It sets the framework we are now operating under and we will be looking at a reauthorization in the next congress and it is very important. Let me say whether we abuilding highspeed rail, innercity Passenger Rail, transit services, any kind of infrastructure highways you would not want to build the four lane highway where there are no passengers or vehicles with access that you would not want to build a city Transit System where you dont have adequate capacity and passengers to use that facility, the same thing holds true anymore with passenger service. When i heard president obama and this administration, beginning to promote high speed rail, unfortunately most of the money, the 10 billion, does not go for highspeed rail. They chose instead to support almost 150 projects and that number is growing and a lot of that money has been left behind. In fact, most of the money that has been read dedicated to high speed rail has been sent back by states including my state, the state of florida
The causes of ocean, this causes ocean waters to expand and in addition, mountain glaciers are rapidly retreating which adds water to the oceans. The Sleeping Giant however in the Sea Level Rise occasion has been ice in the main major ice sheets of greenland and ant antarctica. Both ice she is are losing mass. How quickly they melt over the coming decades will determine whether we have an additional one foot of Sea Level Rise or up to four feet and perhaps even more. Another major change in our climate brought by about humaninduced warm something the increase in heavy downpours. This is clearly an area in which recent observations have been born out, have borne out our previous projections. A warm atmosphere would hold more moisture. We measured that and indeed it is happening. We predicted increased in atmosphere of water vapor and more rain comes down in heavy events and now weve seen that happen. Some regions like the northeast and midwest have seen very large increases in the rainf
Millions of American Youth is upon us. May our appreciation as a nation of the value of education among those who are our future be incentive enough to guarantee its importance in our Public Policy consideration. May all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The gentleman from connecticut. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The gentleman from connecticut. Mr. Courtney thank you, mr. Speaker, i request the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested the speaker the yeas and nays are
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And across the administration we have been working very, very hard to get as much scientific we can publicly usablele and into a format for folks who need that. The National Climate assessment is a great example of that kind tool. Its also a great example of the actionable Climate Science that president obama talked about climatelaunched the action plan last summer. Since the president announced greatan we have made progress on a variety of fronts and im really happy today to pleasure of introducing somebody who has really been driving so much of that thatss, and dr. Sullivan, the undersecretary of commerce for ocean and aminutere and thed straighter of noaa. Dr. Sullivan is responsible for toding our nations efforts conserve and manage coastal and marine resources, supporting wise management of natural resources, and helping us understand and predict and prepare our communities for changes in our climate, our and our our oceans coasts. Dr. Sullivan has a track record a Fearless Leader