e.p.a. staffers who may have used encrypted message app. called signal as a way to avoid government oversight. here to react is the government of e.p.a. t pruitt. good morning. ainsley: good morning. steve: what do you make of this story that while it's easier for the government to look at somebody's p.c., people have got that app. where everything is a secret. and if you are talking to somebody else at the e.p.a., you don't want you to find out about it, they are using that app. >> let me tell you, there has been change direction obviously at the e.p.a. i think that's what's prompting these kind of stories, the president has sent a clear message where the last 8 years we had to choose between jobs and the environment. those days are over. two weeks ago we were at the e.p.a. joined by 40 or so coal miners from pennsylvania. they were emotional about it because the war on coal ended. of the war on fossil fuels ended. false choice between jobs and growth and the environment we have rejected that i think what you see, steve, in response to your question is you see kind of a competitiveness, concern over the last 8 years. we try not to pre

. >> the e.p.a. and union carbide adopted a remediation plant. it's a superfund site. we will let these chemicals go into the public drinking waters and aerate them out and then the water will be safe to drink. someone said, why don't we put carbon filters on that water just to make sure nothing gets through. they said it's going to aerate out, you don't need carbon. well, that was a mistake that cost lives. because it turns out the only thing, there was a lotot of oth stuff in the water they weren't looking for because they weren't on e.p.a.'s priority pollutant list so the group included other chemicals, thyrene and acilorirites is kno to cause cancer and they let it go 10 years and it wasn't until they saw the high rate of cancer that they took another look at the water and they found this. every critical fact community neneed to learn. you may think you're safe. you're not safe because there may be things in therere you're nott looking for. the priority pollutant list of the e.p.a. >> in 1996 when these cancer causing chemicals were found, all eight wells of the par

to the y challenges authority of the e.p.a. to water e emissions, pollution, conventional air pollution and, of course, the climate policy leadership globally. if the united states retreats globally from a leadership climate change, i can assure you that china won't wear that happy to mantle of leadership exclusively. that we ot something should love. sustaining support for science nd technology under the likely budget cuts. it's going to be difficult particularly to avoid deep cuts nasa, particularly observations on the stem ducation activities at nasa, oaa, polar, climate data, national science foundation, basic research and social the ce research are not favorite topics of the republicans in power in the in the committees house. e.p.a. and f.d.a. research and support of regulation is threatened. see that in more detail in a minute. climate science sustainability science will have a hard time. in scienceooperation and technology, always an early target for folks who don't elieve that international cooperation is actually in th

so to say that the e.p.a. is not is completely b idiotic and to put someone in that knows absolutely ridiculous.ut it is host: finish with this, mr. dean. greekt you.: thank the river is why richard nixon reated the e.p.a., our friends from the right howled, said it would cripple the economy, it would ill jobs, industry be dead. american innovation would give our d go home, instead economy has grown 360% in real adjusted terms since that was created. we have built in this country, economy in the history of the world while protecting our air, our water, our lands, that is what we need to be about. oversight is ublic essential to the function of modern economy and as a matter greatest job killer in our country's history was lack of responsible oversight in street that caused the financial collapse in 2008 that ed to the decade of stagnation that myron referenced earlier. when the independent ongressional commission reviewed the collapse of our financial system in 2008, they ame back and said, the centuries were n

if that is the kind of e.p.a. ministrator you are going to be, you're not going to get my vote. >> sonny perdue was one of the last nominees announced by the trump administration. the senate agriculture committee overwhelmingly supported his nomination with a full senate vote set for april 24. he served two terms as governor and as a state senator before that. he switched parties from democratic to republican in 1998. we will show you governor perdue's opening state from his confirmation hearing from late march. >> i know from visiting with many of you in your offices, there was some anxiety over whether there would be a secretary of agriculture nominee. i must say with all the humility i can muster, i think the president must have saved best for last. thank you for making time to meet with me individually over the last few years. i hope and trust our meetings will not just be introductory episodes, but an opportunity to listen and to learn from one another. my goal today is to answer your questions trance apparent

. >> the administration has proposed a 31% cutback in the e.p.a., and while, this of course, has to go through congress, and it could look different on the end, the president's budget is always a good indication of his agenda. so he wants to cut back the e.p.a. 31%, dismantle programs to clean up the great lakes, clean up chesapeake bay, clean up puget sound and any number of other areas. so it's our job at "national geographic," not to comment on the policy change, but to explain how that could affect people and wildlife >> sreenivasan: susan goldberg, editor in chief of "national geographic" joining us from washington today. thanks so much. >> thank you, hari, appreciate it. >> this is pbs newshour weekend, saturday. >> sreenivasan: after 111 victories and four national championships in a row, the university of connecticut women's basketball team finally knows how their opponents feel. in one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history, mississippi state beat connecticut in their semi-final game of the n.c.a.a. tournament last night. guard morgan williams sank the winning jum

the air. host: is e.p.a. the hardest hit agency in terms of reduction in size in president trump's budget? guest: yeah, as far as cabinet level, major agencies that is the hardest hit it is getting almost a third of the budget cut. like i mentioned earlier, smaller, independent agencies being eliminated entirely. host: in this "your money segment," focusing on size of the federal workforce, taking questions and comments, federal line 202- -- a democrat, joe, good morning. caller: hi, how you doing? i live in new jersey and i support federal workers, i work at the state level, but i notice that federal workers give more work to state workers, but there is not a lot in the state. the state, new jersey locks down any federal workers, like the woman before said, sanctuary cities, all over new jersey, don't allow federal workers to come into new jersey to work, so i mean what is your argument to people that federal workers are necessary. host: eric katz, you covered some of the federal employee unions, what arguments do they make in that? guest: well, 85% of federal workforce is spread througho

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the administrator of the e.p.a., the first woman to serve as e.p.a. administrator who was the subject of the chevron doctrine. not only is he willing to stand up to the president and the administrative state of the president, but he's willing to overturn a case that was the subject that his own mother was a subject to. i have also heard comments from colleagues on the other side of the aisle that judge gorsuch is not a mainstream jurist. this argument i think can be dealt with in a couple of ways because there are some pretty good statistics to refute these arguments. 97%, 97%. 97% is the number of times in the 2,700 opinions that he was a part of, 97% represents the time that that was a unanimous decision. judge gorsuch didn't serve only with conservative appointed judges. he didn't serve with only republican nominees. judge gorsuch served with republican and democrat nominees, appointments approved by the senate. and in 97% of the cases, judge gorsuch ruled, decided in unanimous decisions. now, the other statistic that i think is even more revealing,

the administrator of the e.p.a., the first woman to serve as e.p.a. administrator who was the subject of the chevron doctrine. not only is he willing to stand up to the president and the administrative state of the president, but he's willing to overturn a case that was the subject that his own mother was a subject to. i have also heard comments from colleagues on the other side of the aisle that judge gorsuch is not a mainstream jurist. this argument i think can be dealt with in a couple of ways because there are some pretty good statistics to refute these arguments. 97%, 97%. 97% is the number of times in the 2,700 opinions that he was a part of, 97% represents the time that that was a unanimous decision. judge gorsuch didn't serve only with conservative appointed judges. he didn't serve with only republican nominees. judge gorsuch served with republican and democrat nominees, appointments approved by the senate. and in 97% of the cases, judge gorsuch ruled, decided in unanimous decisions. now, the other statistic that i think is even more revealing,

but head of the e.p.a.ho calls pants "slacks," scott pruitt, doesn't see these cuts as bad for the environment. they're good for states. >> you know, we have state departments of environmental quality across the country that have the resources and the expertise to deal with clean water and clean air issues. >> stephen: scott, you can't leave environmental issues up to the states. as someone who works next to new jersey, i can tell you, air travels. it's got a fast pass. is that true? that's true. i'm being told that's right. but even the most noxious cloud has a silver lining because yesterday, during his afternoon press conference, sean spicer revealed donald trump is donating his entire first quarter salary to the national parks service. it is a nice change of pace to see trump pay the settlement money before the screwing. ( laughter ) trump had already told us he was going to donate his salary, but i don't think any of us knew it would happen like this. >> so, it is my pleasure, on behalf of the presiden

. >> they are also concerned that the administration might roll back the e.p.a. administrations. they hope if there are large numbers out here tomorrow it would send a message to the white house. richard reeve, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. federal judge signed off on $3 million trillion fine against volkswagen for cheating on emission tests. volkswagen pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of justice earlier in year. several employees face charges and v.w. is also paying out $1.5 billion in a civil case and spending $11 billion buying back impacted vehicles. jonathan: the continuing fight over obamacare could lead to a government shutdown that could happen next week. congress has until friday to pass a spending bill. compounding matters the house may vote next week on a new bill to replace obamacare. some republicans want the spending bill to end sub studies to the insurance -- subsidies to insurance companies. democrats say they will block the bill and end the payment that includes funding for border wall with mexico. michelle: champs Élysees reopened in paris. people l

even administrator pruitt seems to recognize the foley of trying to undo the e.p.a. carbon dioxide endangerment finding. so you have as a matter of law a dangerous pollut pollutant and r the law, it must be regulated. so this performance of the trump show is a waste of time because ultimately lawyers and courts will give the law, the law the final say. courts are actually pretty good places for addressing climate change. it is very hard for the lies that are at the heart of climate denial to withstand withstand jl scrutiny. smelly conflicts of interest can be exposed and administrators with those smelly conflicts can be removed or recused. judges aren't supposed to be influenced by campaign contributions or political threats. the law and real facts, not alternative facts, prevail. in litigation like the cases in new york and oregon, the fossil fuel industry will face discovery, testimony, and cross-examination. lawyers and courts will ultimately force things back on track. in the meantime, this trump show makes losers of the american people the clean power plan is a r

many of which have been on the priority list for ten years, and have never been dealt with while the e.p.a. was coming up with something else to find to do. they would have driven up the costs of groceries and the you a tilty bill and when the utility bill goes up, utility goes up too. the combined cost savings is estimated at high as $67.3 billion over the very foreseeable future over the congressional review acts, the president's executive orders, the clean power rule, and the waters of the u.s. rule, even in washington $67.3 billion is a lot of money, not to mention the 52 million hours of paperwork to comply with rules that weren't necessary to be there that senator rounds mentioned. our economy can't grow and thrive with billions of dollars worth of regulations dragging it down. now, let me say again, i'm for every regulation we absolutely have to have. there's no argument about that, but we need to have a process where we know whether we have to have them or not. that's why i plan to reintroduce in the next few weeks the bipartisan regulatory improvement act that the congress looked

special program looking at the trump cabinet with portions from congress fir mation hearings featuring -- confirmation hearings featuring education secretary betsy devos and e.p.a. director scott pruitt and others. we'll have that for you at 8:00 p.m. here on c-span. >> this week on "q&a," historian david mccola on "the american spirit: who we are and what we stand for" a selection of his speeches. >> the 20th century senator that's been written about the most is joe mccarthy. there is dozens of books about mccarthy yet there is no one that -- about one that stood up to him the most. >> do you know how you went about preparing for that speech? >> hards i ever worked on anything i ever delivered from a podium. >> historian david mccullough on his book "the american spirit," a selection of his speeches going back to 1989, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> with the first 100 days of the trump administration approaching, c-span takes a look at the president's cabinet, which includes the senior most appointed officials in the executive branch. we begin our program

that's to me, that is an example of extremism of the e.p.a. thank you. host: "new york times" looking at supreme court case heard looking at religious freedom. reporting the court seemed ready the wall ay at separating church and state on wednesday with several justices must sometime es provide aide to religious group. program thatssouri made playground safer, but had all kind of or government aid to religious institution. this is clear burden on constitutional right. justice neil gorsuch said the rogram amounted to discrimination based on religion. that has happened in this case, leaving no doubt the answer was yesterday. was most consistent voice, he was in the minority. they are just saying, you don't be involved with the charge. more in the new york times this morning. ere is tom, farmville, virginia, independent line. caller: yes, i appreciate what doing on c-span. and thanks. just wanted to make a comment and inquire about what about environment pollution, thatnos, solar output, has increased that may contribute to there warm something are ther fact

undermine the e.p.a. unleashing wall street, dismantling americans' privacy on the internet, as i mentioned, undermining american values. so we are very pleased. monday we were on the phone with some of you, chuck shumer and i and chairman perez talking about the overarching promises made, promises broken. each day we had jobs -- tuesday, health care wednesday, today, as we speak, maybe it's still going on, draining the swamp with -- from our side by elijah cummings and tomorrow they'll join us, chuck and i and others on the broken promises to working families. democrats believe that every day we must be about job creation for everyone everywhere in our country, but republicans spent the first 100 days trying to weaken working families and even put more money in the pockets of the wealthiest people in our country. so yesterday was a big day for the tax plan. did you see it? here it is. the tax plan. i must say the first third page is grow the economy and create jobs. it's like descriptive but not provision

that's nearly 100 times what the e.p.a. considers normal. nt killer, carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas. most fatalities happen in homes or cars. enclosed pools are common at hotels across the country, but only 13 states require installation of carbon monoxide detectors in hotels, and in michigan, detectors are required in buildings constructed on or after december 1, 2009. offering condolences, choice hotels, which owns quality inn, said in a statement, "the hotel, which is an independently owned and operated franchise property, continues to fully cooperate with local authorities." family and friends of bryan douglas watts only wish the hotel had done more sooner. fire officials here are recommending that people carry their own carbon monoxide detector. that will cost you, scott, between $20 and $60. >> pelley: jericka duncan for us this evening. thank you, jericka. coming up next, a tiny piece of spring inspires a coach to win a championship. ♪ predictable. the comfort in knowing where things are headed. because as we l

then the final one that i spoke out about is the e.p.a. cuts. i think that if you look for example at the chemical safety bill that we passed last can't enforce some of the laws we have on the books if you don't have folks in the administration able to enforce them. i think that it is a dramatic cut and i don't support that either. host: three months into his presidency, how is donald trump doing? guest: it is a good question. constituents in my district, i answer it that way and i smile because there is such an intensity out there in the country over this administration. unlike anything i've ever experienced even before i started serving in congress. host: and hillary clinton won your district narrowly, correct? guest: that is correct, yes. i think it remains to be seen how successful this administration is going to be. i think they've been a little slow out of the gate. partly because of the confirmation process getting stalled in the u.s. senate on a number of nominees. it will be interesting to see where we head on health care reform and tax

. >> many folks are concerned that the administration may try to gut the e.p.a. h protest in the district. it's costing million of dollars. at 6:00, we will break it down and the price of protest. richard reeve, abc7 news. jonathan: thank you. coming up next at 4:00, unbelievable lottery luck. nancy: and the campaign launched from a college dorm. jonathan: also this. >> i'm glad i got to help. jonathan: meet the man who broke up the cross-country kidnapping case up next. erin: game five. can you believe it's tied up with two games apiece? hear from the players next. brian: pulling out of fairfax and loudoun now but for maryland, darnestown. we'll talk about that more coming up. jonathan: a former substitute teacher and basketball coach in prince george's county will remain in jail without bond. christopher speights made his first court appearance and is charged with counts of distributing child pornography. he worked at bradbury heights high school and the south county sports academy. new details in the kidnapping case that sparked a nationwide manhunt. after five

not exactly embracing the trump budget blueprint. and e.p.a. is a concern to voters. also republicans. a lot of republicans are environmentalists in a slightly different way, but conservationalists of the land, particularly out west. >> including the president's son. >> you see there from republicans, the whole idea that -- some new polling out, president's job approval, 39 approved, 54 disapproved. so there's this sort of anti-washington mood there that benefited candidate trump. the outsider coming to wancchan washington. his title is approximamr. presi. you get the baggage. >> that was a useful exchange. a republican congressman offering a congress lesson. the president's budget slaps some unicorns on it. it's an idea whof what he would like and he will not get. it was the same in the obama administration. but you see this hesitancy to embrace his priorities that showed in that budget because part of the constituency are less like me and don't want to cut so much. that is a sticking point they will continue to have. >> part of this is how much can democrats tag trum

meanwhile, back on the planet, saturday was "earth day," which trump already celebrated by cutting the e.p.abudget by 31%. ( audience reacts ) >> stephen: no, no, it's fitting. next year, earth day might be a memorial service. ( laughter ) but he wanted to assure the country he cares, tweeting: "i am committed to keeping our air and water clean but..." but? ( laughter ) nothing good comes after "but." especially when trump says it. "do you take this woman to your lawfully wedded wife?" "i do, but..." he continues, "always remember that economic growth enhances environmental protection. jobs matter!" obviously, jobs matter. and, oh, yeah, economic growth always enhances the environment. that's why god built the garden of eden next to that tire plant. ( laughter ) now, to celebrate earth day, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in the march for science. ( cheers and applause ) which is a lovely idea. i just can't believe we have to do it. i thought science was one thing everyone agrees on. it's like having the march for orgasms. ( laughter ) no one could be against that. well,

at the end of march, president trump traveled to the e.p.a. tive order to create energy independence. in a single stroke, he wrote back obama era emissions. the claim, eliminating those regulations would bring jobs back to the coal mining industry. i guess he's trying to make good on a campaign stop where he told coal miners -- >> get ready because you are going to be working yor asses off. >> coal is not going to come roaring back nor will the jobs. coal plants are closing in record numbers. until the economic exchange, the number of power plants using coal will keep falling. why is trump so stuck on coal? well, according to a report from npr, the answer may lie in the state's where all the sew lor jobs have been created. the top six states generating the most solar industry all voted for hillary clinton. the states with the fewest solar jobs went for trump, including three key states, michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania, which flipped from democrat to republican in 2016. in any event, the revival of coal is one more false promise and fake pr

surprised, because he's jealous of anyone who is well- endowed. ( laughter ) plus, trump's slashing the e.p.a audience boos ) and "the great lakes restoration initiative, which fights invasive species like the sea lamprey, could see its funding slashed by 97%. if you're not familiar with the sea lamprey, you might know it as the vicious, flesh-eating hell beast from your worst nightmares. ( laughter ) or as steve bannon calls it, "my mentor." ( applause ) this budget-- >> jon: get off, get off! >> stephen: this budget is so ruthless, it's cutting funding for "meals on wheels." really? ( audience boos ) really? cutting meals on wheels? that isn't just heartless, it's bad marketing. you always stick with things that rhyme. meals on wheels! crack is whack! hop on pop! two buck chuck! avoid the noid! be kind, rewind! this program provides elderly shut-ins just minimal nutrition and a scrap of human dignity. what kind of heartless monster could be against that? >> colbert: did someone say "fiscal conservative?" ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: oh, say hello to my conservative pundit colleague,

we need to look at the e.p.a.. we need to reform the department of energy. there are a lot of things that need to be done but since we campaigned to repeal and replace the affordable care about, that's what we're doing now. it will be an interactive process. ou folks will be a part of it. >> 985. rep. barton: 985. right there. we believe you. he is giving me the number like he has to prove he is 985. >> my name is carl kennedy from waxahachie. one of the things i would like to know and it is the root cause of a lot of these problems. when are the republicans and the democrats going to start talking rather than saying it is my party, we're in charge. your official title is u.s. congressman from the sixth district of the state of texas, is that correct? rep. barton: actually u.s. representative. congressman is close enough. >> you represent the state of texas in this district in the united states congress and you should be working for the benefit of the united states, not only texas and not only republicans. when i enlisted in the army, when i went in the army

someone like scott pruitt at the e.p.a. would not have been confirmed. e would not have been 60 votes for those people but the president did not have to find consensus candidates because he knew he only needed 51 vets. >> yang: in the tradition of friday night document dumps we got the financial disclears forms for the trump administration. what did we learn? >> already really wealthy people in this administration. you pointed out the connection of the kushners with the trump properties. but i think for folks who already believe that there is too much of a connection between the trump business and trump administration, those came true in this. but i think at the end of the day for democrats and those who are opposed to donald trump, the idea that just because you have wealthy people in your administration is going to make people fear those folks will not look out for the interests of non-wealthy people is unmarked. we have to wait and see what their policies will do for people who don't have all this money. if at the end of the day we find the policies tr

forget the paris accord whether we go with it or not. it's not that important. pruitt and e.p.a. is far more important. brian: what's important for me is for everyone to watch you from 9 to noon on the fox business network. >> i think you should anchor that money, brian. you know a great deal be money. brian: i'm doing radio at the time or else we would talk. you don't have heather on your show do you? brian: not now. good morning to everyone esm. we begin desperate search for teenager. have you heard about this? the teenager vanished in the middle of his high school prom. police in idaho says kristian perez drove to the dance with a relative but walked out 9:00 p.m. saturday. the car was found in a parking lot nearby the 17-year-old's tuxedo jacket, one shoe and broken cell phone.

i'm joined by mustafa ali, who resigned from the e.p.a. in protest last month after a 24-year career in government. he's now with the nonprofit group, the hip-hop caucus. let's talk about this. you know, i get a sense that trump, if you announced at midnight tonight that central park in new york was available for development, it would be gone by dawn. >> yes. >> there would be buildings up. they don't believe -- people like trump basically don't believe in protecting lands for the public or for history. so here we have out in utah places like this. what do you think is the philosophy of this new administration about environmental protection like we're looking at these beautiful places like that one right there? >> yeah. i think that our new administration is more focused on placing profits over people and not actually really connecting with real people, real needs that they have. and maybe it's because when you're a billionaire, it's hard for you to actually connect with what real folks are actually asking for. >> well, we used to have a te

we have the e.p.a. getting strict and more climate deniers than anyone saw coming rflt they suddenly going to have a diversity candidate filling that slot? that's unclear. it is a massive company. they want to make a lot more acquisitions. so what their brand is on a global scale matters. >> talk to me with the murdoch sons and what value they want to champion with this company and how much this company stands to change with them taking on larger leadership roles. >> it is somewhat unclear. but if you spend any time with these guys, they are thoughtful, they are global guys. they have a different perspective than the traditional fox news model. but fox news is a cash cow that cannot denied. so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. when you saw someone like roger ailes get pushed out of the company. that was the influence of the murdoches, specifically james. i appreciate all of you. breaking news, fox news has decided to sever ties with their top rated host, bill o'reilly. a 20-year veteran

the implication is that little would change, of course referring to the e.p.a.'s or the department of labor's statute. judges would interpret the law. who would object to that? but here's the thing, the article continues. judge gorsuch is skeptical that congress can use broadly written laws to delegate authority to agencies in the first place. that can mean only that at least portions of such statutes, the source of so many regulations that safeguard americans' welfare, must be sent back to congress to redo or not. on the current supreme court, only justice clarence thomas seeks to strip power from the administrative state by undercutting chevron and even reviving the object sleet discredited nondelegation doctrine as he explains in opinions provingly cited by judge gorsuch. but president trump may well appoint additional justices, the other conservatives on the court have expressed some uneasiness with chevron, although as yet they are not unbarred from overturning them. what would happen if agencies could not make rules for the financial industry and for consum

a treaty, it's something that this country, the clean power plan, the regulatory response of the past e.p.asponse, to the climate action plan in paris think are inextrickably linked. as such we have front loaded those costs, san draft what we should be talking about is how we export innovation and technology that we have already deployed here to places like china and india to get accountability with respect to our co 2 footprint. the clean power plan represented a 2.5 trillion-dollar reduction in gross domestic product in 10 year period. 2-million-dollar compliance. up to 400,000 jobs annually. this is something that we're doing taking steps now when we are already at pre194 levels. that's a bad business deal for this country. >> the reason i ask you if there is any more moderate approach that could be between on this while still being in it there seems to be. i'm thinking on this rex tillerson, the secretary of state who used to run exxon mobil during confirmation hearings shed we should have a seat at the table that seat can continue, san draft that's something we should do. in fact, the

that bill dealt with chemicals and how we're going to improve chemicals and how the e.p.a. can do it. we put new language in that requiring good science, peer reviewed science and on a voice vote from everyone in this body we agreed that's the best way to handle science on chemicals. so what did i do? i took that exact language that we all agreed to ons tasca and said let's apply that to every agency. when any agency makes a decision that's science based, it is peer reviewed. we believe the par should do it dealing with chemical. let's agree everyone should do it. let's agree on how we handle guidance to not allow agencies just to be able to create guidance documents. we have a simple bill that just says whatever new regulation is out there, the agencies have to put a description out in plain language that a non-attorney can understand in just a hundred words. just a hundred-word description of what is it. rite now there are folks that actually do try to be able to research and if you're not a trained attorney you can't understand what it even means. so just plain language d

he revoked the steam protection rule, the clean water act, slashing the e.p.a., keystone and dakota pipelinesing the clean power plan and with drawing from the pour we agreement. what would be the point of rolling back these rules? >> i think it's very simple. i think that they are paid to lie by the fossil fuel companies. and they're doing everything they can to try and take industries that are on the decline and the inevitable decline, and try and prop them up and to take a loser and make it a winner. >> and how long can you do that? there is a finite amount of oil and coal and natural gas, and the united states doesn't even have any close to the most of any of those three things. so they -- even if they could milk this and make it appear they're making those industries salient or make them -- reviving them, there's a limit, right? do they know that? >> it's not about quantity, though. it's really about price. the fact of the matter is, american technology in solar, in wind, and in batteries is beating the heck out of those industries in the market on price. so everything they're doing is t

e.p.a. since president trump took office, one of the things that's happened online is dozens of parody accounts have popped up. they're usually pretty open about the fact they're alternative accounts. the alt department of energy on the alt department of labor, or the alt library of congress.

economic value to the chesapeake bay watershed yet the trump budget cuts nearly half of the funding of the e.p.a., to allow states to get grants that will help improve air quality, clean up contaminated waste sites and remove lead from drinking water. delaware alone would lose millions of dollars in these initiatives. there are millions of americans who rely on programs listed here, the liheap, the africa development foundation and many more all eliminated in this budget in order to prioritize a focus on our defense. what the president doesn't understand is that we cannot maintain our stood us as a global leader with just defense and military alone. we need to ensure that a implementtory strategy exists also. i recently had the opportunity to see the impact that u.s.aid and our programs to assist the needy around the world can make it stabilizing fragile states, in preventing them from becoming failed states. we spend less than 1% of the federal budget on these sorts of programs and they provide a critical connection to parts of the world where a positive understanding of america and our values

e.p.a. overreach was redefining the boundaries of indian lands, judge gorsuch overruled e.p.a.'s interpretation and respected the current tribal boundaries. mr. president, for all these reasons, i urge a yes vote on judge gorsuch's nomination. on the highest court of the land, the decisions have a widespread impact on mammograms of americans. -- on millions of americans. when the stakes are this high, it is necessary that we confirm someone with a sound, fair, and prudent aapproach to the law. i have no doubt that judge gorsuch is the right person for this role. i enthusiastically support his nomination and urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to do the same. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator washington. mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. i come to the floor today to express my deep concern about the republicans' rush to fill the vacant supreme court seat and about president trump's nominee for this critical position. i want to start by saying, i believe one of the most solemn and consequentia

hurricane ike, it is not realizing the importance of the national endowment of the arts or recognizing the e.p.a. and clean air and clean water for those of us who live near the gulf or near the border. it's not recognizing that you're not the president of the 10% that may approve what you're doing but you're the president of the united states of america. and then for those who work in health care, in a meeting i just had with the national institutes of health, $6 billion cut. do you realize that one of the institutes sends 88% of their money out for grants so that researchers, young scientists who live here in the united states can thrive and provide new kinds of research? all i can say -- mr. mcgovern: i yield jeelt an additional -- the gentlelady an additional one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. jackson lee: there are 22 endowments in the national institutes of health. one of them deals with diabetes. the number one is cancer. and for those of us who've experienced it and for african-american women and others who have the triple negative treat, breast cancer

nancy: the chemical in question here, and e.p.a. ator scott pruitt announced he will reverse the effort to ban the use on food. the c.e.o. of dow chemical is an adviser to the president and donated to the inauguration festivities. larry: this is the 91st of president trump's first 100 days in office and came with a possible breakthrough on healthcare plan. we have a look at that and the deadline to keep the government running that is eight days away. office. the first 100 days in office. we may see a mad dash to the finish line. president trump: we'll have a big win soon. we'll have healthcare. i believe it will happen. >> sources tell cnn a new healthcare deal could be in the works. they have reached a "breakthrough" in the negotiations. >> there was no loss. it's constant negotiation. the plan is getting better and better all the time. >> the free tom caucuses caused the first g.o.p. plan to implode in march. the new plan still faces some of the same obstacles at the first. core group of the republicans still won't vote for anythin