Good afternoon and thank you for coming. My name is siri worthington, executive director of the United States Energy Association and this is a us ea briefing on addressing Energy Poverty in the United States, a federal state collaboration. This is a little bit of a different topic for your sca. But one that we are very eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation. Because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. It always been urgent but i think myself that the urgency is growing so thank you all for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today. Or our discussion, we hope to have audience participationas well. Moderating todays session is mark will, mark will provide the discussion and moderate the discussion forthe need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist, and is an expert on local andregional energy and housing financing. He is consulted regularly for general
Topic for usea but one that were eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. Theyve always been urgent, but i think, myself, that the urgency is growing. So thank all of you for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today for our discussion. We hope to have audience participation as well. Moderating todays session is mark wolfe. Mark will provide a discussion and will moderate the discussion on the need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist and is an expert on local and Regional Energy and housing financing. He has consulted regularly for federal, state foundation and nonprofit agencies. He is very experienced at testifying before congress, and he is the executive director of the National Energy assistance Directors Association. And the Energy Program consortium and is the Founding Partner of project energy saver
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Earnings from verizon, ebay and American Express, job cuts a deal with carl icahn and more to digest this quart. Airline results are in. Continental getting hit. Southwest ceo with us in a few moment. The decision marks waiting for. Ecb abouncing bondbuying program to revive the eurozone economy. News conference in frankfurt, mario draghi said asset purchases amount to 60 billion euros a month starting in march, continue until september 2016 lower oil, jim, not inhibiter here. No. I thought germans would argue, cant do this now. But that failed. You have some our rates are all over the map, i want to be careful our rates had gone up big, even in the last few minutes come back down. Spanish tenyear 1. 4 now. Our tenyear 1. 8. I remember when we would sit here in 2011 and talk about how maybe the spain would go bust and rates were going higher and higher, now right i dont know who would buy that piece of paper. But i think i know who may have to, which is draghi. Yep. He may be a buyer t
He could be looking at like 50 years in prison, it kind of looks like the end of the world for somebody like roger stone, the end of his free life, right . But the statutory maximum sentence, the sentence he might theoretically get on paper is nowhere near what hes actually likely to get. The guidelines, for example, suggest a sentence much shorter than the statutory maximum, also its his first offense. Its sort of a whitecollar offense, although im never quite sure what the dividing line is there. In any case, nobody really thinks hes going to get decades in prison. But it is seven felony counts including witness tampering which is a serious one. Theres an interesting thing that happened right at the end of the day in court on friday right after the jury read out their verdict about roger stone in what was something of a surprise. The prosecutors in the stone case asked as soon as the judge was as soon as the verdict was read, they asked the judge to remand roger stone in custody, to