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Today they came together near the asap center in san jose to emphasize that point. Nbcs bay area Marianne Favro joins us live. Marianne, they do not want to see the same thing happen here. Reporter they certainly dont. Thats the point they are trying to make this afternoon. About 120 people came out here to ga wad lieu pay river park and they are pro it testing because they dont want any oil trains to roll through san jose. No. No. Oil trains nowhere in our town. They explode and they pollute, w...

Use by executive land holding agencies. In your opinion do you believe that gsa has done everything in its power to give life to the directives embodied in section 6409 which you referenced in your testimony of middle class tax relief act . Have they done everything they can . Mr. Chairman, i do not believe they have. As a matter of fact, im a former administrator myself of the federal agency and if i had implemented something too poorly that congress instructed me to do id be embarrassed. There...

Or can we fix it . And if so how in particular . Youre about to hear how from our expert panel. Let me introduce them in the order in which theyll speak, as we proceed through the panel well be working our way through the various titles of dodd frank frank. First will be my colleague peter wallacen. He co directs aeis program on financial studies, was co chair of the pew Financial Task force and served on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission where he wrote a very enlightening and highly contr...

A man was pictured at the scene in bangkok before the explosion. First we have this report from bangkok. Picking up the pieces, this is a shopping district in bangkok that has seen dramatic political conflict before, but nothing like this. Dozens were killed here on monday, among them victims from malaysia, china, hong kong and sing pouring. Many more were injured. It was away attack apparently designed to kill as many people as possible at a high profile target, the shrine. The government actin...

Including Manchester United back in the Champion League and look ahead to the club. The worst ever attack on thailand is how the countrys Prime Minister described the blast in bangkok which killed 20 people and they released security footage of the man who could be a bomber and apparently left a scene minutes before mondays explosion and veronica is in bangkok with more. Reporter this is an evening that has capped a day of trying to clear up the mystery of who was behind the attack and indeed cl...

Plaster mining is still being conducted. Unfortunately unelected bureaucrats have targeted these small mom and pop, usually retired people, family miners from getting regulations. So, mr. Chairman, this is a sound piece of legislation which should be accepted by this committee and this body to make sure those people that would like to participate in mining on lands that are owed. The b. L. M. Has decided to take these little miners and put them out of business. Mr. Tcharme, i urge the passage of...

Watching, but there are a significant number of people in my whole state of florida on Social Security and on medicare. As i said, my mother is one of them. Im an enormous supporter of these programs. I also look at these programs and i look at the number of people going into it and how long they are going to live, and the math tells you these programs are going to have some big problems in the years to come which threaten not just to take them down but threaten to trigger a debt crisis in ameri...

Would preemptively strike it. I think its fair to say that we have opportunities within the Energy Sector to help advance this country when it comes to our Energy Security, our National Security, and our economic security. But we need to be able to move forward with that. So what we are able to do within this instruction that is pretty wide open is, is to focus on those areas where we might be able to see increased Energy Production that could bring us new wealth, create new wealth in this count...

Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. We meet this morning to consider opening a very small portion of alaskas 1002 area to responsible Energy Development to meet the 1 billion budget reconciliation instruction that our Committee Received last week. The 1002 area covers 1. 57 million acres of land in northeast alaska within the nonwilderness portion. You can bring it over here sean. I think its important to put this in context in terms of the areas that we are talking about. ...

When Congress Last debated opening anwr to oil and Gas Development, people made arguments about the use of new technology and how it would minimize the impact on anwr. Since then a lot of the claims have borne out in the industry. We will share some of them today. A couple are directional. Extended reach Multi Lateral drilling techniques that allow wells to be drilled in all directions from a well pad kind of like spokes on a bicycle wheel. Directional drilling has been around since the 1970s. B...