Items before we get to the meat of the program here. I would ask that everybody here turn off their cell phones or at least have them in a silent mode and those other Electronic Items as well. We will have a q a portion as we get close to the end of this, and when it goes down, it will ask folks to please wait to be called upon and wait for the microphone so everyone in the audience has an opportunity to hear you. That i will ask you to announce your name and affiliation. Our topic today is this particular absolutely fascinating and terrifying book eyes in the sky, by arthur hall and michelle and i have to. Out that the digital version that when i call the eye of saffron i will compare it to the lord of the rings. It was literally six years ago this month, that an nsa contract whistleblower by the name of edward snowden, burst upon the world scene with his absolutely amazing revelations. About mass Government Survey blades and being taken place on the socalled war on terror error. Doze
Representatives of the Auto Industry and an Environmental Group testified. Good morning. The joint subcommittee will now come to order. The chair to recognize himself for fibers for an Opening Statement. Good morning. I would like to think i witnesses for with us this morning. Today we are here to discuss with stakeholders the corporate average fuel Economy Program, or cafe, at the national highway Transportation Safety administration, and the Greenhouse Gas emissions standards at the u. S. Environmental Protection Agency that govern fuel economy standards. Nhtsas cafe program was established by congress in 1975. The goals of the program are to improve vehicle fuel economy, reduce oil consumption, and secure the Nations Energy independence. The cafe program has undergone major changes and modifications in the past four decades, both because of political and economic forces. Less than 10 years ago, and on top of the cafe program, the epa standards were created to incentivize the product
Today we are here to discuss the stakeholders Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program at the national Highway Transportation Administration in the Greenhouse Gas emission standards at the us epa agency that governs fuel economy standards. This program was established by congress in 1975 and the goals of the program are to improve vehicle economy, reduce Oil Consumption and secure the Nations Energy independence. The program has undergone major changes and modifications the past four decades both because of political and economic forces. Less than ten years ago and on top of the program the epa was created with the device more efficient vehicles that will use less fuel and less corporate backside. In addition various states have enacted their own standards with respect to automobile admission. The combination of these departments is created and incredibly compensated regulatory scheme improving fuel efficiency and achieving Energy Independence is an important goal. Realworld backs and da
The government trying to prevent a collapse of the countrys markets which lost nearly 30 since june. The news helping to spark a rally today. A gain of more than 3 in shanghai and shenzhen we have seen the imagine higher by nearly 5 . Keep in mind you go down 30 you have to go up a lot more than that in order to recover. Heres the greek stock exchange. Market there open for a second straight day after its five week closure. Down by only 1 today after the big pummeling it took yesterday after reopening and the u. S. Futures at this hour suggest that were going to have slightly negative open. The dow lower by 15 points and s p by 2 and nasdaq by 4. He is dismissing claims that oversupply is driving down prices and he believes the end of the broader commoditys route is in sight. Lets Check Oil Prices right now. You can see above 45, not by that much. Up by one and three quarters per cent. Its a nice gain after the sell off in recent days. Brent had gone below 50. That was the big headline
Fourth quarter profit rising 3 . U. S. Strength offsetting weakness elsewhere. News corp. Swings the 4th quarter loss but beats estimates as cost guiding in its News Division does pay off. You are watching worldwide exchange. A second hour of our show. Futures higher across the board in premarket trade. The dow up about 58 points. Nasdaq up 55. Positive earnings could help the index move higher but the chinese yuan extending its losses for the third day despite wednesdays intervention by the central bank. We have been keeping an eye on asian markets that did close higher across the board. What does that mean for the global index but right now its higher by 14 or 15 points on the day. We are slightly higher in todays trade. A big move to the upside. A rebound if you will. The german markets have been impacted by that move taken by the central bank to devalue the currency but some of those names coming back in todays trade. Thats helping the german index move higher by 1. 5 . The french