Legacy energy source. Senator udall of new mexico and i have an amendment that will close a loophole in federal Energy Policy. I want my colleagues to know, and i think they do, of my long support for renewable and alternative sources of energy and so i agree with the aims of the murkowskimachin murkowskiy bill. The amendment that senator udall and i have introduced is the same as the bipartisan bill we introduced last week. The title of that bill is the fair return for public lands act. Mr. Grassley this bill was introduced 100 years to the date of the mineral leasing act of 1920. This amendment would increase the royalty rates on federal lands from 12. 5 to 18. 75 . Everybody here knows that a royalty is what the oil company will pay to a mineral owner. In this case the mineral owner is the american taxpayer, and that royalty is paid for the right to extract oil and natural gas from the lands of the United States. The legislation modernizes the public lands leasing system and it does
Of chief executive officers within the framework of the Current Forum , cooperation agreements worth 97 billion 200 million us dollars were signed. China will implement thousands more Small Projects to improve peoples lives. Cooperation in the field of Vocational Education through the luban workshop program, communicating with partners, we are strengthening measures to protect the safety of personnel and projects within the belt and road. The fourth is to promote Green Development. We will continue intensify cooperation in the areas of green infrastructure. Green energy and green transport, increase support for the activities of the International Union of Green Development within the framework of the belt and road, continue the practice of holding a Green Innovation conference, form a dialogue platform for photovoltaic industries and an Expert Network on green lowcarbon development, ready to implement the principles of enhanced investment in the chinese country will continue to impleme
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Good morning, libertarians. [applause] it is 9 45. The Libertarian National convention will come back to order. First item on the agenda, the Credentials Committee reports. Good morning. Thank you mr. Chairman. We have sent to the secretary a list of names of voting members of the convention and their alternates who have been registered up until 9 12 this morning. There are 911 delegates. 6 alternates a total of 931 votes. Form equals 373 and majority is for 66, two thirds is 621, and 815. S i move the revised role of delegates submitted be the official role of voting members of this convention. All those in favor of that motion please say i. Opposed say no. Thank you. Additionally, we have a thens to the lifts lists from states and the Credentials Committee has found these people eligible to vote. I move that chad carlton be added as a missouri delegate, emily church as a missouri alternate, Ashley Lewandowski as a kansas delegate and marcus lopez as a live data as a nevada delegate.
All right, time. Did everybody get it . Okay if you are still figuring it out i wont tell. But let me just close by saying this. We are so inundated i think with news of mayhem and mishap and war and disease. I think sometimes we forget how much good work is being done day in and day out by a lot of good people who just care about their kids, care about their communities. In your districts i know there are extraordinary teachers and principals who are putting everything they have got into making sure our kids are getting a great education and we have parents who are stepping up in volunteering and helping to make those schools work. So as you disburse one message i want you to deliver to all of them from the white house from the president of the United States is even if you are not getting a lot of attention, even if you are not making a lot of headlines what you were doing every single day is making the biggest possible difference in the lives of this country and i couldnt be prouder