Unified america. And sunday evening at 6 00 on american artifacts well tour the house that was the headquarters of the american red cross. And learn about the life of its founder, clara barton. Find our complete Television Schedule at cspan. Org and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2026263400. Email us at comments cspan. Org. Or send us a tweet tweet cspan comments. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. Next the chair of the federal Energy Regulatory commission on u. S. Energy policy and its role in the implementation of the epas Clean Power Plan. Setting rules to cut Carbon Pollution from power plants. The epa announced it will finalize the plan by midsummer. Good afternoon and welcome. My name is john hughes. Im an editor for bloomberg first word. Thats the breaking news desk here in washington for bloomberg. Im also president of the National Press club. The club is the worlds leading professional organization
Study on black america with the moynihan report. We will show you the report on reducing crime in the wake of violence in baltimore. The former Maryland Governor is on the panel and covers drug legalization and broken families. This is an hour and ten minutes. Morning. We can get started. Again, good morning, everyone. My name is jason riley. I am single fellow at the Manhattan Institute for policy research and i would like to welcome everyone to the symposium entitled prosspects for black america and moynihan report turns 50. If you are looking for a White America symposium you are in the wrong room. That would be any of the other rooms in the building. I will be brief with my remarks because we have excellent panelist lined up and i want to give them as much time as possible. I will get a chance to speak later on this man. I started working at the Manhattan Institute for policy research in february of this year. But the idea for this conference on race first occurred to me many years
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 96, the nays are 3. The motion to table is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell what is the pending business before the senate . The presiding officer pending business is h. R. 1191 which the clerk will report. The clerk calendar number 30, h. R. 1191, an act to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986, and so forth and for other purposes. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the corker amendment number 1140 to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the corker amendment number 1140, to h. R. 1191, an act to aimed the Internal Revenue code of 1986. Signed by 1 senators as follows mr. Mcconnell i ask tha
It has become standard. I agree with you. That was the intent of the 90s act. Use a different model. That is what this proposed rule is going to do as well. Use it in a way that accomplishes the goal that will be very flexible. Let me ask you this question. The constitutionality of the epa setting standards has been published before. He upheld approaching the the 19 night independent in whitman versus American Trucking in 2001. In 2011 the Supreme Court ruled the epa has the authority to set standards for Carbon Pollution under section 111 d. And eight connecting opinion versus connecticut. We believe the epa can consider as it is undertaking to do with regulating existing nonauthorized versus under section 111 of the Clean Air Act. Is there any constitutional question about epas approach or the Legal Authority to regulate Carbon Pollution under section 111 of the Clean Air Act . No, i dont think so. The constitutional issues have been a distraction. Theyve been used to make people wor
All . Walter i use it because it is a way of looking at things. It makes you think about the arguments on the other side. But it makes you focus on facts, first. That has always been one of my theories. It supported that. But mainly, it made you think about the other person. Brian we asked you to chat with us because they want to know more about the way you look at things. I want to show you something that happened 30 years ago. Your first appearance here on cspan. See how much has changed. The Nuclear Debate itself has generally been in the hands in the last 10 years of the extremes. People said you had to have more Nuclear Weapons or the rugs would attack, and people said if you have more theres going to be a war. And i think this sort of debate by the extremes created a lot of the talk about were all going to be killed. I did a documentary called defense of the United States and one of the feelings i wanted to show is that, at that point, we were building thousands of warheads. Peop