The gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Lucas mr. Speaker, im prepared to close whenever its appropriate. So i will continue to reserve until then. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Tonko mr. Speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from rhode island, mr. Cicilline. Mr. Cicilline i thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, the outsourcing of American Manufacturing jobs has not only resulted in job losses and lower wages at home, its threatening americas standing as an economic superpower on the global stage. The chips and science this bill is the bold action we need to provide a strong Economic Future for american families, small businesses, and workers. Critically, this legislation includes an estimated 1. 8 billion for the National Science foundations established program to stimulate competitive research. Otherwise known as epscore, which helps small
As it was known back then, usica, in order to shore up u. S. Investment in research, development, and manufacturing of critical technologies. A few names later and unfortunately more than a year later, i rise again before this body to express my strong support for this revised chips legislation that we just cleared an important hurdle for over the last hour and urge my colleagues to pass this bill as quickly as possible so we can get it out of the senate, get it over to the house, and get it to the president s desk. We cannot afford to waste any more time. Because this funding sends a message that the United States is putting a strong downpayment on maintaining our edge in the Global Technology race and preventing Global Supply chains from being weaponized against the United States or for that matter against our allies. Over the past few years, china has continued to increase investments in its domestic industries. Particularly in areas that have longterm strategic influence. This incl
Modest growth as new initiatives in mobile and other areas kick in. The stock went slightly crazy, got a huge boost after alibaba rolled its results. Forget what is happening at yahoo at this point. Its almost insignificant at this point. Yahoo owns 24 of the chinese ecommerce alibaba. They made more than double the amount they made for the same period a year ago. Revenue jumping 66 to 3. 1 billion. Alibaba plans to file paperwork as early as next week, thats what everyone is excited about, about this potential ipo offering on an american exchange. They are debating whether theyll go with the nasdaq or the new york stock exchange. The sale could be the largest ipo in American History if the companys valuation could reach, what some people are saying could be as high as 200 billion. Jerry yang of yahoo always gets a hard time because he is he the one that made this investment. People thought he screwed yahoo up forever. God bless jerry yang. He saved this company. Marissa meyer should t
Have 2 million. When Lilly Ledbetter discovered that no Aspen Institute years at goodyear she was making 40 less than three other areas managers doing the same job. 200,000 in her career, that was not taken into consideration for retirement and social security. For women of color the it is larger. In 2010 africanamerican women were earning 67. 7 to everymans dollar and Hispanic Women 58. 7 of all mens earnings. Lilly ledbetters story is everyones story. There are sixty million working women in the work force, two thirds are mothers bringing home their familys earnings. In many cases women ought sold breadwinners. From wall street to walmart it doesnt matter where you work, women are discriminated in the work force and that is a very broad statistical picture of the wage gap and Lilly Ledbetter is the poster child for the wage gap whether she wanted to or not. Here is her story from her point of view and that is just one womans experience. What we did is we put a lot of information in t
Dozen or plus, rescues around the state of folks still featured out into the storm and needed help from Emergency Service folks. Right now its still in place and we may hear Something Different from the governor as he steps up to the podium in a half hour. As for the plans for the massachusetts roads, the t, the Transit System remains shut down and is expected to stay shut down throughout the day. And Boston Logan Airport may possibly open up later on this afternoon and however, the roads are still closed, so you need to check with your airline, if thats even going to happen, as well as wait and see what the governor will be announcing here in the upcoming hour or so. And theres still a lot of people without power across the state, but for much of the state, this is about digging out in the outlying areas, like the communities in the suburbs around massachusetts, youll see a lot of digging today and that can be dangerous for folks, we hear reports of Carbon Monoxide poisoning, heart at