movement with recruiting amongst u.s. then, what is the answer here? i mean, obviously, there are very intense social strains. there s a kind of combination in france of a group that is, you know, from a different ethnic background, religious background, and also relatively socioeconomically deprived, right? all of those things sort of running together, as the background context for that kind of recruitment. what is true is that we are facing a big challenge, because, why? because we have high, high level of muslims in france. far more than in my countries. the huge majority of them are secular, they, of course, have nothing to do with the crazy killers. but as their they are not only muslims, it s very important, they are coming from arab countries. it s not like them in england. it s not like many of the muslims of usa. they are coming from arab background. and because of the path to
have to do something. we cannot we cannot just say, don t hear, it s okay, it will go away. no, it won t go away. we know that we are probably ten years of attacks in front of us, if we don t do something about isis in syria, but more than that, because it s not only a war, it would be too simple if it was a war. it s even more than a war, actually. it s a fight against the total t totalarian moment with recruiting among us. then, what is the answer here? i mean, obviously, there are very intense social strains. there s a kind of combination in france of a group that is, you know, from a different ethnic background, religious background, and also relatively socioeconomically deprived, right? all of those things sort of running together, as the background context for that kind of recruitment.
this request was in consideration. the white house wanted to ramp up this issue around capital investment in amtrak that s why they put in an additional 1.3 billion in the president s proposal. the presidents cut it out. they didn t say we re just not going to have that increase they cut less than what was provided to amtrak last year that was the vote that was in front of the committee today. we re going to cut amtrak by $250 million. or we were going to increase it as the president had proposes. i want to show briefly this data so people can see that ridership is up while funding is down. that is the background context against which today s fight happened. congressman chaka fattah thank you very much. thank you. congressman murphy was on the amtrak train when it crashed
the presidents cut it out. they didn t say we re just not going to have that increase, they cut less than what was provided to amtrak last year, that was the vote that was in front of the committee today. we re going to cut amtrak by $250 million. or we were going to increase it as the president had proposes. i want to show briefly this data so people can see that ridership is up while funding is down. that is the background context against which today s fight happened. congressman chaka fattah, thank you very much. thank you. congressman murphy was on the amtrak train when it crashed last night. his story in your own words, you don t want to miss it.
congressional oversight has something to do with that, more over, the amtrak has, i believe, acted prudently with the investments they made to date. this request was in consideration. the white house wanted to ramp up this issue around capital investment in amtrak, that s why they put in an additional 1.3 billion in the president s proposal. the presidents cut it out. they didn t say we re just not going to have that increase, they cut less than what was provided to amtrak last year, that was the vote that was in front of the committee today. we re going to cut amtrak by $250 million. or we were going to increase it as the president had proposes. i want to show briefly this data so people can see that ridership is up while funding is down. that is the background context against which today s fight happened. congressman chaka fattah, thank you very much. thank you.