#billion

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year. ↗

— Richard Neal

#cared #cost #dollars #economy #electrical

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population. ↗

— John Olver

#burning #coal #energy #fossil #fossil fuels

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#between #billions #border #border security #congress

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#absolutely #against #billion #brought #budget

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund? ↗

— Rick Perry

#balancing #billion #budget #climate #day

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#i #lifetime #paid #taxes

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#different #different ways #filled #five #looking

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got. ↗

— Les Aspin

#billions #done #give #got #know

One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it? ↗

— Greg Dworkin

#countries #day #earth #earth day #mark