Bouncing back a little. Remember, please, this is how we started out monday. It ended badly. All right, walk into a super market just about anywhere in the world and several aisles will be dominated by proctor gamble. Here is the news. They are doing very well. Profit is up, revenue is up, outlook outbeat and p j, one more example of companies turning in Strong Financial results and the stock is up. On the campaign trail, joe biden stays home. No media appearances for 4 days. How convenient. Hes safe from pesty reporter questions and gaffes and fatigue. Hes preparing for thursdays debate and for the rules for that debate have changed. Theyll be a mute button to kill mike mic of candidate if he he running over time. So keeping it out of the debate is in my opinion a form of bias against trump. Another development, in pennsylvania, the Supreme Court says they can keep counting mailin ballots for 3 days after election day. That means the delayed result in a swing state, dispute guarantied
Here. Good morning to discuss the status of the National Rail network to have 140,000 miles of rail seven class one railroads and thousands of companies to ship products ands Raw Materials also and Intercity Passenger Rail Service operating on 22000 miles of that same network todays first panel president and ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation and the Economic Developers association testifying we will be. The Vice President corporation on behalf of the American Council mr. Randee gordon and the chairman to testify remotely and he didnt jeffries president and ceo association of american railroads and dennis pierce president of the teamsters rail conference. During this covid pandemic. In 1970 the real Passenger Service act was adopted to relieve our railroads on the common carrier to carry passengers. The statue created amtrak and provided real runs can be used by amtrak to offer intercity passenger real service, returns and compensation that are just
Last year and things were going very well indeed until a group of master vandals we dont know who they were began attacking 1st of all police and burnt down a Police Church this is a church that is used mainly by police force and another chapel which is a national anational heritage site in chile very nearby they also looted shops all through one of the main avenues about 700 meters from where i am right now close enough to the main protest area where we could see the smoke and smell it and hear of course the ambulances and the fire trucks that were trying to get to this area so they are clearly been marring what was supposed to be and many had hoped would be a peaceful protest just one week before chileans are supposed to go to the polls for this all important referendum and there are people who are afraid especially political leaders in the opposition that this sort of thing could keep people from going out to vote next sunday. Vote counting is underway in bolivia in an election many
Hopalong hi, there. Well, whatcha doing way back there . Come on up here. [laughs] ah, thats better. I am glad you dropped by. I have got a little story i think youll like. It is about a fourlegged friend of mine. No, i dont mean topper back there. This happened awhile back in the beautiful capitan Mountain Country of new mexico, on the Lincoln National forest. It was may time on the capitan, dry and hot but still nice and peaceful. All the animals in the forest were having a grand old time in the sunshine of spring. There was one little, threemonthold fella in particular who did not have a care in the world. He was spending his time having fun, agrowlin and aprowlin and ascratchin. Thats right. That bear cub did not have a care in the world, and somebody, a twolegged somebody, got careless. It took several hundred men five days to lick that fire. 17,000 acres of timber were destroyed, timber that could have been used for homes and furniture, along with the mills that could have turned
This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testify