And india and other major countries that have increasing levels of aleutian of pollution. Suffered manyas forms of Climate Change. This ending sequence shows what would happen if all the icecaps melted. Of theexample, one things of this happen right now is an increase in sea level rise. That will have an impact all around the coastlines of the United States. Of Climate Change could be disastrous. We delay any longer, there might not be enough of the world left to say. To learn more about a competition, go to cspan. Org and quick on student cam. Tell us what you think about the issues these students Want Congress to consider. Post your comment on student cams Facebook Page or tweet us. Next, a Senate Hearing on attack strategies of caterpillar incorporated. 7 00 a. M. , live at your calls on washington journal. Bend is a timber town. It was a timber town to begin with. Timberheight of the industry, if you were to drop 1928, youin, say, would have smelled the mills, you wouldve smelled s
Its not the memories that are dying hard here but that a lot of folks are hardly getting by. They dont have the money to invest and i suspect that the cost of running the new Health Care Law are not helping matters any. Theres an old housing rule of thumb that a realtor friend of mine passed along. If youre feeling that her home, youre thinking about a nicer home. But she also implied was if you are not feeling at home, youre not thinking about a nicer home but youre worried an uptight and i really think what ails this recovery is how tepid it has made our expectations. We are grateful for so little because its never amounted to much because for a lot of folks this economy hasnt done much. It hasnt made them whole or heal their financial wounds or restore their confidence or hope that their kids will have a better life. It hasnt made the americans confident enough or much of anything. But that is hardly the stuff of what dreams are made. So back to the survey and hes one of three want
Its not the memories that are dying hard here but that a lot of folks are hardly getting by. They dont have the money to invest and i suspect that the cost of running the new Health Care Law are not helping matters any. Theres an old housing rule of thumb that a realtor friend of mine passed along. If youre feeling that her home, youre thinking about a nicer home. But she also implied was if you are not feeling at home, youre not thinking about a nicer home but youre worried an uptight and i really think what ails this recovery is how tepid it has made our expectations. We are grateful for so little because its never amounted to much because for a lot of folks this economy hasnt done much. It hasnt made them whole or heal their financial wounds or restore their confidence or hope that their kids will have a better life. It hasnt made the americans confident enough or much of anything. But that is hardly the stuff of what dreams are made. So back to the survey and hes one of three want
Pension committee be granted floor privileges for todays session. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Harkin mr. President , i want to take a time this morning to talk about an issue that has been brewing for a long time, is going to be coming to a head here in the senate sometime in the next several days, i hope, and its one which compels us, compels us to do something. And that is to raise the minimum wage in the United States of america. Mr. President , we have waited too long to do this, and so we have to act on it as soon as possible. So id just like to point out some of the data and some of the statistics confronting us right now. First of all, why should anyone be afraid of voting to raise the minimum wage . The American People are way ahead of us on this. You look at the polling data. To increase raising the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour, all voters, 73 democrats 90 , independents 71 , and even republicans 53 say we ought to be raising the minimum wage. So the vast ma
Percentage terms the opportunity to move from 35 tax rate to a 10 tax rate is a 25 percentage point improvement. Thats material. When you Start Talking about 20 tax rate moving to a temper sent tax rate thats only 10 Percentage Points and when you look at the cost of the relative benefits of becomes much more of a push so i think Companies Might be looking at those sites of that question both the basis of taxation in terms of its territorial, need for a territorial system as well as the tax rate that would apply. Their feeling is that it might actually a lower tax rate being more income into the tax net. I think thats very likely and in fact he would see a lot of repatriation of the 2 trillion tied up overseas. You are going to bring it back at the high rates of the two are combined. Let me make the obvious point which is we have done this before. In the 1980s we looked at her tax code and said lets end up with the rate that is below the average to be competitive. This was an a in 1986