice and less money for things like foreign aid. that's exactly what the presiden

have seen important victories under the trump administration including the beginning of the end for the e.p.a.'s dangerous watts of the u.s. role or wotu. nebraska's farmers and ranchers are committed stewards of our natural resources and take many steps to keep our water resources clean. president trump ordered a reset on wotus, agreeing farmers and ranchers deserve better than having washington bureaucratting controlling water puddles and irrigation ditches on their land. as founder and co-chairman of

additionally, the e.p.a. routinely justifies its regulatory activities by claiming benefits from matters unrelated to the underlying legislation. mr. speaker, you can well see why there is consternation, not only among people in the united states, but uncertainty with business that is attempting to follow the well-understood rules and regulations and the processes that go therein only to find out that our government chooses not to follow the rules and regulations that they should be following. so h.r. 1009 codifies the requirement for oira to conduct a review of significant regulations to ensure the regulations are consistent with applicable law and the principles set forth in the executive order. it also establishes new transparency measures such as requiring increased disclosure when extending review time, explanations about regulations that are dropped from the unified agenda and a red line of changes that agencies make to regulations while it is under review by oira. oira review is important to provide a d

the legislation would prohibit the e.p.a. from issuing new regulations unless all of the underlying scientific research on the regulation is posted on the internet. again, that vote is expected at 4:20 eastern time. you can see it live here on c-span. while we wait for the house to return for votes, a conversation on the future of the freedom caucus after the failure of the house leadership's health care replacement bill last week. host: we have at our table again this morning, louie gohmert, republican of texas, here to talk about the health care legislation. floorit was pulled on the on friday, the president had a few things to say on twitter i would like you to respond to. "democrats are smiling and d.c. caucus has saved planned parenthood and obamacare." after some of the bad years, they were ready for a win. guest: i'm not one who said the president needs to stop tweeting. i think it's great. i think it helps him go straight to the people, but with that tweet, he helped prove the rule that nobody is perfect. president --o

i'm just so tired of arguing with people -- my bosses, the e.p.a. ly, all i think about lately... is quitting my job. if you're tired of arguing with people, you probably shouldn't have told me that. come on. we -- we don't need the money. uh, it does buy happiness. yeah, but something's got to change. i-i mean, if i'm not gonna get a second husband [chuckles] i might need a second career. well, it's a big decision. it's your decision. whatever you do, i'll support you. really? yeah, i'll have to. we'll only have one income. mom,on my car insurance of money by switching to geico. i should take a closer look at geico... you know, geico can help you save money on your homeowners insurance too? great! geico can help insure our mountain chalet! how long have we been sawing this log? um, one hundred and fourteen years. man i thought my arm would be a lot more jacked by now. i'm not even sure this is real wood. there's no butter in this churn. do my tris look okay? take a closer look at geico. great savings. and a whole lot more. then shielding lubrication

especially from the e.p.a. how they're harming their operations and making their lives pretty difficult. whether it's their misguided wote us rule or the delays -- wote us -- wotus rule or delays, the e.p.a. seems to have an agenda against those in the agricultural community. how will you collaborate with the e.p.a. to ensure that their work is helping rather than hindering our farmers and ranchers? mr. perdue: thank you very much, senator. i think like many solutions, it begins with personal relationships. i've taken the opportunity to visit with administrator pruitt already regarding some of these issues. and i think not only in the e.p.a., but in all agencies we develop silos that are unfortunate because, as you well know, many of our producers when a regulation is made in other places, whether it be labor or e.p.a. or others, our guys are the ones that get pushed off the boat. y goal is to have an ongoing communications team identified with each of these agencies that may be, whether it's f.d.a., e.p.a., lab

tokes with the certainty they need to conduct their business, educate farmworkers and keep the communication with e.p.a. open and transparent. this is the fourth time prea has come before congress for re-authorization and that's because it's working for everyone. it has always been a bipartisan effort. we hope to can't that tradition. i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this commonsense re-authorizing a. with that, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves this egentleman from california is recognized. mr. panetta: thank you. i rise in support of h.r. 1029, the pesticide registration enhancement october of 2017 and yield myself such time -- enhance kt act of 2017 and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. panetta: i stand before you to urge passage of h.r. 1029. as we know, the environmental protection agency is response frble the sale, use, and distribution of pesticides. to facilitate and expedite that process, pesticides manufacturers have long supplemen

one dealing with the e.p.a. releasing scientific information, and the other which would repeal a federal communications commission rule from the obama administration that prohibits internet providers from selling professional information from their customers. when the house is back on 3k p.m. eastern, we'll have it right here on c-span. right now a conversation from two legislators on this morning's "washington journal." guest: we are just trying simply to get a debate on the floor of the house of whether we should stay in afghanistan or not stay in afghanistan. that is simply the question that we want to have debated. and yet to get a debate on the floor of the house for those of us who raised our hand to support the constitution and our responsibility is to debate before we send a young man or woman to die in afghanistan is why we have introduced h.r. 1666. we want a debate. ms. harrison: and representative gare mend -- host: and representative garamendi, why can't you get a vote on this? guest: they're worried

i would like to mention, the book silent spring, e.p.a. got its start. they said that emissions, they was killing eggs and killing birds and fish, they before the congress studies, did over 30 scientific studies and found out of ddt no evidence killing people n. fact, ddt of d hundreds of thousands lives during world war ii for getting malaria fever and also saved all kinds lives in central america until they banned it. host: okay. administration was concerned about the zika virus, would wipe out the zika virus in a moment. host: an independent from nebraska, good morning. caller: good morning. want to respond to the lady from california who had the were ty to say people who supporting trump needed better education. to this lady is, has late ever had a minimum wage job? did.n't believe she ever if she did, she would probably supporting trump herself. thank you, that is my comment. host: okay, margaret. cohen's upshot column with you this morning. of out was not a driver clinton's defeat, sort of related to the what you're about, who supported mr. trump an

according to head of the e.p.a. and guy who hates the e.p.a. scott pruitt: "it's going to create jobs." yeah, repealing environmental regulations will create all sorts of new jobs: oil refining, fracking, clean water historian. keeper of the last six bees. and, of course, he is going to reinvigorate coal mining. in fact, today, the president celebrated the new lack of regulations with coal miners, and his reasoning was as clear as mud. >> my administration is putting an end to the war on coal. we're going to have clean coal. really clean coal. >> stephen: i know clean coal sounds like an oxymoron, but so does "president trump." ( cheers and applause ) ♪ working in the coal mine ♪ working in the coal mine ( applause ) >> stephen: so nice to have trump fans here tonight. clean coal is real. back in high school, i had a girlfriend in canada who was a clean coal miner. she told me they mine the clean coal and then they put it on that silver bullet train and send it to narnia where the keebler elves use it to power the pump on the fountain of youth.

he's going to cut the e.p.a.. does he not know the connection in een protections that are an environmental protection agency and air our children breathe, the water they drink, the safety of the food that they eat? and the protection of their neighborhoods, what is he going to do to the justice function and the law enforcement function in the budget? all of it will be subjected to cuts according to what he's putting forth. we haven't seen a budget. we've seen -- what do they call it? an outline, blueprint. mini me budget. there's no there there. there's no there there yet. what we've seen so far is scary. very scary. and in every respect, whether it's protecting our security and not pandering to vladimir putin, not flirting with lifting our sanctions on russia for their aggression and eastern europe, and not undermining our treaties on nonproliferation and the rest, what do the russians have on him? nd then to turn around and say , our strategic opponent here is russia. and i'm going to undermine our intelligence c

huge cuts to the e.p.a., the state department and much more. >>> no evidence. the republican head of the intel committee says trump tower was not wiretapped. the president now saying this -- >> i think you are going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. >>> the health care bill gets a key vote this morning. republicans are saying it's going to have to change. >> we have a score, we can make necessary improvements and refinements to the bill. >> let's get to it beginning with president trump's travel ban blocked by two federal judges hours before it was set to take effect. for the second time in six weeks, the president is threatening to go to the supreme court. we have a great team to break it down. i'm going to pete williams. pete, walk us through why these judges blocked the revised version of the travel ban. we were under the impression this new version was designed specifical to make its way through. >> it was and it didn't work. both judges said it basically discriminates on the basis of religion. the first ru

today the russia argument kept us away from a serious story at the e.p.a. the president's signing ceremony today. and this deserves more unanimous a mention by us tonight. but what he signed today, executive order that nullifies obama's climate change efforts and revives the coal industry. another note about that in a moment. but the u.s. will not meet obama co 2 guidelines quote turning denials of climate change into national policy this. network pointed out all day the coal industry employs roughly 70,000 individuals right now. hard to ramp that up in a way given the fuel source. but this was real substantive news for our children and our children's children today at e.p.a. >> sure, brian. i mean, there is nothing more important than the fate of the climate and the planet. and it is the case for better and worse i guess from the trump administration that this russia story is clouding everything else out. i mean, i think trump is doing some things that are not popular nationally that are not getting the attention that they would. they might be generating mo

for example, the e.p.a., there are lots of rules that the career employees at the e.p.a. have helped craft. if that's outside their powers you start sending a lot of laws back to congress to clarify as opposed to relying on the agency to interpret them. >> rose: issues of war and peace? >> when judge gorsuch was in the department of justice quite briefly, he signed on to and really helped to some degree shape some of the bush administration's controversial policies. so he supported, for example, a signing statement that president bush signed that retained his power to decide what is torture, when congress was trying to take it away from him. on those kinds of issues, again, gorsuch comes across as being very conservative and also a proponent of presidential power. >> rose: the rights of criminal defendants? >> judge gorsuch has been open to claims about the fourth amendment. so criminal suspects who have said that the police's rights to search and easier and some convictions should be overturned because evidence was gathered by illegal means, gorsuch has been interested in

can't even go to them or have clean drinking water, because all the regulations he wants to change the e.p.a. healthcare laws, he wants to change all that and make it where, you know, it benefits the rich. they're going to get tax breaks on stuff because oh, they really need it. host: ok. paul, clearwater, florida, says he believes the president, hi. caller: hello and thank you for taking my call. i appreciate it. you know, i'm a republican, and i voted for trump. and the people that are against the tapping, it's the credibility, who has more credibility? president obama or president trump? people that voted for trump are going to believe trump and people that voted for president obama, they're going to vote -- they're going say that it wasn't tapped. but if we listen to the president of the united states, he said in a couple of weeks he's got some evidence. you know, he's the president. he's going make a statement, a false statement. host: so you're -- paul, you're saying that he has credibility on this issue. caller: what's that? host: you're saying that president trump has credibility on

he went to the e.p.a. headquarters to sign it and it will limit moratorium that keeps coal companies signing up for new clean power plan that faces restrictions on the greenhouse gases at cold fire power plants. president trump insists it will help people who work in the energy sector. president trump: with today's executive action i am taking historic steps to lift restrictions on the american energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job killing regulations. lindsey: opponents worry about the long-term impact to the environment. they vow to go to court to fight it. in next hour protesters are planning to gather in front of thehouse. at -- in front of the white house. i'm lindsey mastis. jonathan: now to the border wall, the trump administration wants the first billion spent on 62 miles of it. in particular, 14 new miles in san diego and six along the rio grande. the money will also help fund 14 miles of replacement fencing in san diego. house in the budget supplement. alison: a mother in texas

. >> this public climate data is stored on federal web sites like the e.p.a., n.a.s.a. department of energy and climate scientists depend on it for all kinds of research. now that trump is in charge these scientists are worried he will hide or destroy the data because he's threatened to do exactly that. you're telling me this data could be completely forgotten like taylor? >> what? >> just because you're part ofa tent poll movie doesn't mean you will have any relevance five years later. >> what we need to do is capture this data and make copies in lot of locations including in canada. >> canada? >> yes. we have a network of hackers working to keep this data safe. today we're having a hackathon in philly. >> i want in. these hackers were going to be more secretive than bethany. given the importance of the mission, i destroyed all traces of their existence. is that 3420 -- can you just put it in my phone? >> okay. >> to gain access to the hackers, i would have to become one of them. and the only way to be a hacker is to dress like a hacker. but like the rest of america, i

the law. >>> this morning, uproar after e.p.a. t pruitt said he rejects established science on climate change. he doubts co2 emissions are causing global warming contradicting the website in his own testimony before congress. >> do you believe that it's been proven that co2 is the primary control knob for climate? do you believe that? >> no, i think measuring the precision, human activity on the climate is challenging to do. there's tremendous disagreement about them and the degree of impact. so, no, i would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. >> the e.p.a.'s most recent chief rebuked pruitt's comments saying the world of science is about imper cal evidence, not beliefs. >>> just ahead, spring has sprung at starbucks. plus, how would you like to work for kate middleton? she's hiring. we'll bring those details next on "early today." ...made with whole grains and fiber to help a body thrive... folic acid and vitamin d... ...to make a body feel this good. start your day with 150 nourishing calo

administrator, scott pruitt, who has made a career out of attacking the e.p.a., found it too brutal even for him. the unnecessary expansion of some defense spending, especially the trillion dollar spending spree that we're embarking on for new nuclear weapons is completely out of sync with our real defense needs. and slashing vital state department programs that invite -- enhance our security. trump would not just impose shocking reductions on peacekeeping and humanitarian action but it would deny the state department the ability to exercise soft power. this compromises our national security interests and leaves us less safe. critical and wildly -- widely supported lifesaving medical research efforts will be slashed, reversing years of bipartisan effort to enhance medical research, to fight disease, illness and disability. at a time of housing crisis across the country, some of the few federal tools to increase affordability and combat homelessness are being cut away. this budget disaster would even zero out federal support for public broadcasting, even though it represents just a tiny h

we had the e.p.a. in and they admitted that it couldn't be done. then china, they made a commitment. they were talking about the commitment that china made at the paris conference. china, who is -- where's china there? you have got that one. china has actually produced mor. this gives you an idea of where china is going with theirs. they are building every ten days a new coal-fired power generation plant. of course, they are not about to try to restrict their co2, so they said oh, yeah, we'll do it. you let us increase our co2 emissions until 2025, then we agree that we'll do away with it. so that was the extent of the regulations that have not worked. and so the polling, the truth is coming out. the polling is now different than it was at first. i can remember when global warming was one of the first -- either first place or second place in the polls as to the dangers that faced america. look at the polling today. the fox news poll last week said that 97% of americans don't care about global warming. when they stack it up against terrorism, immigra

the e.p.a. under obama went way too far. and new is the time to correct. but to the republicans here, what is our environmental policy? what is the environmental policy of the republican party? so here's what i would urge to my republican friends. don't give an inch on caring about the environment. be for clean air and clean water. understand that climate change, man is contributing to it. and over time it will hurt us all. come up with environmental policies that are better for business. you know, al gore made climate change a religion. i want to make it a problem to be solved. >> the question is from mary collins from mountain rest. in light of so many questions about russian connections, shouldn't trump's taxes be released? [applause] sen. graham: all right. all right. here's what i think. i think most of the people in this room voted for hillary clinton or somebody other than trump. as a matter of fact -- and they're very upset. they're very upset. and they lost. and they can't get over the fact they lost. so that's why you have a lot of questions. now

trump said the e.p.a. oing back to the drawing board. >> the assault on american auto industry, believe me is over. it's over. not going to have it anymore. if the standards threatened auto jobs, then common sense changes could have and should have been made. >> woodruff: environmentalists have argued the higher standard would promote use of hybrids and electric vehicles and cut carbon dioxide emissions. the white house signaled again today that it's open to changing the republican replacement for obamacare. a spokesman said the president is working with house speaker ryan and other leaders. there was also word that more than 12 million people signed up for coverage this year under obamacare and enrolled on federal and state exchanges. one of the president's income tax returns has surfaced, for the first time. the leaked document shows that for the 2005 tax year, mr. trump earned $153 million, and paid $36 million in taxes. he wrote off more than $100 million in business losses. the white house criticized t

tomorrow more debate on another measure dealing with the e.p.a. that requires people on the scientific advisory board to disclose conflicts of interest. more live house coverage tomorrow morning at 9:00 eastern here on c-span. republican members of the senate judiciary committee held a news conference on the steps of the u.s. supreme court to talk about the nomination of judge neil gorsuch to the high court. among them was judiciary committee chair chuck grassley who called the threat by some democrats to filibuster the nomination purely politics. joining him were senators lindsey graham, ted cruz, mike lee along with former law clerks of judge gorsuch. senator grassley: are they on their way? oh, they are. 12:30 is at different times around the country. senator grassley: we want to thank you all very much for being here. before i start my remarks, i want to say thank you to all the former clerks of the judge who are here to express their views of why he should be on the united states supreme court , and i just got done telling them this is a news

the 1.1 trillion dollar plan calls for $54 billion military spenldsing and slashes the funding for the e.p.a. state department and medical assistant for the poor. it's these cuts that will help to pay for military spending and the u.s./mexico border wall. congress has the final say, but a deal must be cut by the end of april when a temporary funding bill expires. >>> and today the house budget committee takes up the house republican plan to overhaul obamacare amid growing national dissent. speaker ryan admits there needs to be necessary improvements and refinements. at a campaign rally in nashville, the president vowed to move forward. >> we're going to repeal and replace horrible disastrous obamacare. >>> conservatives argue the bill doesn't go far enough to repeal obamacare. moderate republicans are upset that millions would lose health care. ahead on "cbs this morning" we'll ask the house director mick mulvaney about the husband care bill and the national budget. >>> four were secured. two intelligence and two hackers were charged with the cyber attack. jeff pegues reports. >> reporter: o

. >> this public climate data is stored on federal web sites like the e.p.a., n.a.s.a. e department of energy and climate scientists depend on it for all kinds of research. now that trump is in charge these scientists are worried he will hide or destroy the data because he's threatened to do exactly that. you're telling me this data could be completely forgotten like taylor? >> what? >> just because you're part ofa tent poll movie doesn't mean you will have any relevance five years later. >> what we need to do is capture this data and make copies in lot of locations including in canada. >> canada? >> yes. we have a network of hackers working to keep this data safe. today we're having a hackathon in philly. >> i want in. these hackers were going to be more secretive than bethany. given the importance of the mission, i destroyed all traces of their existence. is that 3420 -- can you just put it in my phone? >> okay. >> to gain access to the hackers, i would have to become one of them. and the only way to be a hacker is to dress like a hacker. but like the rest of america,

we invited the administrator of the e.p.a. on tonight, but he declined our invitation. let's hear from a leading lawmaker who supports these moves. i spoke earlier to republican senator john barosso of wyoming, the country's number one coal- producing state, and the head of the energy and natural resources committee. i talked to him a short time ago i began by asking how these moves will change the american energy landscape. >> well, i think it was a bold and decisive action by donald trump, i this is going to be energy independence for america, energy security for our country certainly for jobs. that to me is the key driver. when i think of energy i'm from an energy state, wyoming. i think of energy security for our country, economic growth and environmental stewardship and that's how we have used over the 15 years that wyoming has been a state. >> woodruff: you mentioned jobs, as you know a number of skeptics are saying, well, many of those jobs just are not coming back. it's due to factors other than what the epa did, environmental rules have been, how many jobs do yo