The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Brown thank you, mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown and ask for unanimous consent also to speak for up to ten minutes as if in in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown thank you. Earlier this afternoon, mr. President , i appeared with senator blunt, my republican friend from missouri, in front of senator rockefellers Commerce Committee to talk about our Bipartisan Legislation with manufacturing hubs that would promote new technologies to make our country a leader. Let me illustrate by this, mr. President. Along the ohio turnpike from toledo to lorain to cleveland to sort of akron to youngstown, much of the Auto Industry grew up along that turnpike from glass that would go for wields in windshields in toledo, steel in lorain and cleveland for the fenders and thehoods in much of the car to rubber in akron for tires, the w
From you that we need to take steps to lessen the damage of the supreme courts hatch act so im pleased to announce my colleagues in Indian Affairs have issued a final rule to do just that. They issued it yesterday and that will help with Greater Transparency to make sure that lands will be taken into trust for housing schools and businesses that we want to continue to work with you to ask things like that. Next the Land Buyback Program and the historic cobell. We want to implement that in a smart and flexible way. We have been listening to you. You want predictability and transparency on the timing and implementation efforts and we announce we are expanding the implementimplement ation strategy so more tribes can participate. We know there is time sensitivity to this and we want to work with you to get that fully implemented because we no cobell is really important to write some of the wrongs of the past. The third is Indian Education. You know we have a generational transformation goi
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Rain drops along the coast of North Carolina are the leading drops now from what is once again Hurricane Sandy. No weather concerns today. A good day to clean the gutters and storm drains and get yourselves ready. Tomorrow the rain drops move in. Rain and wind increasing rapidly and then monday and tuesday will be the worst of it for us. More on that coming up. Thanks, chuck. Cuba and the caribbean are cleaning up the destruction from sandy after the hurricane packed a punch through the day yesterday. In the caribbean the death toll is up to 43 people including 29 in haiti. The numbers are expected to rise because more than a quarter Million People are still living in temporary, unsecured housing from the earthquake there from 2010. Flooding is also a concern as river levels are also on the rise. As we continue to track Hurricane Sandy people are getting ready for big storm. Many people will get a little extra help to prevent flooding from the district public works department. News 4s
Host Walt Mossberg, has technology plateaued . Guest oh, no, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Technology is always changing and always coming up with Technology Companies are always coming up with something new, and there are new Technology Companies all the time incubating, a lot of them are in what we call stealth mode. We dont even know who they are. Certain technologies plateau and things move on, but in general, no. Not at all. Host i guess i ask that because the last couple years weve had the explosion of smartphones, weve had tablets come online. Whats out there . Guest well, first of all, there are vast numbers of people especially in the less developed cups, but even in the developed countries who dont own a smartphone and, certainly, there are vast thurms that dont own numbers that dont own a tablet. To give you a rough example, apple which leads in the tablet market has sold somewhere around 160 million ipads since 2010. Thats a remarkable achievement and for people that own