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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 would say for americans all over this country looking for work, wanting to make a valuable contribution...

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 republican budget aims to break that pattern. Its not about cutting programs. Its about saving and strengthen...

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 tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may...

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. How high that is thats how far we go down. Narrator stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunn...

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 water act was passed in 72. Narrator another significant component of the clean water act was a feder...