At a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs hearing this afternoon, Senator Coons will walk through a series of charts that compare the strategies of China and the United States in Africa. You can take a sneak peek below. Click to go see the chart at full resolution in our Flickr photostream.
The White House has developed a fascinating infographic that looks at the actual drivers of our nation's staggering debt. It reveals that the policies of the previous administration resulted in $7 trillion in new debt, whereas the policies of the current administration have resulted in $1.4 trillion in new debt.
One of the tenets of the energy policy supported by Senator Coons, President Obama, and Senate Democrats is that American oil companies ought to be utilizing as much of the area they've received permits for as they possibly can rather than letting them continue to sit idle. The good news is that according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the number of crude oil rigs in operation in the U.S. has actually more than doubled since President Obama took office. That's a good sign that we're making inroads toward energy independence.
