I am asking a question to the chair if you would agree with my observation. One reason i think statements have been made over there is they never believed we will get past a six year highway reauthorization bill over here. I am going to make it a deal so we can have the vote to take place and get on with the last and final vote so we would have that ready while the house is still in session. Whether individuals are facing themselves in the corner or that is not going to happen i dont know. Isnt it worth a try . That is my question. Let me respond to my colleague from oklahoma and thank him for his bipartisan leadership. You and senator boxer set a standard of bipartisanship when it comes to this issue. You have produced a sixyear authorization bill. Though i may not agree with the particulars thank you for that leadership on your bipartisan bases side. As far as the effort to speed up the senate so we can catch the house colleagues before they leave, i would support it completely but y
It is nothing more than an advertisement for the realtors to sell the mountains off to people that live a broad and are ruining it for the locals. There are lobbyists pushing down in raleigh to get funds for projects to help develop which is actually destroying our state because we dont have any jobs anymore because they were all off short to china. Offshored to china. Guest obviously you have a disagreement with the way that your tax dollars are being spent. That is why we have elections, to elect people that are responsive to the people that they serve. Host scott in maine. An independent caller. Caller back when the stimulus thing was going to rebuild bridges and highways. For this fella that is on right now, wanting to raise taxes another quarter on gas. Gas is cheap right now because of all the fracking and whatnot. People are catching on to fracking. So gas aint going to be cheap forever. That quarter you are talking about is just going to add to the burden of people who already
Cspans road to the white house is providing coverage on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. The New Hampshire leader along with media organizations are sponsoring the forum. Following the forum, you can provide your input by calling our callin program. Road to the white house 2016, cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday, officials from the defense department, cdc and health and Human Services testified on capitol hill in regard to shipments of live sports of anthrax. Received live anthrax. This is a live interview. It is just over two hours. Two hour hearing. Good morning, welcome to our hearing dealing with anthrax once again. The subcommittee examines continue concerns over the federal agent select program with the focus on shipments of live anthrax from the department of Defense Laboratory that occurred over a ten year period. As last year we held a similar hearing that proposed dozens of cdc researchers to live anthrax due to safety procedures not being followed. The cdc dire
Heading to japan in growing numbers to take advantage of the weaker yen. Officials investigating the work of a discredited japanese any type of tissue. Theyve been looking into her research on stap cells which she claimed produced groundbreaking results. And they say evidence shows she was doing research of another kind. They published the findings in january in the british journal nature. They claimed they found a way to reprogram cells from animals which could be transformed into any type of tissue. They said stap cells were easy to produce. But scientists around the world reported they could not replicate the process. A panel of experts was set up to investigate the matter. They examined the material in the lab and the data used in the papers. Translator all the cells she said she created were actually embryonic stem cells. Es cells are another type of cells. Theyre commonly used in labs around the globe. Investigators suspect someone may have deliberately introduced them into the e
Law enforceme lawmakers approved a bill to remove the debt ceiling. They could not agree on a spending bill so at the beginning of the month the government started laying off 800,000 employees. Now fair lowed staff at the white house and government offices have returned to work. And museums and monuments and memorials are opened again. Im personally glad that all the memorials are open for the tour guiding business and so that students can learn. More than 100 people lined up to get into the Smithsonian National air and space museum. Translator the exhibition was great. I came all the way to the u. S. To see this. Many Business People welcomed the deal to pay the governments bills over the next four months. Others are skeptical. I think it was forced and not well thought out but we got to a time crunch and needed to be done. I mean, around the world, our reputation is slowly dwindling. The lawmakers reached their compromise hours before a deadline that would see the government default