Carmel Research Center as well. And the full 25 letters of report the Science Committee received for this legislation. I have no other requests for time but before i reserve, i want to thank the three original cosponsors we have on the floor tonight. And i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas reserves. This is a good bill that will improve services. The results of the changes contained in this legislation, it will be more timely and accurate forecasts that will protect lives and property. Ms. Bonamici researchers have found that annual variations can produce billions of dollars in reduced gross domestic products. With stakes that large we owe it to our nation. H. R. 1561 takes steps to support noaa and how we harness research. I want to thank the many leaders in the Research Community and the private weather sector who provided advice to the committee as we worked on this bill. I extend my appreciation to the under secretary for oceans and atmosphere for her cooper
Worth it . That and more for this wednesday, november 26th. Good evening and welcome on this thanksgiving eve. Susie has the night off. A quiet day on wall street ahead of the thanksgiving holiday with a winter storm blasting the east coast with snow, sleet and rain and temperatures that could freeze anyones giblets. Enough to push the dow and the s p 500 to a closing high and this happened despite another slump in oil prices, and a flood of economic da that that was as soggy as the weather. Steve liesman looks at the numbers and what they may mean for the economy moving forward. The weather turned sower ahead of the thanksgiving holiday and so did the Economic Data. A feast of economic reports released earlier than normal mostly came in below expectations and raised doubts where the upbeat Economic Data from the this cont to the fourth. The street was looking for a gain. Jobless claims spiked up by 21,000 to register the first read above 300,000 since Early September and lackluster ho
Militarizing Law Enforcement act does. And that is to stop that flow. And return control of the process of accusation of acquisition back into the hands of civilian authority. Thats the first thing that we need to do. And the second thing with need to do isening sure a good analysis of the personnel that we have doing the Law Enforcement, because as i said, if you have been to a war zone, the statistics show that many of those who return from the battle suffer from posttraumatic stress and other illnesses that affect the Mental Health of the people. And so, we must take better care of the Mental Health of our Law Enforcement personnel. Be they having or having been deployed or not, being involved in Law Enforcement is very stressful and sometimes that Mental Health can break down and people start making bad decisions. And so we must get a handle on that in this country. And then, once we get a handle on the militarization, there are structural issues that need to be dealt with, loss of
Minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from florida is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Brown thank you mr. Speaker. Here we go again passing another extension and failing in our duties to provide a world class Transportation System. Transportation program is much too critical to our economy to be delayed any longer. Unfortunately, the Republican Leadership in washington continues its long running failure to fund Surface Transportation Infrastructure programs. Just last week House Republicans passed a bill cutting taxes by 269 billion for the richest 1 of americans with no offset but failed to pass a real transportation authorization bill that put america to work. We know for every billion dollars we invest in transportation it generates 44,000 permanent jobs. In closing second anthony foxx said all of us have a role to play in shaping our secretary anthony foxx said all of us have a role to play in in shaping our nations infrastructure. As we saw last week during the tragic Tr
Year. The last longterm bill we passed with safetealu in 2005. That was 10 years ago and that bill was underfunded because of the resistance of raising the gasoline tax or identifying new revenue sources. For over a decade we have failed to address the funding challenges necessary to break the cycle of underinvestment and put this country back on a competitive path with the rest of the world. Today we spend about 1. 7 of g. D. P. On infrastructure while china spends 9 , europe 4. 5 to 5 . We used to spend 4. 5 to 5 also. There is a 800 million backlog. Public transit has an 6 billion backlog of critical maintenance and repair needs which increased by 2. 5 billion each year as bus and Rail Infrastructure ages. While infrastructure crumbles around us, we dont fill the gap in the Highway Trust Fund just to do a longterm bill at current levels. But this week they will put on the floor a tax extenders that will cost 182 billion over 10 years completely unpaid for. Im concerned that we will