Now, good morning. I call this hearing to order. We have quite a full house today. I welcome the audience. This is a formal Senate Hearing in order to allow the committee to conduct its business. Im going to maintain decorum. That means, if theres any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience, that person causing the disruption will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. First, id like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, the honorable scott pruitt to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for your testimony today. With respect to todays hearings, were going to abide by the committees fiveminute rule for length of member questions in the first round. Time permitting, we will also have a twominute second round of questions until 12 30, when administrator pruitt has to leave the building. Now of course, members will also have the ability to submit written questions to administrator pruitt for the record. Todays hearing is t
Immigrants with quality and civil rights that inspired a twitter frenzy, with hashtag go nancy go. But it is not the same marathon as spending years in heightened alert. It is in the back of my mind, what is going to happen after this two years. Reporter maria is a student who just had her daca status renewed but her friends arent so lucky. I asked a 21yearold what she thought of the passionate message for dreamers. I understand what shes doing. Im thankful that shes trying to advocate for us. But at the same time, i think the first time would have they closed down the government. They have a lot of power. [ chanting ] reporter its power. Immigrant youth ask her to flex back in september when they accused her of not demanding more for human rights. Perhaps today a deeply personal approach after that bay shore confrontation with pelosi reading the letters of countless daca recipients. Abigail represents hundreds of such kids in San Francisco ishl. I think what Speaker Pelosi was trying
Youre seeing rain starting to move in there and as we get a look at San Francisco, some spotty light showers. Weve seen it throughout the morning and it continues to move from berkeley and oakland so well be tracking the rain that may impact your morning commute and those slick roads will be a factor. Because as you talked about the north bay saw up to a quarter inch in some areas. This is san rafael. Theres slick conditions. If we look at the map farther north i did hair a report, chp filed a complaint not complaint but an issue says hydroplaning was involved in one of the crashes up there, 101 south at railroad. A smooth flow of traffic throughout most of the map but you see the green highlighting where the road weather index does talk about the fact you will have slicker roadways, it moves towards the walnut creek interchange. We are also looking at a build over here, typical for heyward. Ing folks were looking at a smooth ride anywhere south of the bay bridge but we have the rain t
Youre seeing rain starting to move in there and as we get a look at San Francisco, some spotty light showers. Weve seen it throughout the morning and it continues to move from berkeley and oakland so well be tracking the rain that may impact your morning commute and those slick roads will be a factor. Because as you talked about the north bay saw up to a quarter inch in some areas. This is san rafael. Theres slick conditions. If we look at the map farther north i did hair a report, chp filed a complaint not complaint but an issue says hydroplaning was involved in one of the crashes up there, 101 south at railroad. A smooth flow of traffic throughout most of the map but you see the green highlighting where the road weather index does talk about the fact you will have slicker roadways, it moves towards the walnut creek interchange. We are also looking at a build over here, typical for heyward. Ing folks were looking at a smooth ride anywhere south of the bay bridge but we have the rain t
Youre seeing rain starting to move in there and as we get a look at San Francisco, some spotty light showers. Weve seen it throughout the morning and it continues to move from berkeley and oakland so well be tracking the rain that may impact your morning commute and those slick roads will be a factor. Because as you talked about the north bay saw up to a quarter inch in some areas. This is san rafael. Theres slick conditions. If we look at the map farther north i did hair a report, chp filed a complaint not complaint but an issue says hydroplaning was involved in one of the crashes up there, 101 south at railroad. A smooth flow of traffic throughout most of the map but you see the green highlighting where the road weather index does talk about the fact you will have slicker roadways, it moves towards the walnut creek interchange. We are also looking at a build over here, typical for heyward. Ing folks were looking at a smooth ride anywhere south of the bay bridge but we have the rain t