waxman, i appreciate that. i do have a question for you. >> okay. >> it would be great for you to defend a stimulus that's 13 million jobs short of what the president promised us. and i wasn't here. and i presume you voted for it. one thing that's bothered me on the regulatory side as well is this idea that -- and i want this question asked for you, because this question constituents ask me and they said congressman, do you think washington politicians and regulators can make better decisions than businessmen and women? that would be my question for you. >> it's a good question. there are things called market failures, and -- >> and there are things called government failures. >> let him answer the question. >> yes. >> there are market failures, and that's when government needs to step in. for example, if you don't regulate pollution, the waste disposal into the air would be free, the market provides no incentive for polluters to control pollution, it imposes social costs on everybody in terms of disease and de

hen lry waxman, congressman waxman, thanks for spending your morning with us. chris edwards, you've testified a number of times. i appreciate your insights. governor bush, it's not all this bad. when these microphones are turned off, some of us do kind of get along with one another. i want to thank you for your time out of your busy schedule for sharing this hearing with us. thank you very much. this hearing is adjourne >>> if you missed any of this hearing of the house budget committee, it is available on our website in the c-span video library. go to c-span.org. >>> all this week in prime time we've been featuring some of american history tv's weekend programs here on c-span3. tonight, watch programs from our american artifacts series starting at 8:00 eastern. visit three surviving civil war forts around our nation's capital as we examine civil war defenses of washington. at 8:30, explore the recently discovered quarters of clara barton's missing soldier's office. and learn about the transition from slavery to freedom as told through the gilmore cabin at jame

waxman: mr. speaker, i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. waxman: today the house considers a bill that represents a significant bipartisan and bicameral achievement. on may 30 this year, the house passed its user fee legislation by a dramatic vote of 387-5. that bill was a strong one. but through our collaborative process with the senate, we have made it even better. it has been a pleasure to work not only with mr. upton, mr. pitts, mr. pallone, and mr. dingell among many involved house colleagues, but also with our senate colleagues, senator harkin and insy. -- enzi. when we began this process there were divergent views on the various issues contained in this bill, but we work together and we found ways to bridge our differences in a fashion that protects patients and fossers innovation. this -- fosters innovation. this legislation contains many provisions crit critical to the funding of major parts of the f.d.a. we re-authori

look, henry waxman, congressman waxman, thanks for coming and spending your morning with us. chris edwards, you've come and testified a number of times, i appreciate your insights. governor bush, it's not all this bad. when these microphones are turned off some of us actually do kind of get along with one another. so i just want to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come and share your insights with us. thank you very much, this hearing is adjourned. >> chris i wanted to ask about canada but i figured you and i were the only ones who cared about it. >>> over the past four years, pulitzer prize winning author dave maraniss has been writing "barack obama: the story." the research included traveling the globe and speaking with the president's relatives in kenya and discovering his african ancestry on the shores of lake victoria. "barack obama: the story" comes out in bookstores june 19th. book tv will give you an early look with pictures and video, including our trip to kenya as we traveled with the author in january 2010. join us sunday, june 17th, at 6:

waxman? >> you asked me about -- >> i'm out of time, i wonder if you can answer the question. >> on stimulus? i'm trying to answer your question. the market failure of insurance for health care. people cannot buy it if they have pre-existing medical conditions. you can't blame the insurance companies because if they have to provide insurance coverage for sick people they have to raise the cost of insurance for everybody. so the idea behind the romney plan in massachusetts and the obama plan here was to spread the costs out with a requirement that everybody participate. stimulus, either by tax cuts or direct expenditure, is what you need where there's strong unemployment to get people back to work, and that is what we needed to do, and i wish there were some republicans that would have helped. >> thank you. >> not a single republican in the house voted to help president obama -- >> thank you. i think you did answer his question but i want to keep on time. mr. ryan. >> thank you, mr. chairman.

waxman, i appreciate that. i do have a question for you. >> oh, good. >> it's good for you to defend the steamers which is 13 million jobs short of what the president promised us. i wasn't sure, and i presume you voted for. one thing that bothered me on the regulatory side as well, is this idea, this question for you, because this question is consistent, congressman, do you think washington politicians and regulators make better decisions than businessmen and women? and i would be my question for you. >> there are things called market failures, and there are things called government failures. but there are market figures, and that's where government needs to step in. for example, if you don't regulate that solution, the waste disposal in the air would be free. the market provides no incentive for polluters to control pollution. social costs on their buddy that far outweigh the cost to clean up. the other area where there's a failure of the market is insurance companies. i have so me people tell me -- >> could y

waxman just arrived. okay, i get it now. chairman -- congressman waxman, welcome. please take your seat. we preannounced you already. mr. van hollen was just explaining how upset he is that governor bush is here with us today. we see things a little differently i guess. >> you want to tell him how excited you are that i'm here? >> i'm very excited to have you. some of us wanted to have a brief opening state and get to the witnesses. why don't we go with governor bush, mr. edwards and congressman waxman. governor bush, please. >> governor ryan, ranking members van hollen. it is a joy to be here. i didn't come to criticize anybody, just for the record. i came to share my views. i'm not used to the 9:00 food fight that starts bright and early around in washington. i'm from florida where we don't start that way in life but it's great to be here. i'm here to talk a little bit about what i think is an important subject as we try to recover. the may job numbers were anemic at best. no one could be satisfied with that. we do have an l-shaped recovery and it's the first sin

in the waxman markeil the house of representatives built in 2009, we built in $60 billion between now and 2030 for them to be able to install

waxman just arrived. i get it now. congressman waxman, please take your seat. we preannounced you already. mr. van holland was just announcing how excited he is gov. bush is with us today. we see things a little differently i guess. >> do you want to say how excited you are that i am here? >> why do we not go with gov. bush, then mr. edwards, then congressman waxman. the floor is yours. >> it is a joy to be here. i did not come here to criticize anybody for the record. i came to share my views. i am not use to the 9:00 food fight that starts bright and early in washington. i am from florida where we do not start that way. it is great to be here. i am here to talk a little bit about what i think is an important subject as we try to recover the main job number is -- may jobs numbers were anemic at best. we do have an l shape recovery. is the first since world war ii where we have not had a robust recovery. there is a cloud over our country that relates to the pessimism that we cannot restore the vitality of our economy in a way that creates opportunities. more an

waxman of california. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 691, the gentleman from california, mr. waxman, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. the chair: mr. chairman -- mr. waxman: mr. chairman, title 2 of this bill blocks e.p.a. from implementing new rules until after a new government bureaucracy produces a new analysis of these and other e.p.a. actions but it's a fool's errands because they're required to conduct an impossible analysis of rules that haven't even been proposed, using data that doesn't exist. the bill would block e.p.a. from issuing new tier 3 standards for motor vehicles and fuels to reduce harmful tail pipe emissions that cause smog and deadly particle pollution. smog pollution can trigger asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature death. the bill would block the e.p.a. from issuing long overdue rules to require refineries to use modern technology to reduce their emissions of toxic air pluenttants. the pollutants c

then we will be joined by henry waxman. he knows we're starting at 9:00. he will show up hopefully by the time our opening statements and the two witnesses are done. henry is the ranking member of the energy and commerce committee. he is the minority's witness today. when the two gentlemen are done, hopefully he will be there by then. i would like to rink to the the -- at like to go to the ranking member. >> let me start from a place we all agree. we all love america. we all believe america is a unique and special place. we all believe in american exceptional is done. the question is, how do we keep america strong, dynamic, and exceptional? on that we have different views and would make different choices. we believe our strength comes not only from the undisputed benefits of a free people pursuing their dreams but also from sometimes harnessing those talents for important national purposes. we believe america's rate as results from not only a collection of individuals acting alone for private profit but from oap

waxman. >> thank you. earlier today, the ambassador stated that the u.s. is advocating for the wicket conference report to be made available to the public in addition to this proposal for increased transparency. what other specific measures can be taken to shine more like into the process these? let us see the obvious possibility would be to open this process up to other stakeholders. that is not a typical conclusion. the transparency and openness produces much better results. whether anyone in the current intergovernmental world can be persuaded of that, i do not know. i am a great advocate of trying to include society and the technical world and the private sector in matters that will have a very direct impact on them. publication of the proposals and involvement of other stockholders would be very attractive. >> i would think it is critical for the u.s. and other countries to highlight participants and other stakeholders, a potential negative consequence of the internet. what is the role for the private sector in this process? ? -- >> the private sector

84 i don't think anyone envisioned what was coming in terms of biopharmaceuticals and so the hatch-waxman in 84 addressed traditional pharmaceuticals and what we need is a comparable regulatory process in legislation to do the same thing. >> is it that much of a distinction between a biopharmaceutical and a nonbiopharmaceutical >> there really is. >> so you could exact that kind of reaction to it o or -- it's a regulation? you can only deal with tra dition additional drugs? and these are new drugs. they are also very expensive drugs. and you need support for $5,000 a month to treat colon cancer with the drug used to treat a judge nark condition that costs you a lot annually. >> rem cade -- >> rem cade used for severe rheumatoid arthritis. $5,000 monthly. >> 3,500 a year. still a lot of money. >> this is astronomical. >> yes, it is. >> and no relief for that? is there an insurance policy for that? >> most insurers cover biopharmaceuticals as part of the drug benefit. it's the fastest growing component of drug costs. >> suppose there is for these -- for these biopharmaceuticals you just sai

general lady is wrong in that this is the first attorney general to face this situation, henry waxman threatened and scheduled contempt proceedings against some of the bush officials including mcclow syy and charged him with failing to produce documents with the committee's investigation and the release of classified documents. this is not about release of classified documents. this is very serious business. this is the highest judicial prosecutorial position in the united states involved in creating a situation in which an agent of the united states was murdered with weapons supplied by the department of justice in a scheme that went unbelievably sour as i said. for the first 11 months the administration denied, denied participation in this to this committee the investigative arm of the house of representatives. for eight months the chairman has -- we've had a subpoena out there and they denied providing us the information. at the last hour last night they offered a deal to provide us some information and tried to close down the case. this is absolutely absurd. then this morning the

waxman. thank you for coming. i yield back. >> i join you in welcoming all of our panelists, whether they came all the way from california or down the street from k street. welcome to you all. yield back my time. >> gentleman yields back the balance of his time. we will get on with our witnesses now. again, thank you all for being here. we will start with mr. robert johnson, ceo of sky angel, us, llc. thank you for being here. we appreciate reading through your testimony and look forward to your comments. just for all the panelists, if you haven't used these microphones, you really need to get pretty close to them, make sure the light's on. >> chairman walden, ranking member eshoo and members of the subcommittee on communications and technology, it is my pleasure to have this opportunity to testify at your hearing today on the future of video and thank you for inviting me to participate. my name is rob johnson. i'm one of the founders of sky angel and its chief executive officer. sky angel was founded for the purp

waxman was the chairman at the time there was a new administration by passionately pledging his full support if the new administration allocates large resources to assist the mexican government that contained drug violence with zero tolerance. i would explicitly encourage the administration to put in place a plan to stop the slaughterhouse south of the border and help mexico regain control of its count r country. i also criticize the previous democrat controlled congress to recognize the hearing and there were dozens of them. the gentle lady's wrong in that this was the first attorney general to face the situations, henry waxman contempt proceedings got some of the bush officials, including mccloskey, the attorney general. he charged him with failing to produce documents in connection with the committee's investigation and the release of classified documents. this is not about release of classified documents. this is very serious business. this is the highest judicial prosecutorial position in the united states involved in creating a situation in which an agent of the united states w

here in manhattan, we're happy to have jonathan waxman in dy say the name right?. >> jonathan, it's great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> your reputation, have i to say, precedes you. i'm going back to the little jonathan who says you have to babysit your younger siblings. your parents go out and say, the kitchen is all yours. you go in the kitchen and you see what? how old were you, by the way? >> i was probably like 8 or 9 years old. my brothers were two years younger than me, so my youngest brother was 4. i got the joy of cooking. i went right to the cookie section. and i saw shortbread cookies. i said, i have to make those. that's the first thing i made for them. >> wow. >> we had shortbread cookies. slightly burnt and really hot but really delicious. >> and then you knew you liked cooking. >> it was really -- it was those word sort of things that happen in life like i was always comfortable doing it. i was always comfortable in the kitchen. >> i just saw a picture, mo, of some chicken. >> i have to say, nothing worse in life -- well, maybe a few thi

. >> congressman waxman. >> thank you very. i'm honored to be among you to discuss this very important issue, which goes to the very question of what is the role of government, what is the appropriate way for a capitalist economy to succeed because all three of us believe in the capitalist economy but how do we get that economy to function best and how do we deal with the market failures and the inequities which have left us with a stark contrast between the people who have a lot and the many who have very little, as well as the middle class which is getting very squeezed. we have a different sense about the vision for america. raspberry will argue that government regulations are bad for the economy and public investments harm free enterprise. democrats have a more optimist being vision. we believe that the economy works best when the government establishes the rules of the road, adopting sensible standards, protecting the middle class, promoting competition and preventing corporate abuses. we believe public investments in our

waxman, i have two questions. i want to get my questions out and then let you have the rest of the time. after july 2010, the government ended subsidizing banks to make federally guaranteed student loans switching to a 100% government direct lending saved taxpayers $61 billion over ten years. i wanted to know if you thought reforming the student loan program was in the best interests of the taxpayer and put the students first? and then my second question involves a hearing that you had in '08 where you held a series of hearings with the ceos of lehman brothers, aig and others into the cause of the wall street collapse. i wanted to know if you could share what you learned from the testimony that was given in particular about the need of the government to regulate. >> i think there are a lot of people who look at the law and then try to figure out how to get around it or abuse it. we see that in the tax system all the time. they have to pay their taxes, but they look to see if they can expand loopholes to their bene

we are here to have jonathan waxman in studio 57. did i say the name right?, good to have you here. >> great to be here. >> your reputation i have to say precedes you. i'm going back to the little jonathan who was told you have to baby sit your younger siblings your parents go out and say the kitchen is all yours and you go in the kitchen and see what? who old were you? >> 8 or 9 years old and my brothers two years younger than me, youngest was 4. so i got the joy of cooking, i went right to the cookie section. and i saw this thing for shortbread cookies and said i have to make those. >> that's hard. >> and that's the first thing i made for them and that's what we had shortbread cocok cookie slightly burnt. >> you knew you liked cooking. >> it was the most weird sort of things that happen in life where i was always comfortable doing it. i was always comfortable in the kitchen. >> well i just saw a picture, mo, of chicken right there. >> yeah. i got to say, there's nothing worse in life or maybe a few things, than dry chicken, than chicken that's sort of dry i

waxman just a ride. i get it now. henry -- congressman waxman, we welcome you. we have announced you already. mr. van hollen was just saying how excited he was that governor bush here today. we see things a little differently here today. some of us wanted to -- why don't we go with governor bush. pleas. >> -- please. >> it is a joy to be here. i did not come here to criticize anybody for the record. i came here to share my views. i am not used to the 9:00 food fight that starts early in washington. we do not start that way in florida. it is great to be here. i am here to talk about what i think is an important subject as we try to recover the may -- to recover. the may jobs numbers were any leaks. we have an l-shaped recovery. there is a cloud over our country that relates to this growing pessimism that we cannot restore the vitality of our economy in a way that creates opportunities. more and more people are becoming more and more dependent on government at every level because of its pick is important for this committee and for policy makers in washington were

. >> congressman, waxman, would you like to comment? >> the rich and powerful want to stay rich and powerful. unless the government gets involved to make things fairer for everybody, they're get more powerful. now that we've opened the laws to unlimited and unreported contributions from corporations, i don't think the lower income people are going to benefit. it's going to be the well to do. some of these guys like the koch brothers and energy companies don't want competition from alternative energies. they want to squash competition. that's why government has to be involved. all three of us and a number of people on the committee said we ought to fund research. right now on the house floor, we're dealing with the appropriations for the energy and water bill, and we are now cutting the money for arpae which does cutting edge energy research by below the administration's request and nearly a third below current levels. so we're cutting back on research and we're hearing that everybody's to blame so what we need to do is to have the gover

looking at federal policies, we need to go back to the kind of provision in waxman/markey because that would open the grid and offshore is also going to face the same problem because offshore wind, which is potentially very significant also has to deal with the transmission to get that power back into the loads market. >> is there much public awareness of this disparity in states? it reminds me a jeer ago jerry brown and i were in a panel with some folks from first solar and solar city. no wind people in, that unfortunately, but they were discussing brown's target of generating i think it's 20% locally distributed energy by 2020 or something, and it creates a huge shift, and -- and looking at how you achieve it, and one of the guys made the comment that if you lack across counties inside california, each of these counties has wildly different attitudes and postures towards solar installation and facilities at homes and roof tops and whatever it may be, so the permitting creates enormous barriers depending where you're at. it reminded me that the world bank publishes a study doing studi

waxman was chairman at. t the time. he reached out his hand by pass in pledging his full support if the new administration allocated large resources to assist the mexican government to assist the mexican government. incurs the administration to put in place a plan to stop the slaughter house south of the border and help mexico regain control of its country. i also criticized the previous democratic-controlled congress for not conducting a single hearing. i did dozens of them. the gentle lady is wrong and this is the first attorney general to face the situation. henry waxman threatened contempt proceedings against some of the bush officials including the attorney general. he charged him with failing to produce documents in connection with the committee's investigation and the release of classified documents this is not about release of classified documents. this is very serious business. this is the highest judicial prosecutorial position in the united states involved in creating a situation in which an agent of the unit

waxman name is richard. earlier i turned in a speaker card. >> ok. >> thank you. i want to have the department's attention. there are more smoke pot and flowers -- smoke pots than flowers in the square. recently the spacing was not fixed or replaced for the last week. i was going to speak about the congestion of traffic in stockton, but lots of speakers touch the subject. i went to the department of public works, who was supposed to monitor the sidewalks and streets. mainly these stores in stockton, they use the street as a storage area. they put boxes. many of those stores, they put the band's to facilitate their business. certainly, the goods are away from the premises. >> [inaudible] >> everyone is listening. we have many seniors walking the streets and buying this stuff. they are forced to walk on these streets to get by. mainly, mother with a baby carriage, also have to go out on the street. so, this problem, everybody know it for years. but the enforcement is due. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. we have time for one more, then we are really out of time.

waxman just arrived. i get it now. congressman waxman, please take your seat.e preannounced you already. mr. van holland was just announcing how excited he is gov. bush is with us today. we see things a little differently i guess. >> do you want to say how excited you are that i am here? >> why do we not go with gov. bush, then mr. edwards, then congressman waxman. the floor is yours. >> it is a joy to be here. i did not come here to criticize anybody for the record. i came to share my views. i am not use to the 9:00 food fight that starts bright and early in washington. i am from florida where we do not start that way. it is great to be here. i am here to talk a little bit about what i think is an important subject as we try to recover the main job number is -- may jobs numbers were anemic at best. we do have an l shape recovery. is the first since world war ii where we have not had a robust recovery. there is a cloud over our country that relates to the pessimism that we cannot restore the vitality of our economy in a way that creates opportunities. more and

back when this was brought to then chairman waxman's attentioning he disagreed with it as you apparently disagree with it today. he did decide he would delay the contempt vote until he had time to review the assertion and then to see how to proceed on that. i think, you know, where we have a constitutional obligation that's been referenced a number of times today to try to reach out some accommodation between the two branches and because there seems to be quite a bit of uncertainty as to just how this president is invoking it here, although i think now in context of this seems clear he's invoking it for the department itself, but it might make some sense to put this off especially where the attorney general has said that he will produce documents, that he will spend the time to go over it with the committee chair and others to explain the documents and get the information before the committee that needs to be there. i think we have a lot of documents there. we found out from the chairman who was admittedly looking for documents that couldn't be produced all the way down to the narrow set

host: matt kibbe, your response to what representative waxman guest: had to: -- representative waxman had to say? guest: repealing the law and getting the economy going are related. the drag on the economy is too much government. we have awknowledged that this is the largest tax increase in american history. it will fall primarily on small businesses and people that choose not to purchase a mandated health insurance product. it will fall on any economy that is struggling. it is essentially flat line. i have yet to meet an economist that things that raising taxes during a deep recession is a good idea. i have yet to meet an economist that thinks that inflating our way out of this by borrowing more money we do not have and literally printing dollars to solve the problem -- this is a train wreck. we have to repeal obamacare. we have to fire this president and replace the current congress with one that is actually willing to confront some of the economic problems that we have. host: next up is washington. kathleen online for independents. caller: yes. i have three questions. they had a tr

waxman of california. the chair: recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for recorded vote will rise. and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote the yeas are 163, the nays are 250. the chair: on this vote the yeas are 154, the nays are 249. the amendment is not agreed to. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment 8 printed in house report 112-540 by the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 8 printe

and we were offering the same opportunity to the coal industry in the waxman-markey bill. we were saying we'll provide the innovation and the help for the coal industry. we'll give you a bridge to make a transition so that you can stay within the competitive framework of new energy sources within the country. and the coal industry, in the same way that the auto industry did, said absolutely no. now, where is the auto industry today? well, they have come through their mess and now they are embracing the 54.5 miles per gallon by the year of 2026 and they are advertising every 20 minutes on every television show about their new more fuel-efficient and safer vehicles that they are selling. the coal industry said, no, let's just keep getting at this. peabody coal said no. and in the same way that they did a disservice to it is workers, peabody coal has done a disservice to its workers, pretenltding thpr pretending that they could not make themselves more competitive. so trying to blame some outside source, whether it be the auto industry or the coal industry, is just to defy an

in the waxman markeil the house of representatives built in 2009, we built in $60 billion between now and 2030 for them to be able to install technology. now, the electric utility industry, they supported it. but the coal industry said no. they said no. we don't want the money. by the way, it was $200 billion up to the year 2050. that's a lot of money. that's a lot of investment in new technology. they can innovate and improve so it can become more competitive with the natural gas industry. the coal industry said, no, we're not going to move. and that's with $60 billion of funding coming from the federal government. 200 billion by the year 2050 so that they could innovate. they said no, they said no, they said no over and over again to innovation. there are now 200 coal plants over the age of 50 that need to be renovated at the cost of billions of dollars. natural gas is cheaper. wind is on the move. who wants to pay now in the private sector to rehabilitate dinosaur coal units with cleaner, cheaper options available? now the free market says, if the coal industry did not want that fu

waxman are commended for agreeing to do this hearing. i think there are principles we need to remember as we look at this. this is just my scratches. i don't claim this as the universe. obviously in order to have a program you have to have a creator. in this country we never regulated the creator of the programming. then you have to have a producer. to my knowledge we have never regulated the producers. there have been efforts at censure ship and in terms of creativity we have let that be a free market application. once have you a program you have to have somebody to package it and market it. you have to have somebody to transmit it and then obviously you have to have somebody to buy it, somebody to view it, somebody to consume it. when you get into the packaging and the transmission is where we have had a role for government. i think it is a truism that form follows function. in our original regulatory format was based on the fact that whether it was radio or television, there was a potential for a natural monopoly and government either

waxman. >> without objection, so ordered. that concludes our hearing. the members may give you questions. we ask that you respond to those questions once you get them promptly. and i remind members that they have ten business days to submit questions for the record. and that means they should submit their questions by the close of business on monday, april the 2nd. excellent hearing. wonderful testimony. we thank our expert panel for your very important testimony and answers to our questions. without objection, the subcommittee is adjourned. >>> join us tonight for a debate between republican candidates running for senate in texas. they are vying for that nomination and you can watch it live at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. we have more campaign coverage coming your way this weekend. our road to the white house program features a look at the obama for america campaign and their media strategy. campaign strategists david axle rod participants. they talk about operation vote, the effort to target key voters in battleground states. also a look at the day-to

waxman. >> without objection. that concludes our hearing. the members may give you questions. we ask that you respond to those questions once you get them, promptly. and i remind members they have ten business days to submit questions for the record. and that means they should submit their questions by the close of business on monday, april the 2nd. excellent hearing. wonderful testimony. we thank our expert panel for your very important testimony and answers to our questions. without objection, the subcommittee's adjourned. >>> a busy week ahead in congress. the house convenes tomorrow to consider spending for agriculture, transportation, and housing programs. and also a vote on holding attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress. republicans want the attorney general to turn over more documented related to the fast and furious gun tracking operation. live coverage from the house floor on c-span. and over in the senate, lawmakers gavel in today at 2:00 eastern with two bills on the agenda. the flood insurance program and user fees the fda collects from drug companies

waxman be entered into the record. i also ask that a similar response, rebutting the characterization of the research from the sierra club, cited this morning, also be entered into the record at this time. >> without objection. >> i thank the chair. >> thank you, mr. chairman. my name is robert howerth, tenured at cornell university since 1985. i am here as an individual. i do not represent the university, though the opinions i express are informed by my research conducted at cornell. i have risk assessment and consequences of environmental pollution, oil and gas, since the mid 70s. i was invited to present information on the environmental public health hydraulic fracturing. the process existed for decades. but it existed on a small scale using small vol up umes of wate. high precision directional drilling with high volume hydraulic fracturing, using 50 to 100 times more water than was used in fracturing until a decade or so ago, 5 million or gallons per well. this new technology has indeed opened up new resources from

waxman. >> thank you very much. earlier today the ambassador stated that the u.s. is advocating for the conference report to be made available to the public in addition to this proposal for increased transparency. what other specific measures can be taken to shine more light into the processes? >> the obvious possibility would be to open this process up to other stake holders which is not a typical conclusion one reaches in international agreements. it strikes me reflecting back on our written successes with mull stake holder processes that transparency and openness produces much better results. whether anyone in the current governmental world could be persuaded of that i don't know. but i'm a great advocate of trying to include civil society and the private sector in matters that will have a direct effect on them. publications of proposals and involvement of over stake holders would be very attributive. >> i would think it's critical for the countries that have seen the impact of the internet on the economy to highlight the potential negative consequences of the r