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Year. The last longterm bill we passed with safetealu in 2005. That was 10 years ago and that bill was underfunded because of the resistance of raising the gasoline tax or identifying new revenue sources. For over a decade we have failed to address the funding challenges necessary to break the cycle of underinvestment and put this country back on a competitive path with the rest of the world. Today we spend about 1. 7 of g. D. P. On infrastructure while china spends 9 , europe 4. 5 to 5 . We used to spend 4. 5 to 5 also. There is a 800 million backlog. Public transit has an 6 billion backlog o...

Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minu...

Well this teacher took that letter of recommendation and brought it to the school he applied to work at in West Virginia, got hired and over time became the principal. Well these kinds of pedophiles, they dont change their ways and he didnt change his ways in West Virginia. He continued to prey on kids. Eventually he raped and then murdered a 12yearold boy named jeremy bell. Well justice eventually caught up with the killer and hes now serving a life sentence for that murder. But for little jeremy bell, that justice came too late and sadly, jeremy bell is not alone. Last year, mr. President we...

The story of real people and their real challenges. I describe whats gone wrong in their life, all we are doing about it now and what we can do better. Youll notice in the book there are many ideas that are bipartisan. They involve my collaboration with people of another party. Colleagues like chris coons of connecticut and cory booker in new jersey. Many of our policy proposals are part of it at all. Particularly when it comes to Higher Education. Youll read about how im working with mark warner to make Higher Education more affordable how im working with cory booker to provide more access to...

Next former congressman barney frank recounts his life and political career. This is 50 minutes. Thank you. Welcome, barney frank. [laughter] i was hoping that you could say a little bit about the story that you tried to tell in this book. [applause] it is there were two teams. A normal teenager in terms of my interest. 1954. Stand up. Smearing democrats. Fascinating. Something about racism dash chicago. And i wish i was. I watched. They can do that. At the same time i knew this was a terrible conflict. An executive order. Automatically disqualified. We were bad people, evil. And so i began to...