Now, mine is up. Come here. We asked your predecessors to come to a particularly as it relates to section 321 a. To see the impact and some of the regulations were having in the coldfield. They declined to do that but i am appreciative of the fact that one week ago or two weeks ago the epa you sent other folks came to West Virginia to get the impact of what these regulations are having because it is pretty clear in the statute that we have to abide by the economic impact. We have to take that into consideration and they didnt do that and i know that you might have had that conversation that you want to follow the law clearly and i know a federal judge is already ruled that the epa in the past considered them discretionary and not mandatory and i think your position ive heard is that you think they are mandatory and you tend to abide by them. Am i correct . Yes, cognizant. We did indicate that he sent representatives to us in virginia as part of the proposed withdrawal and i think it is
Take you to a conversation on islamic extremism at the Washington Institute for near east policy. We will be there live at 12 30 p. M. Eastern right here on cspan2. Until then well show you epa administrator scott promotes testimony from yesterday on the president s 2010 budget request for his agency. This House Appropriations subcommittee hearing runs about two hours. The committee will come to order. Good morning. Today we continue to keep all those affected by yesterdays events including our colleague Steve Scalise in our thoughts and prayers. We applaud the Capitol Police for the continued efforts to be the first line of defense to serve and protect all members, Public Servants and visitors here to the hill. We have a few of them here today with us. Thank you for all the work that you do. We thank you. Turning our attention to the hearing we are joined by the 14th administrator of the Environmental Protection agency scott pruitt. We have of all our members congratulations on your c
Here on cspan3. John brennan on last weeks terrorist attack in istanbul and ongoing threats to u. S. National security. Hosted by the council on foreign relations, this is an hour. Welcome to the council on foreign relations, im Judy Woodruff and im delighted to introduce our speaker this afternoon. I dont think there could be a better time or moment for us to hear from the director of the Central Intelligence agency without further ado, please welcome director john brennan. Thank you, it is a pleasure to be back at the council to compare notes on Dynamic International scene, i very much look forward to talking with judy and Council Membership on the many topics in the headlines. I would first like to offer brief opening remarks to kick off the conversation today. Now, whenever i administer the oath of offices to our headquarters in langley, virginia, i tell them they are coming aboard at the critical moment. In the 36 years since i first entered government, i have never been witnessin
Thats npclive. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id ask that each of you stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your applause until i have finished introducing the entire table. From your right, dylan brown, a reporter from E E Publishing; gene tighe, director of bbn technologies, and a Longtime National park volunteer; maria recio, a correspondent from mcclatchy newspapers; will shafroth, president and ceo of the National Park foundation; elizabeth bumiller, Washington Bureau chief of the new york times; the honorable john warner, former secretary of the navy and United States senator from the commonwealth of virginia. [applause] thank you, senator. Ferdous alfaruque, medical device reporter for medtech insight and a press club board member. Skipping over our speaker for just a minute, rod kurkro, reporter at E E Publishing and the press Club Speakers Committee member who organized todays event. Thank you, rod. Tom crosson, the chief of Public Affairs for
Eric the president made it clear about the billing his constitutional requirements. There are no caveats. Exemptions include for election years for the presence last term in office. So i acknowledge your skepticism here, because we do know this is a republican congress. This is a Republican Party leadership that shut down the government in 2013, that brought us to the brink of defunding the department of Homeland Security just last year, and just last week announced they will not even have a hearing on the president s budget, but i also want to point out that this is not the first time that republicans have come out with a lot of bluster only to have reality set in. Republicans have threatened to keep sequesterlevel funding for the government. They have threatened to not raise the debt limit. They have threatened to not reauthorize the import export bank, and they threatened to up ease the deal with iran. They tried to play politics, but ultimately, they were not able to back up their