the latest on chicago coming up in a moment as i just said. but president obama has just arrived back home tonight in washington. he just got back from paris where of course, he was working on the big international climate deal. while he was in paris working on the big international climate deal, leaving behind a huge u.s. delegation there to negotiate america s role in that agreement, while that was all under way today, the republican-led congress was working to try to undermine our own president and our own government s negotiating position in those talks. congress today passed two bills directly aimed at undermining president obama s paris negotiations bills that would block the federal rules to reduce power plant emissions in this country. now, these votes in both the house and senate they were largely along party lines. both of these things will be vetoed. there s really no question about
reduce power plant emissions in this country. now, these votes in both the house and senate they were largely along party lines. both of these things will be vetoed. there s really no question about that whatsoever. but passing these things actually into law was never the point here. they were timed specifically to try to cause president obama maximum embarrassment. in his engagement with other countries as the leader of the united states. the republican congressman who led the effort on these bills today said we want the world to know that there is disagreement with the president on this issue. so legislation specifically designed to undermine the president and hurt his negotiating position with other world leaders while he was overseas involved in those negotiations. your congress at work. your american congress at work. we ll be right back.
just like in the state of the texas, i think you can defund planned parenthood. we did that in the state of texas. we saw this organization that was clear live outside the lines of anything the people of the state of the texas were going to support. we defunded them. washington needs to do the same thing. anyone who has seen these video ofs whether you are democrat or republican you out to be totally offend by that. defund them and send a clear message. bill: the president will propose a rule that will put strident limits on power plant emissions. is this something you support? the president is going to destroy people in this country economically if he continues down this path of taking our american energy away from us. we need to have we need a north american energy strategy with canada, the united states and mexico.
nerdier way to say that is 870 million tons of carbon pollution will be kept out of our atmosphere. [ applause ] the layman s way of saying that is it s like cutting every ounce of emission due to electricity from 108 million american homes or equivalent of 166 million cars being taken off the road. by 2030 we will reduce premature deaths from power plant emissions by 20% and thanks to this plan will will be 90,000 fewer asthma attacks from our children each year. [ applause ] and by combining this with
now. democratic sources say, look the reality is biden would likely only really consider running if she were to stumble in a big way. he has always said publicly he will make the decision at the end of the summer. he is going to take a vacation with his family and talk to his family about it. certainly the family man, had ewould certainly consult. looking ahead to tomorrow the president going to a power plant. he s going to make the big announce rmt on the power plant emissions. what has been the reaction in congress? reporter: this could potentially be the strongest action taken to combat climate change. but there s a big if. if it survives there are sure to be a number of challenges. these are tougher versions of proposed regulations first rolled out in 2012 and 2014. according to a senior administration official, the president s going to call for reducing carbon pollution by 32%