That is long overdue as far as im concerned and well get into it. I have to apologize. Senator widen is not here yesterday. But hes coming. In this town especially right here on this committee, we often talk in terms of hundreds of millions, billions or even trillions of dollars. Some joke about a number called budget dust even if that number has nine or 10 zeros behind it. But let me tell you about a number that is truly stunning, 15,800 dollars. Thats saved through hard work, sacrifice and honest living. Thats 800 saved for the down payment for a new house for a growing family. And that 15,800 in savings is wiped away by criminals who use fire confusion and intimidation as their weapons. This is a story of the degan family from utah. And i would like to play a news clip from kcbx to tell us their story. Can we do that . These crooks have gotten a lot more sophisticated and a lot more aggressive. But he learned that the hard way one week ago. Brendan and Melissa Degan are excited for
Or fabricated and the richmond fire, he says he cannot explain the record setting october price spike. There is no evidence of disaster here. Why did they and quite frankly, i cant explain it. The Western State Petroleum Association shot back the conclusions were based on Third Party Information from the bay area air Quality Management district,nbz2u not fm refineries themselves. That there is no evidence refineries were operating when shut downs for maintenance. There are multiple disruptions that caused disruption to west coast gas splices and is there no price fixing scheme. Mull culla believe theres is a need for more transparency, possibly more regulation. What we have on gasoline and oil is a situation where data is weak, enforcement is weak, access is weak. The director of uc berkeley California Energy institute feels more regulation is not the answer. His solution is to allow californians to buy some of that dirtier gas that the rest of the country use but put a surcharge on it
Well, get out the rape gear. Rain is coming and looks like it sticks around for awhile. Good evening. We could see 72 hours of rain in backtoback storms. Lets get right to spencer who is tracking it all for us on radar. Spencer. Look at live doppler 7 hd. Rate now we see pockets of moisture pick up on the radar screen here. Dont have reports of actual rainfall hitting the ground yet from any of our official reporting stations but with the pockets of moisture we are seeing in places lake petaluma and other locations along the Sonoma County coast line and some spots down near San Francisco there could be some sprinkles hitting the ground in some of the places but we are not getting measurable rainfall ye yet. Let me loop the image and show you what is going on. Moisture coming from our south west along with is rather mailed air mass so wont get cold along with the rains that are approaching us right now but we will see steady rain in the overnight hours. Probably wet during the morning c
33 million was for information technology. None of that was provided so we are one of the constraints is we have to pay for the i t particularly out of other project we otherwise would have funded as we go forward. The 100 million in is preparing for in dealing with information issues, designing of the issues, making sure they work, one reason is i am committed that we will lead this Time Next Year have an effect of Filing Season which means we will be effectively implementing our responsibilities under the Affordable Care act. We did that at the front end the rollout difficulties were not irs difficulties and we are finding the funds as one of the things we have to find another areas. The amount requested was 440. How much does the irs spend annually on implementation of the Affordable Care act and how much does it expect to spend . What we are spending this year and what the estimate is, what will happen to us, and filing next year, a lot of inquiries as well as taxpayers in the area
Ileana roslehtinen to act as speaker pro tempore on this day, signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones madam chairman, thank you very much. Im on the nor again today to talk about on the floor again today to talk about afghanistan, the absolute waste of life and money. A lot of people dont realize this, but if you go back to 2001, the war in iraq and afghanistan, we have spent over 1. 5 trillion which averages out to about 11. 2