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Mr. Ellison let me thank the speak for allowing us time to talk about the peoples budget. This is a budget that puts. 4 Million People back to work. Earlier in this debate, my colleague on the other side of the aisle, pulled up a chart and did a comparison between our budget and the republican budget. But there was one category that i did not see on that chart and that is how many jobs do you create . How many jobs do you create . This is the right number we should be comparing budgets on. I wou...

Medical innovation and preventing new treatments from reaching patients because of everexpanding washington bureaucracy and read tip . Red tape . Where is the morality in tying students to crippling debt and program loan thoss drive up tuitions. And where is the the morality in heaping debt on future generations because todays policymakers refuse to stop overspending . Those are only a few examples of the regrettable consequences of wellintentioned government sponsored compassion. This republica...

That making any accommodation to shut it down, to do something to it, is very difficult. Narrator two Massive Underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the citys water supply. They run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through solid rock. They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the...

We started on this project in 1969. Im a sandhog. Ive been a sandhog for 37 years. Narrator sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. They began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. From the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. Ryan you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows were here. See the empire state building, right. Thats 1,000 feet. So you figure, you go down 1,000. Ho...

That we face in america today. Allbee the clean water act set a floor and basically said, everybodys whos discharging is going to have to have a permit, and to achieve this defined performance level. Narrator the clean water act regulates the discharge of pollutants into surface waters across the nation. It protects our watersheds, our recreational waters, and our Drinking Water intakes. Man today, more than 50 of the nations waters are fishable, swimmable. Thats almost doubled since the clean w...

And Wastewater Infrastructure systems are actually paying for it. Narrator cities and municipalities across the United States are now facing this funding gap, between projected revenue and projected expenses, as they strive to maintain Water Quality and meet demand. New york is the most densely populated city in the u. S. And over 40 million tourists visit the city every year. The 1. 3 billion gallons of water required every day are delivered by a system of extraordinary scale and complex engine...

Of new york city. Reliable infrastructure and Reliable Delivery of water is a must. You have to reinvest in the infrastructure every single minute to keep it current. Hurwitz we have the stock exchange, we have the United Nations failure can have a dramatic impact on the nation, and even internationally. So theres a really keen awareness that you always have to be fixing the system. Things corrode, they rust. They get to where you turn them on and nothing happens. But it is so totally used in ev...

In other words, the water coming out of a Wastewater Treatment plant often enters the watershed, flows into intakes of Drinking Water Treatment Plants, and eventually finds its way right back to our faucets. It takes huge investments to ensure that wastewater and Drinking Water Treatment Plants function properly to maintain a safe water supply. We made the initial investments in the plants and the pipes. But once we accomplished that, there was this great recognition that we had a series of issu...

And you looked at the additional investment requirements over the next 20 years, theres a 540 billion difference. Man so one of the greatest challenges is to reflect true value pricing. So that the citizens and businesses that rely on water and Wastewater Infrastructure systems are actually paying for it. Narrator cities and municipalities across the United States are now facing this funding gap, between projected revenue and projected expenses, as they strive to maintain Water Quality and meet ...

They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, maintenance, or repair of the tunnels in decades. No one knows their current condition. Hurwitz currently, city tunnel 1 and city Tu...