good morningl and welcome. this ishe a formal senate hearig so in order to allow the committee to conduct its business i m going to maintain decorum. that means if there s any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience, the person causing the destruction will be escorted from the room by the i capitol police. with that said i call this hearing to order. today we are going to consider the nomination of andrew wheeler to be administrator of the environmental protection agency. before speak about acting administrator wheelers nomination i want to take a moment to welcome the new members of our committee, senator braun and senator cramer. welcome to the committee. i know your experience and expertise will strengthen our committee and bring fresh perspectives to our debates. welcome. i would also like to welcome back all of the old members of the committee. [laughing] i look forward tos working with each of you as a conduct the committees business this congress. whi
make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. well, tonight, we ve got some newly-released video from the august deposition of the former president donald trump as part of the new york attorney generals civil investigation into fraudulent practices at the trump organization. trump taking the fifth more than 400 times and his deposition, saying in the released video that, well, he d be a fool not to take the fifth. anyone in my position not taking the fifth amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool. one statement or answer that is ever so slightly off, just ever so slightly, by accident, by mistake, such as it was a sunny, beautiful day, when actually was slightly overcast, would be met by law enforcement. but this is frankly just one piece of the broader investigation surrounding trump as he s trying to jump-start his 2024 campaign. i want to bring in cnn political commentators charlie dent and ashley allison, back with us also is cnn legal analyst elli
apply and a lot of people are getting hit with these huge bills that they do not know about. a lot of the consumer advocates that we talked to said that lawmakers really need to step up on this and take some sort of action to close the loophole in the overall law for debt collection so that it does include government debt collection as well as consumers consumer debt collection so that everyone is on the same playing field and that consumers do not end up in these situations. host: the story can be found on cnnmoney s pace. the headline is the secret world of government debt collection. i want to thank both blake ellis and melanie heck of a for joining us as one. guest: think you very much. host: we re taking it to the senate energy and natural resources committee. there is a hearing their. there is a hearing there. we ll see you right back here at 7 a.m. eastern, for pacific on washington journal. call the hearing to order this morning. we are here this morning wi
opportunities alaska has with regard to resource production, you have enabled an unprecedented attack on our ability to responsibly bring these resources to market. the president has withdrawn over 22 million more acres of alaska from energy production just in recent weeks, and that has occurred on top of many other restrictions and regulations being imposed on us. it s occurred despite the tremendous energy opportunity and potential in those areas. despite our no more clause. despite the pressing need to refill our pipeline. and despite strong opposition from most alaskans. the map that i have behind this is one my colleagues are going to become familiar with because i m going to be pointing it out quite frequently. the colors on the map represent those areas that are withdrawn from any development opportunity whatsoever. some are, in fact, proposed critical habitat areas, so they are not fully withdrawn at this point in time. but we have the anwr new wilderness proposal. th
we ll now go to senator carper. for years i ve been working with my colleagues here in congress and administration and all kinds of stakeholder groups across the country to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our generation, and that s climate change. i believe climate change exists and we re living on borrowed time. the longer we wait to address the issue the more damaging and expensive it becomes. before the recent session we had members from both parties including myself put forth legislative proposals that would grow our economy and provide for a safer climate. this was a time when our climate change debates focused on how we would grow our economy and clean our environment. it s not a novel idea in the 1970s and 1990s, republican presidents and majority of members on both sides of the aisle supported, as you ll recall, the clean air act and the clean air act amendments of 1990. these clean air protections protected our health but allowed our economy to grow exponen