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Steph. >> if you dont have the how, youre never going to get the if and when. jake, we have a little bit of those comments from speaker pelosi over the weekend. watch this. >> let me just say were going to pass the bill this week. i promised that we would bring the bill to the floor but, you know, im never bringing a bill to the floor that doesnt have the votes. you have to go when you have the votes in a reasonable time and we will. >> jake, what is happening between now and thursday that is su...

New TxDOT deputy executive director for program delivery announced TxDOT The Texas Department of Transportation today announced the selection of Brian Barth as the department’s second Deputy Executive Director. Barth will assume his new role on August 1 and will serve alongside Deputy Executive Director Brandye Hendrickson, who joined TxDOT on July 19. Both positions report to Executive Director Marc Williams with Barth responsible for leading TxDOT’s program delivery overseeing all roads...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA A group of mountain bikers ride through Rockville Hills Regional Park on Monday, March 18, 2019. In their state legislative platform for 2021, the Solano Board of Supervisors pledges to "encourage and seek legislation that protects the countys quality of life, its diverse natural resources, and preserves the essence and history of the County. Support funding and regulatory efforts conserve energy, and to preserve open space and agricultural viability." (Robinson Kun...

Infrastructures, here are the four goals of the plan, first, want to stimulate 1 and a half trillion in new investment, shorten the permit process to two years under one authority, he wants to invest in rural infrastructure and fourth, to improve the workforce training, improving -- excuse me in previewing the new 2019 budget omb director mulvaney says hell focus on things like the new infrastructure plan. >> take the money that the democrats want to put in social programs, move to opioid relief...

First of all, how do you get $200 billion to equal $1.5 trillion? a lot of skepticism on how states which are already cash strapped generate that kind of money and you get private companies to invest in the type of projects that arent just for profit but also in our interest in terms of water safety, in terms of public safety. and then secondly where does the seed money even come from because in the presidents own budget theres cuts to transportation programs and the highway trust fund. where do...

And deceptive credit card practices. nearly nine million consumers were scammed by the bank. our nations highways may soon run out of federal funding. they failed to take up debate on a bill that would provide $47 billion to transportation programs over the next six years. lawmakers have until july 31st to resolve the matter. a series of alzheimers studies finds older women with mild memory impairment worsen twice as fast as men. women have a one in six chance in developing alzheimers after turn...

>> interior department for fresh water but con mers department handles them when theyre in saltwater. i hear it getting even more complicated once theyre smoked. [laughter] martha: well, may sound funny around the p apparently at the time was talking about actually doing something about all of that government waste. not so much. the government wastes billions as the white house gets ready to spend even more of your tax dollars. of the so bad the feds can not keep track of it all. you will laugh ...

That will generate $40 billion for infrastructure improvement, highway repair, double the size of our rail system. we came up with a plan we call 3010 locally and call america fast forward across the country. and what it will do is incentivize local governments that will put up their own money for infrastructure, provide a loan program that could leverage 30 to 1, accelerate those programs, create jobs now. in our case, we would double the size of our rail system in ten years, create 166,000 job...

Trillion dollars of investment, shorten to one authority, invest in rural infrastructure and improving the workforce training, the rollout of 2019 budget mick mulvaney says itll focus heavily on new infrastructure plan and help rein in the deficit. >> take the money that democrats want to put to social programs, if it does get sent, gets sent to the right places. >> a plan by a bipartisan that addresses objectives by republicans and democrats but initial reaction from democrat members like pete ...

And you may soon be paying more at the pump, but if you think its because of the conflict in iraq, think again. two senators from connecticut and tennessee want to raise the federal gasoline and diesel taxes by 12 cents a gallon, the first hike in more than two decades. under the plan, the price increase would help fund highway and transportation programs, but the bipartisan proposal could be a risky move ahead of the midterm elections with tax hikes likely to prove unpopular among voters. fol...