order to provide aid for hurricane victims. i don t think this is what eric cantor was saying. i do think this is something in the future to preplan for, a special rainy-day fund and while we will help the people of the east coast again. his district was at the epicenter of the earth quake last week and is impacted by the hurricane this week. but we don t have a limitless supply of dollars in washington so it is something we aught to be help people over time budgeting for these kind of natural disasters. but the billion dollars that we referred to could be congressman, let s be honest, we had to offset that with a billion dollars from renewable energy programs. so already we are seeing this match. so when he says this, it concerns me, are we saying no you that we can only respond to emergencies if we are going to balance that off with spending cuts? while people are sitting in the
let me just make sure we re clear. the house has already acted, already fund aid billion dollars for disaster relief money. that money is offset by savings elsewhere. $1 billion with damages estimated in the range of tens of billions of dollars. will it ever be about the people? how can democrats get the first base with these people? when they are so unwilling to compromise on anything. well, join meg right now, republican congressman joe barredon of texas from the republican tea party caucus. thank you for joining me. thank you reverend and think you for inviting me on your first official show. i think i m pleased i ve been invited. i look forward to a spirited exchange with you. let s see if you re pleased when we re finished. let me ask you a question. sure. do you believe there has to be a dollar for dollar cut in
the clean air act. let s keep the safe water drinking act. let s enforce it but let s don t keep adding on, you know, interpretive regulations to those laws that have the consequences in my home state of texas, for example, potentially shutting down 20% of the power plants. tanging off 15 to 18,000 megawatts of power and creating black-outs and brown-outs. you just cited two things set to precedent deregulate not deregulate. we want common sense regulation. we want to a strict enforcement of the existing law. er with not trying to change the basic law. okay, let me ask you this congressman. let s cut to the chase here, like kwaul do in texas. yes, sir. all right. whether you call it common sense regulation or i call it deregulation, where are the jobs in that? well a lot of them are in