Yeah. Didnt scrooge send over a turkey at the end . He did something. He sent over dinner. And tiny tim was like, wow, its the best christmas. I dont know if that was the book version or the movie version. Im getting a little wait a minute there was a book huh . Yes, charles dickens. I know you know this we had this discussion there was a book it wasnt just a movie some people we know get all their news in tv which we hope is you at home. We hope you are getting your news here today. Look at the u. S. Equity futures. This is after major averages closed at record highs the s p 500 closed above 2600 for the first time as we saw this technology rally. This morning things are mixed. Dow futures up by 12 s p is down by a point and nasdaq down by 3 points. The major averages have been up three of the last four sessions. The dow had its 60th record close of 2017. The s p 500 saw its 54th record close of the year. Guess how many times, if you want to get to the record, 54 so far this year. The
Ntsb go team arrived in Washington State and came forthwith shocking infor information. That train going 80 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour zone and we got that information from the trains event data recorder. As you mentioned, really stunning images from the scene. Showing 13 of 14 rail cars dangling over interstate five. And this is about 50 miles south of Seattle Washington and the train was making its inaugural one on faster route seattle to portland, oregon, 80 passenger where on board and five crew members and dozens were injured and many very seriously. And at least three are confirmed dead and accident investigators say there could be more. Theres a couple cars not safe enough to search. We know theres nobody alive in them at this point. And but there are we just dont know until they can shore up the train cars and get in there and search them. The tracks where the derailment happened owned by sound. There was extensive test ago long the rails and on this route before openin
Overseas. So i really dont see this as something we should preempt the laws of the United States. 2. 5 million comments. Republicans dont care much about the comments. 2. 5 million comments that are still being evaluated, raising concerns about various aspects of this project. But here, i will say, bad legislation, good politics, we are trying to help someone get elected to the senate who is currently a member of the house, the senate is potentially moving ahead with this bill. The house, with very little notice, zidded they would bring up this bill that we have passed in one version or another eight previous times. And use of the house of representatives to promotes candidacy to the United States senate, which i think is a really a disgrace to this institution. With that, i would reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from oregon reserves. Mr. Shuster its now my pressure to yield two minutes to the subcommittee chairman of railroads and pipelines, mr. De
Gallons of diesel yet our going to take w, were this tar sand goop and process it in the u. S. And export it. Its not going to help the processors. And then there are minor environmental issues. Tar sands do create 81 more Greenhouse Gas than most other forms of fossil fuel extraction. They are going to destroy forever, forever, large portions of forests. Im sure that is a canadian issue. If i lived in canada, they would be protesting. I dont. We dont need to build a pipeline there. They will use precious Water Resources and create waste pits that will be polluted with the extract, except for the part that which is shipped south to be processed and shipped overseas. So i really dont see this as something we should preempt the laws of the United States. 2. 5 million comments. Republicans dont care much about the comments. 2. 5 million comments that are still being evaluated, raising concerns about various aspects of this project. But here, i will say, bad legislation, good politics, we
Our mission to train, advice assist and help build the capacity of iraqi forces. Our Global Coalition is also helping shape the burden of the campaign with nearly all of our Coalition Partners funding their own contributions. With the president s special envoy for our counter isil coalition, john allen, general allen is in the lead as we coordinating the coordination strategy across all lines of effort with our partners. As a coalition and as a nation, we must prepare for a long and difficult struggle. There will be setbacks, but we are seeing steady and sustainable progress. Mr. Chairman, thats an important part of answering the questions we have. The questions we have about our own strategy we ask ourselves, the questions you have about our strategy can we sustain it . Can it be sustained after at some point we leave . That is a critical component of our strategy. Asking that question and answering that question. Were seeing steady and sustainable progress along dods two main lines o