of the greater oklahoma chamber of commerce said, oklahoma spends too much money without positive outcomes locking up low-level, nonviolent people. [applause] the business community supports the governor's efforts and encourages the legislature to seriously consider these recommendations and then he went on to say, doing nothing means taxpayers must spend billions more to incarcerate more people or risk problematic federal intervention in our system. while i'm talking about public safety, send me a bill to fix the real i.d. licenses. [applause] we have four months to solve this issue, let's get it done. third, health. as i said in my second inaugural speech, our health outcomes are holding us back as the -- as a state and the status quo is not acceptable. as a result, i convened a group of health care leaders from throughout the health care industry and the state government to ensure that we are improving health outcomes and the quality of health care and controlling costs. there are too many issues to contend with in health care and obamacare has created additional problems we must addres

. >> oklahoma republican governor mary fell and delivered her state of the state address in oklahoma city recently. he provided an update on the state revenue system and outline key priorities of her budget proposal. which include addressing the state budget shortfall of nearly $870 million. this is about half an hour. >>. [applause] >>. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, fellow oklahomans, the governor of the great state of oklahoma, governor mary fallin. [applause] >> thank you. lieutenant governor lamb, statewide elected officials. speaker mccall, president brooke cam scholz, members of the court, honorable senators and representatives, cabinet members , our tribal leaders and citizens of the state of oklahoma. it is my pleasure to be here with you today as we discussed the state of our state. i'm joined today by my husband, faye christiansen and our wonderful children, christina and adam and our daughter-in-law elizabeth and other family members, welcome guys. >>. [applause] i look forward to working with our new legislative leaders, panic scholz and speaker mccall and continue to

oklahoma city. she provided an update on the state revenue system saying the downturn in the energy industry and loss of sales tax revenue caused a budget shortfall of nearly $870 million. her comments were about half hour. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, guests, fellow oklahomians, the governor of the great state of oklahoma, governor mary fallin. [ applause ]ans, the governor of the great state of oklahoma, governor mary fallin. [ applause ] >> thank you. lieutenant governor lamb, state elected officials, speaker mccall, president pro tem schultz, members of the court, honorable senators, representatives, cabinet members, our tribal leaders, guests and citizens of the state of oklahoma, it is my pleasure to be here with you today as we discuss the state of our state. i'm joined today by my husband, wade christiansen, and our wonderful children, christina and adam and our daughter in law, elizabeth. and other family members. welcome, guys. [ applause ] >> i look forward to working with our ne

in oklahoma city. this is about 35 minutes. [applause] guestsies and gentlemen, , the governor of oklahoma, mary fallin. [applause] governor fallin: thank you. lieutenant governor, statewide elected officials, speaker mccall, president pro tem shelves, members of the court, honorable senators and representatives, cabinet members, tribal leaders, guests and citizens of the state of oklahoma, it is my pleasure to be with you today as we discussed the state of our state. i'm joined by my husband, wade christiansen, our wonderful children, christina, adam and elizabeth. welcome, guys. [applause] i look forward to working with our new legislative leaders and continue to work with leader sparks and the house minority leader. i want to thank our legislators for their dedication and leadership. i especially appreciate the second bond issue an active to renovate this irreplaceable building in which we now gather. you might have heard a little construction noise. its 100thlebrate birthday on june 30 and we have

power out of oklahoma. i will admit i'm a little biased about my state, but i'm weary of hearing people inaccurately demean the air and water in oklahoma and try to accuse it for something that is not true for their political benefit. here's my invitation to any member of this body. why don't you come home to oklahoma with me? i'll buy you some great barbecue and drive you around the state. i'll take you from the green country in the northeast part of the state over to kinton, oklahoma and black mason and see the majestic area around our panhandle. we'll drive four wheelers in little sahara. maybe drive down to beaver's bend park and stand under the tall trees, put our feet in the crystal clear water of that river. i'll even take you to my house in oklahoma city, a community of a million people that exceeds the e.p.a. air quality standards for ambient air quality. we say in oklahoma the land we belong to is grand, and we mean it. and we're passionate about our land. and we're passionate about our air and wa

and the oil industry of oklahoma. when i asked him about protecting the rights of states, like california and massachusetts to do more to protect their environment, he declined to support their rights to do that for their states. and so under scott pruitt, e.p.a. is going to turn into every polluter's ally. he won't be there as the cop on the beat to ensure that those protections are in place, to ensure that every american, all 320 million, are given the protections which they need. no. it will no longer be an agency which is a watchdog for the environment. this is an agency that's going to be a lap dog for polluters across our country. and if that's the case, then we're going to see a rollback in the health, safety of those protections that all americans have come to expect in the area of the environment. when we raise the issues of his conflict of interests in the committee, we received unsatisfactory answers. when we raised the issues of providing us the information that we were going to need in order to fully unde

as attorney general for oklahoma mr. pruitt worked with his democratic counterpart in arkansas regarding water quality in the illinois river which crosses the border between the two states. together they developed a statement of joint principals for a scientific study using epa approved methods and both states agreed to be bound by the outcome. in another example from his time as oklahoma attorney general, mr. pruitt led a historic water rights settlement between the state of oklahoma, oklahoma city and the choctaw and chickasaw tribal nations which will preserve the ecosystems, scenic lakes, and rivers on native land. as we all know, water rights cases can be lengthy, costly, and divisive, but the process developed under administrator pruitt's leadership has been praised widely for harnessing the principles of cooperation, hard work, and perseverance, to enable parties with conflicting interests to forge common solutions. we commend you, administrator pruitt, for your demonstrated commitment to working with a variety of

oklahoma is an energy state. oklahoma is an agricultural state. and we care a great deal about the land we live in and the air that we breathe and want to be sure it is safe for our families and generations to come. i think -- when i think about the current administrator that was there during the years of the obama administration, he was actually in a hearing just a few hoursing a, and he talked about -- just a few hours ago, and he talked about how close it was, how comforting it was to come to our state of oklahoma, which he did twice, and learn that landowners are on the side of the environment. they're the ones who want to care for the land. they're the ones who want to exert whatever energies are necessary to take care of the problems and pollution that are somewhat present in this world. as attorney general, pruitt has worked closely with the oklahoma department of environmental quality and resources board to protect oklahoma's scenic rivers from upstream pollution. as a matter of fact, his reputation is -- he's mr. scenic rivers back in okl

i don't know that that's ever happened in oklahoma. and no one really questioned whether she had the authority to do that or not. all the supreme court was really asking for was more time for the attorneys in the case to brief these issues. >> reaction also came from state representative and former police officer mike christian who immediately introduced legislation to impeach the judges who voted in favor of lockett and warner. >> these are evildoer, animals. you can call them demons if you may, and the people across this country, in particular oklahoma, we want justice. people in oklahoma strongly support the death penalty. they feel we don't spend enough time talking about the victims of these crimes. of a 18 year old girl ends up being savagely duct taped. shot and buried alive. and we're talking about mr. lockett and his rights. >> mike christian is a very pro-death lawyer. christian and several others proposed articles of impeachment. at that point we had a major controversy between the branches of our government. >> the oklahoma

she ordered the attorney general of oklahoma, mr. pruitt, to release those emails and associated communications. judge timmons said, and i quote, there was an abject failure to provide prompt and reasonable access to documents requested. scott pruitt's stonewalling of public records was, in her words, an abject failure to provide prompt and reasonable access. so understand under the court order, the first batch of emails and associated communications will be released next tuesday. and then there will be a second batch that will be released under her order in 10 days. that's sunday the 26th. now, these are going to be scanned documents that will then be transferred to the initial organization that asked for them. so they go to wisconsin. then we will get copies and we will attempt to review them, but they're going to be p.d.f.'s. they won't be easily searchable documents, if you will. it will take some time to look through these. therefore, we requested this morning through unanimous consent request that the vote be put off until marc

pruitt led a historic water rights settlement between the state of oklahoma, oklahoma city and the chak ttau and chick ttau nations. they will be length thiny and c, he has been praised widely for the principals of cooperation, hard work and perseverance to enable parties with conflicting interests toward common solutions, we commend you for your demonstrated commitment of working with a variety of stakeholders in these very challenging sw challenging situations and look forward to the commitment to the many challenging issues that face this issue as we strive to protect the people of the united states. i am confident you will find that the dedicated public servants of e p a share your commitment to working hard and in close cooperation with our dedicated partners to carry out our shared mission. we all understand that's the only way we can fulfill the many responsibilities that congress has given us. following the law and using the best science to protect the health of our families now and in the years to come, administrator pruitt we are eag eager to hear your vision, and talk about t

oklahoma city rep. foxx:, he has helped the team of become one of the minor league leaders in attendance. our new administrator has not only a record of service but business experience that will serve him well as he undertakes his new responsibilities at our agency. i will leave it to administrator prewitt to share his vision and principles for his leadership. a fewd like to highlight examples from his biography. examples of how he has worked with others during his service in the public sector that will be of particular interest to you. democraticith his counterpart in arkansas to reach an agreement regarding water quality in the illinois river. together they developed a statement of joint principals for a scientific study using epa approved methods and both states agreed to be bound by the outcome. in another example from his time as oklahoma attorney general, mr. pruitt led a historic water rights settlement between the state of oklahoma, oklahoma city and the choctaw and chickasaw tribal nations whic

but if you do that as the toning of oklahoma, you -- as the attorney general of oklahoma, you get nominated to be the administrator of the e.p.a. and it might get a lot worse. you might find out that it was a lot worse on tuesday of next week, because for some reason scott pruitt has been hiding e-mail correspondence between his office and these energy companies, and he has put up roadblock after roadblock to try to stop freedom of information requests to get these e-mails, these correspondence. and finally yesterday a judge ruled that you can't stop that information from coming out. they are public documents. and on tuesday of next week they are going to be made public. i don't know what they are going to say, but, you know, as i suspect with donald trump's tax returns, when you are expending great effort to hide something from the american public, there is probably a reason why you are hiding those things. there's something incredibly damaging, embarrassing or illegal in those tax returns. and there is probably something very damaging, embarrassing or illegal in those e-mails. and so we a

and oklahoma is no different. there was a lawsuit against the oklahoma attorney general scott pruitt and it basically said, listen, you have to disclose the e-mails between your office and a bunch of energy industry companies. and the context here is absolutely important and that is that scott pruitt is not just a person who is bad on the issue of climate. this is a person who is a professional climate denier. this is a person who has made his bones politically and profetionally -- professionally trying to undermine all the authorities that the e.p.a. possesses. this is a person who is a. the presiding officer: in multiple lawsuits as the oklahoma attorney general against the e.p.a. this is a person who has not promised to recuse himself when he is running the e.p.a. so imagine that. there will be pending lawsuits where he is the. the presiding officer: and they're still going to be before the e.p.a. he was asked in committee whether he would recuse himself because obviously it's preposterous to be both the. the p

from his perch at oklahoma's -- as oak oh,'s attorney general, -- oklahoma's attorney general, mr. pruitt pursued to sue president obama's clean power plan. he argued that the federal government doesn't have the authority to regulate carbon emissions. this is wrong. the supreme court ruled twice, first in massachusetts v. e.p.a. in 2007 and again in utility regulatory group v. e.p.a. in 2014, that the e.p.a. has the authority to regulate carbon emissions as pollution under the clean air act. if confirmed, mr. pruitt has promised to kill the clean power plan and undo much of the positive work president obama did to address climate change. mr. pruitt also has a track record of undermining enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. shortly after being oklahoma's attorney general in 20, mr. pruitt gave us a taste of what's to come at the e.p.a. when he eliminated the environmental protection unit within the oklahoma attorney general's office. for years this unit investigated water contamination from refineries, lead paint waste, and illegal dumping. in its place he created the

and the city of oklahoma city and the chickasaws. you want to share with us how you did that? >> well -- >> they tried for 100 years. you came in and did it in less than 100 days. >> less than eight months into my administration as attorney general, we were sued as a state by the chickasaw nation with respect to water in 17 counties in southeast oklahoma. many of you, if you know anything about water litigation, it generally takes decades to resolve water litigation. we were able to go from august of 2011 until 2016 and negotiate an historic water rights agreement with those two nations to provide certainty that those that are regulated, to provide a voice to the tribes with respect to water allocation and water quality and the state has maintained its position as the arbiter of how those permits are allocated as well. it was a partnership. it was the way things ought to work when litigation occurs. sitting across the table from individuals and working together to try to solve the problem. we were able to achieve that in record time.

as oklahoma's attorney general, mr. pruitt issued more than 50 press releases celebrating lawsuits to overturn e.p.a. standards to limit mercury emissions from power plants, reduce smog levels in cities and regional haze in parks, clean up the chesapeake bay or control greenhouse gas emissions. in contrast none of mr. pruitt's press releases refer to any action he has taken to enforce environmental laws or to actually reduce pollution. of even greater concern his statements frequently ignore or misrepresent e.p.a.'s authority to regulate or its obligation to do so under the clean air or clean water acts. mr. pruitt has shown little interest in the kind of scientific and factual evidence that must guide e.p.a. decisions. mr. pruitt has said that humanity's contribution to global warming is subject to considerable debate. that statement is at odds with the consensus among scientists. mr. pruitt fails to understand the difference between the public interest and private interest. you know, it is just amazing to me that we a

oklahoma blew it. and the drug they were using to try to kill him is a drug that oklahoma had never tried to use before and we learned the execution team, the people sticking him with the needles, the medical people and corrections people, people on the team trying to carry out this execution, they didn't know anything about this new drug. they'd never used it before. they didn't know anything about how it was supposed to work or might be different. they'd never trained on it, been briefed on it and that clayton lockett execution ended up making national headlines because of how brutal and botched and bloody it was because it went on for so long, because the witnesses saw so much of what happened and it was so disturbing but it wasn't until months after it happened we found out what went wrong, we learned how oklahoma got that drug and why they got that drug. turns out in part it was because of this guy. recognize him? this little bloody chapter in modern american history is not what this man is famous

reporting from the state of oklahoma thus far, court documents from the state of oklahoma thus far, indicate that scott pruitt's office may have been directly involved in choosing the drugs that were used in an execution, with no basis in law or state protocol for doing that. the choices that they made ended up bringing about one of the most botched executions in oklahoma history. scott pruitt, on the record, denied that his office ever had any role in picking those drugs. they never had anything to do with it. corrections officials in oklahoma, on the record, in court documents, have said, actually, scott pruitt is lying about that. he was involved in it. it was his office. he has been lying publicly about his role in this botched thing. and we are about to get documentation from oklahoma about that execution that may shed light on scott pruitt's real role in that and whether he's been lying about it all this time, too. that's on top of all of the oil and gas stuff. and that's coming out in the next two to three weeks. so congratulations, republicans. good thing you rushed the vote on scott

reporting from the state of oklahoma thus far, court documents from the state of oklahoma thus far, indicate that scott pruitt's office may have been directly involved in choosing the drugs that were used in an execution, with no basis in law or state protocol for doing that. the choiceat they made ended up bringing about one of the most botched executions in oklahoma history. scott pruitt, on the record, denied that his office ever had any role in picking those drugs. they never had anything to do with it. corrections officials in oklahoma, on the record, in court documents, have said, actually, scott pruitt is lying about that. he was involved in it. it was his office. he has been lying publicly about his role in this botched thing. and we are about to get documentation from oklahoma about that execution that may shed light on scott pruitt's real role in that and whether he's been lying about it all this time, too. that's on top of all of the oil and gas stuff. and that's coming out in the next two to three weeks. so congratulations, republicans. good thing you rushed the vote on scott pru

as representing the views of oklahoma officials. would it be appropriate as the attorney general of oklahoma that has significant oil and gas to take into account the view of oil and gas producers on something as important as fracking? absolutely. in fact, you would not be doing your job if you didn't take the views of those companies into account. but considering industry views is very different than taking their views and portraying them as coming from you, a holder of a public trust. you're supposed to be working for everybody and not just one company or one industry. mr. president, here's one more example i'll give you before i conclude because i take it personally. virginia is one of the six states in the chesapeake bay watershed, and i worked on this matter as governor of virginia along with the colleagues in the other states and the district of columbia, and we worked together with the e.p.a. on how to clean up the bay. this is a treasured resource for virginians, about as bipartisan a thing as there in virginia, probably nex

oklahoma blew it. and the drug they were using to try to kill him is a drug that oklahoma had never tried to use before and we learned the execution team, the people sticking him with the needles, the medical people and corrections people, people on the team trying to carry out this execution, they didn't know anything about this new drug. they'd never used it before. they didn't know anything about how it was supposed to work or might be different. they'd never trained on it, been briefed on it and that clayton lockett execution ended up making national headlines because of how brutal and botched and bloody it was because it went on for so long, because the witnesses saw so much of what happened and it was so disturbing but it wasn't until months after it happen ed we found out what went wrong, we learned how oklahoma got that drug and why they got that drug. turns out in part it was because of this guy. recognize him? . this little bloody chapter in modern american history is not what this man is fam

i know oklahoma can be proud of the gentleman that we have before. not only was he respectful but he was also articulate, and he spoke with a columnist -- calmness and surety when he gave us his answers. it was obvious how intelligent he is. it was obvious that he is well qualified for his desk for this position because of his not only vast experience but his vast knowledge on many of these issues. it is disappointing that our democrat colleagues are not here today doing their job, and that job is to be able to debate with so to be able to discuss that we can continue this open, transparent, and accountable process that every senate committee hearing should be. that's what it should be, that we continue to do that, but instead, we are seeing filibustering now at the committee level. you know, i have had many, many disagreements with the previous administrator, but we always showed a mutual respect for each other, and when administrator mccarthy came before this franktee, we would have conversations. we would have opened conversations, and we did it i

but if he really wanted to dig in, he could also go over to oklahoma state and get an update from oklahoma state professor reilly dunlap, who has written in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, climat climate sciencew firmly established that global warming is occurring, that human activities contribute to this warming, and that current and future warming portend negative impacts on both ecological and social systems. portend negative impacts on both ecological and social systems is science ses for it's going to -- is sciencese for it's going to hurt people, as we rhode islanders already see all too plainly. oklahoma state's professor dunlap goes ton write something more, there has been an organized disinformation campaign to generate skepticism and denial, to manufacture uncertainty, especially by attacking climate science and scientists. wow, huh? and he goes on, this campaign, professor dunlap reports, has been waged by a loose coalition of industrial, especially fossil fuels, interests and conservative foundations and think tanks. look at that. seems to be agreeing with dr. brulle at dre

i know oklahoma can be proud of the gentleman that we had before us. not only was he respectful, but he was also our articulate. -- also articulate. he spoke with a calmness and a surety when he gave his answers. it was obvious how intelligence he is. it was obvious that he is well-qualified for this position because of his -- not only vast experience, but his vast knowledge on many of these issues. it is disappointing that our democrat colleagues are not here today doing their job, and that job is to be able to debate with us, to be able to discuss so that we can continue this open transparent and accountable that every senate committee hearing should be. that is what it should be, but we continue to do that. but instead, we are seeing filibustering at the committee level. you know, i have had many, many disagreements with the previous administrator, but we have always showed a mutual respect for each other. when administrative mccarthy came before this committee, we conversations.k we would have open conversations and we did it in full view of the pu

if the voters in oklahoma approved it, it would have created an amendment to the oklahoma constitution prohibiting the legislature from enacting laws restricting agriculture production unless laws were needed to advance a compelling state interest. i think this is a very interesting demonstration of how people are trying to use a process just like the house colleagues are sending us over a reg reform bill that they're going to hide behind regulatory reform when in reality they are trying to curtail clean water and clean air rules. well, the people of oklahoma were a little smarter than that. right to farm laws are not uncommon, and they are currently variations in 50 states, but many such statutes, including oklahoma's current law, protect farmers and ranchers from nuisance claims as long as they operate in acceptable practices. so this question that was put on the ballot to oklahomans went further than the right to farm law. it would have amended their state constitution. the state constitution holds a higher authority than these state statutes. so if that initiative was enacted, it w

that they actually want to decide in oklahoma what we would do. not trying to decide in connecticut what our friends would do. we're just thinking this ought to be down to the states. that was the intent of congress. when this was written, it was to empower the states to allow them to pursue policies they thought were appropriate. frankly, if they do that, and they pursue different policy, which they may well, we may learn something out of this. again, that's part of the genius of our system, is having 50 different laboratories out there. but let's not have a bureaucracy decide that it will circumvent the will of the congress of the united states and write a rule that is clearly meant to undo the intent of a legislation that was passed across this floor with bipartisan support. so with that, again, we just disagree on the issue. but for the record, we're not trying to impose our beliefs. we're trying to let every state do what they -- what that state thinks they ought to do. with that, mr. speaker, i'll reserve the balance of my time. the speaker

i know that oklahoma can be proud of the gentleman that we had before us. not only respectful, but articulate, and he spoke with a calmness and a surety when he gave us the answers. it is obvious how intelligent he is, and it was obvious that he is well qualified for this position, because of his not only vast experience, but his vast knowledge on many of these issues. it is disappointing that our democrat colleague s as are note today doing their job, and that job is to be able to debate with us, to be ibl to discuss able t that we can continue the open, transparent, and accountable process that every senate committee hearing should be. that is what it should be to continue to do that, but instead, we are seeing the filibustering now at the committee level. you know, i have had many sh, m disagreements with the previous administrator, but we always show ed showed a mutual respect for each other. and when administrator mccarthy came between, came before this committee, we would have frank c conversations, open conversations, and we did it in full view of th

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as oklahoma attorney general, pruitt sued the epa 14 times. the trove of new documents show how energy companies drafted language for pruitt's attorney general office to use to sue the epa over environmental regulations. in an email from august 2013, from matt ball of the koch-backed "americans for prosperity" to pruitt's communications director, ball writes -- "thank you to your respective bosses and all they are doing to push back against president obama's epa and its axis with liberal environmental groups to increase energy costs for oklahomans and american families across the states. you both work for true champions of freedom and liberty!" these documents were obtained by the media watchdog group the center for media and democracy after a lengthy battle. the emails were released because a judge ordered them released. for more we go now to madison, , wisconsin, where we're joined now by the group's executive director, lisa graves, also the publisher of exposedbycmd.org and prwatch.org. lisa, welcome back to democracy now! explain what thes

as oklahoma attorney general he sued the e.p.a. 14 times. he was often partnering with the very industries which he now is being called on to regulate. though some of these lawsuits are still ongoing, he just won't even recuse himself. he was asked during the course of his hearing as attorney general of oklahoma, you sued the e.p.a. the e.p.a. as an agency has the first level of administrative hearing on those lawsuits. will you, if you become administrator and secretary of the e.p.a., recuse yourself from those lawsuits you filed? and he said no. that means that he will have a very interesting position when those lawsuits come up for consideration. he will be the petitioner and the plaintiff -- scott pruitt, attorney general of oklahoma. he will be the defendant -- environmental protection agency, scott pruitt, administrator and secretary. and he'll also be the jury. the environmental protection agency headed up by scott pruitt in its administrative capacity. what a sweetheart deal. i used to be a trial lawyer. this would be the answer to a

well, just yesterday, as you heard an oklahoma judge ruled that scott pruitt, president trump's nominee to lead the e.p.a., must turn over approximately 3,000 emails relating to his communications with the fossil fuel industry. you'd expect my colleagues to be up in arms, my republican colleagues. ter all, in 2013, gina mccarthy waited 122 days to be confirmed for e.p.a. because they felt she wasn't honoring a commitment to transparency. remember the strain over lisa jackson's emails. surely my republican colleagues would be concerned about a similar lack of transparency from a soon-to-be e.p.a. administrator. but what is the republican leadership's response? strap blinders on their members and rush pruitt through. the absolute height of hypocrisy, the same standard they had for lisa jackson and for gina mccarthy they ought to have for scott pruitt. there's no good reason for it. to wait a few extra days to go over pruitt's emails is not the worst thing in the world. it's the smart and responsible thing to do. it's not the worst thing in the world to take a few extra days to vet someone

i think, when you look at oklahoma, oklahoma is a big oil and gas producer. they're proud of it. they produce the energy we use. of course, scott pruitt supports that industry. it's oklahoma's major industry, and it helps the entire nation. so i think, if you look back at what president trump said in the campaign, he said, i want to get rid of the regulatory rampage that is killing investment and jobs in our resource and manufacturing industries, and i want to make america the world's energy superpower. so i think scott pruitt will have a vital role in shrinking that regulatory rampage. >rampage. >> sreenivasan: does his thinking change when it's just not oklahoma and a specific industry he's protecting as state's attorney general, but a country which has many different sources of energy and a much larger constituency? >> yes, but the trump campaign wasn't just about oklahoma and the oil and gas industry. it was about rebuilding our resourcing manufacturing industries across the heartland of america, and that is going to require putting e.p.a. regulations back in their place so t

pruitt as oklahoma's attorney general filed 14 lawsuits against the epa, challenging regulations that included limits on carbon emissions. >>> facing the president as he enjoys the florida sunshine is the turmoil plaguing his national security team after the ouster of michael flynn. his replacement pick has turned down the the job. who is up to fill the role? >> today president trump still with one critical position unfilled. traveling with the commander-in-chief, acting national security adviser keith kellogg. but still no permanent replacement for mi by the president four days ago. jog. >> i have somebody i think will be outstanding for that position. >> that candidate, retired vice admiral robert howard turned that role down. >> he told me it was something that he and his family couldn't go for. >> but a senior official tells nbc news one reason howard said no, he was turned off by a white house dysfunction, it's a criticism growing even among republicans. >> this administration is in disarray and they've got a lot of work to do. >> work including filling vacancies at the state dep

city and timothy mcveigh. >> reporter: the film is "oklahoma city." from washington, i'm jeffrey brown for the pbs newshour. >> cornish: "oklahoma city" airs tonight on most pbs stations. >> woodruff: on the newshour online right now, president trump's flurry of executive orders and actions have generated a lot of attention-- and some confusion. do you know the difference between an executive order and a presidential memorandum? or which president signed the most executive orders? take our quiz to test your knowledge. all that and more is on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. >> cornish: online, newshour's student reporter labs is out with a collection of stories called "new americans: migration, identity and community through the eyes of teenagers." >> now that i'm here in the united states, i feel like i'm a different person. i'm not the same kid that was running down the streets in cuba. >> my uncle actually brought us over here when i was only five years old, and now we have this dog, which has always been a goal of our family to have our own dog.

city and timothy mcveigh. >> reporter: the film is "oklahoma city." from washington, i'm jeffrey brown for the pbs newshour. >> cornish: "oklahoma city" airs tonight on most pbs stations. >> woodruff: on the newshour online right now, president trump's flurry of executive orders and actions have generated a lot of attention-- and some confusion. do you know the difference between an executive order and a presidential memorandum? or which president signed the most executive orders? take our quiz to test your knowledge. all that and more is on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. >> cornish: online, newshour's student re >> cornish: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm audie cornish. >> woodruff: glad to have you. and i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and again here tomorrow evening, when i sit down with speaker of the house paul ryan to get the congressional view of the first weeks of the trump administration. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >>

she was commissioner of grant county oklahoma. she was the elected to the grant county board 13 years ago and currently serves as the chairman of the board. she's been actively involved for the past eight years with the national association of counties serving in many different capacities including vice chair of the national transportation steering committee. further more she serves on the technical oversight working group with the federal highway administration office of safety. as you can imagine, commissioner bobbitt is passionate about our nation's infrastructure needs and her experience makes her an incredibly well qualified and informed witness for this committee. grant county is an extremely rural agriculture county in the north central part of oklahoma that relies heavily on proper infrastructure and has many infrastructure needs. in fact, they say that grant county has as many bridges as they do people. commissioner bobbitt knows the issues that rural businesses face as she and her husband run a farm, growing wheat, grain

in oklahoma we had gas taxes as. we do on the federal and our d wisdom in thesd dirty '30s they robbed our transportation funds and used it for other things and now weor can't support it. user fees, people are always a willing to support user fees. thank you. >> i know it's not really in your alley but any comments before we go? >> we have one thing, if we could. >> very briefly.fo? >> the trust fund is a good example of a user fund that's not beingng used for what it's intended for. that would be something else to keep in mind. >> thank you. >> yes on user fees. i would say users are already paying higher taxes in an unintelligent fashion. because they are saving congestion, paying more for lr goods. >> persons with vehicles. and another follow-up if i coulo for you, secretary black. colorado, one of the fastest growing states in the country in terms of population. i'm told your population is expected to increase by nearly half in the next 25 years. much of the population growth is anticipated to be in the greater d

. >> officials from utility companies in oklahoma, west virginia and wyoming and delaware and colorado discussed infrastructure funding needs and modernization efforts with law maimers or capitol hill. from the senate environment and public works committee this is two hours 15 minutes. >> good morning. i call this hearing to order. president trump has made improving our nation's infrastructure a top priority. infrastructure is critical to our nation's prosperity. the senate environment public works committee has jurisdiction over our nation's highways and roads and its ports. these things allow for american goods to go from the heartland to the coasts and even overseas. they allow for flood protection for both rural and urban communities that save lives. in addition our committee has jurisdiction over the environmental laws that impact the modernization of infrastructure. doesn't matter whether the setting is urban or rural, rules and regulations can halt orri the modernization of infrastructure and the impact is particularly counter productive if they're applied without understanding

but craig jones, president of the oklahoma hospital association, says centers like this can't replace hospitals. >> we have emergency departments, these out-patient facilities don't. we're obligated to treat and to stabilize the care that comes in. regardless of somebody's ability to pay. >> we absolutely need hospitals, we just don't need them to bankrupt us. >> dr. smith acknowledges his center provides limited services. all of them outpatient. but for people like kevin, a clean bill of health -- >> i'm feeling better and better every minute. >> without the sticker shock. jacob rascon, nbc news, oklahoma city. >>> we're back in a moment with something coming back to the skies that many airline travelers have been missing. me to reach my goals.hat's ale so i liked when my doctor told me i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals by activating what's within me with once-weekly trulicity. trulicity is not insulin. it helps activate my body to do what it's supposed to do release its own insulin. trulicity responds when my blood sugar rises. i take it once a week, and it works 24/7. it com

welcome, everybody. >> would you like to welcome your oklahoma witness? >> yes, i would and let me mention for the benefit of our witnesses and anyone else who might be interested, the commerce committee and this committee have nine members that are on both and we're meeting at exactly the same time. if you see members going back and forth we're doing double duty this morning. and i think we can do a better job of coordinating those committees. i want to introduce the good-looking witness we have. >> i already introduced tony. >> no, i'm real pleased to introduce one of our witnesses because i've known cindy bobbitt for a long period of time. she was the elected to the grant county board 13 years ago and currently serves as the chairman of the board. she's been actively involved for the past eight years with the national association of counties serving in many different capacities including vice chair of the national transportation steering committee. furthermore, she serves on the technical oversight working group with the federal highway administration

this bill says the states of texas and oklahoma will do it in consultation with oklahoma and specific tribes. why doesn't it say what we wanted in the survey, that b.l.m. do the survey? i reserve the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves her time. mr. bishop. mr. bishop: i'm pleased to yield four minutes to another one of our chairmen of our committee, who is a chairman of our subcommittees. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> when we swear to uphold an oath to our country and to our states, a lot goes with that responsibility. mr. lamalfa: and we have a very sacred covenant in protecting private property rights, the cornstone of this nation. to see after decades and even centuries of people feeling secure in their property and their land, that one government agency can come along and defile two entire states in the process they used, the gradient boundary survey method, in this case along the red river between texas and oklahoma, how can you have one rogue federal agency saying we supersede what these two states and decades and de

she's a commissioner of grant county oklahoma. she was elected to the grant county board. 13 years ago. and currently serves as the chairman of the board. she's been actively involved for the past eight years with the national association of counties, serving in many different capacities including vice chair of the national transportation steering committee. furthermore, she serves on the technical oversight working group with the federal highway administration office of safety. as you can imagine, commissioner bobbitt is passionate about our nation's infrastructure needs and her experience makes her an incredibly well qualified and informed witness for this committee. grant county is an extremely rural agricultural county in the north central part of oklahoma that relies heavily on proper infrastructure and has many infrastructure needs. in fact, they say that grant county has many bridges as they do people. commissioner bobbitt knows the issues that rural businesses face as she and her husband run a farm, growing wheat, feed gra

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