believes the pandemic likely resulted from a laboratory leak in wuhan, china, peer that is according to classified intelligence recently provided to the white house and members of congress. the energy department now joins the fbi and the virus from a mishap from a chinese left you will say that it was dismissed by the media by debunked conspiracy theories. so, we will proceed, guy as jonathan turley points out for years the media and government allied to treat anyone raising lab theory is 1 of 3 possibilities. he writes, conspiracy theorist, racist or racist conspiracy theorist? he s absolutely right. guy: remember for a while it was racist you couldn t talk about how this virus originated at all from the perspective of these gatekeepers. and i just keep coming back to the term misinformation and conspiracy theory. this is use to disqualify points the media and others disagree with and over and over again, they are proven wrong. i m not saying there aren t things such
I am asking a question to the chair if you would agree with my observation. One reason i think statements have been made over there is they never believed we will get past a six year highway reauthorization bill over here. I am going to make it a deal so we can have the vote to take place and get on with the last and final vote so we would have that ready while the house is still in session. Whether individuals are facing themselves in the corner or that is not going to happen i dont know. Isnt it worth a try . That is my question. Let me respond to my colleague from oklahoma and thank him for his bipartisan leadership. You and senator boxer set a standard of bipartisanship when it comes to this issue. You have produced a sixyear authorization bill. Though i may not agree with the particulars thank you for that leadership on your bipartisan bases side. As far as the effort to speed up the senate so we can catch the house colleagues before they leave, i would support it completely but y
It is nothing more than an advertisement for the realtors to sell the mountains off to people that live a broad and are ruining it for the locals. There are lobbyists pushing down in raleigh to get funds for projects to help develop which is actually destroying our state because we dont have any jobs anymore because they were all off short to china. Offshored to china. Guest obviously you have a disagreement with the way that your tax dollars are being spent. That is why we have elections, to elect people that are responsive to the people that they serve. Host scott in maine. An independent caller. Caller back when the stimulus thing was going to rebuild bridges and highways. For this fella that is on right now, wanting to raise taxes another quarter on gas. Gas is cheap right now because of all the fracking and whatnot. People are catching on to fracking. So gas aint going to be cheap forever. That quarter you are talking about is just going to add to the burden of people who already
And i am proud of you. I know you are currently residing in florida but you are a true puerto rican. I know you are fighting for equality, and that is the solution. The democratic thing to do the right thing to do economically and financially for puerto rico insofar as the immediate crisis is concerned. Congress could give puerto rico a tool that is not available in puerto rico, and that is chapter nine of the bankruptcy code. It allows companies to reorganize themselves under the protection of the bankruptcy court, so that they can meet their payment obligations. It allows them to restructure in an organized and legal way. That is why i am fighting for that in congress. But the permanent solution would be to allow puerto rico to join the union. Pay federal taxes. But at the same time, get the same benefits from the federal government. Then puerto rico would prosper with that kind of profit status. There would be a transition, but we would have no Political Risk and we would drive the
Shipbuilding plan. Are you concerned with that and what more do we need to do, what can congress do to help you overcome that ship shortfall . Senator this is an area where navy and marine corps have been discussing and again have realized together although the requirement, the military requirement is 38, the current fiscal environment is going to drive us to 34. I appreciate the assistance of congress to getting us to 34 to address those that gap between the requirement and what we can resource, were looking at augmenting our lift there with other platforms besides gray hulls. Gray hulls are absolutely the requirement thats needed for the high end threat but there may be applications and opportunities to lift marines using other platforms. Thank you and again i want to tell you, i look forward to you, your confirmation. I wholeheartedly support it. I would ask some questions about concerns in the arctic, but i have a feeling that my colleague here is going to do a better job of that t