A house energy and commerce subcommittee look at spore safety and brain injuries in football, hockey, and other sports. Nfl and nhl officials talk about the safety steps they have taken. Well also hear injury stories from a professional Soccer Player and a high school student, and medical professionals explain the Science Behind brain injuries. The hearing is about three hours. All right. I want to thank everybody for being here. Were now with the full Committee Ranking member, the gentleman from california joins us. We now have the ability to start our hearing. I will introduce you after my statement and before you start your testimonies. I will open with my Opening Statement will stop good morning, jan. Good morning. Welcome to this mornings hearing. Today it is my hope to learn what steps are being taken to make Sports Participation safer for all athletes. Every day, parents make choices about whether or not to let their son or let their daughter play soccer or what kind of mouthpie
Houses at bargain prices are slowing down. Im ali velshi, and this is real money. Appear hydraulic fracturing or fracking creates controversy, but creates an abundance of natural gas in the United States. That has caused u. S. Prices to plummet. Today oil trades at about 22 times the price of natural gas. In 2006 it was only about seven times the price, and that caught the eye of the global industry. Energy Companies Like sassal in south africa and sempra in california are looking to cash in on cheap energy prices. That means new jobs and developments. To get an idea of how big the boom is you have to head to western indiana, where technology will be used in a complex changing the region. We have the story. Reporter at a pipefitters yard in western louisiana, matt brown is learning a new trade. The baton rouge native is one of hundreds who see opportunity in this remote bayou parish, where an industrial revival is under way. Hes enrolled in a technical stool for pipe fitters. What brou
Can see it. Its spelt wrong, its spelt and theres a, t missing. Spelling counts if you honour our best player. The Colorado Rockies held out 15,000 tshirts, but left out the t in their last name. They are ordering new shirts and will exchange them for free along with a ticket to another game. Im richelle carey. Real money is next. Be sure to check out our website aljazeera. Com for news around the world. Reporter over the next five years 30 companies are expected to pour 90 billion into projects. The louisiana g. D. P. Is 250 billion. In the past if we had 3 billion in capital expansion, we would have thought it was a great year. We have 90 billion across the state. So why louisiana . This is where theres a lot of natural gas. We have pipe lines in place. There are enough miles of pipelines alone to circle the globe 4. 5 times. Easy access sweetened the deal. Louisiana is offering a 10year exemption on property taxes, this growth is uprooting residents. The new complex will be guilt on
58 say they see no sign the job situation has turned the corner. Mary kissel is with the wall street journal editorial board. That is a pessimistic outlook. Is it cost justified . You have to look at two measures. Wages, wage growth has been stagnant. Even though we have been in a recovery for a couple years you dont feel the recovery of your wages arent improving and on top of that inflation, food and energy, you really dont feel better because it is not more money in your pocket, doesnt feel like it. The second thing is the job growth were seeing is parttime job growth. When folks say theyre dissatisfied may be theyre seeking fulltime work but because of obamacare and other problems coming had in the economy, red tape and all the rest, they cant find fulltime work. Stuart next week we have a first look at the economys performance in the Second Quarter of the year which follows the First Quarter when were down 3 . That will be fascinating but the Federal Reserve ratcheted down growth
Most pollsters are undersampling republicans. They do that to depress turnout. Hillary was beating trump in he single battleground state going into the 2016 election. What happened . Hillary lost every single battleground state. National polls showed hillary crushing trump. Kerry crushing bush, dukakis crushing bushs dad 41. Rock star Ronald Reagan and the politically gifted bill clinton with a little help from ross perot. Biden doesnt have anywhere near that talent. The president has been focused on the last two weeks. He brought back the coronavirus briefings. The tone is morer. Was, realistic and steady. He talked about restocking the ppe stockpiles depleted under obamabiden. The therapeutics have been effective in the early stables and mortality rates slashed in half. America will become pharmaceutically independent to key our supply chains in america. Hes punishing china for unleashing the virus on the world while joe biden says nothing about the communist threat. The president be