It was that so many buildings and key pieces of infrastructure were flooded or ultimately destroyed during that storm. And in my research, i spent a lot of time at the National Hurricane center, and the meteorologists there who were incredibly talented kept telling me the same thing over and and over again and that was, you know, were just not very good at this. Were just still not very good at forecasting and predicting these storms. Were still not very good at preparing on the front end for the kind of havoc that is wreaked by these storms. And we saw that in 2017 with hurricane maria, we saw that with hurricane hugo. And as i was leaving and thinking about the questions of infrastructure and prediction and how it is that we respond to Natural Disaster, it to occurred to me that, you know, for all that is powerful about a hurricane, theyre nowhere near our most powerful natural phenomenon, you know . When you think of the sheer sort of explosive power, earthquakes are exponentially s
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Upstate Medical Center blues 18 million a year. Its going to hurt the economy. So i voted to repeal the Affordable Care act. Beyond that we voted for bipartisan support for three free trade agreements that will aid in increasing the number of exports from our district. We have time for rebuttal. What are your thoughts regarding the stimulus act . Maffei i think the recovery act was essential at the time. First of all were lots of small tax cuts that were essential to those families. Secondly, we kept police on the street, kept or teachers to me laid off in our classrooms from blowing up in size. And firefighters. So certainly we had to do something. The thing that i am really confused about, thats bad but there do the right thing on the taxes apparently. But now some of the economy is starting to be fine for millionaires and billionaires. Im doing the wrong thing by asking them to pay their share. And get we need to balance the budget but where is the money going to come from . None of
Upstate Medical Center blues 18 million a year. Its going to hurt the economy. So i voted to repeal the Affordable Care act. Beyond that we voted for bipartisan support for three free trade agreements that will aid in increasing the number of exports from our district. We have time for rebuttal. What are your thoughts regarding the stimulus act . Maffei i think the recovery act was essential at the time. First of all were lots of small tax cuts that were essential to those families. Secondly, we kept police on the street, kept or teachers to me laid off in our classrooms from blowing up in size. And firefighters. So certainly we had to do something. The thing that i am really confused about, thats bad but there do the right thing on the taxes apparently. But now some of the economy is starting to be fine for millionaires and billionaires. Im doing the wrong thing by asking them to pay their share. And get we need to balance the budget but where is the money going to come from . None of
Than 1000 people took to the streets saturday as republicans called an emergency session with their new super majority in the legislature to ram through a slew of controversial bills, including an antiunion right to work law and extreme antichoice legislation that bans abortions after 20 weeks and requires women to have an ultrasound before having an abortion. We have never had in nearly 100 years, republican speaker. We have literally never had any legislation in the history of ultimately signed by three republicans. Theres never been a republican housesenate and governor at the same time. These are historic times. Amy first, a barrage of Senate Confirmation hearings begins tuesday for what would be the wealthiest cabinet in modern american history. This comes despite concerns that ethics clearances and background checks are incomplete for a number of president elect Donald Trumps cabinet kicks. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and pe