Makers. The debate begins right here on bloomberg, we will talk to various people ahead of Mario Draghis decision. It has just gone 6 00, the stage is set in frankfurt and expectations are so high. The Financial Savvy will be glued to their smartphones telephones and televisions as mario draghi will probably set up a qe plan. The ecb is not the only central bank coping with deflationary forces. High drama from india to canada and many places in between the mario draghi Takes Center Stage today. He does. It is all anybody is talking about. Everybody will be glued to what exactly mario draghi has to say a little bit later on. Plenty of central bankers are here. Plenty of finance ministers. We walked around yesterday and it was amazing we asked them, who is the most wanted man at davos, and they said it is a ghost of mario draghi. He is not here but he usually comes and this is what everyone is talking about. It will make a difference to everyone here. Angela merkel is here as well which
Weather appears to be the new norm. Events like superstorm saturday which came to my shores and our shears in the mid atlantic a year or so ago, recent wildfires in ore parts of the country other parts of the country, dangerous tornadoes, historic droughts. They may well be just the tip of the iceberg of whats to come. And even today the east coast is preparing for yet another snowstorm while the west coast is experiencing a historic drought. And increased fire danger with no end in sight. I have a friend of mine who is from australia, and he tells me theyve had the hottest weather in their history, so go figure. Its just sort of a crazy world that we live in right now. For years, ive been working with a number of my colleagues, our colleagues to address the root causes and unfolding effects of what i believe is one of the Biggest Challenges of our generation. Thats Climate Change. According to the u. S. Global change research program, extreme weather events have increased in frequency
Into the overseas contingency account, which this Committee Said last year was against the budget process, was at abuse to the process. This is a lot of mealymouthed words to justify a run around the budget process area im glad the Senate Republicans in their budget today, they dont play these games. They take the president s level. They take the joint chiefss level. This is a lot of running around. It is going to undermine the integrity of this body. This doesnt send any message of certainty to our troops. In fact, it tells our troops their republican colleagues are totally uncertain and undecided about how to meet our basic commitments. The president s budget does it in a straightforward way. We should too. [applause] clerk the gentleman chairman price the gentleman yells back. Rep. Blackburn i thank you, mr. Chairman. The world is a dangerous place. We talk about that in this amendment. It is imperative that we lay out a way to work through the sequestration. This is something the p
I hereby appoint the honorable Cresent Hardy 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 6, 2015, the chair will now recognize members from the list submitted by the majority and minority leaders for the morning hour debate. 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 limited to five minutes, but in no event shall the debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Amidst the troubling picture coming out of the israeli elections, there was some good news from the middle east for a change. The Israeli Government announced that it would double the amount of water it sells to gaza from five million to 10 million cubic fe
She was very excited. My name is hellen and welcome to cleveland. We love this city, hard working city and hard working county. So thank you for coming. I have a twopart question. First, who is in your bracket . I wasnt that creative. I think kentucky is going to take it. But you know i had the one in i havent won since my first year in office. Clearly im not spending as much time watching College Basketball as i once did. So i wasnt necessarily wouldnt necessarily take my bracket and copy it. Although i expect im not the only person picking kentucky. I have, too. The second part of my question is since youve been in office, what has surprised you the most . Thats an interesting question. Whats surprised me the most. Ill start by saying what has not surprised me. Im not surprised by that desensey and determination and grit and resilience and hard work of the American People and the fact that they are not as divided as washington would seem to reflect. Because i travel around the countr