Soon as greece is mentioned. Some say greece should be helped more. While others argue that taxpayers in other countries shouldnt have to support a corrupt and inefficient system. Either way the key player here , is germany the biggest , contributor to the bailouts. But berlin has lost trust in athens, and many german voters feel insulted by the antigerman rhetoric. As one german man said to me the other day, we give them money, and they call us nazis. But whatever the political tensions, many germans themselves still want to help. The greekgerman athene Elementary School in berlin is throwing its annual summer party. The event is overshadowed by the ongoing greek crisis. Many of the families here still have close ties to their home country. They get regular updates from friends and family. Companies are going bust, people are on the brink of financial ruin. Its very upsetting. Stylianos kolomoutzakis has lived in berlin for more than 10 years. According to media reports, greekgerman r
Have andy barr, maxine waters, matt gaines, ted and karen. Thank you, we are glad that youre here we will allow each of you to give testimony without objecting anything, if you make an order will be ended into the record. I miss waters, well have you first and the gentleman knows the green light is on. Thank you very much mr. Chairman. I would like to commend you and the rules Committee Members for allowing all of us to come before you to share with you our concerns and help shine a light on where we think we should be paying more attention. So, the testimony of have today will combine a number of the areas you talked about. Thank you. If you could do us a favor and tell us that section and the amendment number, it will enable us to follow you perhaps a bit more closely and that would be of help to the committee. Okay. Let me try and do that now. I think that you did venture transportation. Is that right . Yes. That we are doing today. Transportation and agriculture. Say that again . T
Of restoring power to 6 Million People, getting gasoline back in these ports. Jim and david, going to be a big story in port tampa bay later on today, which handles 37 million tons of cargo a year a third of all cargo that comes in and out of florida, 5,000 acres, the largest port in the state, in physical size. Were going to talk to the president of port tampa bay, Paul Anderson later in thelogis airlines and fdr saying specialty retail, 10 of their coverage universe is affected by irma versus only 2 in harvey. One more indication how large the wind field was in this storm. Guys carl, thank you of course, carls down there all weekend monitoring the storm, and going to be fully part of the show as he always is. Right but bring us up to date on all the things he just mentioned, jim i guess in some ways a sigh of relief, strangely enough. Right, right. Could seemingly have been worse. Yeah. I mean seemingly could have been a lot worse. It is strange on the start of a week to see futures
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to review on going Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands in the wake of hurricanes irma and maria, as well as efforts to rebuild it electric grids on those islands in a smarter and hopefully a more resilient manner. Were over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and john on september 6th and its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. Just a little over a week ago that senators cassdy, franken and i along with senator carper who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors. For your hospitality. The time you gave us during that visit. It was incredibly important i think for all of us to see to be on it ground and to be hearing directly from you and those that you are working with. I know that some other members of our commi
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to review on going Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands in the wake of hurricanes irma and maria, as well as efforts to rebuild it electric grids on those islands in a smarter and hopefully a more resilient manner. Were over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and john on september 6th and its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. Just a little over a week ago that senators cassdy, franken and i along with senator carper who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors. For your hospitality. The time you gave us during that visit. It was incredibly important i think for all of us to see to be on it ground and to be hearing directly from you and those that you are working with. I know that some other members of our commi