that was abuse of power. >> congressman henry waxman. thank you for being on "newsmakers." >> thank you for having me. >> staying with us for some analysis are kate hunter and lisa mascaro. what did you make of the congressmen's take on this? >> i think it is really interesting that he said the health care bill is a requirement that is enforced by a tax. when democrats were pushing this through congress, they were very adamant that this was not a tax. the court's ruling left not a lot of wiggle room. he basically acknowledged that is a tax. >> republicans are seizing on the tax issue and making a fairly clear that that will be a cornerstone of the argument against the health care bill moving forward to november. i think we still see democrats do not have a response to that. congressman waxman gave us a sort of framework that could be helpful for the democrats as they make their arguments, which is, you know, it is similar to what happened in this country with tobacco. congressman waxman was at the forefront years ago to put regulations o

>> coming up, "newsmakers" with henry waxman. followed by day of reaction to the supreme court ruling on the affordable care act from president obama and mitt romney. followed by reaction from capitol hill into the house republican conference. later, house minority leader, nancy pelosi. >> this author writes about the presidents. >> . german goes to the white house and says to --. truman goes to the white house and says to eleanor roosevelt, may i pay fpray for you? she says no, i need to pray for you. >> their campaigns -- >> they say they have to write a large hall to get all the people to check the vice-president seat. >> and their ideals -- >> calvin coolidge may indeed have been the last jeffersonian. a man who believed in the limits of government power and of federal power to resist the temptation to extend it. >> today on a local tv" your questions and comments like at noon eastern. also, middle east expert on the response to the arab spring, afghanistan, iraq and the peace process between israel and pakistan. part of "boo

waxman. he unfairness going forward. you accused us of being unfair. >> no, the point is in your oral testimony and mentioned i think we have serious concerns if there is a sunset date of december 31, 2011. implementation of all-new technology. >> deities authority to issue home guarantees under 1705 expired after september 30, 2011. there were several that are in the pipeline that were filed before them and going forward. >> yes, sir. >> you're about to follow follow through on those if they had commenced construction. >> not necessarily. these are projects that were 1703 eligible and no sunset date. >> so basically switched from 1705 to 1703. >> yes, sir. >> in 1705 in the last three weeks before us 2011, there were $10 billion issued to projects. is that correct? >> i don't remember the exact number. >> maybe her staff guy that helps you up behind you can help you. >> i submitted to your staff when i gave my private testimony, private interviews that all of the projects concluded under this 1705 experienced due dilige

waxman. i just to add my greetings to my constituent from dish network. 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. i yield back my time. >> the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. thank you all for being here. we're going to start with mr. robert johnson. the ceo of sky age gel u.s. llc. thank you for being here. we appreciate to reading through your testimony and look forward to your comments. just for all the panelists if you vice president used these microphones you need to get pretty close to them and make sure the light's on. >> chairman walden, ranking member and members of the subcommittee on communications and technology, it is my pleasure to have this testimony 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 purpose of providing american famili

that sort of brackets the possibilities of what we would have gotten under waxman/markey. oil production increases in both of those modeling exercises because the c 02 price creates an incentive to capture carbon monoxide to enhance oil recovery. projections are not gospel, but that's a real possibility. that's actually the one big growth potential in u.s. production that we haven't talked about because there isn't a carbon price to create an incentive to make that supply of co 2 available. if you look at the basic economics of the issue, increased u.s. oil production is unlikely to have a large impact emissions and increased natural gas emission particularly in the next decade or two is likely to displace coal and, therefore, e rer reduce emissions. the bigger potential impact on climate policy i think comes through politics. so some good extent, the discussion about climate policy to date has conflated several different challenges, one of which was greenhouse gas emissions and global warming but another was this idea of resource scarcity that we're running out and theref

waxman. >> mr. chairman, my colleagues and members of the audience, yesterday know is absolutely right. this is a hearing for politics. that's all it is. and i guess it's an election year so we can excuse it, but this nation faces an urgent energy challenge. the recent wildfires, drought, heat waves come extreme weather events tell us that we must act to address climate change. these are exactly the types of extreme events that scientists have been predicting, and that congress has been ignoring. according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, more than 40,000 hot temperature records have been set this year. at the end of june, this year, more than a hundred million people in the u.s. were in areas under extreme heat advisories. two-thirds of the country is experiencing drought. more than 2 million acres have burned in wildfires this year. we need to act to reduce carbon pollution, and there are a range of options for doing that, from putting a price on carbon, sensible regulations

i never thought i'd hear chairman waxman, former chairman waxman, speak in terms of how dysfunctional congress is, how we just don't operate and can't be trusted. but clearly i heard him say that today. i still believe in the institution that all of us belong to. in living up to our responsibility, congress has the responsibility to pass laws. and it has an absolute obligation to oversee the administration of those laws. the executive branch or administrative branch actually only has the right to create regulations and executive orders to support the laws that have been created. for too long we have abrogated our responsibility. former chairman waxman apparently would like to continue doing that, in what he said of our low rating and essentially repeating it. until the unemployment rate reaches 6%, taking back just less than 66 out of 3,000 regulations last year and making them accountable either to fall into emergency requirements, into specific categories of essential harm, or to come to congress would seem to be a small task. i have no doubt that if the shoe was on the other foot a

in a letter to the makers of jeep south bay congresswoman and a representative henry waxman calling for outreach campaign notifying customers of the risk and providing possible solutions for repairing and the problem. chrysler says its vehicles meteor exceed standards and have excellent safety records. the automaker did not say if it will contact customers. >>> president obama wraps up his bus tour today and mitt romney's campaign will be mobilizing volunteers tomorrow in swing states. the monthly unemployment numbers come out in the next hour and could alter the view of the candidates. tahman bradley has more. >> reporter: president obama will get another taste of main street today when his bus rolls through ohio and pennsylvania. the president has been on the attack, that could change with the release of the jobs report. a weak report could put president obama back on the defensive. this as his campaign pelts mitt romney with charges of offshore cash and outsourcing jobs. >> outsourcing versus insourcing, it matters. >> reporter: on the stump. >> the president: governor romney's exper

congressman henry waxman is the ranking democrat on a key committee looking at the health care law. he's joining us on c-span's "newsmakers" program after the "washington journal." here's a preview about the vote scheduled for july 11. >> majority leader said there's going to be a vote july 11, another vote on repealing the full law. what's going to be the democrats' strategy for dealing with that vote politically? and also, do you think there will be more democratic defections? you voted on this in january and there were three democrats that supported it. do you think there will be more that support it this time around? >> i don't know. there are more republicans than democrats in the house, and they'll pass it, just as they've already done. by the way, they said they want to repeal and remales. we still don't know what they want to replace it with. they want to repeal it. there are many people who are going to get insurance with this bill. there are a lot of americans who will need this bill because they're losing their jobs and they have health insurance through their job. if the

and i think that, frankly, if waxman was the basis, if that was really their philosophical legislative statement, this was kind of a euro green approach. big transfer of wealth. it was to use government regulation to drive in new technologies. and i don't think there's much support for that in the country. it's very interesting, last week ago friday was the hottest june day ever recorded. increasingly on the weather, or the news, the weather, there's talk about isn't it awfully hot? it seems to be hot all the time. there's something going on. and so i think that the issue of climate is an interesting issue. i think that -- i think that governor romney is going to come out for a much more pro-market shifting power to the states, opening up public lands. one of the key issues is epa. >> right. >> that's really where the power lies in this whole issue. and the other thing is that you have states like pennsylvania a and ohio. there are a whole bunch of new oil producing states. so the political calculous is going to change domestically. but i think that in the end, one of the president's r

waxman and we appreciate your concern. at this point, the first panel will be handled by the chairman of the subcommittee on power -- soha ghelr m.whie. >> thank you, mr. stearns and i want to welcome the members of the first panel. we appreciate your takng time to e with us this morni o iman seb oider a very onli as taxpayers is very important, particularly at a time when we have a gigantic federal debt. our two witnesses on the first panel at first, mr. david frantz, acting eeut er rthlo pamic the.s. partnt of energy and the second is the honorable dr. kathleen hogan, his deputy assistant secretary for energy efficiency, office of energy at demefr.rwaeer so once again, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. am going to call in each one to call in each one of you to give a five-minute opening state it and then at the end of hat time wiive membs an opportunity askusn r.franwi nit fiveinut forn oping statement. >> chairman whitfield and stearns, ranking members who brash and to gt and members of the subcommittee, th

waxman's voice. you talked about he felt maybe 78 percent of the projects have loan guarantee program in successful and that was because a lot of loan risk. that's one of the reasons that i'm quite concerned about the program because most of those very significant loans were made to well capitalized companied. most of them new york stock exchange. general, goldman sachs and at the time we have a $16 trillion federal debt, and this president particularly talking about protecting the middle class, why would we making loan guarantees to companies that strong financially? >> i would agree with you, mr. chairman. and it gets back to the false premises on which the loan guarantee was based. there are market viable projects that can't get private financing. they don't exist on regular basis. the incident loan risk project and you have a well capitalized firm and market viable, they shouldn't need a guarantee. there should be private financing it. >> doctor. >> yes. i would certainly agree with that. at the

congressman waxman was at the forefront years ago to put regulations on tobacco and to begin what many would consider very high taxes on cigarettes. they are taxes that many americans do not seem to mind. then, the congressman acknowledged that he is not the pr guy. there are others that will be working on the message. whether they take a message it is going to be a little hard. >> do you have a sense on a will take the lead? >> we do not know if the democrats really want to run on this issue. we have seen senator reid over the past few days. let's move on, the court has made a decision. leader nancy pelosi did the same thing. how much do democrats really want to talk about this issue? >> democrats will be talking more about the economy. there is a sense that part of what happened when they lost things in the senate. they did not have a strong message on health care or the economy. there was a sense that they really needed to focus on jobs in the economy. that think that is what we're going to see them doing going forward. if they do talk about health care, they're going to have to fig

inner ircle and i don't have tim to read it i don't thinkhat get hofr20ee he appeared before henry waxman's committee, and he said that there was a flaw in the mind set. i was terribly surprised that we have all the poble i thog tjuhe -iesoanr nt business would be sufficient to prevent the abuses from happening and i was terribly shocked when that happened, and in actuality he did saythat, but i thnk that if you brin alo ermm axw that time as well a the statements that he made before the committee, you fnd that in fact greenspan never really apologized and never really pudied. that is i thinwhat was more of a icles, d act later on in his testimony before the financial crisis inquiry commission, he did what they cal on wall street may be que. he didn't know. he was asked about hiscomments foaxs'omiin aeliev dt esidas really talking about something else. i wasn't repudiating my world view. so, it's reallyi think amazing and, you know, i think a certain extent the number one advocate of rand vis, yo yene really strayed from her views in any substtial way. actually would have the gall to make t

waxman suggest the led -- suggested picking winners and losers. do you agree with that? >> mt s v tch erybody, i think, here acknowledges,e're not clairvoyant enough to know the new technologies that might be right around the corner that would be -- >> do you agree that that's a fair satement? that bls inne dos tld cin preclude us from having an open forum for the projects for sure. >> for new projes? >> if it's picking -- >> would it be fair, then, if we talk about fairness, to jus in aofere t anipe? just going further on those? >> no, no. >> then you're not picking winners and losers. >> i think the ones in the peline as we incated, in the process ofeviewing tho not thandou didn't say there would be unfairness to not going forward, i mean, we accused us of being unfair. >> no, i think the point that -- the point is - and it's in my oral testimony. i mentioned it. >> okay. i t waveris erifre u tethecr #- 31st, 2011 because that's implication of new technologies. 30 2705 exre ateeper hacot. >> there's several in the pipeline filed before then, and you're going forward; c

in a letter a congresswoman and representative henry waxman are calling for an outreach campaign notifyingproviding possible solutions. chrysler says its vehicles meteor exceed every -- meet or exceed every safety standard. >>> on the campaign trail, president obama completes his bus tour in ohio and pennsylvania today. the president has been on the attack pelting his likely republican opponent mitt romney. mr. obama will return to the white house today to design legislation paying for highway construction and keeping college loans from doubling then off to camp david. mitt romney will be completing his new england vacation today, tomorrow his campaign with republican party officials will go on a voter blitz for what they call super saturday mobilizing volunteers in swing states. >> if it hasn't been bad enough it could be more miserable for residents of the midwest and east coast. record setting heat could be compounded by widespread power outages from damaging storms. record highs in the midwest are buckling roads and damaging kr07s. illinois corn farmers say they need rain in the next t

waxman: this bill, mr. speaker, and my colleagues, would take away the health security and cause over 30 million people to lose health coverage over the next decade. that's more people than the entire population of new york and ohio. yet here we go again. wasting time that should be spent on improving the economy and putting people to work. instead we're rehashing the same old arguments. americans deserve health security. what's in the bill? the law that the republicans would seek to take off the books prevents people with pre-existing conditions, like pregnant women, not to be denied insurance or charged so much that they can't get coverage. the law says women should not pay higher premiums just because they are women. people should have an easy, transparent marketplace to shop for quality insurance and the hardworking middle class should receive subsidies to help them afford it. people should not be worried about losing health coverage if they lose their job. people should be encouraged to get preventive

then, "newsmakers" with henry waxman. after that, reaction to the health care law on president obama. >> this is the conversation we need to have in this country that nobody is willing to have. what role should the government play in housing? enson detailsorgan se government subsidized home ownership in her new book. >> if you want to subsidize housing and we want to talk about it and the populist agrees that it is something we should subsidize, put it on the balance sheet and make it clearer and make it evident and make everybody aware of how much it is costing. when you deliver its through these third party enterprises, with private shareholders and executives who can extract a lot of the subsidy for themselves, that is not a very good way of subsidizing home ownership. i think we have seen the end of that movie in 2008. >> more with her tonight at 8:00 p.m. on c-span's "q&a." aboutis morning, we speak wit the political reactio t

waxman five minutes. >> there are two nuclear power plants in california. one is diablo canyon and the other is the nuclear generating station in interstate of diego. i want to ask about that plant. in february of 2011 a new steam generator -- new steam generators were placed in service at that plant. this was a major capital expense that cause ratepayers' $670 million. this expense was large but the new equipment was supposed to last 40 years. on january 31st of this year, less than a year, one of the units steam generators started making radioactive steam into the atmosphere and the reactor was shut down. the other unit was not operating at the time. six months later, most remained shut down. and determine the actual release of radiation into the environment was minimal in this case. is that right? >> that is correct. >> after the january shutdown, sending an inspection team. the report last weekend according to the nrc inspection team after a single year of operation, the steam generators have been warm down because excessive vibration was causing them t

>> this week we are joined by henry waxman. he talks about the supreme court decision and what is next as republican leaders plan to repeal the unpopular bill. sequestration is set to begin in january 2013 and to take place over 10 years. a group of budget analyst spoke at the possible of that. of this is about one hour. >> i have got a great to appear discussing things. we will have a break and then peter will convene. to our left, ron haskins. many will know about his role in welfare reform when he worked in capitol hill. he's always been balancing for fiscal restraint in care with his concern for our nation's economic future. that continues to be the theme. to my right is david warren. he is one of the most dynamic defense companies today. he has been good enough to join us on previous events related to our ongoing working group on the future of the industrial base. his perspective is informative. two works for a company that has been innovative in trying to protect our country with more economic things. he is a voice that i

henry waxman is the ranking democrat on a key committee looking at the healthcare law.joining us on the "news makers" program after the washington journal. here is a preview on that. [video clip] >> it was said there will be a vote july 11 on repealing the full law. what is the democrat strategy for dealing with that vote politically and do you think there will be more democratic defectio defections? in you voted on this january of 2011 there were three democrats that supported it. do you think there will be more? >> i don't know. there are more republicans than democrats in the house and they passed it just as they have already done. we still don't know what they would replace it with. they are going to repeal it? a lot of people will get insurance for this. a lot of americans will need there because they will lose their skrbgs. when they have health insurance through their jobs and if they have a collide with an illness they won't be able to get insurance for that child. this assures americans that they will have is the security of health insurance. i wish the republi

>> i think waxman mentioned national dick -- natural gas twice. but the impact on the economy does not depend on how many words are devoted -- >> what it does to the economics. >> what happens is there was a big program and a lot of political capital was invested in it. something entirely different happened. >> we are in -- you have the trade off of using domestic coal which is very dirty and which harms the environment, the air people breathe. as income grows, the population will become more concerned about these matters and if there is availability of gas, whether domestic or imported gas, you now have a substitute that may be readily available the was not part of the equation at one time but will become increasingly important. that is where the energy growth and therefore carbon emissions growth is coming from. that will definitely bend the curve for them. >> i think europe's voice in the world can be loud and demanding the europe's overall impact on the world i think is not all that great when you see the world's largest economy and the world'

with the leadership of congressman henry waxman of california and senator ted kennedy.[cheers and applause] the past that community-based ryan white care act early on. [cheers and applause] would buy with our minority aids initiative in funding for pediatric aids case in the list goes on and on. and most recently, with the passage of the affordable care act, we are delivering substantial risk to hiv and aids. we worked in a bipartisan way, first with president clinton to authorize an global fund. then the president push, to establish pet fire. thank you, president bush. and the president obama to strengthen these initiatives. we think president obama for totally lifting the travel ban. [cheers and applause] enabling this international aids conference to return to the united states for the first time since 1990. as at that conference in san francisco and i can tell you that we have, long way, not only because we don't have a band and therefore scientists all can come and join in the exchange of ideas at the intellectual challenges of ideas, et cetera, but because in this

telling me repeatedly you are not toughth and standing up to the president and you are letting henry waxmanpush you around. they will be happy that eric tanner and john boehner has the courage and we republicans, indeed, will let the american people know we are still on their side. as i said at the outset of the clip this law well justice roberts can say all day long he is a supreme court justice and a chief justice and he says it is constitutional but by golly it is unamerican and it is our responsibility to represent the american people and to strike this law down. >> shannon: congressman and doctor phil gingrey, thank you so much for joining us, sir. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: the violence in syria is showing no signs of letting up with reports hundreds have been killed this week alone. right now the united nations is struggling to broker some kind of peace plan but we are getting reports that russia is balking at any attempts to get syria's leader to step aside. greg palkot is live in damascus with the latest on this. hello, greg. >> folks here still reeling from a brutal attack

. $2 million this year for the waxmans. when you get someone in your office instead of just asking for cholesterol or triglyceride and telling them to get slimmer give them a test. let me help because people will start thinking that but the last thing is the most important. if we know that, we have providers to ask -- different from the united states we don't believe in empowerment. never seen anywhere people giving power to someone else. talking about emancipation. people knowing that they have rights and with rights in their hands they can ask for what they really deserve. we have been doing that in many ways of confronting a difficult situation. i cannot forget to remember again three days from today against hepatitis, international meeting. >> in terms of using the new media and not quite so new media. >> we have some opportunities some of which have been explored. treatment reminders through the cellphone, at the same time in many places web sites that facilitate encounters present the new challenge and aspect that pre

waxman says the whole thing is phony. >> it's phony, a tax code-- but the republicans say it's a taxincrease in american history, that's ridiculous, this is not a real tax increase. it's a requirement that everybody get health insurance. >> ainsley: calling it a requirement like auto insurance, you need auto insurance to drive a car and need health insurance to live in america, if not, pay a tax, a penalty, whatever it is. >> mike: but you can avoid that tax if you pay for insuran insurance. >> dave: it will be interesting to see whether either party is running on this, but we talked to the virginia attorney general, ken cuccinelli who initially saw the ruling from the supreme court as a quote, dark day for america, later, he had digest it had all and said he found a bit of a silver lining. >> the silver lining is at that because it's a tax bill now, and that from the supreme court, instead of an ordinary bill, it can only-- it can be repealed with only 50 senators instead of 60. normally you've got to overcome the senate filibuster, now if you've got 50 and a vice-president it can b

colleague across the aisle for her hard work on this bill, and i also want to acknowledge ranking member waxmanand chairman upton on the energy and commerce committee for their support throughout the process. h.r. 5892 will expand our potential and -- to advance clean energy production and create jobs. i urge all members to vote for this bill and, mr. chairman, if my colleague has no further speakers, i'll yield back the balance of my time. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentlelady from washington is recognized. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 5892. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative -- affirmative -- ms.

members of congress who presented this idea, chairman bono macand champlee upton and ranking member waxmanall working with me to include alongside the repeal a requirement that nhtsa thoroughly examine that would be the requirement, that nhtsa would thoroughly re-examine the issue of how best to inform prospective buyers about damage susceptibility. i think we have struck the right balance. we fix a valid problem and keep in place a valuable principle. under the bill before us, nhtsa would have two years, two years to conduct a study, solicit public comment and issue a report to congress that will determine the most useful data, format, and method for providing simple and understandable damage susceptibility information to consumers. the agency would evaluate whether insurance costs are the best measure of damage susceptibility or whether there's a better way to make comparisons between vehicles and a better way to make such information available to consumers. mr. speaker, i've said time and time again that information is power and that is certainly true. for example, the nhtsa program sta