Gallons per minute. Then in september of 2005, it was up to 135 gallons per minute. 2006, it increased to 314 gallons per minute. 2009 to 2014, the rate dropped again all the way down to 13 gallons per minute. In september of 2014. And according to your staff gave our Committee Staff documentation on september 8th post blowout added discharge. It was approximately 600 gallons per minute. Is there any new data since september 8 that changes the 600 gallons per minute discharge rate . I think i have a slightly lower figure. But im happy to provide you with that, sir. I dont want to speak when i dont have all the data at my fingertips. Okay. You have come to testify and you dont know whether epa made it worse or better since september 8th . It is is something on the order of 550 gallons per minute, if thats what youre asking me. The problem is ill have a good demonstration. But when we are talking about raw sludge, the fact is before the blowout, the discharge rate was 70 gallons per minu
Is it federal or state and local job . It is a job of every local government. City, county, state, federal. When i was in the state legislature i discovered we had passed laws that essentially banned 56 provisions from people who had been incarcerated. One was you wouldnt get a license to barber. Yet in state prison we taught barbering. Then the individual couldnt get a license. So we had to pass legislation to undo that. So when the war on drugs started in the 1980s we passed 2,000 laws of the years. We banned people from working. We need to look at a lot of legislation passed over the years and essentially unwind some of it. But we do have to create supportive services. People need support groups to help them do basic things, get their i. D. S, drivers license, may back child support, get their children back if their children have been entered into foster care. One of the things we dont pay a lot of attention to is the fact that a lot of people have been incarcerat incarcerated. The
Michelle obama. A signature feature of book tv, is our allday coverage of festivals from across the country. Near the end of september, we are in new york for the brooklyn book festival celebrates its 10th year. That, we arefter live from austin for the texas book festival. Near the end of the month, we will be covering two book festivals. On the east coast, the boston book festival. At the start of november we will be in Portland Oregon for wordstock. Followed by the National Book awards. Then we are live, for the 18th year in a row, from miami, florida. That is a look at the festivals this fall on book tv. Wednesday, an epa official, the colorado mayor and a chemist testified at a special hearing. They talked about the toxic river spill near the shuttered Gold King Mine site. Witnesses discussed the response to the bill, the responsibility and the longterm impact on farmers and businesses in the area. This is just over two hours. The committee on science, space and technology will co
Not be wise after five years of negotiations with among 12 Different Countries, to try to renegotiate the agreement, particularly considering it was reached only as it relates to the argument he is making about deep concerns that he has for the Financial Wellbeing of the pharmaceutical industry, the fact is in these 12 countries what the pharmaceutical industry had been advocating for our 12 years of Data Protection of their products to ensure generic versions of their drugs cannot be sold for 12 years. They have a legitimate argument in terms of making a case. There should be some protection that they are afforded so they continue to have an incentive to invest in the kind of research and development that would yield new lifesaving medications. So their desire for some protection is reasonable. What they have suggested is that peri of protectiono should alsod partnership. The agreement is in place an effective standard of eight years among the tpp member theons, and so pharmaceutical
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