As an opportunity to capture by the state and its associated special interests. And possibly get up to no good abroad. Iran is a large and sophisticated economy. About the same size in terms of population and income as turkey. An economy about 40 larger and 40 richer perperson roughly than egypt. It is much more than an oil economy or an oil state. Presanctions, it produced 1. 6 million cars. That is almost three times as many as italy produces today. Admittedly, italy is not a good example of efficiency. [laughter] i was working in italy when they were producing 2 million cars. 1975. Opening up iran has an effect on world trade and investment at a time when world trade is stuttering. The report says iran could attract the number could be much higher than that. Turkey attracted 13 billion in 2013 and turkey does not have huge oil reserves in need of technology and money to restart and expand. As for the effect on oil markets, the report stresses the biggest gain for the world economy.
The house and senate are now out of session for their summer district work periods. Both return for legislative work on tuesday, september 8th. Theyll continue debate on the Iran Nuclear Agreement during the 60day review period. Join us later today for live coverage of remarks from author greg granden, a history professor at new york university. He argues that to understand americas current foreign and public policy, one must examine the actions of former National Security adviser Henry Kissinger. Hell talk about his book, kissingers shadow, at politics prose bookstore here in washington. Watch it live here on cspan2. Now, heres a look at whats on tonights edition of the communicators. Host and youre watching the communicators on cspan. Weve been talking with marc tayer, author of televisionaries about the development of digital television. This is the second half of our conversation. Mr. Tayer, we talked about the 25 years that digital tv has been in place, weve talked about its devel
Forward, i have been focused like the laser on trying to help the country get to a Better Safety posture when it comes to the movement of crude by rail. Su the point we have taken 24 shortterm measures that were thought about as bridges longterm answer which is ultimately a rule on this. Just to cut to the chase, you have to have a comprehensive approach to is this issue. There is all lost in the news about hank cars and tank car standards. The cape cod is that mitigation device. Is not a device designed to prevent an accident an accident for some period of time. We have to have a prevention strategy, we have to have a mitigation strategy, we have to have an Emergency Response strategy. One thing we pushed on the department is a comprehensive approach to take into account all those areas and i would say that i think there is the building consensus both outside government but within government, the right way to go. We are still working through the later stages of rulemaking, this is an
On my part . Congressman, the action that the administration took obviously was to try within the law, within the authorities we have to remove restrictions that we thought were counterproductive, and if anything working against the goal of getting the kind of change in cuba that we all want which is a Movement Towards giving human rights and other issues of importance greater attention. I think that, you know, the transactions between the u. S. And cuban parties will be governed by law so there will be things like food sales. The payments will be easier for companies to comply with and purchasers to comply with, so i think it will be easier for u. S. Firms to do business with cuba but we havent opened up all the forms of support that exist in countries that we have normal relations with and weve been clear that cuba still has a long way to go to make the changes it has to make before we would have that kind of conversation. I agree that were not there yet. In 1993 cuba actually made t
Engineer, a Petroleum Engineer early part of her career, then a banker for a good portion of her career, a chief executive of a publicly held company and lastly a mountain climber and a kayaker. I think the last two attributes that she brings to this job are probably going to be the most important attributes of washington climbing mountains and avoiding rocks in the rapids. So i think she is extraordinarily well credentialed for this position. Ive had sometimes distressing experience and Energy Policy formation. I have a lot of i see Bennett Johnson in the background here. A lot of us have bruises that have lasted for years from that process. Senator, good to see you. Bob frye, the late bob frye was the head of resources for the future, once testified before the committee i was on that the task of defining the Energy Future was to chart a safe, secure response environmentally responsible energy path that would sustain Human Progress for present and future generations. That was probably