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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday laid out legislative measures he hopes that Congress will pass, including a long-delayed bill to regulate the use, management and development of land and water resources.
Voting, but also to place his presidency and certainly his justice department squarely in the corner of protecting and defending voting and really the expansion of democracy in america. >> they've certainly done that rhetorically, do you think they'll back that up? >> i think the attorney general taking action against texas and south carolina, i think working diligently on a new, if you will, voting rights act modernization bill, to try to correct the damage to the voting rights act the supreme court did last summer is certainly indicative of the president. i think the attorney general's stron...
What's funded to repair all of those things you see broken at airports, as well as the tarmacs. and with all of those unbundled fees that we now have, the airlines are no longer required to pay the excise tax on all of and, you know, aisle seat, window seat fees that they used to have to pay when it was included in the base fare. that money's not there in the trust fund any longer, which has now been depleted. and the passenger facility charges that the airports charge in order to pay for upgrades of the airport and to keep an airport looking nice and hygienic, those haven't been raised in l...
Extremely limited. so that kind of changes the diet of the whole family. the countless doctor's visits and lab work that we do is pretty expensive so we just wanted to come here and talk to the senate and just beg them essentially to pass this food safety legislation. >> you're happy with the changes in the fda modernization bill? >> i think it's an excellent start. it would help to make americans safer. >> eric, we talk about the fact there's no bipartisanship on capitol hill. congress is broken. this is a bill that passed the house, got unanimous support in the senate committee and caught up...