Implemented properly. Agriculture, nutrition and Forestry Committee members talked to farmers, Rural Utility Service officials and Healthcare Industry leaders about issues impacting Rural Communities. Including access to Rural Broadband, Water Infrastructure and Health Care Services and agricultural production. Good morning. I call this hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture and nutrition and forestry to order. Todays hearing advances this committees continued oversight of the department of agricultures implementation of the 2018 farm bill. A principle duty of this committee is to ensure that the department had the authority and resources to provide the agriculture producers with the necessary tools to feed a troubled and hungry world as well as this country. But the responsibility of the committee and the usda does not stop there and it is critical as Partnership Supports businesses and the electric cooperatives and telecom providers, schools and clinics and the product manufa
Captioning performed by vitac families in Rural Communities are also concerned about access to health care. Especially with the Mental Health and Opioid Crisis taking a devastating toll on small towns. We address this head on through expanded telemedicine to provide critical treatment for those who suffer from addiction and mental illness. To ensure that every family has safe Drinking Water, we prioritized rural Water Infrastructure investments for small towns. Rural communities need strong locally owned businesses and good highpaying jobs. Rural Small Business investments are critical to creating jobs, promoting entrepreneurship and revitalizing main street. In michigan where we make things and grow things, agriculture and manufacturing are both at the heart of the economy. Thats why we created opportunities to support bio based manufacturing. Companies are creating new products from americangrown crops. We also provided permanent funding for value added agriculture grants to help far
Well and apple. That event is just wrapping up now. Announcements shaking out in the stocks of different competitors. Were going to fill you in on all of that action but joining us for the hour is steve grasso from stuart frankel. Steve, great to see you. Good to see you its amazing. Not necessarily a major move for the averages today or right now. Everything is slightly lower and actually, if you look at the week, the dow is actually flat so far to start off the week and yet theres been this great rotation talk to us about that. The rotation is coming out of growth into value. How long does that last is how long the market will be under pressure and for now, it probably will last a little bit longer, but get a trade deal, throw everything i just said out the window and you see everything rally back people are making the analogy back to 09 and 2016, with this rotation that lasted for a couple of weeks. I dont think it will be that long do you really think were going to get a trade deal
Three days but we begin today with what we are our energy jobs. Say jobs. We are here because we are mindful of the challenges we face as a nation and as a globe. Those are challenges with respect to whether you refer to it as Climate Change or Global Warming adjustments in weather patterns, there is no doubt something is occurring. It is impacting our quality of life. If you have ever traveled through union station, the Wonderful Union station, the ine entrance. Maybe you have or maybe youve not. Look looked at that inscription looked at that inscription. In the history ofthat technologs the invention or the creation of fire. Fire as an enabler changed the trajectory of human beings. Gay people a different way to prepare food, different way to keep warm a invention of fire also aated the growth of human beings. The next great invention was the invention of electricity. The ability to capture impact the way people lived. We who have grown up in the 20th and 21st have been great benefic
Tamsin roberts. Beth, thanks very much and good morning from the gb newsroom. Its 931, a retired british miner has been released from a prison in cyprus after being jailed for the manslaughter of his wife. David hunter was given a two year sentence for killing his terminally ill wife at their home in paphos in 2021. The 76 year old has been released after cypriot authorities calculated his time to serve. Hunter claimed his wife asked him to end her life as she suffered from blood cancer. End her life as she suffered from blood cancer. The end her life as she suffered from blood cancer. The Prime Minister has confirmed hundreds of new oil and gas licences will be granted in the uk. Downing street has also confirmed millions of pounds for a new Carbon Capture scheme in north east scotland. Number ten says the move will help britain achieve net zero Carbon Emissions and boost British Energy independence. Mr sunak Energy Independence. Mr sunak will visit scotland today to highlight the cou