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And perhaps call on some of you to go to washington and discuss the opportunities, and with the legislators next spring, and regionally, with the reissue of wean and her campos, and to the adoption last year as was mentioned by the chair and commissioner weiner there has been a strong proposal at the mtc to commit of a significant portion of cap and trade expected revenues to the large three largest transit operators and muni bart and transit and we are grateful for the leadership and for the, y...

Transportation for a more or a safer reliable and more affordable system for all. My report is on your desk and it does highlight several exciting opportunities to discuss transportation revenue and investments and at the federal, state and local levels. I want to start with the federal conversation. It is coming due for reauthorization in october of next year, conversations are already happening there is one talking about the gas tax at the federal level and trying to address the revenue questi...

See countries in the gulf in the middle east aligning with israel in a way that we have never seen before. And shouldnt we listen . Shouldnt we listen to the Prime Minister of israel thats the first target of iran, the country that the iranians said and have not renounced their commitment to quote wiping off the map . You think that maybe relations between ourselves and israel are at the lowest ebb . Do you think it is an accident when now saudis and leaders of other countries are outspoken in t...

Do you think harry reid has promised a vote on Unemployment Insurance harry reid has promised a vote on Unemployment Insurance. Does that become part of the debt ceiling debate and should it . That ist should, but not what republicans have in mind as a ransom. Democrats are really adamant about it. Many feel they gave up the best opportunity. Remember, when unemployment has remained this high at seven percent when we have had this extent of longterm unemployment, we have always had extensionsion...

Trying to get them to lay off sanctions . You are stringing a bunch of things along. Let us see if we can have a question . That is a lot less than henry had. [laughter] i thought we were trying to get along. [laughter] how about i separate out the iran question from the Health Care Question . On the Health Care Question, i think i have answered several times this is a new iteration of it. Bottom line is that we are going to continue to work every single day to make sure that implementation of t...

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Borders. But the russian president has ignored the warnings. He signed an agreement to annex the autonomous ukrainian republic of crimea. He says its an integral part of russia. Nhk worlds craig dale reports. Reporter a crowd in red square cheered on Vladimir Putin as he spoke about a move thats frustrated and infuriated western leaders. The president shouted glory to russia, as he talked about his plan to annex crimea. Translator after a difficult, lengthy, tiring sale crimea and sevastopol are...

Says one prorussian activist died in the luhansk region. They ins cyst theyll hold referendums on may 11th. A prorussian leader in charge of the poll in donetsk told nhk on sunday that preparations are under way. Translator we already finished doing 70 of the ballots and will complete the work by the day after tomorrow. He said the ballots will ask voters a yes or no question on whether they will support donetsks becoming an independent as a state. But he said no condition has been set for the r...

I will not argue that point. There are a thousand different ways to do what we want to do. I was taught as a second lieutenant, make a decision because if you do not, the troops will not follow you anywhere and they will leave you at the starting line. We made a decision, some people in this room do not like it, but we are on our way and you can either go with us or figure out how to start all over again. Everybody knows what happens when you start all over again. We are farther down this road t...

Of us put together a bipartisan budget agreement that called for spending in fiscal 2015 1. 14 billion. President obama signed that proposal into law. It was heralded as a great bipartisan step in the right direction. And so for those of you who are keeping score and minding the rhetoric, thats 33 billion less under this bipartisan bill than we proposed two years earlier which was so draconian, so unserious. Were proposing the federal government increases the spending over ten years by 3. 5 inst...