the new policy is very different. nrc will only provide nonpublic documents to the chairman and ranking member of a committee and it will provide documents only after pursuing alternatives that do not involve producing requested documents. do you acknowledge this committee's constitutional responsibility to provide oversight of the executive branch? >> of course. >> and do you conceive that in the absence of a claim of executive privilege nmp rc has no legal basis to with hold requested nonpublic documents from can be? >> not from its oversight committees and the chairman. >> the new policy also provides each commissioner the opportunity to review documents before they are turned over to congress and to object to producing specific documents. chairman mcfarlnd, this policy creates a potential for significant delay in responding to oversight requests. how much time are commissioners given to review documents before they are produced in congress? >> we i think we certainly want to maintain cog zans of what documents are goi

the cherubim and the commissioners of the nrc. but to codify the plan every since the plan to from the three mile island put tickets states needs as seeing gold clear decision maker to reap -- during a nuclear in urgency. the bill takes the opposite approach the requires the nrc to befall the other commissioners it either prevents the chairman from taking in the emergency action until she did a price of four commissioners and the general public and the congressional committee. i figure that is a troublesome idea if a nuclear meltdown is happening we don't need bureaucracy be need to the chair to act quickly and decisively. we should now required to call congress and commissioners along with the web site of the illustrator of public affairs officer for exercising a birch's the authority the impact of this bill could be proving disastrous in the nuclear crisis. that is not feel the change. not long ago struggling with a nasty personal conflict while the commission seems to of moved past that with the leadership of chairman -- chairma

in november it was reported the nrc staff estimated cost of 11.1 million. l.a. time the subcommittee addressed yucca mountain. we acknowledged the two through five -- is 8.3 the correct number? why has the estimate increased over $2 million over the last six months? >> as we said in the order, the staff's estimate has changed as a result of the proceeding being suspended for a number of years. and seeing anymore on the topic is not appropriate because the motion before the commission. >> well, and i know if we guidance, mr. chairman, from the house side hopefully the senate would recognize there's a the court's decision we have to respond to. we obviously -- i've been to other countries. see their nuclear waste facilities. it would be nice if we actually lead in that effort even though some of our other countries are a little further ahead of us. thank you, mr. chairman. for your courtesy. >> the time is expired. the chair recognizes the patient mr. terri from nebraska. i think he wants to weigh in a little bit. >> maybe. first, i would like to note the issue wha

the cherubim and the commissioners of the nrc. but to codify the plan every since the plan to from the three mile island put tickets states needs as seeing gold clear decision maker to reap -- during a nuclear in urgency. the bill takes the opposite approach the requires the nrc to befall the other commissioners it either prevents the chairman from taking in the emergency action until she did a price of four commissioners and the general public and the congressional committee. i figure that is a troublesome idea if a nuclear meltdown is happening we don't need bureaucracy be need to the chair to act quickly and decisively. we should now required to call congress and commissioners along with the web site of the illustrator of public affairs officer for exercising a birch's the authority the impact of this bill could be proving disastrous in the nuclear crisis. that is not feel the change. not long ago struggling with a nasty personal conflict while the commission seems to of moved past that with the leadership of chairman -- chairma

the nrc also continues to make progress in its confidence work. the proposed temporary storage rule and generic environmental impact statement or out for public comment until december december 20th. we have meetings in ten states to get feedback and address questions and to date the agency has received over 30,000 public comments. .. we are carefully ensuring that this work does not distract us or the industry from the day-to-day nuclear safety priorities. the highest priority safety enhancements will be implemented by 2016. the nrcs of more than 150 public meetings to get input on our fukushima work and share progress. the nrc managed to fiscal year 2013 sequestration cuts such that they did not adversely impact the agency's ability to carry out normal operations. however, if sequestration continues in 2014 it will negatively impact our research, new reactor work and non-emergency licensing activities, among other responsibilities. the recent government shutdown also had a detrimental impact on the nrc's operation. agency safety and security missi

. 10% of me thinks that maybe andy kaufman is back from the grave -- >> ted cruz is vice chair of the nrco i would say -- not to overstate the case, a unanimous laughing stock. >> stockman may not be real, but the culture that created him is real. >> no, stockman is real, but this is the guy who in kentucky got rand paul, who endorsed mcconnell, he provides him cover, you would expect the same endorsement from him. >> i think cruz is looking ahead to 2016. you're right, mcconnell, this is something that saves him in that primary. mcconnell fought against him in 2010. mcconnell hires jesse betten to run his own election campaign. >> let's just show the stockman tweet as a sample of what his cornyn campaign looks like. this is him taking off on the pajama boy. excellent work there. wyoming is a place where there is no ideological content to the battle. there is just the sort of bald-faced grab for power that i can remember in recent history. >> it is interesting, liz cheney is trying to make it ideological, but everything she stands for, the tea party is against, she is washington, she is p

the nrc can talk about how to speak all they want but it doesn't matter as long as the right wing noiseting this hate. limbaugh serves as a constant reminder of the problem republicans have with women. as more people pay attention, it's damaged his reputation and career. you could make that argument. he's toxic to advertisers, and he's taken down talk radio with him. limbaugh is set to be demoted from major a.m. radio stations in los angeles and san francisco, beginning on january 2nd. in this both cities, limbaugh will broad oh cast on smaller, clear channel owned stations, which will be rebranded with all conservative lineups. take a look at the before and after coverage area for the city of los angeles. it's definitely progress incur tailing limbaugh's influence if you want to be political about it. and, again, the before and after coverage area in san francisco. bottom line, fewer people are going to be able to hear the signal in those markets. but here's a serious catch. the move and conservative rebranding of those stations could be a huge blow for progressive talkers in those cit

we have the chairman of the nrc here on "market makers." thank you, madam chairman, for joining us. ca mountain. the government has made commitments to utilities as far as we stood disposal, but clearly there is no decision yet. how does this affect the country's nuclear future? >> well, eventually the country will need a plan to deal with spent fuel. >> a lot of people would say it does have a plan, yucca mountain. are you optimistic that that site, on which $15 million of taxpayer money has been spent, will be used for nuclear facilities? >> it is not for me to judge that or have a view on that. is licensing the facility. right now the court asked us to use the money he have attached -- the money we have -- which is $11 million -- to evaluate the safety. >> but we have spent fuel sitting around in concert around the country. how risky is that? >> it is quite safe. >> it is quite safe. but it would be better if it were in a mountain in nevada? beeventually it will have to disposed of. >> some would say it could be exposed to terrorism. do you disagree? >> that is a concern. >> eithe

we have the nrc. >> that would be news, wouldn't it? [laughter] question, i have one -- the middle-class tax relief in the jobs creation act requires repackaging and spectrum 65 megahertz in the low-power tv in which there are thousands and are not guaranteed continued assistance. of thisrman subcommittee has a bill that we hope to introduce soon. why does it not guarantee them? i hope it creates a pathway so .hey can continue to exist as the new chairman of the anyission, do you have thoughts among might be done to industrylow powered tv a chance to continue to exist? >> thank you. yes. there has been a lot of talk about following the statutes. translators are secondary services. is what the statute says. have opened a public delivery of the content. how do we make sure that the content -- and this and that being more of a digital technology question than anything else. how do use digital technology to get comment -- content out? make sure the consumer gets the content. and then the dirt point is -- third point is there might be a safeg

we have the nrc. >> that would be news, wouldn't it? [laughter] >> anyway, i have one question the middle-class tax relief in the jobs creation act requires repackaging and optioning 65 megahertz spectrum in the low- power tv in which there are thousands and are not guaranteed continued assistance. the chairman of this subcommittee has a bill that we hope to introduce soon. why does it not guarantee them? -- while it does not guarantee them any additional megahertz i , hope it creates a pathway so they can continue to exist. as the new chairman of the commission, do you have any thoughts among might be done to give our low powered tv industry a chance to continue to exist? >> thank you. yes. it probably falls into three buckets. there has been a lot of talk about following the statutes. translators are secondary services. that is what the statute says. second, we have opened a public notice on the delivery of the content. how do we make sure that the content -- and this and that -- and this ends up being more of a digital technology ques

. >> the nrc-c's version. sident's affordable care act which is not affordable. #don't worry i've got a trillion dollar coin to cover this. >> you can see the president there with the #don'tworry. we want you to simply e-mail us what it should say in the box. we'll photo shop it in. we'll include some of the funny ones coming up. e-mail us friends@foxnews. >> you can tweet us. >> call us. >> we have a couple already. >> they're quick. >> get covered without the elderly pay double. >> and another one on facebook, get covered because i know what's best for you. >> all right. so some are already coming in. the funnier, the better, more likely to wind up on the air. we have 2:30. >> send them on in. >>> in the meantime we sent in the lady with the headlines. >> good morning to you. good morning. hope you're all off to a great day. got some news to bring you about nasa. nasa has now activated what it calls its tiger teams to now work around the clock to fix the cooling failure on the international space station that

the public. a newly released nrc report is largely supportive of the enhanced approach that epa is now taking to go develop the assessment in this case for inorganic arsenic. as i mentioned in the opening statement, mr. chairman, science is the backbone of our decision making. and our work is based on principles of sign integrity and transparency that are expected and deserved by american people. i'm proud of the epa's research efforts. and the sound use of science in technology to fulfill epa's important mission to protect public health and safe guard the natural environment. i want to thank you for the opportunity to meet with the committee for the first time and to provide testimony. and i'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> thank you, all right mccarthy. i recognize myself for some questions. the first one is this. when you testified before the committee, in september 2011. you promised to provide the data behind epa's health benefit claims. yet to my knowledge you have not done that. yet the agency continues to justify major regulations based upon the studies. now you ha

this all in three min the second van was found burn to a crisp with the atm inside policee gy frhin. >>> a slow-motion rescue under nrcfor two d reach it. abc's gio benitez has more. >> reporter: the ship is packed with 74 tourists and researchers on an antarctica adventure. they set sail from new zealand november 8th. -- december 8th. here they are a week later. thrilled to finally find sea ice. >> finally made it to the ice. look at this view! >> reporter: but as the days wore on, that sea ice became more chilling than thrilling, slowing the ship to a freezing halt. >> as you can see, we are t. as you can see, we are >> reporter: now they're trapped. trapped.e vn't two days. we're surrounded by sea ice. we just can't get through. >> reporter: the tourists and researchers were retracing the steps from explorers 100 years looking at famous huts b ngal temperatures near zero with heavy winds. weather that could make the rescue dangerous. even so, the explorers are in good spirits. >> the science continues. >> reporter: passing time by doing more research. ice-breaking ships are rushing to rescue passengers right now. t