senator barrasso: the e.p.a.'s decision to withdraw the so-called clean power plan was the right one. 27 states challenged the clean power plan in court. the supreme court stayed the rule. it wasn't just bad policy. it was against the law. senator braun. senator braun: thank you. good to be on a committee like this. it means a lot to me. i have a steward of the land for over 30 years. i fulls felt conservatives need to do a bert job of talking about conservation. talking about the things that we believe in that really make a difference. been a tree farmer for nearly 30 years. involved in agriculture. use the in the campaign i started the ecology club back in high school. what we're talking about here is important. to me i always view something in the process that you look at how you are going to accomplish a goal. i think clean air and clean water is important to everyone. i also look at the fact that over the weekend, i know it's been discussed here before, i had three different farmers approach me about dealing

>> for the e.p.a. stuff, that is for hunters point and is a general different standard than the occupational setting for building 606. they are separate. >> i don't understand that. so hunters point is for residential development. we have the building 606 and is that industrial use? >> that is an occupational setting. it is not a 24/7 occupied space, whereas a residential would be. the residential standards for all kinds of different parameters are a lot lower because you are intended to be if you want to use the term exposed for a lot longer and duration 24/7 and in occupational is mandated eight hours or vice versa. >> a for the residential, it is more stringent testing because it is longer exposure. for building 606 it is occupational exposure and what is the time weighted average on an eight-hour day, is that what you are telling me? >> that is for osha is use time weighted average. we used e.p.a. modified testing in k-12 schools and the protocol modified to be specific to that site. but that was he

. >> reporter: the former marine now works as an office manager for the e.p.a. in kansas. how does it feel for someone who has a full-time job, works for the federal government, to have to go to their landlord and ask for-- i don't even know what to call it? >> mercy? >> reporter: the mother of two is the family's primary breadwinner. she received her last paycheck at the end of december. >> we did just pay as many bills as we possibly could. i looked today, we have about $300. >> reporter: have you started thinking about where you might save if this shutdown goes longer? >> we're trying to cut the grocery bills just down to the necessities. i mean, we don't live extravagantly, so it's hard to tut out any bills. >> reporter: to try to help, the eovernment provided sample letters last month that federal employees can show creditors, explaining why they're struggling to pay their bills. according to the real estate npbsite zillow, unpaid federal workers will owe $438 million this month in mortgage and rent payments. do you think it's worth keeping

the e.p.a.'s work has nothing to do with a wall. the work the f.d.a. does on food inspection has nothing to do with the wall. so pass the measures that have already been agreed to here in the united states senate on a bipartisan basis. open those eight of nine departments at funding levels that the senate supported to the end of the fiscal year. then with the department of homeland security, do exactly what the majority leader proposed right here in which we supported just a few weeks ago. so we can work with the president -- i mean, he walked out the other day but we'd like to work with the president to resolve that. what we're saying is we are open and we want to focus on the urgent business of reopening the rest of the federal government both to provide the american people with the services that they paid for and to make sure that federal employees don't go without paychecks. and i will tell you your phones will all be ringing off the hook tomorrow when federal employees begin to miss that first paycheck. i will tell you gs2's, gs3's in the federal

and we have been meeting with the city attorney, the navy, the e.p.a., and the leadership of this city already to address that. we are ready to work on the quality of life issues, and make sure that people stop disrespecting our streets in district ten so they can look pristine and clean like every other community in the city. and so for the past month or so, i have been volunteering and we met with the leadership of the department of public works, the navy, the e.p.a., housing authority, mayor's office, sfmta , hope s.f., my colleagues on the board of supervisors, community leaders, merchants, family is, because it is time to get to work. i'm excited about our district, and all of the opportunity, in by the way, to all of our supporters and all of our folks and communities who spend a lot of money in our city, patronizing our restaurants, if you want to do a celebration for us, if you want to do a celebration with us, come and do it in d10, because we have a lot of businesses that need to support. [applause] unto the people that say we won because we are connected to a power source, l

next, a bill to open national parks and the e.p.a. and giving back pay to federal employees furloughed by the shutdown. neither include border security funding and mitch mcconnell said he will not bring up a bill unless it does and then president trump holds a round table at the white house onboarder security. tomorrow, former housing and urban development secretary castro will announce in san antonio, texas, his decision on whether he will run for president in 2020. live coverage starts at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. on day 21 of a government shutdown, the house debated a bill to reopen parts of the federal government including operations for national parks and funding for the e.p.a. here is that hour and 20 minute debate. 266, the fiscal year 201 interior, environment, and related agencies appropriations bill. today is the

plans to work on more government spend, debating a measure to fund the interior department including the e.p.a. follow the house live on c-span when members return friday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. earlier today secretary of state ike pompeo spoke about u.s.-middle east policy and future relations with iran. held at the university of cairo, this is half an hour.

protection agency in the army are postponing a necessary hearing on clean water practices because the e.p.a. doesn't have the money to be open and those who receive food stamps may find themselves looking at empty cupboards come mid february that's because the agriculture department doesn't have enough money to fully fund the program past the middle of february there's also real concern that the millions of american taxpayers who are counting on getting refunds on their tax returns as well as the millions of retailers waiting for them to spend that money are going to be out of luck the treasury department is also closed for business. the head of brazil's environmental protection organization has resigned after the new president will scenario criticize the agency spending also now is frequently criticized the obama which is responsible for protecting the amazon rain forest and a right wing president has also announced that the funding of non-governmental organizations will be rigidly controlled it watching out there are still to come on the program. a disused air field turned into a giant tr

during the last long shutdown in 2013, e.p.a. stopped inspecter more than 1,200 sites of environmental concern. now more than ever we need the ep taupe provide vigorous guidance. no one knows this more than the rest kents of flint, michigan, whose water is still not safe to drink. and closetory my home, floridians in ocala face the contamination of their water by harmful fire retardants used at the nearby fire college. halting inspections leaves communities like these more vulnerable. these cuts can truly impact the people that we're elected to serve and i urge my colleagues to vote for this bill so that the senate can once again pass it and government can be reopened. with that i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from yields. the gentlewoman from minnesota reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. calvert: mr. speaker, i yield four minutes to the gentleman from idaho, the former chairman of the committee, mr. simpson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. simpson: i thank

over the past two years the chicago region covering several states has seen one hundred fifty of the e.p.a's nine hundred fifty employees leave it's almost lunchtime here at the federal building in downtown chicago and it's normally bustling but today is unusually quiet and on friday many workers will be missing their first paycheck of the year across the u.s. about eight hundred thousand federal workers who are in forty three thousand dollars a year on average are either working without pay or not working at all from national parks to the farm service agency. to the alcohol tax and trade bureau which has stopped approving labels for new beer and wine. among those federal employees is sam kitchen a correctional officer at chicago's federal prison home to some of the nation's most dangerous inmates here drug runner murder. but he's not staying home he's considered an essential worker he's just not getting paid do we pair mortgage three player house payments the judge is going to say if i can't pay my child support i do it necessary job thankless job but a job that the public expects us to d

with this time was the trial got under seal or so you know by the e.p.a. . the. moon. r. r r r r r r r r r r r r r. r r. r r. rumor. that. the the enemy. lines. were. the same. be the. champion that. did this notion yes. it's my. that's fifty zero. zero zero. let's say five. so i'm going to. come tonight felt ok. about your head it's not a minute good ha. i think i should say i. hear. you. to kill you know that at this. moment. definitely very damaging. i am the first player. imo are going to push it that they take it. how the. hook me didn't. like it so bad so much here behind me to pull teeth to pull teeth to get into a suit that then. cut its losses. and i think it will always good to go into our doing a little hard to do two. or most of the video in the bounced but i will go there and then put my finger on the i don't do with people kind of on the corner with a few more get away if i can get a good way you know what kind of a cuss could not to be. mitchell so by george michael although. i do think it was going to the. market well i'm getting used to pain and what watc

ce the president's nominee to head the e.p.a. questions, we take a look at the shutdown's effect on the agency, and much more. >> woodruff: the u.s. military sufferedts deadliest day in two american soldiers, a pentagon civilian, and an american contractor were killed, and three other americths wounded, icity of manbij, near the turkish borr. as nick schifrin reports, e four killed were among at least 16 dead in a suicide attack. >> schifrin: on a street in northern syria, the restaurant where u.s. troops were having a meeting, is tted. the building facade is crumpled. and the road is stained with blood. a closed circuit camera video posted to twitter shows the street before the attack, and the moment of the explosion. after, a u.s. military helicopter evacuatedhe wounded. these photos posted on facebook last month show what u.s. troops do in manbij. they conduct patrols in a local abrket, speak to residents, and try to maintain stility in a city liberated from isis more inan two years ago. 014, isis contolled huge heaths of syria

plans to work on more government spend, debating a measure to fund the interior department including the e.p.a. follow the house live on c-span when members return friday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. earlier today secretary of state ike pompeo spoke about u.s.-middle east policy and future relations with iran. held at the university of cairo, this is half an hour. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, business leaders, civil society leaders, members of the media of egypt and international, students, colleagues of the american iversity in cairo, secretary mike pompeo, mrs. susan pompeo. welcome. it's a special and particular honor today to begin a.u.c.'s centennial year here in eyipt with the visit of a distinguished american leader bearing a message of global impact. we have served the citizens of egypt and the wider arab world as a beacon of american-based liberal arts education and a steppingstone for global engagement. at the same time we've served generations of the most adventuresome american scholars at the most welcoming portal to the heart of the american world. mr. secretarying your very

but the treasury department. s.e.c. e.p.a. agriculture. didn't even get into agriculture , though i have a $5 billion -- a $4.5 billion farm gate agricultural district, they're hurting. the crop checks they need to -- and the assurance that they need to their lenders that they'll be able to plant their crops when the rainy season is over in a few weeks, it's not happening now. so that's delayed. and then maybe it goes much longer they'll miss their lanning opportunities. food stamps will soon be unavailable. millions of americans may under that circumstance be very, very hungy. -- hungry. why sit worth it? why don't we start up government, pass some legislation that's over in the encourage, cajole, browbeat a few senators to pass the legislation, put it on the president's desk and he can have that mantle of shutting down the government once again, very clearly. we will deal with voter security, we have over the years. and recently we've done that and will do it again. that's a negotiating process. we negotiate on virtually everything around

we just saw that the e.p.a. has halted one of the federal government's most important public health activities, the inspection ever federal factories, power plants, oil refineries, water treatment plants. 800,000 federal employees are not getting paid. hundreds of thousands of them are going to work every day, including at our border protecting our border, not getting paid. hundreds of thousands more have been locked out of work. there's a maryland mom who just had to go on the internet to set up a go fund me account to help pay her son's college tuition because they're on a monthly installment plan. i talked to the head of a community college in maryland just the other day. i went to see her, asked how are things. the first thing she told me, her phone had been ringing off the hook all morning because the parents of students at the community college weren't going to be able to make their monthly installment payments. hundreds of thousands of federal employees are one paycheck away from not being able to pay thei

what the e.p.a. need. but i cannot it's not a complaint letter can be supported by the media. is going to be put on by the. law get out whether. or not again he says you could mean a little i am not into i want to. see him to squander to bust up what is this guy just what i need is that then processes will put us when i give up. and even as we are we are most of. us older ones i mean. you can't walk around the streets. now with. do you know michael moore you know the name you. obviously melanoma thought of him up in the oil and you know no no let them all coming up with. i don't know your place on the committee and i'm a. million dollar man of the u.s. so i'm going to think when he goes put i'm going to put thin ice in which you know the first part of the moon is a million of them in order to. be published. mid year and. then in moon didn't go to c.n.n. window for problem either school or the media. in the mid eighty's cocaine empire came under attack the colombian government signed a treaty with the united states that allowed local drug lords to be extradited to the usa. but

i was down in delaware on the ocean, and when the e.p.a. report came out talking about how sea levels are rising, next thing i see, literally, same day, is the national realtors on the air saying, we've heard these warnings before, don't worry, buy on the beach. not a joke. so, folks, this is real. i don't have to tell you that. but the fact of the matter is that you're on the ground every day. you see it. hurricanes, drought, wildfires, mudslides. you saw it in austin. rainfall clogged up the city's water treatment system. in denver the heat wave was so extreme it was literally deemed dangerous for people to be inside without air conditioning. our government's almost recent report found that heat stress and drought kill off up to 1/4 of our -- can kill up to 1/4 of our corn and soybean harvest. what's that going to mean for you mayors from the midwest from iowa, from kansas, nebraska? what happens? what happens when john deere has nothing to plow? not a joke. e.p.a.'s spoken. they've laid all this out. our scientists have spoken. there's no

department of agriculture and other entities have substantial oversight in the united states and whereas the e.p.a. updated its regulation very recently the food and drug administration still operates on a framework that assumes that the dose proof makes the proverbial. oyston and the reality is that even the f.d.a. own science suggests effects at low levels of exposure one thing that absolutely astounded me and that i didn't know before is that the f.d.a. does not have the authority to up to date or or reassess the safety of chemicals we are already on the market which is quite scary knowing how much both the bio chemical and medical industries have progress doesn't mean that once the chemical is on the market it will be on the market for ever unless the producer wants to replace it with something safer well fortunately we're seeing a lot of attention to what we call the generally recognized as safe or grass loophole there are a lot of proposals underway to modernize the food drug and cosmetic act in the united states so that we can have a framework that's clearer and more protective of human hea

protection agency and the army are postponing a necessary hearing on clean water practices because the e.p.a. doesn't have the money to be open and those who receive food stamps may find themselves looking at empty cupboards come mid february that's because the agriculture department doesn't have enough money to fully fund the program past the middle of february there's also real concern that the millions of american taxpayers who are counting on getting refunds on their tax returns as well as the millions of retailers waiting for them to spend that money are going to be out of luck the treasury department is also closed for business still ahead on business and preparing for another day on departure from the year of hand you can produce used airfield to.

our mother nature is cop did once again on the chin by the way speaking of lamenting earlier on the e.p.a. is continuing to relax almost every regulation for our water for our air or for our soils and. i don't buy into a little bit of poison is ok there's no notion poison is poison and eight thousand eight hundred tons a minimum we think is now in the ohio river which means all the river life and likely people living next to the ohio river will be exposed to poisons. you know it's easy for us to shrug off things like the closing of national parks let the humans come back another time but what about their critters there and the land itself with these parks closed. yeah well this is also a problem i mean there's poaching for firewood there's poaching for animals there are yahoos in there big rigs driving all over everywhere and there's also a lot of trash and human deficit that's everywhere and it's piling up and you know i also wanted to pivot to south right along the texas mexico border the santa ana national refuge wildlife refuge hole and this is in the exquisite piece of heaven on eart

over the past two years the chicago region covering several states has seen one hundred fifty of the e.p.a.'s nine hundred fifty employees leave it's almost lunchtime here at the federal building in downtown chicago and it's normally bustling but today is a usually quiet and on friday many workers will be missing their first paycheck of the year across the u.s. about eight hundred thousand federal workers who are in forty three thousand dollars a year on average are either working without pay or not working at all from national parks to the farm service agency. to the alcohol tax and trade bureau which has stopped approving labels for new beer and wine. among those federal employees is sam kitchen a correctional officer at chicago's federal prison home to some of the nation's most dangerous inmates here drug runner murder. but he's not staying home he's considered an essential worker he's just not getting paid to do we pay our mortgage to repair house payments the judge is going to say if i can't pay my child support i do it necessary job thankless job. what a job that the public expects u

over the past two years the chicago region covering several states has seen one hundred fifty of the e.p.a.'s nine hundred fifty employees leave it's almost lunchtime here at the federal building in downtown chicago and it's normally bustling but today is a usually quiet and on friday many workers will be missing their first paycheck of the year across the u.s. about eight hundred thousand federal workers who are in forty three thousand dollars a year on average are either working without pay or not working at all from national parks to the farm service agency. to the alcohol tax and trade bureau which has stopped approving labels for new beer and wine. among those federal employees is sam kitchen a correctional officer at chicago's federal prison home to some of the nation's most dangerous inmates your drug runner murderers a rapist a but he's not staying home he's considered an essential worker he's just not getting paid to do we pay our mortgage three player house payments the judge is going to say if i can't pay my child support i'll do it necessary job thankless job but a job that the

over the past two years the chicago region covering several states has seen one hundred fifty of the e.p.a.'s nine hundred fifty employees leave it's almost lunchtime here at the federal building in downtown chicago and it's normally bustling but today is unusually quiet and on friday many workers will be missing their first paycheck of the year across the u.s. about eight hundred thousand federal workers who are in forty three thousand dollars a year on average are either working without pay or not working at all from national parks to the farm service agency. to the alcohol tax and trade bureau which has stopped approving labels for new beer and wine. among those federal employees is sam kitchen a correctional officer at chicago's federal prison home to some of the nation's most dangerous inmates here drug runner murder. but he's not staying home he's considered an essential worker he's just not getting paid to do we pay our mortgage to repair house payments are going to say if i can't pay my child support i do it necessary job thankless job. what a job that the public expects of us to d

. >> stephen: nixon, for pete's sake, started the e.p.a. >> here's the thing, they have become the partyy believe that any democrat who i can see possibly running is what this country is all about, which is trying to get to the fulfilling the unfulfilled promise of opportunity for all, and i think the democrats will do that. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: you are a prolific tweeter. did you want to say something? >> no, you know, it is absolutely insane what is happening now. we have this created emergency, which is insane. this is a pin i wear for -- >> stephen: don't hit the mic. don't hit the mic. >> stephen: first time on tv. ( laughter ) >> for jamie gutenberg. there is an emergency in this country. jamie is one of the students in parkland. there is an emergency in this country. 40,000 american citizens die over -- you know, three times the number -- over ten times the number of the people who died in 9/11 die every year from gun violence in this country. thrans emergency. >> stephen: i think if the president declared an emergency over that, the vast majority of americans would

the e.p.a. expected to cleanup efforts at superfund collusion sites, including in places like mine from poisoned ground water. they stopped returning calls from the new york department of environmental conservation. i held two town halls during the shutdown and opened up our phone lines on weekends to remain accessible to those in my district who need an advocate in washington. i heard from constituents after constituent about the negative repercussions of the shutdown. store owners who couldn't accept e.b.t. cards because their snap vendor license expired with no possibility of renewal. i heard from federal employers, 200 of home i am proud to represent in congress, who worried about losing their dental and vision insurance. i met with members of the u.s. coast guard, the only military personnel that went without pay during the shutdown. and i heard from small business owners, more than 27,000 of whom live in my district, about the effect of the shutdown on their bottom lines. all of this for wh

protection agency in the army are postponing a necessary hearing on clean water practices because the e.p.a. doesn't have the money to be open and those who receive food stamps may find themselves looking at empty cupboards come mid february that's because the agriculture department doesn't have enough money to fully fund the program past the middle of february there's also real concern that the millions of american taxpayers who are counting on getting refunds on their tax returns as well as the millions of retailers waiting for them to spend that money are going to be out of luck the treasury department is also closed for business u.s. and chinese negotiators of how their first face to face talks since both countries agreed to a truce to try to resolve their trade this feud deputy trade representative jeffrey garish led the talks on the u.s. side but few details having marriage so far from the the two sides will continue talks on tuesday but the u.s. says impose tariffs on two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods since july it covers a wide range of industrial and consumer

government does a lot of things -- who knew -- including, food stamps, subsidized school lunches the e.p.a., the u.s.d.a., and the smithsonian and national zoo. and you can tell they're upset about it if you look at the national zoo's panda cam. ( laughter )es he some sympathy for the plight of unpaid federal workers. >> i can relate, and i'm sure the people on the receiving end will make adjustment. they always do. they will make adjustment. >> stephen: yes, i agree. adjustments must be made. starting in november of 2020. ( cheering ) and trump argued that federal workers want him to deny them paychecks. >> i really believe that these people-- many of the people that we're talking about, many of the people you're discussing-- i really believe that they agree lookedt those people, i thinthep going." >> stephen: (as trump) "they'd also say: 'mr president, you are so big and handsome. your father loved you. have a third slice of cake." "i really believe that." ( laughter ) ( applause ) but they're not leaving federal workers high and dry. the office of personnel management suggests the cash-

the former energy lobbyist has been serving as acting e.p.a. chief since july. ler's predecessor, scott pruitt, resigned last summer amid scrutiny of his spending and various ethical issues. toyota irecalling another 1.3 million vehicles in the u.s. over faulty air bag inflators. they're blamed for at least 23 deaths around the world. some 50 million air bag inflators made by takata have been recalled in recent years. one-third of them have yet to be replaced. and, on wall street, the dow jones industrialverage gained 91 points to close at 23,879. the nasdaq rose 60, and the s&p 500 added 10.to still come on the newshour: what will it take to find a deal open the government. why the shutdown is adding to already overwhelmed immiuration . virtual reality gives patients and doctors an inside look at the brain.wr plus, how one er's decision m speak about her rape inspired a new book, and mue. >> woodruff: the breakdown of talks at the white house today demonstrates the deedivides on both policy and politics. we want to get two tes now on where things could go after

the department of interior to prevent our national parks and monuments from being further degraded. and allow e.p.a. to resume its work protecting public health and our environment. and the department of housing and urban development to help hardworking families in the process of realizing the dream of homeownership. these bills offer us a way out of the president's shutdown, an embarrassing spectacle that never should have happened in the first place. 19 days ago, the president of the united states threw a temper tantrum. he went back on his word, breaking his promise to sign bipartisan appropriation bills that would have prevented a quarter of our government from shutting down. he turned on fox news or some right-wing radio show somewhere and changed his mind. suddenly, the president demanded $5 billion in funding for his offensive border wall, just to keep the lights on. billions of dollars, by the way, that would just have been a down payment on an unnecessary project that would cost tens of billions of dollars. and not at mexico's expense like president trump promised over and over and over an

that was posted to the federal register on the e.p.a. federal register website last friday. and sdwoenlts that, the f.t.a. will be issuing an amended regular decision. on the ceqa side, on your part, we've gone ahead and released all the public comments and responses to those public comments. on november 26 and the tgpa is taking action today. those actions include certifying the final environmental impact report, adopting the findings that go with the ceqa requirements, adopting and incorporating the mitigation measures, along with that, adopting the mitigation monitoring and reporting program that describes who's going to be responsible for implementing the mitigation measures when that is going to happen, how implementation is going to be verified. and then hopefully approving the project. the agencis that have been participating heavily in this -- and in leading the effort has been the transbay joint powers authority as a ceqa leave and the federal transit administration as the federal leave. because of the keen interest of the federal railroad administration in having hi