Resolved in the court. This is about three hours. The Rural Economy will come to order. Dear heavenly father we thank you so much for the opportunity to serve this great nation. Lord, we thank you for the freedoms that we have, we thank you that you have blessed us as you have with the rich resources and the ability to use those to make the world a better place. Lord, guide us and direct us, give us wisdom through this hearing and we ask all this in jesus name, amen. Thank you. I want to thank ms. Mccarthy. Its related to the regulatory of the Environmental Protection agencies. Many members believe that epa has pursued agenda absent of any recognition of consequences and production agriculture. Epa is trading regulations and policies to burdensome, overreaching and negatively affect the jobs of rule economy. The most poynant example water rule, the clean water rule. Ill be frank, this rule is not about clean water. Every one wants and deserves to drink clean water. Rebranding governmen
T the Supreme Court halted implementation of the power plan until legal challenges against it are resolved in the courts. Some members a discussed the flint, michigan, water contamination crisis. This is three hours. Ive asked mike bosh to open with a prayer. Dear heavenly father, we thank you so much for the we opportunity to serve this great nation. Lord, we thank you for the res freedoms that we have. Make we thank you that you have blessed up as you have with thee rich resources and the ability to use those to make the world a better place. Lord, guide us and direct us, give us wisdom through this hearing. We ask all this in jesus name, amen. Thank you, michael. I want to thank you m administrator mccarthy for being here this morning. The appreciate you being here. Y theres a reason, a top issue for nearly every member of our ag committee is related to the n regulatory agenda for the Environmental Protection agency. Many members of this committee believe the agenda has been absent
To think very long and hard about the least cost, least risk approach. Oregon especially since 1999 but even back dating back to 1980 has treated Energy Efficiency not as a boutique thing to do every now and then, but as a genuine resource that a utility should rely on. It is a costeffective resource and should be at the top of the list of any utility acquisition as being the lowest cost resour resource. So between planning, Energy Efficiency, weve been able to maintain our low cost. We are below average and weve been below average for dwight quite some time. We dont expect the Clean Power Plan to fundamentally change that because of the tools that you would use to meet the clean power provisions. Thank you, mr. Chairman. In my direct in southwest arkansas has already been announced to be closed and theres study thats show that rates will increase from 20 to 60 because of this closure. The the obvious negative effects are direct loss. The higher rates will put a disproportional burden
Shuster was touting the open process laid out a Leadership Conference today to reporters. Its boasting that this process, which basically splits consideration of the highway bill from the house policy portions today and the senate and other provisions tomorrow and for the rest of the week as a process that gives members greater time and greater levels of consideration on both bills. However, the house rules process limits amendments on the floor. So technically, this isnt the most open process but with a highway bill thats spanning hundreds of pages and over 200 amendments submitted from the house, leadership has to do something to try to kind of limit the floor procedure process. And you mentioned bill shuster. Heres a tweet that you sent out. Ive been waiting three years for this, so here we go, he tells the house rules committee. Why did it take so long and what is the current deadline . One of the major contentions behind the surface transportation reauthorization bill is the diffi
Im delighted to be here for the wall street journal. Ill be talking with Gina Mccarthy, the administrator of the epa today. Well hear a few words from the administrator to begin with. Then were going to talk for ten or 15 minutes. Then i would like to turn it over to questions and answers from you. Thats always the most interesting part, i think, for any of these gatherings at the council. We have a few members of the press in the back. I will be diligent in getting to you as well. Dont be offended at all if i lean a little bit more toward the members in picking them first to ask their questions, but well try to get everybodys questions answered. I think were just at a fascinating moment in the environmental discussion and debate. The paris conference was at a minimum quite notable. Many say historic. Some say a little bit more controversial in issues of implementation that still need to be resolved. But fascinating no matter how you look at it. Gina mccarthy will be here to explain to