Apple brings home hundreds of billions of dollars in overseas cash to the u. S. We have the stories. Now to our lead. Amazon has narrowed the field for hq2, its second proposed headquarters in the u. S. 20 cities made the cut. Among them, new york, boston, chicago and austin. The project is expected to cost 5 billion and create 50,000 jobs. We caught up with our reporter for amazon along with intellas ceo. I wouldnt read too much into the three areas around washington, d. C. , because amazon is likely targeting labor pools, and those very often cross geographic lines. Even though that could simply be amazon focusing on that general area, but it has to negotiate with different political groups because of geographic boundaries. I know your firm has been digging into the tech hubs in the country. What did you find . Did many of them line up with what amazon has released . We looked at a lot of our data, which we have on almost half a billion people in terms of their skills and capabilitie
Somehow congress hadnt acted enough or quickly enough or expansively enough to justify the extension of his authority under the constitution. But if i can ask my friend from maine another question to drill down on her earlier point it seems to me that the senator from illinois, the distinguished minority whip, he is making some suggestion that really what we are mad at is the people who benefit from this executive action which to my mind, could not be further from the truth. We all understand the aspirations of people who want a better way of life and opportunity, but isnt it true that as you have said and ill just ask you to repeat it perhaps or expand upon it. Isnt it true that when we all take an oath to uphold the constitution laws of the United States, whether youre the president or whether youre the senator, we have a sacred obligation to make sure that no branch including the president usurps the authority of another branch or violates those constitutional limitations . Ms. Co m
Work led to the president announcement in november of the plan for internet regulation, a plan which the report said blindsided them right chairman wheeler for the compromise. And of course a few insiders were quizzed him about what was transpiring. Heres what a leader for the governmentfunded group fight for the feature had to say. We have been hearing for weeks from our allies that the only thing that can stop tom wheeler from moving ahead with this sham proposal to get Net Neutrality is if we could get the president to step in. So we did everything in our power to make that happen. And now we get to celebrate. Congratulations. And what the press has caught called opened the door to a plethora of special interest activates. Fight for the future free press and Public Knowledge just to name a few. And indeed even before activists were blocking determine straggly late last year, some of them had met with executive branch officials. What about the rest of the American People . They certa