so your first concern would be the price of diesel fuelir diesel fuel is what makes transportation possible in this country. virtually everything you buy in america arrived by diesel engine. our entire trucking fleet runsng on diesel. so doesuy every single freight locomotive in the united states. so diesel prices get too high. transportation secretary, transport stops the price ofth nearly everything becomes unaffordablein. af so inflation is directly connected to transportation and transportation requires diesel. it turns out the dieseltoat fuel prices are the key to a lot of the american economy. and you would know that your second concern if you were we transportation secretary would be domestic air travel. this is a huge country. it s far too big a country not to have reliable commercial flights from one place to another. businesses depend on the airlines and so the families for generations they ve been able to depend on the airlines. america has had the most efficient a
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the root causes of crime, unless we look to the issues of mental health, we look ate the issues of substance abuse. we look at the issues of homelessness. we look at the income inequality. ss it s systemic racism unless we address all things we re goingas to continue to seees crime increases in many parts of the countryth. chris , i m listening to hima chris , i m listening to hima a congressmann, like he s making a legislative argument againstee harsh penalties. absolutely, laura . no sooner have you gotten intooe office in december of 2020, he issued a number of directives to his staff openly saying i disagree with the three strikes law, butb that s the role of the legislature. of course it was supposed tos fulfill the law as it san written. correct. and that s what s sosws importat aboutt this lawsuit, laura , that again, it s basic civics. the legislature determines the law if the legislature says the penalty for a particular crime, the sentence is between 20 and 30 years.0 a p