I took the chairmanship in october 2010. The summary of the title is the federal government must stop sitting on its assets. We have taken on gsa and some of the billons buildings that have sat vacant. They continue the effort to get empty buildings filled. The report also talks about the northeast corridor, one of the most valuable assets in the entire world. It is an asset we are sitting on. It probably would will never be developed to its fullest potential by amtrak. This outlines part of our goal we had heard at that time they had developed those plans in december 2010. They were going to develop the northeast corridor and it was going to cost 117 billion and take 30 years. The most recent projection we have, they are looking at 151 billion. In 30 years. My premise is that it can be done and a third of the time, probably much less than it cost. They will tell you 31 million. They will tell you their success in the northeast corridor. The figures we have had 12. 9 million riders in
Her mothers folks are from virginia and probably her fathers as well. John converts to quakerism and they go off and live in North Carolina in a quaker community. As far as we know dolley was born there so she is North Carolinas only first lady. What is sad about that she spends most of her life denying it. We think it has to do with her fathers shady Business Practices and they move back to virginia. So shes raised in the world of slave holding. Her father released his slaves as a quaker. Is that the cause of his inability to continue his business . I think he had other problems besides that. He couldnt farm so they moved to that chilly Northern City of philadelphia. Im not sure if you know so much about her thoughts of slavery. How is it that she reconciled herself to actually having slaves in the white house . I think thats a good question. Im not sure i know the answer to that. But she did not free any of her slaves as her father had. And she didnt speak out against slavery so the
Next monday night first Lady Elizabeth monroe was more private than Dolley Madison. She refused to continue the tradition of making social calls around the city. She spoke french inside the white house and gained a reputation of being queenly by her critics. And Louisa Katherine adams was the only first lady born outside the u. S. Next monday live at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan 3, also on cspan radio and cspan. Org. And our website has more about the first ladies including a welcome to the white house. The association is offing the book first ladies of the United States of america. And thoughts from Michelle Obama on the role of first ladies throughout history now available for the discounted price of 12. 95 plus shipping at cspan. Org slash products. Now the American Public Transportation Association discusses its priorities and spending cuts. Well hear from the Railroad Administration and the trance it administration. This is an hour and ten minutes. I agree, please wake up
This is something that we simply have got to move forward on. I was happy in 2012, i was able to get language in their that put a cap on this Publicprivate Partnerships. And there are folks around this country where theyre moving forward on that. Its really critical. And mr. Bishop rod of foreign manufacturing possibly taking place possibly take the place of domestic manufacturing. Thats something we havent talked about here but thats really critical. 40 balance in trade, for our economy, for a number of reasons. I guess what i would like to ask all of you, but mr. Jones if he would start out, how are Publicprivate Partnerships going to be affected by sequestration and the c. R. . What kind of longterm effects are we talking about . I agree with you, Publicprivate Partnerships are absolutely critical, protect the critical capabilities in both the public and private sector now more than ever as we are seeing significant downsizing. Capacity within the national sustained and daschle base
He was never one to do drugs. There has to be Something Else going on. Another day and another answer from jeb bush on iraq. I would not have engaged or gone into iraq. Thats not what he has been saying all week long. Can he shake this off. Lets talk live in the cnn newsrooms. Good morning. I am carol costello. Thank you for joining me. We begin in nepal. A tragic evened to the search for marines gone missing on an aid mission in the tphep lease mountains. The charred wreckage found on a steep slope east of the katmandu. There are three bodies among the burned debris and will ripley is in catkatmandu this morning, and tell us more. Reporter its discouraging news and sad news. They were providing humanitarian aid, and thats what they were doing on the same day this country was rocked by the earthquake. Researchers have been scouring the hepl layious, they have been looking for it. It was on a steep slope. 11,200 feet elevation. Crews were able to hike in there, and keep in mind its rugg