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Later this afternoon senators will also vote on fda commissioner nominee, steven hahn. Now to live coverage. U. S. Senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of grace and glory, on your people, shower your blessings. Be for us a shield and sure defense. Lord, as we live in this tangled world, give us the wisdom to keep our eyes on you. Bless our senators. Crown their deliberations with your wisdom, so that your purposes will prevail. Quicken in our lawmakers noble impulses, as you sanctify their efforts with your mercy and might. Be merciful to us, forgive our faults and remember that we are but dust, like a wind that blows by and is gone. Lord, keep us from stumbling or slipping. We pray in your gracious name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of amer
The hearing of subcommittee on general farm commodities and Risk Management entitled reviewing the state of the farm economy will come to order. Good morning and thank you for joining us, as we look into this critical aspect of our economy. Every one of us seated up here has heard from farmers in our districts about the bad farm economy. Commodity prices are low, input costs are rising and financial pressure is mounting on farmers across this country. While we hear so much about the booming state of the overall economy, our rural and farm economy continues to struggle. You cannot have a successful National Economy when such a vital component hurts the way our farmers are currently. The numbers paint a rough picture. Usda forecasts net farming level for 2019 to be only 77 of the annual average for 2000 through 2017. Its down 50 from 2013 alone. Inflationadjusted farm debt is the highest it has been since 1980 and the debt to asset ratio for farmers is rising steadily. This hearing offer
Said that the purpose of holding this conference is to change the traditional libraries into a place for economic and cultural businesses, as the traditional definition of a library allows us, and the services that are usually provided in libraries at the moment. Offered is limited it is limited to paper sources and promotion activities that are carried out in libraries, but the point is that, in fact, with the change of approach that happened at the global level and of course in iran, regarding the new definition of Public Libraries based on the law of providing library services. It has been shaped and this change of shape is usually referred to as the library as a social base , and the term is a bit more popular and street sour , the iranian hangout library, the social and cultural hangout competition of the russian capital , was once again the target of drone attacks, according to the announcement of the Russian Ministry of defense. Defense the air force of iran targeted a drone in
Toll at a staggering three to seven and a half billion dollars. Officials do not activate emergency sirens before or during the fire. And a lot of questions and in the bay area sirens are being used and in others like San Francisco, sirens are offline and not working read. Abc 7 News Reporter Leslie Brinkley looks at the role simons play in emergency warnings. You hear a siren and you know something is wrong. Joe is an expert on design and operation of disaster at the universe of research signal but they need to work in tandem with other warning systems. News reports and text messages. Maui has scores of towers that can sound a steady tone to mourn of Natural Disasters like tsunamis and fires as to why officials did not sound the sirens. They have the technology but they do not have the policy or Decision Making in place to know when they would and when they would not activate those systems. In San Francisco sirens are taken offline 2019 because they were vulnerable to Cyber Security t