Established. We have a minnesota delegation contest every single year and i won the first year and then have lost every time so [laughter] but it was a lot of fun and it is my entry with the tater to the hot dish, what which involves some tater to the and some pepper jack cheese. And in an iowasouthern minnesota good folk lower, it was very popular in statewide in minnesota but then i was getting emails only from southern minnesota which said you might want to use a different type of cheese because the pepper jack was so spicy. No one from northern minnesota said that at all. In addition to bryce with his great leadership, thank you, bryce, for that, we have shirley from the city council. Where are you . Thank you very much for being here and your leep leadership and your fourth of july first and that youre ready for, and also, she is not from this district but maybe you know her. She is actually from mason city, right . Marion, right . Ok, i got that. From that area and she was the fi
mountainous areas that rescue crews are struggling to get to. we re told multiple buildings have collapsed and several historic landmarks are damaged . they include rubbishes historic walls, they date back to the early 12th century, locals are being urged to remain calm and exercise caution do the risk of aftershocks. united nations says it is standing by to help and ready for the moroccan government if need be, and according to the u. s geological survey, this is the strongest earthquake to strike the north african country in more than 120 years again. if you re just now joining us, the death toll continues to rise in morocco that follows a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake. it struck overnight just south of marrakech, and more than 630. people are now confirmed dead. nearly 350 of other people are hurt. those numbers have more than doubled since the earthquake first hit and they could rise even higher. we will, of course, continue to follow the latest on this breaking news
to be a winning formula once again for all democrats and for president biden and vice president harris. laura: a winning formula? is that what he said? we will see. i have this crazy idea that americans don t want to go into debt to buy stuff like gas, groceries, or make car payments. in newsweek, writer lee habib noted that the combination of run away costs and high interest rates has been catastrophic for ordinary americans as the average car payment surged to nearly $730 a month with the length of those loans extended to a record setting 68 months. as for gasoline, well, biden s insane squeeze on pipelines and exploration is killing the family budget. in july 2020, gas was a mere 2.27 a gallon. in july of 2023 the average was 3.71. a whopping 63% increase and even gone up since then. so, all americans feel the pain of biden s radical green agenda because everything that travels by car, by plane, or truck is now more expensive. and it s all on the democrats. the economy
South carolina governor tim scott. The hearing of the Pensions Committee will come to order to consider the nomination of betsy devos to be United States secretary of education. Openingmake an statement to introduce the nominee. We welcome senator scott and senator lieberman. He will make introductory remarks. Following the nominees comments, we will have a fiveminute round of questions. One note, we have capital will removeay who anyone who attempts to disrupt the hearing. This is the First Committee in our new congress. It has considerable differences of opinion on a variety of issues. We have found that we can sometimes resolve them in important ways. What was thee past most important bill in the congress, 21st century cures. The year before, no child left behind, which president obama called a christmas miracle, plus 33 other bills signed by the president. I want to thank senator murray and republicans on the committee for operating in that fashion. We have done that by showing cou
She took questions on Public Education, Student Loan Debt and Postsecondary Education for members of the Senate Health education labor and pensions committee. Heres a portion of that hearing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] nonmac [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] a hearing of the Health Education Labor Pensions Committee will come to order. The hearing to consider the nomination of i. T. Training due to United States secretary of education. Senator murray and i will make an opening statement. Ill introduce the nominee. We welcome senator scott, member of this committee of distinguished former member of this body who will make introductory remarks. And following that nominee is comments, we will have fiveminute round of questions. We have capital officers here today who will remove anyone who attempts to distract the hearing. This is the first me