I call the committee back to order. Thanks to the first panel and we appreciate your testimony and i would like to welcome the second panel of witnesses before the committee. First we have ms. Botts, executive director for agriculture and rule of element, position which she was named in 2013, she has over 15 years of experience working in agriculture and helping individuals in rural areas understand issues related to policy and financing. You could be of help to individual sentors i would imagine. She pent ten years working in agriculture at federal level as policy staffer in the house of representatives. She grew up in a farm in kentucky. We see her ms and currently live on a small farm with husband and two children. We look forward to your testimony. General manager, kansas america, he is the general manager of the kansas rural Water Association. His career who has spent five decades has been focused to ensure all of kansas Rural Communities have access to affordable water. Critical
I call the committee back to order. Thanks to the first panel and we appreciate your testimony. We welcome the second panel that is with us. Fir, we have mr. Ms. Botts, she is a executive director for the kentucky she was named in 2013, has over 15 years of experience working in agriculture and World Development policy issues and helping individuals in rural areas understand issues related to policy and financing. You could be of help to individual senators i would imagine. Before returning to kentucky to work for kcard, she spent ten areas working on agriculture ask a policy staffer in the house of on representatives, grew up on a farm in kentucky and received a ms and bs in rural economics in kentucky and lives on a small farm right now, with her husband and two children, welcome to you, maam. We look forward to your testimony. Second witness is mr. Elmer general manager, Water Association and kansas america. He is the general manager of the kansas rural Water Association. His career
Madrid want to dance . And the chancellors confession. Merkel reaches a cover must with her csu allies on a migration cap. Well make to the green party at 8 30 on the wider Coalition Talks. Matt we have a half hour to go until the European Equity markets open up for cash trading. Taking a look at the futures trade this morning, we see gains with the exception of the ftse. Tehe dax futures, the cac futures, up 0. 2 . Take a look at the bund trade here. Here is a chart of the last three days of the yield. It came up substantially yesterday and is now back down a little bit. Pesky462, the bunds stuck in a tough range. Guy there are two other big stories we are watching. The chinese market, bouncing strongly. The banks really reacting. We are playing catchup. We have had the golden week holiday, but we had that rrr story we were factoring in as well. The hong kong prices are getting priced in for bradley. The china market and the equity market, the upside, but on the downside, we have this
Respond to recent devastating natural disasters. Over the past two months, millions of americans have had their lives forever altered by destructive hurricanes in texas, florida, puerto rico, and the Virgin Islands. By raging and by raging and tedly wildfires in the west. We all support those who were victimized, particularly those who lost lives, lost their lives or lost lowed ones and will continue to be with them every step of the way with the federal support they need as they recover and rebuild. Our thanks go to the First Responders, volunteers and states, who have saved countless lives, protected communities and demonstrated the best of human tainity. That includes fema, the army corps of engineers, the department of defense, the coast guard, and many other federal agencies. For getting the first installment of relief to those in need. However, with such massive unprecedented damage, more help is needed. Clearly needed to continue to respond to these Recovery Efforts to rebuild c
To the south and north and even in the mountains. 50s on the temperatures. It was very cool on saturday morning. 40s, 50s and 60s. A lot is wind dependent. Even Southern California looking for mostly clear weather and record highs near 100 for some. Not much of anything going on for us this week with a lot of 80s. Alex is in for sal i do believe. Good morning steve. I want to let people know there was an investigation going on overnight on westbound 380. I know pam will talk about this shooting investigation but the freeway just reopened a short time ago so if you travel through that area westbound 380 back open to traffic. Well take you to the maps and show you that all ready early this morning, things pretty light. Westbound on 580, no problems getting out of the tracy area and into livermore. I will tell you what the commute looks like here on 880 in oakland and traffic moving along nicely in both directions. Down in the south bay, you can see right there, 280 in san jose traffic mo