I want to go back to the slide about replacing announcer you can watch all this discussion at www. Cspan. Org. We take you now live to the u. S. Capitol. It is question with House Science Committee don meyer. He is expected to talk about the potential impact of the Trump Administrations this Mission Decision to withdraw from the paris climate agreement. Just Getting Started here on cspan. Certainly with the cooperation of the United States in many countries around the world begin to plan for the future of world local development would apply not only to the least developed countries but just as well equally and universally to the critical state of affairs for human inhts and for development the bestequipped countries, including the United States. Out of that conversation can this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all countries voluntarily to collaborate in how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set we were just years into this. Alrea
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[inaudible conversations] good morning. The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome you all to our second bubble confirmation hearing of this anon girls feet. I would like to start by thanking senator korn and for being here to speak on behalf of our nominee is. Always good to have you. Our fellow committee member, senator mention from West Virginia is prepared to also offer introductory remarks for a nominee. Governor perry, i would like to extend a warm welcome to you and to your family. Know that i appreciate your desire to serve, your willingness to become our next secretary of energy. Ive enjoyed the meeting that we had together, learning more about your leadership as governor of the state of texas, including your accomplishments in the area of energy and environment. Im going to withhold this morning and a reference to text size versus alaska size. Weve had that discussion. But in all seriousness, we know that you are seeking to leave the department of energy at an inter
Signs that they can hold up. Thanks for your time. [applause] [inaudible conversations] i am pleased to welcome to our stage, scott pruitt. [applause] i routinely entered the means to destroy the epa i wish that were true but a quick question pennsylvania, texas, all the states to a pretty good job to regulate the oil and gas industry on their rounds are looking these what is the point . I am sure there is one. [laughter] so we had a little conversation we have a day in october when we are not friends. [laughter] but as far as the epa is concerned there are air quality issues and but we have seen the last several years is the of displacement that the epa has used and to go back to the inception of the epa when the statutes were passed there was a very important prescriptive model was federalism to be enforcers and partners with the federal government that has been pushed to decide and the states have started to develop a distrust of their partner here in washington d. C. I am so faithf
Epa administrator scott pruitt talks about the trump administrations environmental policy agent. Agenda. I am pleased to welcome to our stage scott pruitt. [ applause ] i am routinely assured by my friends on the left that he means to destroy the epa. I wish that were true, but he is not going to destroy it. A quick question for uyou. So your home state of oklahoma and my home state of texas, pennsylvania where i lived for a while, all these states do a pretty good job of regulating the gas and oil on their own. I look to these things and think to myself what is the point of the epa. Im sure there is one. Tell us what it is . So kevin and i had a little conversation as were getting ready to come on stage from texas, oklahoma. We had this little day in october where were not friends. But the only state we ever tried to give back to the indians. Well, maybe a discussion for another day. But as far as the epa is concerned, there is an Important Role for the agency there are air quality. W