The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 415, the nays are 6. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the Senate Amendments are agreed to, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. For what rpose purpose does the gentleman from oklahoma seek recognition . Madam speaker, i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title. The clerk report to accompany House Resolution 661, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 6016, making appropriations for Financial Services and general government for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2015, and for other purposes. And providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 4718, to amend Internal Revenue code of 198206 modify and make permanent depreciation. The speaker pro tempore referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. Pursuant to House Resolution 641, and rule 18, the chair de
This bill. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from kansas yields back. The gentleman from idaho reserves. The gentlelady from ohio is recognized. Ill continue to reserve. The chair the gentlelady from ohio reserves. The gentleman from idaho is recognized. Mr. Simpson it is now my pleasure to yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. Weber. The chair the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Weber thank you, madam chair. I rise thank you, gentleman, for yielding. I rise to engage in a colloquy with chairman simpson. I thank the chairman for including language in the committees report which would require that the army corps of engineers also look to strategy seaport designations when allocating funding for additional work. However, the president s budget for f. Y. 2015 proposes to cut the maintenance budget for the sabean natchest waterway by 35 over last year. No other area of the country, i have been able to identify, have seen such
Right now today, we have the technology to begin the process of significantly transforming our energy system. We know how to dod it with todays technology we know how to do it with todays technology, and that technology will only be improved in months and years to come. Let me just give you a few examples of some of the good news a thats happening in terms news thats happening in terms of the ability that we now have to move to Sustainable Energy. The cost of solar, which certainly will be one of the major Sustainable Energy technologies that we look to in the future, that Technology Cost continues to plummet. The Solar Energy Industry association, in a report issued just last week, reported that the average weighted cost of a solar p. V. System was 2. 59 per watt, a 15 drop from the year before. And according to the Solar Energy Industry association, utility scale solar, perhaps the best comparison to utilityscale conventional electricity generation, now costs, on average, 7. 7 cents
If we sacrifice the future, do we really take care of all the past cleanup . We hardly do whats necessary, even with current funding. And so i think its a perfect example of where the sequestration process is so counterproductive and moves america backwards. We have very imperfect choices here, and actually very dangerous choices that we are being forced to make. I think the majority would be much better suited to come back to us with a budget that allows us to do the job that the energy and water subcommittee is charged with doing. We simply cant try to solve the problem internal through the resources weve been given. Its an impossibility, and so somebodys going to be going to lose. Im sure those that came up washington. Ies in the people who are getting water assistance, they just lost money. They got no lobby here. They got none of those people from the various Nuclear Sites to come in here and lobby for them, and yet they just lost out in a prior amendment. They have a right to an
MONTGOMERY – Gov. Kay Ivey has announced a $500,000 grant to renovate space at Bevill State Community College in Walker County for a new weatherization training center.