The majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago i participated in a forum that was hosted by a foundation that was created in 1980 by congress and this foundation is the National Fish and wildlife the tion, or nfwf, and forum was the connection between agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay. Now, the streams and rivers are in a large portion in the district drain into it. This is also a region which depends on agriculture, the commonwealths largest industry. Among the topics of discussion to the forum was the chesapeake stewardship grants which is funded by the u. S. Department of the environmental
Sprinkles tracking a little bit going on in and around san mateo, maybe the san mateo bridge, light rain in oakland, bay bridge. As we shift to the east, perhaps light rain around american canyon. Steady rain expected by tonight. I will show you what we can expect and how long the wet weather is going to stick around coming up in just a little bit. Severe weather has been hitting pacifica all day. Just look at these pictures of waves and high surf pounding the shoreline. Now the city has declared a state of emergency. Officials say its a financial call to begin lining upstate and federal funding due to damage caused by the weather. Scary situations. Rob roth is there with the story of what happened to one woman who was hit by a giant sneaker weigh. That was a really close call for her. Reporter yes, it was, frank. Were right above the pacifica seawall. This morning a sneaker wave came up over the wall, thats 15 feet, across this asphalt path, and hit a wave into the front yard of this
I just think hes done a very good job. I think hes doing a bad job. Hes kind of like nixon was. Two president s the worst weve ever had. It poses a challenge for democratic candidates. Obama had a 68 Approval Rating in his first three days in office six years ago. But his popularity has fallen steadily as he struggled to revive the economy. He was reelected in 2012, but his ratings have remained below 45 since last october. It dropped to 42 this september. Republicans have questioned obamas leadership being critical of how hes handling militants and the ebola outbreak. The latest polls suggest the Republican Party will retain its majority in the house and gain seats in both chambers. Workers at japans Fukushima Daiichi plant have finished removing highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from one of the reactor buildings. The plant was hit by a massive quake and tsunami in 2011. There were more than 1,500 units of spent and unused fuel in the pool inside the building. Officials at tepco a
I think hes doing a bad job. Hes kind of like nixon was. Two president s the worst weve ever had. It poses a challenge for democratic candidates. Obama had a 68 Approval Rating in his first three days in office six years ago. But his popularity has fallen steadily as he struggled to revive the economy. He was reelected in 2012, but his ratings have remained below 45 since last october. It dropped to 42 this september. Republicans have questioned obamas leadership being critical of how hes handling militants and the ebola outbreak. The latest polls suggest the Republican Party will retain its majority in the house and gain seats in both chambers. Workers at japans Fukushima Daiichi plant have finished removing highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from one of the reactor buildings. The plant was hit by a massive quake and tsunami in 2011. There were more than 1,500 units of spent and unused fuel in the pool inside the building. Officials at tepco are putting priority over removing spent
Most likely it will be weaker although again the eu has threatened of russia recognizes the upcoming elections, they will increase sanctions. So its going a lot of Different Directions right now. But if the sanctions are weakened in march, and there are lots of European Countries who are advocating for lessening the sanctions, including italy, hungary, luxembourg, a whole bunch of countries are being hurt themselves by the sanctions. So indeed it is a change in the sanctions policy, then putin wouldve succeeded in kind of pursuing this divide and conquer strategy that will give him more leeway in terms of how he deals with the eu. There are lots of different variables in terms of how you approach the ukrainian question. What about venezuela . Venezuela was a constant thorn in side of the United States partly because it would use its Oil Resources to prop up the cube and other countries. How does this decline affect venezuelas projection of influence . Its a great question. What we see