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Bills being passed without knowing what was in them. as if they just don t care and it s time for summer recess. is that still the prevailing attitude even after four years of donald trump? i can assure you, that is no the attitude with me. the people of tennessee didn t like me to be popular in the senate. they elected me to represent their best interest rate into represent the best interest of the taxpayers of america. when a complex bill like this pass is not through committees, but through a different process altogether, they initially trie to pass it through with no text whatsoever. it was like the blank book, the empty book, but buy it even though there s nothing on the page spread. it turns out we can t pay fo it we find this out just hours before it s the bigger concern, is that chuck schumer is trying to accelerate this through last night in the dark of night to put the big deficit shortfall i the rearview mirror so we could move right into the infrastructure package which ....
Another frustration americans feel when this is the kind of thing we didn t want but bills being passed without knowing what was in them. without knowing the cost as though they just don t care. it s time for summer recess. is that the prevailing attitude even after four years of donald trump? it s not the attitude with me and the people of tennessee didn t elect me to be popular in the center make things convenient for chuck schumer, they elected me to represent their best interest in the best interests of the taxpayers of america. when something like this occurs, complex bill like this pass is not the normal order or committees, we have not had time to review they tried to pass through with no text whatsoever. the empty book with nothing on the page. it turns out we can t pay for it. we find this out hours before the process, the bigger concern is chuck schumer trying to accelerate this to the dark of night, the big deficit shortfall in the rearview mirror into the ....
Politics reporter, mark nickett. mark, a d plus, that s a low grade. what implications does this have on the country s economic future? it has a lot. i mean if you look at that american society for civil engineers report card, it calculates at least a $2 trillion deficit shortfall in the amount of funding that s needed to get our infrastructure up to even a b grade and of that affects commerce and the economies. some estimates are even higher in terms of the need for investment to get u.s. infrastructure even up to an adequate level. but none of this is new. more than 40% of buses and 25% of rail transit assets are in marginal or poor condition. this is not new news. and we have not seen any changes with past administrations. what does president trump or this administration thinks an infrastructure plan that would pass would look like? that s going to be the big ....