Moment will come. And if that moment that comes we will assess at the time how you address it. The deal we did a couple years ago was gun. We are back to thes being where they are. Are. Have a solution for military. The administration is obviously less going to accept friendly cuts. And it limit crisis. Crisis. You guys both the economy again. Clicks give me a break. I dont mean you guys. Am talking about general disdain for congress. I am i am just sort of used to it. [laughter] clicks when i say you guys gen. Reference. Clicks when i say you say un the media, general reference. Clicks i i now we have a few things in front of us highways tax extenders that must be dealt with. So it is just way too early to speculate what the debt limit agreement looks like. I dont even want to go there. Im going to take a couple of 20 questions. One of them is what specific regulations would you modify your bias is showing again. I am. Specifically and channeling the financial reform. I would send the
Rules. That is when i explain it in a goes through rep. Brooks you have no judgment a you cannot explain it to the committee . Admin mccarthy there is no specific definition i can offer you. A judgment that will be well documented by the science. Rep. Brooks how long has the epa been working on that . Admin mccarthy since we created the Clean Air Act. Rep. Brooks what year . Admin mccarthy 1990 . Rep. Brooks decades later you still do not have the definition. Admin mccarthy it is not apply to that away. Chairman smith thank you. The gentleman from virginia. Rep. Beyer thank you for being so patient and gracious this morning despite rather combative nature of the questioning. Our chair, my good friend and distinguished chair claims the epa has severely damage our economy. How do you reconcile that with 64 straight months of job growth and 12. 8 million private sector jobs and tripling of the stock market. If there is not perhaps better to look at the infrastructure bills we failed to pa
Sooner. In the letter i submitted the National Conference of mayors pointed out that the Clean Air Act required federallysupported transportation activities are consistent with state air quality Implementation Plans and the largest rail hub in the country. According to the center of Regulatory Solutions freight traffic is expected to increase by 80 by 2020. How does epa expect the financially troubled state to implement these standards when the agency has not and will not consider the full potential cost of implementation . If i could just point out, sir, that the Health Standard sets up a process where states develop plans over time and there is significant time to achieve this standard but the majority my time has expired and if you can respond in writing back to these. The vast majority of the counties will be in the amendment as a result of national standards. Thats an important thing to remember. This is not on the backs of the states. It is a partnership between the National Gove
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