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So transportation ballot measures were a mixed bag. Like youre talking about earlier, the federal gas tax has not been raised in about 20 years. Most states have raised theirs in about 20 years, and states are constantly worried about finding money for infrastructure to pay for road repair and bridge repair. It is an issue that voters really care about. There was good news on tuesday in texas, wisconsin and maryland. Voters approved measures either to increase or protect transportation funding. ...

Vote vote the presiding officer any senator wishing to vote or wishing to change a vote . If not, on this vote the yeas are 59, the nays are 41. The 60vote threshold having not been achieved, the bill is not passed. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations which the clerk will report. The clerk nominations, the judiciary, Leslie Joyce Abrams of georgia. The presiding officer the sergeant at arms will restore order. Order in the ...

Obamas decisions on afghanistan, including up to the decision to seek the strategic agreement with the afghans that would keep a residual force there after the end of this year. But there were two aspects of the war in afghanistan that troubled me. One was the president s suspicion of the motives of the senior military, particularly when it came to the recommendations on afghanistan. And the second was what you describe. As i told rahm when i met with him, i dont mind that the president speaks o...

We now have Health Care System in which it your income is less than four times the official poverty threshold for a family of four is now in the vicinity of 90,000 a year, scaled down for smaller families, you are eligible for subsidies, refundable tax credits and assistance with cost sharing, on a sliding scale that starts with recently complete coverage of what is called the Silver Health plan and that is the premium that is charged for a Health Care Plan that covers 70 of the covered Health C...

Help up here on the hill and we lose months. We move loose four, five, six months to hire Replacement Program or we dont have time. So shipbuilding gets held up. Projects get held up. People were tired and that loses that trust with the industry. So precluding getting sequestered as helpful and in the continuing resolutions having a similar effect in that we are not doing any new projects and some of these are pretty critical as we move into the years and need to modernize. Senator the first com...

Absolutely. Yes senator. General wasser wants to ask you about comments that have come to my attention that were reported to have been made by Major General james post the Vice Commander of air combat command and he is reported to make these comments when addressing a group of airmen this month. What he is said to have made in comments to the airman was anyone who was passing information to congress about a 10 capabilities is committing treason and is part of those comments he also said if anyon...

We cant hear you. Here it comes. Yeah, for each question identify the organization. Hello. Identify yourself and your position. Im a humble tax reporter and analyst. There three of us. Im not an expert about Social Security, but my understanding is that surpluses of the program for a given year invest in a trust fund and treasury bonds. They have a low yield. There was a plan to privatize Social Security. It would seem to me that having a slightly more normal its endless. For example, raisings a...

Supposed to work. Talk about the people behind them. Who are we seeing on this side starting. Sure, the person you see right under the mace and thats important to note that the mace is carried into the house whenever the house is in naraaatpa predictably, the person who sits right under, no, im wrong, im sorry the person who sits under the mace is the parliamentarian n and the parliamentarian wants to stay close to the speaker. He or she has a sheath of scripted papers he can h ;he presiding off...

Actually say in the beer distributors pockets. It was public money that was supposed to go to promoting recycling but was instead winding up in the distributors pockets just because of an error in the way the law was constructed. They were very active in political campaigns and that loophole of what we knew about it for years and years and years was not corrected. My first term in the legislature in 2009 was the first year the legislature was publicly financed. I cant point to a direct correlati...

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