A subcommittee held a hearing on Plastic Pollution, witnesses from a Recycling Group the plastic many fracturing industry and academics testified on how to reduce Plastic Use and recycle the plastic that is used. This hearing will come to order, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time, before i deliver my opening remarks i want to note that today the committee is meeting in person and virtually, i want to announce a couple of reminders to the members of the conduct of the hearing, first members and staff who are attending in person and unvaccinated against covid19 must stay masked throughout the hearing unvaccinated members may remove their masks only during the questioning under the fiveminute role, members who are attending virtually should keep their Video Feed on as long as they are present in the hearing, members are responsible for their own microphones please also keep your microphones muted if you are speaking, if members of documents to submit f
on robert mueller testify before the house judiciary committee and house intelligence committee later today. washington journal is next. any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. it contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions we made. we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself. the report is my testimony. monthst has been two since robert mueller said his report is his testimony. today, he will be up on capitol hill for the house judiciary committee, in the witness chair for three hours, swearing to tell the truth to 41 members of that committee as they focus on volume 2 of the report, obstruction of justice. at noon, he will answer questions in the same room about volume 1. he will be answering questions from the house intelligence committee. begins here on c-span and www.c-span.org. download the free washington app.a c-span radio before we take you into the committee room, we want to get your thoughts on
gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. engel: mr. speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 2615, the united states northern triangle enhanced enengagement act as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the tight many of the bill. the clerk: a bill to support the people of central america and strengthen united states national security by addressing the root causes of migration from el salvador, guatemala, and hon door ewes. the speaker pro tempore: plule, the gentleman from new york, mr. engel, and the gentleman from texas, mr. mccaul, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. engel: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and includeheir remarks and extraneous material on h.r. 2615. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. engel: i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, i submit in the congressional reco
that growth and enforce policies that will do nothing to stop climate change. what would staying in the agreement lead to? the heritage foundation modeled the policies that would be required to meet the obama administration s paris commitments and found that by 2035, there would be an overall loss of nearly 400,000 jobs, half of which would be in manufacturing. an average of total income loss of more than $20,000 for a family of four. and an aggregate g.d.p. loss of over $2.5 trillion and an increase in household electricity expenditures by 13% and 20%. my amendment would allow the united states to stay out of the unrealistic and overbearing agreement. i urge members to vote yes on this amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. i yield to the ranking member. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise in support of his amendment. the paris agreement is an unworkable, unrealistic pol
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] as speaker pelosi: what a difference an election makes, more members, more press. good morning, everyone. thank you for being here. i m honored to be here with some of the members of the house democratic caucus and some of the leadership of committees of jurisdiction to deal with this very important issue of integrity in government. especially want to acknowledge the work and leadership of congressman john sarbanes over the years. over the years. he developed an initiative that gathered steam across the country on 100 candidates across the country signed a letter saying they wanted h.r. 1 to be one of the first orders of business of this new congress. thank you. we re joined by gerry nadler, congresswoman zoe lofgren, chair of house committee. congressman elijah cummings from governm