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Luce booth and her final years sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q and a. The House Small Business Committee heard testimony earlier today from epa deputy administrator Bob Perciasepe on new epa rules and the possible consequences for american Small Businesses. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon, everyone. Well bring the hearing to order. Iptd to thank everyone for being here. The mission of the epa is from text human health and the environment. Lately the epa has ventured well beyond its mission. In recent rulemakings its recent rule makes are an unprecedented power grab thats infringing on the rights of individuals and Small Business owners. The results on our economy is potentially deva staegt. The epa needs to reevaluate ....
And you need these programs. No. I didnt say i had to have these programs. What i said was these programs work to help people who are in struggling situations. If a person loses their job and they become unemployed thats not your situation. How about yours . Okay, my situation is that i have been what is your job . Right now i work with Young Children at a recreation center. My job is to make sure that they are doing their home work after school programs, making sure that the building is taken care of, that is my job. My husband works at a and whats your pay . My pay is 10. 88 an hour. Your husband i saw from your written testimony works at a Grocery Store and thats full time as well . Yes. My job is full time, but my job is also limited. Im a Seasonal Employee so i work for six months with my job. And is that by choic ....
Is. When youre filling out an application for an employer some of these questions are asked repeatedly what is your felon status . What is your misdemeanor status . So i think we would have to reevaluate how in essence we are getting to the point that the business would accrue that credit. Thank you, time has expired. Gentlelady from wisconsin is recognized for five minutes. Thank you so much, mr. Chairman. Let me make an Opening Statement just given that last exchange between one of our colleagues and mrs. Gainesturner with regard to dependency. Just recently and friday well work on another tax extender where apparently we are going to extend 614 billion in tax extenders on a permanent make them permanent and put businesses on a permanent welfare. These bills the latest, the bonus depreciation, was temporary in nature to stimulate the economy. As you remember, targeted temporary and timely was what we tried to do to stimulate ....
It is our intent, we need to do a better job. We should make that clear. The problem is the public doesnt trust the epa. The farmers dont trust the epa to not overreach. Congress doesnt trust the epa, and what we have here today is a proposed rule, a defective. As youve said we need to make things clearer, our intent is not clear, we need to do a better job. But the rule is out there. The very fact you intercepted our questions and thought you had the audacity, that you had that control, none of us trust for two seconds that the epa isnt going to let this train roll right down the tracks. Saying all these good things and putting things on your blog doesnt make it so. Especially when what youve shown is a disregard for listening. You dont listen. And if you dont listen, whats going to happen so youre saying youre getting this input. Frankly, congress doesnt trust you. The farm bureau or counties dont trust you. The public doesnt trust you to simply ignore all that youre hearing. And whe ....
Why the u. N. Is warning the Central African republic to become the next failed state. And the new treaty aimed to protect Workers Worldwide comes into effect. But will it do the job . Well, thet any doubt the g20 summit would have been over s d overshadowed by egypt, on the way to the world meeting russia, leaders from the United States to russia to france have been laying their arguments. Okay. We are seeing pictures right now from Saint Petersburg, a British Airways plan that landed and on it is the u. K. Prime minister David Cameron. How he fits into the debates, he asked his parliament to take a vote on what their view on intervention would be an ....