Thank you, madam chair. On want to get gavelled on. Well, you have 28 more seconds if you wish to continue. No. I will get some credit out of you. Oh, need your credit, thats true. Now were going to complete this first panel, which started a very long time ago, seems like yesterday. And were going to do it this way. Im going to give senator whitehouse take my two minutes. Senator vitter okay . Senate inhoff, senator sessions and then ill close. Everybody has two more minutes, okay . So lets start with senator whitehouse. Ill just take a little bit of my time to respond to senator sessions suggestions that one scientist says that Climate Change isnt really happening and that there really isnt an association with storms. And i just want to put that into context. There actually is a Peer Reviewed Scientific Consensus out there about this. It is massive. It is not unanimous. Sometimes is rarely unanimous. There are eccentrics. There are outliers. There are people who have nonmainstream opi
Quorum call ms. Stabenow id ask suspension of the quorum call. The presiding officer the senator from michigan. Without objection. Ms. Stabenow thank you very much, mr. President. Mr. President , im here today to talk about an issue that impacts tens of millions of people across the country and hangs over our entire economy, and thats student debt. Right now borrowers have accumulated over 1. 2 trillion in student debt. Think about that for a minute. Thats more than people owe on their credit cards. Talk about a drag for the individual, for their family, but for the entire economy. Students in my home state of michigan are among the most heavily indebted in the country when they graduate. And, frankly, we want them to get degrees, not debt when they graduate. Nearly twothirds of students in michigan who graduated in 2012 had Student Loan Debt with each student averaging nearly 29,000. So they walked outside the door, congratulations, take off the cap and gown and get a 29,000 bill. Thi
Than me will air secret recording showing how the f b i pressured one Muslim Americans living abroad to become a government informant. When i tell somebody if you crossed the street without looking you will be run over, that is not a threat. That is life. You are about to cross the street without looking both ways and im telling you, you might get hit by a car. We will go to sudan to speak with naji mansour and mother jones reporter nick baumann on his piece this american refused to become an fbi informant. Then the government made his familys life hell. Again, yes men strike posing as u. S. Government officials at the Homeland Security congress. All that and more coming up. To democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Ukrainian forces have launched a major assault to reclaim the eastern city of from prorussian separatist sparking the worst fighting since the prorussian uprising began. Forces have shot down two Ukrainian Army helicopters, killing the
The countries of the European Union have agreed to force themselveses to reduce the emissions of Greenhouse Gaseses 40 from they were in 1990, and do it in the next 16 years. Some countries will vugle to meet the targets layed out in the plan, others are already zooming ahead. But today we with wonder if the United States wanted to commit itself to such a target could that goal be reached without huge expense, without enormous sacrifice, without a lower standard of living. Is promising to reach such a goal grounded in achievable incremental steps toward efficiency, or a techno logical hail mary pass. Crossing your fingers that someone will eventually invent something, and well all sit down to a nice Carbon Neutral free lunch. They have agreed to slash their greenhouse emissions by 40 , and do it by 2030. It was not easy, not at all. But we with managed to reach a fair decision. It sets europe on an ambitious yet Cost Effective climate, and energy path. Climate change is one of the Bigg
The countries of the European Union have agreed to force themselveses to reduce the emissions of Greenhouse Gaseses 40 from they were in 1990, and do it in the next 16 years. Some countries will vugle to meet the targets layed out in the plan, others are already zooming ahead. But today we with wonder if the United States wanted to commit itself to such a target could that goal be reached without huge expense, without enormous sacrifice, without a lower standard of living. Is promising to reach such a goal grounded in achievable incremental steps toward efficiency, or a techno logical hail mary pass. Crossing your fingers that someone will eventually invent something, and well all sit down to a nice Carbon Neutral free lunch. They have agreed to slash their greenhouse emissions by 40 , and do it by 2030. It was not easy, not at all. But we with managed to reach a fair decision. It sets europe on an ambitious yet Cost Effective climate, and energy path. Climate change is one of the Bigg