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The Department of Education continues to spend time and money opposing struggling student borrowers while doing nothing to collect more than $ 1 billion owed to the government by colleges and for-profit companies. – National Student Legal Defense Network	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Each month that travel from Canada remains at a standstill, the U.S. economy loses $1.5 billion in potential travel exports, which is enough to support 10,000 American jobs and each week the U.S. loses $340 million. – Tori Barnes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
By our estimate, this program should provide approximately $16.7 billion in additional income per month in the second half of this year, for a total of $100 billion. – Stephen Juneau	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Even with new announcements from Germany and Canada, all G7 countries need to go further and faster with their individual commitments as well as take collective responsibility for achieving the $ 100 billion goal before COP26, they acknowledge in the communiqué that more commitments must come by COP. So I think the question is,' Why not now ? What's the delay ?' Developing countries deserve to have the confidence going into COP 26 that the Paris Agreement will be delivered. And it can't go down to the wire. These leaders need to prioritise building trust and momentum now with the four and a half months left to COP 26. – Catherine Pettengell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We've got to keep it real. There are billion-dollar industries that are trying to purchase the mayoral seat of this city. – New York	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The biggest failures of the G7 in recent years have come about because of a lack of shared purpose -- most clearly seen in 2018 when President Trump disavowed the final communique on President Trump way home from the meeting. Combined with this, the failure to deliver yet on promises of $ 100 billion a year to help the developing world deal with climate change have created some skepticism about the rich countries' real commitment to climate justice. – Anthony Dworkin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Starting with the Jezero Crater Floor Fractured Crater Floor Fractured Rough and Seitah geologic units allows us to start our exploration of Jezero at the very beginning, this area was under at least 100 meters( 328 feet) of water 3.8 billion years ago. We don't know what stories the rocks and layered outcrops will tell us, but we're excited to get started. – Kevin Hand	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If anything happens to Elon Musk, I don't know what Tesla would do. I've been pushing the board of directors to have a COO and succession plan, it's absurd that a company worth nearly $ 600 billion is run this way. – Ross Gerber	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's absurd that a company worth nearly $ 600 billion is run this way. – Ross Gerber	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was a director of a half-a-billion pound industry at 22. But if I am trying to pay car insurance I am useless. Picking up my post? I am the worst person in the world. You are deluded in your growth. – Liam Payne	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Imagine if you were a household that knew you were going to owe $5 billion in 2023 and we give you $12 billion today and then you spend it before any of these people are going to have a chance to take office. – Andrew Yang	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Based on conversations with the Budget Committee, the cost of Sen. Schumer’s Endless Frontier Act is now up to $250 billion, that’s $250,000,000,000. At some point, we’re going to run out of digits. – Louisiana Republican John Kennedy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Of the close to a thousand billion dollars made from oil since 2003, an estimated $ 150 billion of stolen money has been smuggled out of Iraq. – Barham Salih	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In the future, at some time, China's population will peak some day but there are still uncertainties. For some time to come, China's total population will be kept at above 1.4 billion. – Ning Jizhe	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The UN has put out estimates that there could be 200 million, and up to 1 billion, [ climate ] migrants by 2050, and we know these facts, yet we're still on the same trajectory, it's the fact that the government is seeing these facts -- because I know that if I'm seeing them, they're definitely seeing them -- so they have the full knowledge, they have the means, they have the solutions, yet they're doing nothing. – Marina Tricks	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The government is saying Marina Tricks are Marina Tricks and we are setting an example, but then they are putting £ 27 billion into roads, and a few million into the green recovery deal and they are completely ignoring the global dimension, we can't sit by and watch that happen -- we will hold Marina Tricks accountable in court, but we will also hold Marina Tricks accountable on the streets. – Adetola Onamade	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're going to face many challenges in the short term, and principally the equation is we have 8 billion people that need two doses of most of the vaccines, and we've only produced about a billion so far, so we do have a mismatch between the demand and the supply. – Salim Abdool Karim	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's a group of 10 of my members… who put together a $600 billion proposal. Roads, bridges, ports, water lines, broadband, there are 10 or so Democrats who look at it the same way. So this is a proposal that could pass on a bipartisan basis. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
John taught him biblical principles and conservative values, and over the course of [three to four]years, he transformed his way of thinking, john’s life’s goal was to positively affect a million people. Tim’s life’s mission is to positively affect a billion people with the message of hope and opportunity. – Ken Farnaso	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is having a harsher impact on women, who are disproportionately represented in sectors offering low wages, few benefits and the least secure jobs, instead of righting that wrong, governments treated women's jobs as dispensable -- and that has come at a cost of at least $ 800 billion in lost wages for those in formal employment. – Gabriela Bucher	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you look at the global picture, in the Paris Agreement, countries pledged $ 100 billion a year into the Green Climate Fund... if you look at what they really delivered, it's, I think, not even $ 20 billion so far. – Reinhard Steurer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's a very ambitious target, but the implementation is lacking a good progress, and very contradictory policies are in place, just to give you one example, the building sector in United Kingdom is a real problem, yet just recently, the government scrapped its Green Homes scheme, a £ 1.5 billion( $ 2 billion) commitment to support home owners to improve the insulation in their homes, so this doesn't really make sense. – Imke Luebbeke	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Are we going to give the Democrats in the Senate have $8 billion to use against us? I hope not. – Richard Shelby	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The electricity bill for the whole company is in the region of 2.5 billion Rand( $ 167 million)... 1 % of such a large number is still quite significant. – Sanjeev Raghubir	Found on CNN 3 years ago

The Department of Education continues to spend time and money opposing struggling student borrowers while doing nothing to collect more than $ 1 billion owed to the government by colleges and for-profit companies.

– National Student Legal Defense Network

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Each month that travel from Canada remains at a standstill, the U.S. economy loses $1.5 billion in potential travel exports, which is enough to support 10,000 American jobs and each week the U.S. loses $340 million.

– Tori Barnes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

By our estimate, this program should provide approximately $16.7 billion in additional income per month in the second half of this year, for a total of $100 billion.

– Stephen Juneau

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Even with new announcements from Germany and Canada, all G7 countries need to go further and faster with their individual commitments as well as take collective responsibility for achieving the $ 100 billion goal before COP26, they acknowledge in the communiqué that more commitments must come by COP. So I think the question is,' Why not now ? What's the delay ?' Developing countries deserve to have the confidence going into COP 26 that the Paris Agreement will be delivered. And it can't go down to the wire. These leaders need to prioritise building trust and momentum now with the four and a half months left to COP 26.

– Catherine Pettengell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've got to keep it real. There are billion-dollar industries that are trying to purchase the mayoral seat of this city.

– New York

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The biggest failures of the G7 in recent years have come about because of a lack of shared purpose -- most clearly seen in 2018 when President Trump disavowed the final communique on President Trump way home from the meeting. Combined with this, the failure to deliver yet on promises of $ 100 billion a year to help the developing world deal with climate change have created some skepticism about the rich countries' real commitment to climate justice.

– Anthony Dworkin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Starting with the Jezero Crater Floor Fractured Crater Floor Fractured Rough and Seitah geologic units allows us to start our exploration of Jezero at the very beginning, this area was under at least 100 meters( 328 feet) of water 3.8 billion years ago. We don't know what stories the rocks and layered outcrops will tell us, but we're excited to get started.

– Kevin Hand

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If anything happens to Elon Musk, I don't know what Tesla would do. I've been pushing the board of directors to have a COO and succession plan, it's absurd that a company worth nearly $ 600 billion is run this way.

– Ross Gerber

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's absurd that a company worth nearly $ 600 billion is run this way.

– Ross Gerber

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was a director of a half-a-billion pound industry at 22. But if I am trying to pay car insurance I am useless. Picking up my post? I am the worst person in the world. You are deluded in your growth.

– Liam Payne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Imagine if you were a household that knew you were going to owe $5 billion in 2023 and we give you $12 billion today and then you spend it before any of these people are going to have a chance to take office.

– Andrew Yang

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Based on conversations with the Budget Committee, the cost of Sen. Schumer’s Endless Frontier Act is now up to $250 billion, that’s $250,000,000,000. At some point, we’re going to run out of digits.

– Louisiana Republican John Kennedy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Of the close to a thousand billion dollars made from oil since 2003, an estimated $ 150 billion of stolen money has been smuggled out of Iraq.

– Barham Salih

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the future, at some time, China's population will peak some day but there are still uncertainties. For some time to come, China's total population will be kept at above 1.4 billion.

– Ning Jizhe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The UN has put out estimates that there could be 200 million, and up to 1 billion, [ climate ] migrants by 2050, and we know these facts, yet we're still on the same trajectory, it's the fact that the government is seeing these facts -- because I know that if I'm seeing them, they're definitely seeing them -- so they have the full knowledge, they have the means, they have the solutions, yet they're doing nothing.

– Marina Tricks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The government is saying Marina Tricks are Marina Tricks and we are setting an example, but then they are putting £ 27 billion into roads, and a few million into the green recovery deal and they are completely ignoring the global dimension, we can't sit by and watch that happen -- we will hold Marina Tricks accountable in court, but we will also hold Marina Tricks accountable on the streets.

– Adetola Onamade

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're going to face many challenges in the short term, and principally the equation is we have 8 billion people that need two doses of most of the vaccines, and we've only produced about a billion so far, so we do have a mismatch between the demand and the supply.

– Salim Abdool Karim

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's a group of 10 of my members… who put together a $600 billion proposal. Roads, bridges, ports, water lines, broadband, there are 10 or so Democrats who look at it the same way. So this is a proposal that could pass on a bipartisan basis.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

John taught him biblical principles and conservative values, and over the course of [three to four]years, he transformed his way of thinking, john’s life’s goal was to positively affect a million people. Tim’s life’s mission is to positively affect a billion people with the message of hope and opportunity.

– Ken Farnaso

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is having a harsher impact on women, who are disproportionately represented in sectors offering low wages, few benefits and the least secure jobs, instead of righting that wrong, governments treated women's jobs as dispensable -- and that has come at a cost of at least $ 800 billion in lost wages for those in formal employment.

– Gabriela Bucher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you look at the global picture, in the Paris Agreement, countries pledged $ 100 billion a year into the Green Climate Fund... if you look at what they really delivered, it's, I think, not even $ 20 billion so far.

– Reinhard Steurer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That's a very ambitious target, but the implementation is lacking a good progress, and very contradictory policies are in place, just to give you one example, the building sector in United Kingdom is a real problem, yet just recently, the government scrapped its Green Homes scheme, a £ 1.5 billion( $ 2 billion) commitment to support home owners to improve the insulation in their homes, so this doesn't really make sense.

– Imke Luebbeke

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Are we going to give the Democrats in the Senate have $8 billion to use against us? I hope not.

– Richard Shelby

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The electricity bill for the whole company is in the region of 2.5 billion Rand( $ 167 million)... 1 % of such a large number is still quite significant.

– Sanjeev Raghubir

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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