Weve seen him in the room. The Ranking Member is tom carper of delaware. And youre watching live coverage on cspan. Now, good morning. I call this hearing to order. We have quite a full house today. I welcome the audience. This is a formal Senate Hearing in order to allow the committee to conduct its business. Im going to maintain decorum. That means, if theres any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience, that person causing the disruption will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. First, id like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, the honorable scott pruitt to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for your testimony today. With respect to todays hearings, were going to abide by the committees fiveminute rule for length of member questions in the first round. Time permitting, we will also have a twominute second round of questions until 12 30, when administrator pruitt has to leave the building. Now of course, member
Higher again, it has been a sharp rebound from the lows. Futures up 90 on the dow 36 on the nasdaq just under 10 on the s p 500 dow closed above 25,000 again yesterday. How about asia a check on the overnight session. China is closed, right, for the holiday . Yes, the Lunar New Year the Chinese Exchange was closed except for the nikkei you dont believe it until you read it in the teleprompter. I would believe him before the teleprompter did you do fast moneyfast mont night . No, there is no fast money. I knew that i watch around the clock. I do. European equities to check on those as well. Lets see how we are set up for the session here there is the nikkei in japan that was the lone market in asia great across the board for europe strongest gains on the periphery. Italy and spain up about. 08 the tenyear yield, just under 2. 9 there, you can see the rest. 30year, 3. 14, the fiveyear, 2. 639 we were eigall waiting for tt three and didnt get it. It went the other way. You listen to rick.
Superfund program and efforts to remove lead from municipal water systems. Senator John Barrasso chairs the environmental and Public Works Committee. This is 2 1 2 hours. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. We have quite a full house today. I welcome the audience. This is a formal Senate Hearing in order to allow the committee to conduct its business. Im going to maintain decorum. That means if there is any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience, that person causing the disruption will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. First, id like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, the honorable scott prosecute, to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for your testimony today. Were going to abide by the committees fiveminute rule for length of member questions in the first round. Time permitting, we will also have a twominute second round of questions until 12 30 when administrator prosecute has to leave the buildin
Cspan. Org slash landmarkcases. Scott pruitt testified earlier this week before the Committee Wyoming senator John Barrasso chair the committee. Good morning. I call this hearing to order, we have a full skmous i welcome the audience. This is a formal Senate Hearing to allow the committee to conduct business. If theres disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience that person will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. First, id like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Agency scott pruitt for your testimony today. With respect to todays hearings were going to abide by the committees five minute rule for length of mitsubishis questions in the first round. Time permitting well have a two minute second round of questions until 12 30 when pruitt has to leave the building. Will have the able to submit written questions to stray tor pruitt for the record. Kmning epa record after the first year of the administration. Has been doing the hard work of protebting t
So we will have an initial skepticism. But we need to make sure it is justified. Lets make sure we are destroying the planet before we start destroying our economy and our way of living. We certainly respect and welcome all perspectives and that should be the case on all sides of the debate. It is not just left and right. It is interesting how so many folks that are Global Warming skeptics come from environmental activist brack grounds background. I consider myself an environmentalist. I do travel quite a bit and every chance i get, when i travel, i want to go out. I want to see the lay of the land. I want to go hiking through the forest. I want to experience the beauty we have in this country and make sure we are good stewards of it. However, it does not mean we will just jump on board for every asserted environmental crisis. Like i mentioned earlier, we want to see the proof in the pudding before we jump on board. It takes courage if you are concerned about the environment to critica