prioritize it. it just makes sense for us, one, to understand that the impacts from climate change are real and that there are solutions that can help us to lessen the intensity of the storms. we can make sure we re moving toward renewables. we can make sure we are lowering greenhouse gas emissions. we can make sure that resiliency and sustainability is a part of the planning process so we are better protecting lives. tom, one of the issues this administration came in is they took away an obama-era regulation that said that when building public infrastructure with federal funds, you ve got to take something as basic as rising sea levels into account. and the trump administration got rid of that about two weeks before hurricane harvey hit. now, not that that rule would have affected hurricane harvey, but we re not even talking we re just talking about information gathering. we re just talking about information into account that scott says we can measure, rising sea levels, what s th
of debt ceiling and spending. but make no mistake, he also tweeted today about how the filibuster rule is hampering with republican efforts to get things done. he still wants to see the republicans pushing the agenda. jon: as he has cleared the decks for navy tax reform legislation, he did get harvey funding out of the way. the debt ceiling lifted. paul ryan says we should have it for longer terms. he is saying, let s be pragmatic in the short term and get some other stuff out of the hopper. i would say it is too soon to say that we are seeing a shift to bipartisanship in washington. but i think that you are seeing the president signaling to the party, we better get things done or we have to find another way. jon: he did say he would change the ways of washington. he is changing it not in ways that everybody likes. glenn hall, thank you. heather: police searching for a realtor and a mother of two who disappeared just before hurricane harvey hit the city.
hurricane harvey hit, before north korea and their latest antics there was already a lot to be done. the house in session only 12 days with 6 of those are travel days back and forth, tax reform, the budget feeling, a lot to be done. abca27 here is kevin mccarthy talking about tax reform and what he would like to see. i want to see major reform, something we have been working on for quite some time. i m here with chairman brady, something we know we need to do. america is at a disadvantage to the rest of the world we want to make sure we bring the money back to america and create more jobs, we will get that done this year. once the budget is done we will move to tax reform. we are talking 35% tax rate or something like that and to
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built for business. welcome back. even before hurricane harv welcome back. even before hurricane harvey hit, president trump in congress had a pretty big to-do list for september, passing a budget, raising the debt limit, basically our credit card line, keeping the government open, deciding whether and how to pay if mr. trump s border wall, and, of course, getting tax reform started and the president claims he still wants to do health care. all that would have been hard enough if president trump weren t weakened by poll numbers in the 30s now and increasingly testy relationship with his own party. joining me now to talk about what could get accomplished this month is republican senator roy blount of missouri. mr. blount, welcome back to meet the press. good to be with you, chuck. let me start with north korea. it seems the conversation is the same and it used to be three months we have the north korea