thing in copenhagen. and i asked her the question at that time, i said, you know, if we if we were to pass the legislation that has been proposed here, let s keep in mind it started way back in 1997 when they said we passed a thing, the bird-hagel rule by 95-0 that if you come back from rio de janeiro or one of these places with a treaty that either hurts our economy or does not require the same thing from china and other countries as it does here, then we will not ratify it. and consequently, they never ratified it. and clinton never put it forward for ratification. now what she was saying at that time, i asked her the question. i asked her if we to pass either by regulation or legislation these reductions, isn t this going to, is this going to have the, the effect of lowering co 2 emissions worldwide, her answer was no. because it only affects here in the u.s. but that s not where the problem is. it s in china, india, mexico and other places wouldn t you say that it would a
all the jurisdiction over water in the united states. but i agree also the federal government, if it s navigable should be involved in it. so they had the navigable element in there. and they tried to do it legislatively. and you might remember that senator feingold in wisconsin and congressman overstar from minnesota were the house and the senate sponsors of that. not only did we beat the legislation, but we beat both of them in the next election. so we have the public on our side. and now we have the newspapers and others coming out. and the crisis came when they finally, in addition to climate-gate, if you look at this chart here it s kind of neat. the red line is what they were guessing all of their models were predicting that this is what was going to happen with the temperatures and then of course it didn t happen. so that was another little crisis that they even the intergovernmental panel on climate change admitted that a 2013 report that almost all historic simulatio
dr. rice, you re here from harvard medical school. people are getting sick, are they not? and they re not getting sick the way harry alford is getting sick. they re really getting sick aren t they? and so maybe you could bring to us a little bit of your information about the increased hospitalizations, the respiratory-related diseases all of the things that are implicated in having this additional pollution in our atmosphere. can you talk a little bit about how it is inpacts, especially children in our country. thank you. this is certainly an area where i feel that i have a lot to add to the discussion, because i m a lung doctor. i take care of patients with lung disease, and i also study air pollution. that when i m not taking care of patients. and in addition to my personal observations as a doctor, when i see patients come see me more often because the pollen levels are worse or the ozone levels can get high in boston on very hot days. we also have the observations of th
winning documentaries at student cam.org. industry leaders testified about proposed energy efficiency rules for household appliances at a house energy and commerce sub-committee hearing. they talked about the possible effect of regulations on consumer prices and efficiency of large appliances, including dishwashers, re refrigerators and washing machines. this is two hours and 10 minutes. like to call the hearing to order this morning. and i m going to thank our panel of witnesses for being with us. i m going to introduce you right before we right before you give your opening statements and i ll introduce you individually at that time. i would like to recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. today s hearing is entitled home appliance energy firsefficiency standards. since 1987 we ve had energy efficience standards for certain appliances. it came about because back in 1975 there was a federal energy policy act that established that format. the reagan ad
terrorists came from the turkish borders, all the terrorists inside syria. end of quote. but the examples we just heard, zadan al loush, who was killed inside syria, covered extensively by government-owned media, he was described as a big terrorist leader by your own media. he was inside a syrian prison and he was let go in 2011 by the syrian government. did you not know about his past? and why was he in prison, then released, based on that? and of course, turkey that means they did not all come through the turkish thank you so much. thank you. try to make the question short to give more portion to everybody to answer. dr. shaaban i really don t know. you know, if you are insinuating that we could possibly know that somebody is going to turn such a terrorist and we let him out of prison. he was taken to court and then he was released just as any prisoner would be released after he spends the time that he had to spend in prison. but i meant all the terrorists who cam