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Flooding in the Las Palmas neighborhood just east of Everglades National Park in November stranded a FedEx truck.
On the edge of the Everglades, less than a couple thousand feet from a backdoor entrance to the national park, the Las Palmas neighborhood teeters like a forlorn scheme to conquer the marshes.
Perfectly gridded lots are filled with heavy equipment, plant nurseries and a handful of houses. Goats and dogs wander fenced yards. And after a good rain, there’s water everywhere.
“I left for work in the morning before 8 a.m. and we had puddles. No big deal,” resident Raul Arrazcaeta said in November after a downpour the night before. “When I got home at 5:30, I had five inches of water on my driveway. Right now, I’m sitting on my porch and the only thing that doesn’t have any water is my porch.”
it s $24.95 plus shipping and handling. order online at c-span.org/store. senator john kerry outlined the elements of climate change legislation in the senate thursday. seeing majority leader harry reid has set a deadline for passage of early next year. the massachusetts democrat is joined by republican lindsey graham of south carolina and independent joe lieberman of connecticut. this is almost half an hour. [inaudible conversations] thank you, all, for being here today. senator gramm and lieberman and i have been engaged in a lot of meetings over the course of the last several weeks, sitting down regularly with our colleagues to develop a framework that will guide our efforts to develop comprehensive climate change and energy legislation that will pass the senate early next year. today, we are sending a letter to president obama off porting this framework and we are releasing this framework to do and others. this week in the epa s endangerment finding, the obama adminis
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they offer scholarships for the best pupil. he continues, what i don t see is similar numbers of american-backed schools. it break misheart that we don t invest in schools as much as medieval extremists. end of his speech. then he goes on to say, for roughly the same cost as stationing 40,000 troops in afghanistan for one year, we can educate the great majority of the 75 million children worldwide who are not getting even a primary education. such a vast global education, he says, would reduce poverty, cut birth rate, improve america s image in the world, promote stability, and chip away at extremism. madam speaker, i hope that president obama will keep this in mind as he reviews his options on afghanistan and makes his decision in the coming weeks. america simply cannot afford to rely on our military s power alone because that strategy plays right into the hands of the extremists. our heavy military footprint is beating the insurgency is feeding the insurgentcy in afghanis