Committee of 1200 people. Its your travel organization trying to bring in low income housing. Think about what they could have done with those dollars imagine a towna town like craig. The scale is up to communities like anchorage and fairbanks, what do those cost means i oppose the role because of the uncertainties that it will create, the delayscreate, the delays that it will deliver, and the cost that it will impose. And because alaska is the only state that has permafrost and we have no idea whether or under what circumstances these areas will be regulated and because further this goal could dampen efforts to begin new resource extraction projects, which we depend on for majority of our states budget and finally, i oppose the role because it is yet another Regulatory Burden for alaskans offer people all over the country command this is on top of all of the other regulations that would have seen in our state of thefrom the interior Department Anti Energy Decisions to epa questor proj
The European Central banks in physic and not fix the economy on its own but ready to take more steps to help. Here is ecb president mario draghi. It is necessary to further longss risks of too periods of inflation. The governing council is unanimous in using additional instruments within its mandate. One of those unconventional measures is buying government bonds. That is something that has not been mentioned before, at least not officially. His comments come less of three weeks before the next ecb forecast, which is likely to show weaker outlook for growth and inflation. In jerusalem, and attack described as the deadliest in years. Palestinians armed with guns, knives, and axes killed four israelis in a synagogue. At least six more people were wounded. Police still be two attackers. Jimmy netanyahu says the country will respond with an iron fist. Toyota unveiled a new car that emits only water vapor. It is toyotas bid to compete with teslas electric car. Only a few hundred will be sol
Permission to do this, and i did not inform Mitch Mcconnell. I took to the floor of the United States senate and to be power that comes from being a senator representing one of the great states in this nation to force a debate on an issue that i felt strongly about and they feel strongly about for many years. The issue is not dead, though. Senate republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says lawmakers will vote on keystone next year when of course there will be more republicans in the chamber. Meanwhile, senators blocked an attempt to put limits on the nsas ability to collect phone records. It would force spy agencies to only obtain records of proof by a court order records approved by a court order. According to people familiar with the matter, president obama will issue a reprieve for undocumented immigrants whose children were born in the u. S. That is part of a plan to prevent up to 5 Million People from being deported. Russiasise from president vladimir putin. He plans to go for a crackd
Donald ritie, thank you for ing with us on america history. The senate jority leader i not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . That puzzles a lot of people. We once had a former speaker of the house contact us and say i was the president pro perso ray in the pro tempore but not the majority leader because e speakers of e usee the nate majority leader as their equivalent, their functional equivalent on the senate side. Ofourse the speaker of the house is written ito the constution, and the president pro tempore is. But no mention of a majority leader or minority leader and thats because the constitutn did n ancipatepolitical parts. I think they thoughat it was probably gng to happen, but they didnwant to encoure litica parties. Theyake no provision for it. And for most ofthe history of thesenate we had no jority lead. Om 1789 until 1913 there was noajit leader ofth senate. There re chairmen committees who wld sort of take care of things on the floor, there were th a
Make people aware. One statistic i saw said the average american spends six minutes per year thinking about their Energy Decisions compared to a study that people check their phones 60 times per day to per day. I read that too, a person picks up the phone 1500 times a day and sleep within three feet of their phone and it is on we dont have that level of engagement in the Energy Sector and part of it is the nature of the industry, our nation has been a command and control industry, the consumer has no choice if your provider is given a monopoly in whatever geographic area, but that is all changing so we need to make people more aware and fortunately there is a series of products coming along that are somewhat more interesting maybe they are not iphones but i find in my own life that people are more interested in the prospects of making their own electricity with solar power now the price point is where it needs to be. Electric cars are obviously interesting so the technology exists, the