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big shoutout for senator vitter. paul hollis. where are you, man? >> right over here. >> and colonel maynese. as he said, this is not about either of us, it is about our country. and both of these men considered running and both of them ended up coalescing in the conservative movement because it is not about one of us. it is about the future of our country. so thanks to those two guys. gilbert growing the party. whoa! [applause] congressman angel who grew the party.

vitter: thank you, madam president. mr. warner: madam president, i ask that the time in the quorum call be charged equally to both sides. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. warner: madam president, i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: i ask the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. hatch: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: i'm going to take a few minutes today to discuss the ongoing saga of the 2014 tax extenders package. getting this legislation passed through the senate has been quite an ordeal from the outset. as you will recall, the finance committee reported its tax extenders package in april, and a few weeks later, progress stalled on the senate floor when the senate majority leadership refused to allow votes on any amendments. after that time which was in mid may, the tax extenders set

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we have moved into an alternative universe, you have david vitter and ted cruz and elizabeth warren against this bill for different reasons. help us understand what's happening here. >> reporter: this is the congress that just will not go away. last night, harry reid, as leader of the senate wanted to hold a procedural vote to fund the government and then go home for christmas which they could have done by early next week but some republicans balked and said, well, fine, if you want to vote on that, we want an up-down vote on president obama's executive order on immigration. harry reid said, no, here we are on saturday set up for a slate of votes at noon here. harry reid will put together votes on nominations the president wants to see filled. the reason they're doing that now come january republicans will take control of the chamber and it will be a lot harder to get those things done. it has set up a fight that will take us through the weekend and into next week. c-span junkies are not going to have to watch reruns this

vitter: thank you, madam president. madam president, i rise today to express strong concern and opposition to president obama's executive amnesty, which i think is clearly flat-out illegal and unconstitutional. madam president, i announce that because of that i will be voting "no" on the confirmation of loretta lynch to become attorney general, because she would directly help president obama execute that illegal executive aamnesty and she would be actively giving him legal cover, if you will, bad legal reasoning used for p.r. purposes to further that illegal executive order. and, madam president, i urge all of my colleagues who share my concern about this illegal executive amnesty to do the same. now, madam president, i strongly opposed president obama's recent actions for two reasons. the first is i think it's a horrible policy that's going to take a desperate situation of illegal immigration into this country, a situation that is truly -- that has truly reached crisis proportions, including over the last several month

that's what we're seeing from louisiana senator david vitter.e's so mad over the president's immigration executive action, he's vowing to block his pick for attorney general, loretta lynch. vitter says, quote, we'll have the opportunity to push back on executive amnesty with one of our first major battles. the attorney general nomination. the attorney general is one of the linchpins to obama's amnesty plan, and i'll be working to get the new congress to block this nomination. this has nothing to do with lynch's merits. it's just a childish political power play. i it's counterproductive and it's today's republican party. joining me now, dana millbank and joan walsh. thank you both for being here. this is flat-out revenge. how will it play out if he follows through with this blocking plan of his? >> i don't know. he'll get some support for sure, but look at what he didn't say in that release. he didn't say her name. he didn't say anything about her record. >> because it was all about president obama. >> right. he didn't say, we're going to talk to

speaking of shoutouts, senator david vitter and wendy the very beginning.ust driving the message so a shoutout for senator vitter. paul hollis. where are you, man? over here. maynese.lonel as he said, this is not about either of us it is about our country. and both of these men considered running orange and both of them up coalescing in the conservative movement because it is not about one of us. it is about the future of our country. two guys.to those >> gilbert growing the party. whoa! [applause] congressman angel who grew the party. thank my family. my mother and my mother in law. this is my son. make it today so -- we love him. thank my mother and mother-in-law who are at home watching. my daughters. my wife. grandchild. my brothers, my extended family. wow. oh, my gosh. you.f we could not -- laura and i done this without your support, without your contributions, your work, your sign webbing, you putting on -- sign webbing, putting on bumper stickers, wearing red tags. forhave made this happen the last two years. i received a call from senator landrieu

i'm leyland vittered. a live look at the funeral for officer ramos, executed last saturday in his patrol car. thousands attending at a church in queens and outside including police officers from around the country. vice president joe biden, new york city mayor bill de blasio both expected to speak at the service. >>> north korea blaming the united states for shutting down its internet earlier this week, this amid the ongoing questions over the hacking of "the interview" with sony pictures, and claiming the president himself is responsible for releasing that movie called "the interview." >>> i'm leyland vittered in new york. see you at 1:00 p.m. eastern with julie banderas. now back to "forbes on fox." >>> well, it's a dubious list but it's out for the most ridiculous lawsuits of 2014. for example a woman suing showtime in new york's transit authority for falling in a subway while she was looking at a dexter ad. a sports fan suing espn for showing him sleeping at a major league baseball game, and the number

i tell you what, good politics for vitter, if nothing else. >> i think it's good politics for david vitter i think it's good politics for president obama, as well. he said that he thought it was unwise for sony to pull the interview. we also, we also know that historically this president has not been that greatt with membes of congress. democrats themselves say that, as well. this could be a twopher. he brings them in and they watch this movie and official washington rhetorically gives the finger to north korea and the president can have some conversations with members of congress. i think it's a great idea. >> if you're worried about the security of theaters so much that you pull the film, i don't know that bringing it to the white house with members of congress is the best idea, but it is good politics for vitter. i am like deeply offended by this whole thing. freedom of speech is so core to what we all do and it's really upsetting that this is how it has all played out. i can understand the emphasis for that. joe scarborough said let's play it at the kennedy center, but not sure that is

vitter is ation -- not upheld. for him or anych republican or democrat that behaves that way. prostitution is a horrible things and men on the left or right should be scrutinize and for it.d but they happen on both sides. 2012 barackre is in obama's campaign specifically used the war on women argument and that iselection where this idea came trfrplt promising based on false things for policy, using terry tatements like mcauliffe about the 78 cents on the dollar argument which has debunked in terms of women getting paid as much as men. using more than any campaign barack obama used the war on the book is pushing back and pointing that they on't practice necessarily what they preach and talk about women in one way in public and differently than they treat them behind closed doors. ost: you wrote it is tpwhoepbl -- known hillary clinton feels a hated divisive political figure by people on iar the left and right until her usband's cheating with monica ewinsky made everyone feel for her. guest: she was not a popular person in washington, d.c. clinton sex ll scandal began cropping u

meeting with a group of house republicans, david vitter pushing the executive amnesty fight into nextr. my next guest is a part of that. congressman matt salmon, it's good to have you with us. >> it's great to be here. lou: what was that secretive meeting in what was a motivated by max. >> i don't know that it was all that secret, but the motivation was to do our job and that was to protect the constitution and defend congress. and by doing this illegal unconstitutional act, our job is to try to stop it. the speaker says that he would fight him tooth and nail. the one tool that the founding fathers gave us for a time such as this is the power of the purse. and this has been arguing and so we got 62 of the colleagues to the touch it. and there are colleagues in three short weeks. we are going to raise our hand to the square and promised to defend the constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic. well, this is a violation of the constitution and i think that this is an opportunity to put up or shut up and the option is to put up. lou: what is the speaker saying to you and wha

lou: senator david vittert, vitter good to talk with you. let's look at our online poll results.ther both parties are taking direction from the chamber of commerce and the business roundtable or just the gop. both parties won 77% of the vote. here is tonight's poll question. do you think the republicans will try to stop defacto amnesty? cast your vote at lou dobbs.com. >>> to the week long box office, the 2 1/2 hour bible long epic, ended "the hunger games" top spot. exodus, took in 24 1/2 million dollars for fox. "the hunger games: mockingjay - part 1", was second place after three weeks at the top, bringing in 13 million for lions gate. fox's penguins of madagascar came in third, 7 million. >>> up next, no greater ally for the united states than israel. the obama administration says it. do they believe it? we examine the thought in tonight's commentary next. ♪ you don't need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we're exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isn't as simple as just boiling an egg. life

we have also undertaken initiatives to improve ammonium nitrate safety as raise bed senator vitter. we joined with the agricultural retailer association and the fertilizer institute to provide the industry with information on our explosive and blasting agent standards. more recently we issued guyance to help ore compliance officers apply our requirement to facilities that store -- ammonium nye nate. we are in the final states of forming an alliance with the first lieser industry, emergency response organizations and others to promote best practices. finally, as discuss ned my testimony, osha has identified areas where legislation could significantly improve worker protections. these include improving coverage for all emergency response workers, many of whom have no osha coverage, and, two, increasing osha acts civil and criminal penalties to serve as more credible deter reins and keep up with inflation. frankly, our civil penalties are very lows' and we have virtually no criminal penalties. i look forward to working with members of both committees, our federal and state partners and

harper boxer and david vitter and jim inhofe can move infrastructure in the past.that's pretty impressive you have to do border security and you have to do the visa situation h-1b and each delay and you have to deal with appropriate way with the people here in a fair and reasonable way but do it in a way that it can't be defined as amnesty. that's a delicate balance. >> i agreed with both the president and trent with regard to the potential is. i would add one that is somewhat counterintuitive with everybody at the table and that's health care. i think that there is a list of health care initiatives that could enjoy pretty broad bipartisan support. i would start with the repeal and replace of sgr. the sustainable growth rate. we have a 51-0 vote in the commerce department earlier this year and i think it's clearly something that everyone recognizes needs to be addressed. the children's health insurance program expires and as most of you know it always enjoyed broad bipartisan support. i think telehealth, there's a lot of recognition of the importance of telehealth

and speaking of shoutouts, senator david vitter and wendy helped us from the very beginning.ust driving the message, so a big shoutout for senator vitter. paul hollis. where are you, man? >> right over here. >> and colonel maynese. as he said, this is not about either of us, it is about our country. and both of these men considered running and both of them ended up coalescing in the conservative movement because it is not about one of us. it is about the future of our country. so thanks to those two guys. gilbert growing the party. whoa! [applause] congressman angel who grew the party. thank my family. my mother and my mother in law. this is my son. he couldn't make it today so -- we love him. thank my mother and mother-in-law who are at home watching. my daughters. my wife. my grandchild. my brothers, my extended family. wow. oh, my gosh. all of you. we could not -- laura and i could not have done this without your support, without your prayers, your contributions, your work, your sign waving, putting on bumper stickers, wearing red tags. you have made this happen for the la

. >> reporter: senators republican david vitter and elizabeth warren filed amendment hoping to strip a provision that would weaken dodd-frank banking regulations and warren says could lead to future bailouts. the houses impasse lifted when democratic senator steny hoyer split with leader nancy pelosi. >> i have concluded it is better for us to pass this cromnibus as it is euphemistically referred to, to defeat it. i urge my members to vote for the cromnibus. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner all smiles when he realized he had the votes to pass the bill 219-206. 67 republicans voted against the measure and a number of conservative members were left frustrated. >> obamacare is funded. obama's executive amnesty funded. we insisted on a vote that would allow us to cut off all funding to implement his executive amnesty. >> reporter: republicans who backed the compromise say boehner did his job keeping government open and leadership won't suffer long-term damage. >> i think it's important that house republicans stay together. if we're divided, the person who benefits most is the pres

streets from new york and other places in the country as relates to policing, you also have david vitter announcing he wants to block loretta lynch for attorney general. set aside the issues of budget and those ongoing debates there. if these candidates, whether it's jeb bush, rand paul, or hillary clinton slowly go the direction that i think people see is inevitable and avoid the top thaics now, what does that o them? >> tamron, it becomes very hard if people are running for the presidency, hard to avoid the conversations what we'll see take place is different in 2013 and 2014. the big political stage will be on the presidential side of things in iowa, in south carolina, in new hampshire where these candidates are getting questions asked about the news of the day and where they want to be able to take the country. a very big debate whether it should be for immigration reform or against it. >> all right, thank you very much, a pleasure having you on. we have more breaking news, this out of pennsylvania. we're moments away from a news conference on a man killing six members after family.

senate floor now to debate the merits of the legislation still no word if elizabeth warren or david vitterent of the spending bill and our fox news contributor great to have you here former white house director and stephen thank-you for being here. the president and john boehner coming together? finigan is astounding showing that politics can have a strange bedfellows. lou: this time they got it done. >> it is the real divide of the democratic and republican party that will play out in 2016. >> with this miserable session of congress is what they deserve to stay up all night long. and starting with the appropriation and hearings and the budget bill they will fail miserably. lou: what are the prospects you could see something happen tonight or tomorrow? >> we will not shut the government down they will pass the bill tonight or short-term spending bill into next week. though 1.$1 trillion will end up passing. the votes are there but it is entirely an issue arguing about the clock to see what nominations the president wants to get done before he loses control of the senate. it is all about us

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vitter if they will come out with a report on the cia to talk about methodologies to question these people. how about military beaters make those decisions? this is war. we're not analyzing chairman wendy bomb hiroshima a decrease in the three analytics or save 100,000 american lives because they did the right thing? neil: you what republicans to be strong. >> the country is begging for leadership i like walker and harry and careers. neil: outside the mainstream to dimension jeb bush? >> i could deal with that he will never sell me on crisscross the. key is we can very insecure. neil: you're not going after the fact? [laughter] >> no. neil: i thank you were. you never liked him. >> i thought he was all about himself. you can tell those that are narcissistic. they put themselves out there and the staff and telling them how awkward he looks when he calls out the guy in the audience. neil: if you do that with a farmer? you will get a pitchfork always good to see you making his fortune in the buffalo area. that says something. has shoveling snow. [laughter] >> we were stuck three days by wife

and senator david vitter says maybe that is because immigrants abroad have everything to gain from this. and i think that it tells republicans that they need to consider the latino vote a lost cause. >> i think that we should first of all do the right thing and i is that a huge majority of american people are fully supportive of enforcement and not just wide-open bor the president's executive amnesty which is the most extreme version of the latter. neil: he says the american people stand by that showing that that is not the case that when it comes to nativeborn, that's not the case. >> clearly not the case, americans have a problem with this onto basis is, first of all this is a horrible policy and it's going to produce more illegal activity when you reward something like that and you produce more of it. and secondly even more fundamentally this is a real constitutional problem going way beyond his constitutional authority. neil: you have met with some of these individuals who have protested about what is happening as a result of this and they don't even have to be talking about this, b

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. >> reporter: senators republican david vitter and democrat elizabeth warren, an unusual pairing signed a bill that would weak -- the house is impass lifted around 9:00 p.m. last night when democratictf -- ste hoyer split with nang si pelosi. >> i have concluded that it is better for us to pass this omnibus as it is you've family mist icalically keeping governm open and his lieder ship won't suffer any long-term damage. >> i think it's important that house republicans stay 208g9. if we're divided the person who hurts most is the president. the last -- that's why we have sweeping victories in the house and the senate. >> mike emmanuelle on the hill. >> president obama certainly has his reservations got the omnibus spending bill, he has said he will sign it if he gets the chance. but he would do it without the support of many in his party. chief white house correspondent ed henry has that part of the story tonight. >> if this was the first post election test of president obama's jooirs, he stumbled. he sent dennis mcdonough to twist arms behind closed doors, the vast majority of house de

that happened, he was seceded to legislature to become the united states senator of louisiana, david vitter. at that time, he had to at least be aware of. in facts, back in 1999, when he was still a member of the state legislature, he gave an interview with many of the same conservative views as david duke. he talked about cultivating duke leaders. the novelty of david duke has worn off. duke has proven that he can't get elected. that's the first and most important thing. david duke's long time political lieutenant came out just today to say that he had invited skalise to that white supreme sis e sis workshop. hoe had no idea of the group he spoke e spoke to that day had anything to do with david duke or twiet supreme sill. for now, we can say that skalise's version of events is at least plausible. maybe he had no idea. maybe he thought it was just another random speech. maybe he barically eely gave the group a second thought and moved onto his next event as soon as it was over. it certain bli seems plausible that he knew more about the group he was speaking to than he's letting on. he deci

. >> reporter: republican senator david vitter of louisiana has sent president obama a letter requesting a white house screening of the interview. he wants members of congress invited so there can be a serious discussion on how to deal with cyber attacks. joe waldman, fox news. >>> a selfless answer. when his mom asked what he wanted for christmas, one bay area boy's inspiring work to help the homeless. >> hardly anybody is kind to me out here. >> plus ... trains carrying crude. we detail the explosive risk when you mix old tanker cars with a specific type of oil. >> and next, they come from all around to hang their wishes from the branches. >> it is going to give me permission to wish for something. >> the woman behind the wishing tree and the reason she started the tradition. >> we want to take a look at the santa tracker as santa makes his way around the world. we understand he is leaving argentina headed for santiago chile. if that is correct, those mountains would be the andes as he heads from the east to the west. i guess he will make his way up south america and go through mexico

and senator vitter said, i'll be working to block this nomination.hey realize this could backfire on them next year? >> absolutely. that's the point i'm making. you have rubio saying, we'll block the new ambassador to cuba, block the embassy there. that's where the president has an advantage. he can call them out on this. they can't hide. they'll be seen out there as obstructionist. they can't do a filibuster and hide in harry reid's skirts anymore. it doesn't mean anything more will happen, i'm not predicting that suddenly we're in for some new era of bipartisan compromise, but at the very least, the president will enjoy drawing very clean lines and distinctions. >> you had an interesting night, merlot, harry reid's skirt. >> i've got a bottle opener, reverend. >> the president's recent actions, on a serious note, has began to show divisions within the gop. you know, especially around cuba. senator rand paul said yesterday he agreed with the policy. watch how senator mark rubio reacted. >> your thoughts on senator rand paul's comments supporting the

i'm leland vitter. >> and i'm hawther nauer. >> a gun man held innocent people hostage for about 17 hours. let's take a look at sydney, australia. it is 5:01 there, 16 hours ahead of us on the east coast. it is tuesday morning there. investigators are combing through the scene. we are learning the gunman is an iranian and a self-proclaimed sheik. >> chief white house correspondent ed henry is live with reaction from the administration. >> as you said, the president expected a briefing to happen. one of questions going forward is going to be the details of this investigation, we're obviously still in the very early stages and is there an isis connection or not? recall that it was just a few weeks ago i was with australia with the president with the g 20 summit. he had extensive discussions with the australian prime minister tony abbott. they have sharp differences the president and the prime minister on issues like climate change but did come together in terms of fighting isis. it's interesting because the republican senator bob corker had a hearing last week on the threat of isis, he's th

did that. >> david vitter did side with her. going to win the war, the democratic party in a major way. this is going to be a huge issue in the 2016 presidential race, people are asking, where is hillary clinton on this? every progressive group, even if elizabeth warren runs, i don't think she will, every progressive group will push the democratic field toward her. >> how can hillary clinton do one-tenth what elizabeth warren has done on this? that's what i have trouble seeing. >> that's naive and hopeful to think the democratic party will adopt elizabeth warren's ideals on wall street. i think elizabeth warren won't run, i don't think she thinks she can win. barack obama was the progressive upstart who beat the democratic machine and hillary. there's evidence warren can say, i can do this, too. the democratic party isn't near as anti-wall street as elizabeth warren would have you believe. therefore, i don't think the party's going to move to her over the next -- >> >> leadership is not anti-wall street democratic base is. >> hi

senators brown and vitter are exactly right. this provision has no place in a must-pass spending bill. conservative activists have jumped in as well. they are raising their voices today to say that this provision has no place in a must-pass spending bill. here's what one front-page contributor on the conservative backlog redstate said this morning: "i have to way to refute the basic point that democrats are making about the cromnibus fight right now. in fact, i might even go so far as to say, they are right. what possible good-faith reason can republicans have for threatening to gum up the whole works over doing a favor to wall street? generally speaking if nancy pelosi is opposed to something that instincstinctively, i knowi should be for it. beyond that, i haven't the slightest clue why the proposed tweak to dodd-frank ought to be anything resembling a hill the republicans should die for." she is conservative activists are right. if you believe in smaller government, how can you support a provision that could expand a governme

. >> to louisiana, where david vitter made his first public appearance tonight in a week. he was caught up and what has become known as the d.c. madam sex scandal. he is one of the senate's most conservative members and has long campaigned for legislation as part of his platform for strict family values. last week, he admitted in a statement that he had made some serious mistakes. tonight, the senator and his wife spoke for the first time since. >> republican louisiana senator david better, accompanied by his wife, made his first public appearance today since admitting one week ago that he had been linked to an alleged prostitution ring. >> i want to again offer my deep, sincere apologies to all those i have let down and disappointed with these actions. i am completely responsible, and i am so very, very sorry. >> you also have some harsh things to say about eliot spitzer. what is your reaction? >> my reaction is -- i am not justifying the actions of republicans. my book is about discussing things with the media that the left doesn't want to talk about, in terms of saying

leeland vitter live for us in washington with all the latest. leeland, where are we going for the government to stay open? >> well, gretchen, that seems to be the one thing that the president and republicans in congress seem to agree on. obviously funding the government is very tightly tied to the immigration issue, and it looks like there may be a deal as we've heard over the past 24 hours or so, but the devil in these cases is always in the details. >> we have to be able to disagree on some things while going ahead and managing the people's business and working on the things where we do agree. democracy is messy, but it doesn't have to be chaos. >> starting with border security, which is a way of reassuring the american people that we're not going to have another calamity like we've had. >> now, the latest plan right now is for congress to fund the government for the foreseeable future. the exception is homeland security. that only gets a couple of months of funding, fwrechen, which would then give the republicans a chance for another bite at

elizat warren, the massachusetts democrat, david vitter, the louisiana5ug republican.oncern is the todd frank banking regulation being weakened by this deal. warren has suggested it could lead to more government bailouts of the banks, so she is fighting it but at this point it doesn't look like it will get a vote. bottom line it's pretty late in the process and it seems like everybody is thinking christmas. the question is exactly when at this point. there are a few must-do things before the senate leaves. and all indications are we could get a vote on this government funding extension late night tonight, greta. >> mike, thank you. and tonight, a first, many liberal democrats are openly outraged over president obama over his wheeling andfd,Ñ obama over his wheeling andfd,Ñ dealing t >> the motion is adopted. >> i'm glad it has passed out who and i hope it will vote the senate. >> it is time for all of us to stand up and fight. >> willingness to compromise, that's what this bill reflects. >> who do you work for? wall street or the american people? >> if you are a4#c] r

here in the senate, i would like to thank senator vitter, who's the ranking member of the environmentand public works committee for his leadership on this effort. and i'd like to thank senator reid, the majority leader, senator mcconnell, the republican leader for their cooperation on this. nothing is ever done in the united states congress until it's finally done so this is passing the house tonight and it's expected to pass the senate next week. but it's very good news for americans who depends on the inland waterways for their jobs. and in tennessee, for a change, instead of year-by-year appropriation, it's an effort -- it's the first chance we've had to have a long-term solution to the replacement over the next several years of the lock beginning as early as the year 201. i than201 -- of 2016. i thank the president and i yield the floor. mr. casey: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. i rise and ask consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: thank you, mr. pre

vitter: thank you, madam president. i rise to strongly oppose this nomination of sarah saldana to head i.c.e. for a very simple reason. because in this position, if confirmed, ms. saldana, as the new head of i.c.e., would be a key player in the administration to help president obama further a very bad policy that is very, very unconstitutional and completely beyond the president's proper constitutional authority. so it all comes down, in my opinion, madam president, to this very important issue of his executive amnesty, his recent decision, without authority, in my opinion to move forward on his own, without legislative approval, without congressional action, to grant about 5 million illegal aliens in this country an executive amnesty. madam president, i think that decision is a horrible one, a dangerous one for two reasons. first of all, madam president, i think the policy is wrong and is guaranteed, ensured, alas even designed to produce even more border crossings, to increase the problem, not to solve it. you know, m

senator brown of ohio, a liberal democrat, and senator vitter of louisiana, a conservative republican, have backed just such a bill. the second is to free these amazing new innovations in personal health information such as smartphone monitoring apps and personal genetic profiling techniques such as those of 23 and me from f.d.a. premarketing controls. senator deb fisher of nebraska republican, senator king of maine, independent, that means democrat, he caucuses with the democrats, have introduced a pretty good piece of legislation along those lines. i have a particularly colorful phrase that i'm proud of in my article. it said, if these acts were to pass and actually take power away from the regulators in these two areas, they would be great victories for bipartisan, smart populism over the forces of foe expertise and crony capitalism. how do you like that? so i'm for pursuing opportunities here to take law making right back to congress. i think that we should be prepared that congress, in thinking about the balance of powers, should be prepared for some surprises in the next two yea

senator inhofe statement will be entered into the record alongside senator vitter's press release denying that this is a hearing. it's getting interesting around here already. anyway, the record of the hearing will remain open. let me think again all of our witnesses for coming down. this is in my view a long-overdue change in a rule that had no validity from the very beginning and thank you very much for not only your support for the epa action but for your support for epa pushing towards a local -- lower 16 part per billion standard which i believe is the unanimous recommendation of the assembled panel. so without further ado we will adjourn the hearing and again thank you all very much for your participation. [inaudible conversations] next united nations secretary-general ban ki-moon holds a year-end news conference. he comments on a range of topics including today's announcement to normalize relations between the u.s. and cuba. he also talks about the ebola outbreak in west africa. his recent trip to lima on climate change and the humanitarian crisis in syria. from new york city, this