invest more government money. until we know for certain what caused the tragedy, i want to reiterate what i already said. we are a growing country with a growing economy. we need to invest the infrastructure that keeps us that way. not just when something bad happens like a bridge collapse or train derailment but all the time. on wednesday, the house appropriations committee voted to reduce grants to amtrak by $252 million. a drop of 15% from the prior year. committee also defeated an amendment for $825 million to fund the automated positive train control system. nine minutes past the hour. breaking news. a u.s. marine helicopter that went missing in nepal earlier this week has been found. six u.s. marines on that chopper helping with the earthquake relief efforts when radio contact was lost. a top ranking officer with the nepal army telling cnn the chopper has been sighted on the
that are going to be served between bakersfield and fresno and doesn t connect into a major metropolitan area. it s not how much money you spend, it s where you spend the money and we are spending billions. the house appropriations committee voted down a democratic amendment that would have offered $825 million for the technology known as positive train control and according to the ntsb if that technology had been in place this accident wouldn t have happened? exactly. but we had given amtrak between $1 billion and $1.5 billion every year i have been in congress. they are spending money on bonuses for executives. we could put in miles and miles of that. they are putting money in to subsidize losing food service, and in a dozen years they lost $1 billion in the cabin food service operation.
stripped wisconsin public employees including school teachers of their ability to bargain. chris christie made rolling back pensions a hallmark. he has singled out school teachers in some cases physically as a source of the problem. scott walker passed a tax cut that blew an $825 million hole in the wisconsin budget, one that largely benefitted the top 1% of wisconsin. over in jersey christie faces an $800 million budget gap going into the end of the fiscal year, his solution? tax cuts, $600 million worth of them. what about the jobs? with less than five months before the end of the term how is scott walker doing on the goal of his? 250,000 new jobs. that s my goal. so far governor walker has created less than half of that. as of january wisconsin ranked 9 out of 10 in private sector job
solar power mirror farm east of los angeles in the desert. and they clear the 2000 acres and they disturb something called a pit fox, and several of the foxes are found dead or dismembered as a result of the clearing of the 2000 acre site and then they found two stones nestled over a bed of char coal that could i am play a native american burial ground. hold everything. the whole project is held up because of that. yes. the taxpayers could be on the hook for 825 million dollars. 825 million dollars worth of money goes to the genesis project, the mirror farm and this money is now at risk because if you delay the project or worth yet, you cancel it, those loans kick in to pay for the costs that you ve matched. alisyn: back up a second. is there any way they could have figured out that the foxes were going to be in danger or that this was an
every company has made the changes so make sure you read small print. scuba divers off the coast of palm beach county, florida make an amazing discovery. the group swam across the remnants of a world war ii era military aircraft that is still intact. water logged, not going anywhere but still intact. ali? listen to this, steve, in the private sector, paid sick days are something you use only if you need them. and if you re lucky enough to stay healthy, you don t get to collect them. that s not the case if you work in the public sector in new jersey. there, public schoolteachers actually get paid out for unused sick days. and that s something that s costing taxpayers more than $825 million a year. the accumulated liability right now in the state for these sick days is $825 million. sick days are for when you re sick and not anything else.