Help them to see your glorious image in humanity and search for opportunities to empower those on lifes margins. Lord, inspire them to trust the unfolding of your loving providence, so that they will not become weary in doing what is right. May they live with such integrity that your purposes will be accomplished on earth, remind us all that it is in giving that we receive. And through dying to self we are born to eternal life. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell madam president . The presiding officer the republican leader is recognized. Mr. Mcconnell there are a lot of reasons to like the broad Bipartisan Energy bill which is before us. Youll like it if youre an american interested in producing more energy. Youl
Remain problematic. Multiple state Department Reports document Chinese Companies and individuals to continue export dual use goods relevant to Nuclear Weapons and Ballistic Missile programs in and around north korea. Year after year individuals have been sanctioned related to efforts to proliferate weapons of mass destruction. What is preventing the chinese in taking action against the come to me if and individuals identified to them. I would like to hear whether the proliferation record was addressed during negotiations. This agreement presents us with a golden opportunity to place pressure on china to hold these dangerous activities. The second set of concerns focused on plans to export Nuclear Power plant based upon technology provided by westinghouse under a deal signed 2007. To transfer to china. Then kris exporting reactors with the markets the United States used to have. The transfer of the most advanced u. S. Technologies may provide china the keys were dominated the world Nucl
Let me ask you. Its imperative that the agency use every tool at its disposal to address the budget shortfall to protect the taxpayers. You believe the agency has used every tool at its disposal to address the budget shortfall . If not, i guess id have to raise the question of whether the fha is failing to properly manage its portfolio, which places the taxpayer at greater expense. I believe weve use every tool at our disposal, and we have made prudent and appropriate policy changes, whether thats increasing in premiums or the many other changes that ive talked about here today. We also have to do that in a way that does not do further damage to the economy. And we need to do that thank you. You do agree if you were in a business that cpb would put you out of business . No, i did not. The gentlemans time has expired. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from connecticut, mr. Himes, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And ms. Galante, thank you for being with us today. Ive been
However, we ran out of time. The dredging window for dredging closes on november 30th and they dredged up until the end, they had very complicated dredging sequence and their dredging contracts were not approved until the end of august so theyre out there and removing sand right up until the end. When we realized we had this extra, about 2400 cubic yards yards of stand that needed to be removed, we applied for a permit and we were denied, theres herring, spawning in the area and dredging is very detrimental to their spawning and habitat during this time of the year, so theres a section of sand there thats left, but we have to come back next year anyway and were already taking steps to try to get an early dredge approval and get our contract in place so they can come in as early as april, take out that sand as well as taking out any additional sand that accumulates between now and then for a longterm. Inger theres another piece to this where floating break water, once the floating break
Had an unusual high volume of sand coming into the harbor. We had estimated 7 thousand 700 cubic yards of sand coming in, each year we had a contract for them to remove 12 thousand of newly accumulated sand of which they removed 11 thousand 433, it turned out not to be quite enough, we have a little bit of additional accumulation which we would have removed as part of this annual dredge cycle, however, we ran out of time. The dredging window for dredging closes on november 30th and they dredged up until the end, they had very complicated dredging sequence and their dredging contracts were not approved until the end of august so theyre out there and removing sand right up until the end. When we realized we had this extra, about 2400 cubic yards yards of stand that needed to be removed, we applied for a permit and we were denied, theres herring, spawning in the area and dredging is very detrimental to their spawning and habitat during this time of the year, so theres a section of sand th