with koran burnings the united states alone in the industrialized world is demo graphically dynamic. it adds 3 million peoples to the numbers every year and at some point, kids don t want to live with their parents and that will produce demand for housing and at that point, the recovery will gain full steam. the new potentially game-changing trend for the united states is the rise of shale gas, thanks to the new process of fracing, american now has 75 years of natural gas and most important, it is the world s low-cost producer of natural gas. the rise in gasoline prices and petroleum prices has obscured this much more important fact. energy costs are plummeting in america. that s why manufacturers like dow chemical are actually opening new factories in the united states. you see, asia has an advantage, lower labor costs, but now the u.s. has an advantage, lower energy costs than asia. and this is a process that has just begun. add all this together and you have the prospect
able to have a quorum. if i may finish. they tried to bulldoze the bill. stand by both of you. inspired the run away 14 state t senators democrats avoided their debate on different anti union legislation much to the dismay of the republican speaker of the indiana house. mr. speaker what do you think of my idea they should come home and go to jail with their conviction. i am not interested in jail. we extended the offer for them to return to get to the state the democrats took a page out of the play book that was going on in wisconsin. they didn t like 11 bills that were on our calendar. went into the great skid dat el
able to have a quorum. if i may finish. they tried to bulldoze the bill. stand by both of you. inspired the run away 14 state t senators democrats avoided their debate on different anti union legislation much to the dismay of the republican speaker of the indiana house. mr. speaker what do you think of my idea they should come home and go to jail with their conviction. i am not interested in jail. we extended the offer for them to return to get to the state the democrats took a page out of the play book that was going on in wisconsin. they didn t like 11 bills that were on our calendar. went into the great skid dat el
go into iowa and once you re inside iowa, click on your district, boom, you get who the candidates are and click around to get a lot more information. at any time you can get back to the national map that will talk to you about all of the races going on in all 50 states and where things stand and the governorships, we have more races than usual as well because of a special election in utah, 37 of those. take a look again, click on your state t will give you basics. we also have something called a polling center, and i find the polling center striking. i pulled out some facts from it. i think what it does is it goes black when you don t want it to. let s go back here. it talks about what some of the key issues are that are facing the country, what voters are telling people are most worried about. latest polls all the time and a rundown on the major issues, the economy, the deficit, health care, where candidates stand on it and what the latest polls say about that. so just check it out
amendment and republicans fall off the train of doing anything about gun control. so there s that issue. once the democrats start pushing bans, the issue falls apart. the other one kim mentioned is mental health. in virtually all of the shootings, whether in florida, newtown, aurora, university of west virginia, every one of the shooters was severely mentally ill. donald trump mentioned that in his cpac speech. he talked about this. this is basically off the table as far as congress is concerned. that s not in the middle of the argument we re having right now. washington post did a poll on this in the past week. 77% of respondents said mental illness was the primary cause of the shootings. bill? i think mental illness is a big part of it but it s not the only part. politically, the republicans are in a position because there s a republican congress and a republican president to do something. i m very skeptical. i m not a gun owner, have no