. ♪ but shoe head over to springdale arkansas, maybe do a little stadium truck 4x4 racing. >> soundsxtreme enough to me. ♪ >> i'll be honest here on the extreme scale, not very extreme. >> no. the one -- one to extreme, this is a one. this is moderately extreme. >> this is a one. this is guys standing around in their shorts with their remote controlled cars going on a bumpy track. ♪ >> whoa. that was extreme. it went off the wall and totally wrecked. >> all right. >> i think we got it. >> dry ice. ♪ . >> the u.s. antarctic program researchers are in antarctica. they have to stay there all year long which means they need supplies. every year our u.s. army takes them everything they need from food to equipment. they take it all. but they had a little problem this year because the winter was too warm. one of the very critical elements is the pier they used to anchor the ship and load the stuff on to. the pier was basically melted. our brilliant u.s. army engineers came up with a creative way to bring the supplies to the researchers in antarctica. >> isn't that amazing? >> okay. they mad

arkansas. it was february 16th, 1862. when price crossed the sbeon co. he and his cold, weary troops continued on to cross hollows, 20 miles farther south, roughly between rodgers and springdale today. and there they joined forces with the confederate army of arkansas. the commander of that army was brigadier general benjamin mcculluck of texas. measles prevented him from gaining immortality. mcculluck missed little else. he fought against santa ana. he mined for gold in california. he commanded a troop of texas frontiers, rangers on the frontier against apatcapaches. and he did a number of things that brought him celebrity in antebellum, america, he is described as the antebellum version of daniel boon from an earlier period. one of the most remarkable things is how his celebrityhood, is that a word? how his celebrityhood has faded to the point where today almost no one has heard of him. mcculluck was untutored in military matters. he dropped out of school after, four, five years. but he was a natural soldier and blessed with a sure grasp of tactics, strategy and administration. his army, the army of arkansas, consisted of over 8,000 men from arkansas, texas, and louisiana.

of the springdale-based tysons food told the arkansas business journal that there has been an increase of more than 55% in the cost of diesel in the past five years. this is significant because the company uses feed transport for family farmers. american families and businesses deserve a plan that will help bring down the prices at the pump. the legislation before this chamber proposed to raise taxes on american energy producers. this won't change supply and demand. and senator isakson just a few minutes ago talked about these are basic truths, supply and demand does control cost. this will do nothing to that. once again hardworking americans will be left with the bill as a result if this bill were passed. i believe a better way begins with adopting an energy strategy that increases our production of american energy in a clean, efficient way. through developing wind, solar, and hydrogen technologies as well as tapping into the vast majority of natural resources that. the reality of our country's nonexistent energy policy is it forces us to rely on the middle east for oil. we import hal