Association of oil pipelines. Thank you all. Lets give them a round of applause. [ applause ] before i turn to my prepared remarks, id also like to acknowledge a couple dozen veterans that we have in our room today. Those that lead our efforts of what we call vets for energy group. Id like them all to stand. I think theyre all over in this area. Would you please stand for us . We greatly appreciate [ applause ] all you have to do is read the newspaper headlines today and see whats going on around the world. Its a very sobering thought, particularly as we give thanks to these veterans and others. What they have been doing is working hard on the issues of National Security associated with energy security. We want to give a special shoutout to you for your service and the other vets that happen to be in the room with us today. At your seat, you have a copy of this years report, which captures americas Current Energy reality and potential through the lens of seven u. S. Regions the east, s
Administrations Clean Power Plan and with paris happening a month ago, Carbon Pricing more broadly . How ready are u. S. Energy companies for those two regulations . All of our companies some are across the continuum. Some have supported a trade approach. Some have supported a carbon tax. Theres a variety of different position amongst our Member Companies. The things we have focused on primarily is the science and the data. Why . Because we think that is the story thats not being told today. The relate is that the u. S. Is the leader. The president should have gone to paris and said i have a case study in the United States. Were able to grow our economy, put people to work, at the same time our Carbon Emissions are at a 20year low. We think that story should be told because we think it will help reorient other thinkers about the solutions of our time which is climate. We believe we now have a case study. We actually have data that shows how you continue to support a growing economy at
Additional 1 million american jobs in 2025 and as many as 2. 3 million jobs in 2025. The study looked at the World Economic difference between proenergy Development Policies and antienergy Development Policies espoused by some. Over the next 20 years, proDevelopment Policies could increase local, state, and federal government revenue by more than 1 trillion and boost household Discretionary Income by as much as 508 billion. Further average annual Household Energy expenses would be lowered by approximately 360 per year at the same time. Conversely, National Energy policies that discourage Energy Development and constrain u. S. Refiners could lead to a decrease in 500 billion in government revenue from 2016 to 2035. Because according to the eia fossil fuels will account for 80 of u. S. Energy consumption through 2040 and the agency estimates that even under the bestcase scenario for alternative fuel use, fossil fuels will still account for 78 of our energy needs. This is just another dat
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 413, the nays are two. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Without objection, the title is amended. He house will be in order. Members, please remove your conversation from the floor, into the appropriate cloakrooms r off the floor. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on the motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered. Or on which the vote incurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. Any record vote on the postponed question will be taken later. He house will be in order. The house will be in order. For what purpose does the gentleman from utah seek recognition . Mr. Chaffetz i move that the house suspend the rules and pass senate bill 1170the Breast Cancer Research Stamp reauthorization act of 2015. The speaker pro
Way, early reports from Software Firm adobe show that shoppers spent more than a billion dollars online between midnight and 5 00 a. M. , that is up about 20 from just last year. Target reported a strong start to its black friday weekend, the retailer said its stores saw a solid turn out yesterday and that thanksgiving Internet Sales were the biggest ever. Other retail ceos also like what theyre seeing. Were very pleased with what were seeing on the internet with people shopping on thanksgiving and this morning and were very pleased with the traffic in our stores as well. Last night was clearly the kick off to thanksgiving shopping and we saw it not with just the lines but with the purchasing. So we were very encouraged that people finally not only came out, but came out and bought. Its been very promotional early in the cycle here. We certainly offered a tremendous amount of value, we had a lot of kickoff sales last night as part of our thanksgiving opening. Weve got a lot of reasons