Billion dollar budget request for the epa next year before the House Appropriations subcommittee on environment. Her testimony is to a half hours. Two and a half hours. This meeting will come to order. Thank you for rearranging your schedule today for the sneering. We are having some votes today a little bit earlier for getaway day. I appreciate your working with us on this today. Again, good morning. The beating for the Environmental Protection agency. Today we are joined by Gina Mccarthy and acting chief financial officer, marion follett, to discuss the proposed budget. Mccarthy, i believe that this is your first formal Budget Hearing. I know that our members on both sides are interested in what your budget proposes and we look forward to discussing your ongoing work. Overall the fiscal year 2015 Budget Proposal is that the level of 7. 8 9 billion, 310 million, 3. 8 are sent below the active level. At this level the budget for the epa would be reduced for the fifth Consecutive Year f
Investigating what happened. Tesla is not releasing the extent of the injuries but chopper 5 caught an ambulance leaving the fremont plant as well as several fire trucks. The workers were using an aluminum casting press and suffered seconddegree burns from hot metal. Cal osha will be checking that equipment and checking teslas safety plan. Turned out to be was an industrial accident involving some pressurized equipment that they use at the plant. This resulted in three patients being treated for burns by our department. Reporter how serious are those injuries . The injuries are moderate to serious and they have all been transported to local hospitals. Tesla released a statement saying in part, three employees were injured by hot metal from that press. We are making sure that they receive the best possible care. Now, this is just the latest in a series of pr troubles for tesla. The company is now the target of a Class Action Lawsuit over fires in the model s sedan. Three cars have caugh
I want to also introduce my wife who is a professor at George Washington medical center, and i say as a real job looking for cures for cancer. Also, i want to thank the National Press zero, and also rebecca, if you will raise your hand. That way the media will be able to also get the advantages of questions from the audience to another that is important to cspan also. I wanted thank the National Press Club Executive directors and staff liaisons. The photographer who does such a spectacular job and won the outstanding career award, and our audio people. We will need first with the senate, said rob portman. Thank you. Bob is right. We worked together in the past. It is good to be with him. He has worked with republicans and democrats on the drug issue and has been an advocate for not the current approach to drug abuse and the date to addiction but rather one that focuses on education, treatment, and recovery. This is one of the issues of that although we will not talk about directly is a
Priority of American Foreign policy. Among elites, its 29 . That is a huge divide. Its the largest divide, by the way, in this poll. The only one thats even close is Climate Change, which the league thinks is a more important issue than americans. The odd element is if you look at American Foreign policy, particularly in the last 12 years or so, there is very little focus in our Foreign Policy on jobs and the economy. I am reminded in the first gofor the chant was no blood for oil. You heard a little of this in 2003 in the iraq war. I think of that now i dont mean to be overly flippant, but i wish we actually thought this was about oil. Then you should actually justify all the blood we expended. But its not. We havent fought the war these last 12 years for economic reasons. I would argue that the wars have undermined our economy dramatically. There isnt a real connection between our Foreign Policy agenda and the economy, which is what you would think your Foreign Policy should be focus
Play a significant role to with those hatches already under way to modernize aging plans to increase efficiency and lower pollution as it has more conventional fuels in a clean energy economy. The epas day coulter of reach of preparation of the rulemaking was unprecedented. We hauled 11 sessions around the country and participated in hundreds of meetings with a broad range of stakeholders across the country and we talked with every state. Now the second phase has begun. Who already had dozens of calls with the stakeholders in the more formal public process. Both the Public Comment period running through october 16, 2014 and public hearings next week in atlanta and denver and washington d. C. Provides further opportunity to stakeholders and the general public each state is different cities pass can be different with those opportunities there already taking advantage of right now and under the proposal they have a flexible compliance to allow them to have considered jobs in a transitioni