A communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms. Washington, d. C. May 6, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable randy k. Weber sr. To act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allotted allocated between the parties and each member other than the minority and majority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Mr. Joyce mr. Speaker, last week President Biden unilaterally made the decision to cancel more than 6. 1 billion in debt for 300,000 art students across our country. This is a bailout. This bailout is an insult to the tens of millions of americans who either paid off their
Death toll tops 2100. An urgent search here in the United States, an escaped killer is taking new steps to try and blend in. Plus a victory for spanish soccer players, this kiss is out. Details. On life news. And it is 7 00 a. M. In morocco where many have spent yet another night outside after fridays powerful and deadly earthquake. More than 2100 people have been reported killed and rescuers continue to dig through the rubble in a frantic search for survivors. The 6. 2 quake is the strongest to hit morocco in over 120 years. Near the quakes etch center in the Atlas Mountains scenes of destruction and devastation with homes and small villages reduced literally just to piles of rubble. Rescuers in morocco are still digging through that rubility and of course they are clinging for hope that they will find survivors. Many who did make it through are sleeping outside in alternates. More from marrakech. Reporter still grappling with the aftermath of the 6. 8 earthquake. Marrakech, families
With that kind of cha keenry. Finally, the philadelphia refinery could have avoided needing to buy any r. I. N. s at all if it had just invested in blending infrastructure years ago like many of its fellow merchant refineries did. In fact, the philadelphia refinery is partly owned by sunoco which owns blending infrastructure. We also know that that refinery has an arrangement whereby about supplies ethanol with r. I. N. s attached to sunoco for blending with its gasoline. Other independent refiners with smaller arrangements have an agreement to return the r. I. N. s to the refiner once they are detached. The r. F. S. Was created to bring cleaner burning, Renewable Fuels to consumers. The r. I. N. s system was developed as a flexible system that would allow obligated parties to choose between investing in blending infrastructure or buying r. I. N. s for the renewable fuel standard compliance. Philadelphia refinery made the decision to buy r. I. N. s instead. That hasnt worked out very w
Cruz. Its tremendously encouraging to be leading the field nationally. I think as a result reporter did you ever think youd be here . That was always the plan. Look, thats how you win. Got to get to first place to win. Reporter its a 15point flip from last month, trump slipping seven points and cruz up eight. After the iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and saturday nights debate. Republican voters have taken a pause deciding whether or not they want to nominate donald trump to be president. Reporter as cruz heats up, hes burning it down in South Carolina with a scorched earth news conference. File a lawsuit. Reporter daring donald trump to sue him over this ad. Well, im very pro choice. Reporter trump wants cruz to stop airing the spot pointing to his current prolife stance. Trump supporters have shown a great likelihood of forgiving him for positions like that. Reporter cruz insists hell put the ad on tv more often now, even as trump doubled down on his threat in an msnbc town
We are going to make America Great again. And now the candidates are turning their attention to the South Carolina primary. You will want to hear this before you head out the door, problems this morning with a big road project in largo. Those orange barrels lining ulmerton road are there to stay. For now. The Company Working on the project packed up and left. And now a new company is picking up the work. The ulmerton road project was supposed to be done already and now the hope, and this just the hope, it will be completed in a few months. And today is ash wednesday. Its one of the most important holy days for christians around the world. Ash wednesday kicks off lent, its a time believers are encouraged to give something up that represents the sacrifice jesus made on the cross. And lets get a check on the weather with meteorologist leigh spann. We still have a lot of clouds for some of us but they are scouring out as we speak. When you get the clearer sky, temperatures fall. The next t