i don't think andrew wheeler has ever written a short article but it is thorough and one that i think deserves the attention of everyone on the committee and onto panel. >> without objection. any other comments? any other comments? the man of the hour. welcome. i called him last night and he was in bad shape. i am delighted he is here today. let's begin with the presidential nominees they will vote on today. presidential nomination 540. five moved forward -- i moved forward. >> second. >> the clerk will call the role. l. [reading names] >> thank you very much. i call up nomination number 514, jennifer sass, to be part of the hazard investigation board. i moved to approve and report this to the senate. is there a second? >> second. >> it has been moved. clerk will call the roll. [calling names] to x we consider remaining matters before. -- two expedite we consider remaining matters before. we want to call presidential nomination stephen owens. i will call of the nomination of 542 sylvia johnson to be on the same board. i call up s2205 and s 233. all in favor? >> aye. >> nay? the ayes h

we hosted the epa, the epa director, andrew wheeler for a speech on the epa today. just yesterday, for the inaugural nixon national conference, we had the nci director, president biden's nci director. the library not only tells president nixon's story but serves as a very active forum today for policymaking. susan: you mentioned president nixon went to whittier college, a graduate of chapman university. the president serves on the foundation board. he has taught law there. what is the connection between chapman and the two institutions? pres. byron: great question. chapman has a certain number of benefits that we enjoy together in partnership. they are only about 10 miles away from the library. we worked with chapman to build a presidential libraries senate with historians that study not only richard nixon but 20th-century american politics. if we can use the vast nixon archives, there are 47 million pages of documents, over 300,000 photographs, 2 million feet of film. if we can open these documents to students at chapman university, we will be allowing the students

joining me right now epa administrator andrew wheeler, andrew, good to have you. thank you very much for being here. we are talking about the build back better plan every day that the democrats are trying to push through, this is largely a new energy plan. this is a green plan with $555 billion of policy around fundamentally changing the economy. your thoughts on where we are on that? >> well, thank you, maria, for having me on your show today and, you know, one thing that's buried in the build back better plan that most people don't realize, they put a new tax on a barrel of oil and super fun tax and time when americans are concerned about rising tax of gasoline at the pump, the biden administration and nancy pelosi are trying to tax oil even more, it just boggles the mind the way they are approaching this. this is a supply issue and they have done everything that they can over the last year to decrease american supply, american production of oil and gas under the name of climate change. maria: that's right. we already heard, you know, biden's new mexico knee for