These cable providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next a house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee hears testimony from amtrak c. E. O. Steven gardner and the executive director of the northwest Corridor Commission on improving Train Service and efficiency. They also discuss passenger safety, route options in the midwest and west coast and high speed rail. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair may call recess at any time. Without objection, so ordered. I recognize myself for Opening Statement for five minutes. Todays hearing examines the current and future state of amtrak. The Infrastructure Investment and job act gave historic funding to railroads with a large portion of that money going to amtrak. Amtrak is a federally chartere
Today and january 3rd. That is one in every three americans. Tonight,a a busy, busy night to fly out. Now, you know, it is a pretty good day overall for all three airports. Here we caught up with volunteers who overrer their time and compassionate the travelers aid desk. Reporter over their time and compassionate the travelers aid desk. We love helping people. They are so grateful. That is the nice thing about this job. We occasionally get hard problems but most of our job is happiness. Reporter travelers flock to jerry and roberta with questions from lost luggage to lost loved ones. We locate a lot of lost grandmothers here. Especially the holiday time. [ laughter ] reporter he is a fixture here for 22 years. Somewhat most of what we do is just [audio connection ] she calls herself with a newcomer with six years of volunteering at the airport. Two problems that happen here as they go to the wrong airport they think there is only one airport in all of washington or they think we are da
Connecticut, where the first of the victims from the tragedy here were laid to rest today. This grieving town begins the process of saying goodbye, investigators continue their search for how and why it all happened here. Ill have more coming up. Devastation of Superstorm Sandy, but wait until you hear about all the pork loaded into this 60 billion sandy relief bill. Hardly any of it gets to sandy and the actual survivors. Well get to all that. The kudlow report begins right now. First up, 14 days and the clock is still running for a deal to prevent the nations economy from falling off the tax and fiscal cliff. President obama, Speaker Boehner, they huddled at the white house today once again, but are we really any closer to a compromise . We go back to cnbcs eamon javers who joins us from washington with all the details. Good evening. Reporter good evening, larry. Youre right, they did meet today. It was a surprise meeting not announced as the previous meetings between the two men hav
Certain way. So they of course passed the bill overnight around 1 00 or so in the morning. Sent it back over here to the house of representatives where we expect them to start voting just about an hour or so from now. And we expect that the results will be similar. We just saw the House Speaker paul ryan walk past here. He has been in what i would describe as a jubilant mood. This is a major accomplishment for him. But of course a source of concern for a lot of americans who are wondering how this will affect them. This is a major tax break for businesses and proceed poe nepo that brings us in line for the rest of the world, but critics say that it will add to the deficit and its not clear that individuals will keep the tax cuts in 2025. Yeah, well talk about the deficit more in a minute. But first i want to get the take from the white house with metet alexander is like 200 feet away from me. We know republicans are coming over this afternoon. This will be a serious victory lap. What e
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