In washington. Congressman darrell issa chairs this House Oversight hearing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. The Oversight Committee exists to secure two fundamental principles. First americans have a right to know the money washington takes from them as well spent and second americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works for them. Our duty on the oversight and government reform committees protect those rights. Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government. Its our job to work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs to deliver the facts of the American People and bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. Todays hearing particularly touches on taxpayers and what taxpayers should expect from the government. It continues the committees investigation
Recovering. What is the temperament . There are concerns that there may be any climate changes. And the impact on jobs . Everybody claims to be an environmentalist and wants a Healthy Planet and does that one the planet to heat up. When he asked them what they feel about the effects of higher electricity bills net the gasoline pump, they do not like that. Until we get some of these theyrees online, going from a fossil fuel path to a renewable future. The renewable future will bring a whole new set of jobs. That is not going to happen overnight. Youre not replace that with a wind or a solar job instantaneously. When people cost talk about the cost, then theyre less supportive. Click were out of time. We are expecting this will for transfer to the house of representatives. Do not hold your breath. It is the same partisan divisions we saw in last congress. It is not changed anything. Thank you for your time. Inc. s a lot. Thanks a lot. [captioning performed by national captioning institut
0 now turning it over to wolf blitzer, he s in the situation room. wolf. jake, thanks very much. happening now, we re only a few hours away from president obama s state of the union address. it could be a make or break chance to sell a second-term agenda. athlete jitters. some u.s. athletes and their families wonder if they should travel to the sochi games in russia. i ll speak live this hour with the house homeland security chairman michael mccaul who is just back from russia and he shares their concerns. and senator john mccain will join me as well. we ll talk about the state of the union, the state of the war in afghanistan and much more. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. in a few hours from now president obama will stand before the world to take his case for a second-term agenda. he ll let congress know that he s prepared to act alone and he s already acted it today, ordering a raise for federal workers. we have full coverage beginning with our senior white ho
0 expect and rewards hard work. i don t think the american people expect anything less. what we do in the white house and washington to measure progress only by the number of bills we can pass through congress. we can do that, we can make progress. we saw bipartisan compromise on a budget deal, a very hopeful sign at the end of last year, and bipartisan majorities support the funding bill for the spending going forward for this fiscal year. that s positive progress and that s positive progress in congress, but the president is not going to do anything that s going to prevent him from doing his job. a clean shaven press secretary to the president of the united states, jay carney. thanks very much for joining us. was that a tough decision, getting rid of that beard? i couldn t compete with you, wolf, and i decided it was time to go clean shaven again. all right. you look mighty good. jay carney without the beard. thanks very much. we ll see what happens later tonight. i ll be back
0 time from airs agent at the center of the scandal. republicans have blamed his woman for tarringerring conservative groups. but she testified her higher ups knew exactly what she was doing. i m proud of the fact that we are pursuing this. if we did what the white house wanted us to do, if we did what the ranging member suggests we do this thing would be over. nothing here. don t do it. as far as i m concerned it s over. when you have the spokesperson for the president of the youth make a definitive statement that it was two rogue agents and start poking at these people who have no power to do anything about it, that is wrong. how dare anybody suggest that we are at the end of this? democrats grilled inspector russell george for not flagging evidence that liberal groups were caught up tonight as well. he said there was no political consideration during the process. we never treated an ig office like this. if there were an allegations of personal wrongdoing that s one thiig. but to