Assist and help in preserving our agricultural production, and expand new uses and opportunities for agricultural products. And we will also focus on an effort to do a better job of addressing the challenges that the poultry industry in particular face with disease. We have antiquated facilities, which is, frankly, true of our entire Agricultural Research service. We need a new and creative way to address the challenges of our infrastructure, and one way we can do that is by taking a look at our unobligated balances as representative farr had suggested, allowing us to retain those balances, that are within a budget thats been approved by this committee, and use them to upgrade our facilities. This would also give us an opportunity to better manage and perhaps reduce the 70 million square feet of space that we currently operate, lease or own. As i shared with you earlier, yesterday, mr. Chairman, i think there is an opportunity for us to save significant resources by rightsizing our ren
Thoughts on that. Because in some south, east agriculture has a broad portfolio and many farms have multiple crops. And farming throughout the country, most farm families have a lot of farm income. And the second part of my question is, when do you expect to issue proposed regulations on the actively engaged interpretation . Particularly given the equal important competing issues that youll have to tackle, including implementation of the disaster programs and the arc programs, which by the end of 14 or 15 or when will we have some sensz o f what that is . And how much input will the department allow for producers to actually talk about how they feel about this actively engaged definition. Your microphone. Congressman. We expect and anticipate to have a proposed rule by the end of this year, call year 2014 on the issue of act i liveively engage. And i say proposed concerning the input. That would give people the opportunity to weigh in on what we propose. I think it is fair to say we re
Beijing. In the earl will i trading in europe, you can see some green arrows. Modest advances. Everything below half percent increase. Germany looks like its the best performers up by close to half a percent. Hope you had a great weekend. Among our top stories, were talking this morning a lot about former treasury secretary tim geithner. Hes joining warburn pincus. Hes been a distinguished fellow. Hes conducted a series of seminars across the country. Hes in the process of writing a book. Well talk more about the story with politicos ben white in just a few minutes. Jpmorgan agreeing to pay 4. 5 million to settle claims for people who lost money on mortgagebacked securities. The bank reached that with 21 Institutional Investors and security trusts issued by jpmorgan and bear stearns which they acquired. Washington mutual which jpmorgan acquired and we should note that this deal is separate from the preliminary 13 billion settlement the bank had reached with the government. Youre talkin
Afghan womens and girls, some of the real tragedies that are taking place right now over there. These are things that languish where we could correct a throoft in this bill a lot of that in this bill. So theres no reason to put it off. We dont want to go through what we went through last time. Now is the time to prepare thoor that. All we have to do is get amendments down. No one should complain later on in november or december about not being able to have their amendments heard if theyre not out there right now bringing their amendments down. With that, its my understanding that senator mccain wanted to participate in this plea that were making but he has a statement hell be submitting for the record. With that, i would yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call a senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi mr. President , i ask the quorum call be set aside. The presiding offi
See the loss leader of the soviet union late to rest. Ah, im healing mohammed, welcome to the program. Nasa has called off its moon rocket launch is the 2nd time this week. The launch has been postponed. Technicians were unable to fix a fuel leak. The rocket was due to take to the skies from the Kennedy Space center in florida within hours. The next generation craft is the most powerful ever built by nasa. It was said to be the 1st launch for the agencies are to miss program, which aims to eventually return a human crew to the moon. Well, let, lets cross over to florida and speak to nico, detriment from the European Space agency. Its good to have you with us here on dw news. How much of a disappointment was this news . Space business is a risky and challenging business and having a main flight was to launch crafts is not totally unusual. Obviously, we would have to see it flying today. For anything else from a disaster, we fly when its safe and it was not yet see. Are these teething pr