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New programs that will focus on current Passenger Rail service and the development of future Passenger Rail service. New amtrak grants that would Keep Services in good working condition. The Rail Service Improvement program, which would provide competitive grants to drive development of high performing Passenger Rail networks. This program also includes funding for ptc implementation for commuter railroads and support for states and localities to mitt grait the adverse impacts of rail operations...

Mess, paul. Certainly some concern. Initially a little bit of excitement for the folks on the road. Fortunately in this incident, though, we didnt have any significant injuries. Whats leaking from the truck, paul . In this truck we have approximately [ inaudible ] which is similar to diesel fuel in terms of its properties. We have a section of the tank which is leaking and we estimated 400 gallons have leaked out. It appears theres a truck on the scene. Is it being offloaded right now . The hazm...

Unanimous requests. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection, so ordered. n mr. Cruz so the first unanimous consent request i would promulgate, mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h. J. Res. 72, making continuing appropriations for Veterans Benefits for the fiscal year 2014, which was received from the house. I ask further consent that the measure be read three times and passed and that the motion to reconsider be ...

That. And sarah bailey was told there would be no rock climbing on this trip. We cant see beautiful mountains just because theyre trying to make a statement. And i think its ridiculous. Its taking away our freedom to see our land, our home. Reporter and those that call other countries home dont think much of the welcome they are getting here. It cost us a lot of money to come over here. I think because it has cost us a lot of money, its unfair that we wont be able to enjoy all of it. Then i hear...

Of irresponsibility, saying it does not need to happen. Were going to be talking with the White House Communications director in just a couple minutes. We are right now awaiting movement in the senate. Just this past hour, House Republicans voted again to make funding of the government contingent on delaying the implementation of Health Reform. In the next few minutes, the senate is expected to reject what House Republicans just passed. They did it before, expected to happen again. Then back to ...

Yeah, that, you know, the fact that they can live there and prosper and grow is as a result of having a healthy, a healthy watershed. Right. So this sort of picking apart of the protections is, you know, is troublesome in that, you know, we have tried in addition to the regulatory work to really look at kind of watersheds whether theyre sort of the big, iconic, you know, ecosystems that we think of, the everglades, chesapeake bay, the bay delta in california or, you know, the watershed that supp...

Much bigger and we dont want to take the wrong action. We want to ask for the science, create preventive measures and look at the greatest source of risk but not create perhaps impediments for some of those most interesting areas where there is innovation, entrepreneurship and renewal going on in urban areas. So thank you very much. Thank you, paul now its your turn. I want to thank cspan on behalf of the foundation for covering this this morning. The purpose of the floor in the foundation is to...

Transportation authority and their plan and the red line signify over capacity, so in some of those instances, the buses go by and they dont stop because there is no room and in other instances, there just isnt enough of them there. Many, many more people than there is available throughout to meet that need, but i can get back to you as to exactly the metric that the Transportation Authority has been using. I regularly been seeing them pass me back. That seems a little off. So things like that, ...

That and to demonstrate how you looked at that time and then to address the concerns that have been raised. Two examples of the concerns that kind of pop up for me in your presentation was a lack of clarity as to how you came up with the idea of what was over crowded or not. From my experience on this, this map that youve got here on fly 10, theres so much more over crowding from my experience. Id love to understand miami theres over crowding and theres a matrix or definition that you all have t...

Made whole even though the car tax was cut. Okay. Thank you. Other members of the board. Councilmemeber ramos. I appreciate the update and i wish we could have had more of that and i wish i cad i wish i was apart of that task force. People are looking at this from an equity prospect and they want to know to get any kind of support that could demonstrate thats was an equity lens put over this so we can work toward like what you said earlier, restoring service or expanding service and what has bee...