drivers celebrate cheap gas, williams is one of 72,000 texans who are out of work as the rigs have disappred. and belt tightening is underway at blue-chip energy companies like exxon mobil, which reported a 58% drop in fourth quarter chevron recently reported its years and bp says it will slash 7,000 jobs by the end of 2017. michelle patron: you havoil producing companies that have that can breed instability. they are now going to have to curtail spending. scott: until last year, michelle patron was president obama's special assistant for energy and climate, where she had a front row seat to the geopolitical ramifications of fluctuating oil prices. michelle: if you think back to the 1980's, the last period of low prolonged oil prices, you think back to some significant global events, including low oil prices contributing to the fall of the soviet union. scott: this oil bust is rattling stock markets around the world. u.s. stocks produced their weakest start in january since 2009. patron says that cheap oil could also impact the banking sector and that too is contributing to a jittery stock m

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my resolution lays out the facts of his disapprance and asks three essential actions byhe state department and intelligee community. first, that they continue to investigate and consider all possible explanations for david's disaparance. including potential abduction by north korea. second, that they coordinate their efforts with the government of japan, south korea, and particularly china, the country known thave at least some influence over north korea. and finally, that they kep the congress and family informed of these efforts. i'd like to thank senator lee for sponsoring companion bill in the senate and the rest of the utah delegation for joining me as co-sponsors. i think i can speak for the delegation when i say that david's family deserves a thorough effort from their own government to discover what happened to him. this is the very least that we can ask. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. pursuant to clause 12-tafment of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until noon also today in the house, a bill dealing with f