nutritional assistance for women and infant children. s there there is a republican congressman from arkansas saying, okay, let s just do funding for wic. it s like, what s the headline today that s bad about the shutdown, and then the next day, here s a mini cr to fix that thing. i think the thing that i think republicans are deluding themselves if they think this message is getting across to the american public. i mean, look, the bottom line is, if the story is big enough to force people to dress up as doctors, to dress people to dress up in such as they were actually doctors. i m sure they pulled it right out of their closet. the stories are big enough to reach the american public. if you look in the local papers across the country over the past couple of days, republicans are getting realmed in editorials, they are getting realmed in stories about missing women, who cannot be found because of cut backs, federal cutbacks, of people to go and search for her.
shooting that is there and not too surprising when you have cuts. you have increases in crime and more gangs. and the new york city, obviously the biggest city in the country, their murder rate went down 19 percent. what is new york doing that other cities should follow? you know, the surprising thing, the new police chief from chicago is from new york. you would think he is doing the policies. but politics have judged in and tied his hand. and new york has done a lot of things. large size police force and stop and frisk may help. and they are much more aggressive and haven t had the cut backs. irony in chicago, they have cut backs to save money and now this
only 2% actually engaged with anything on the site. today s state department spokeswoman said in response to the report they have cut the online advertising budget to $2500 a month. a california college student was told to remove her cross necklace because it might be offend difference. an attorney for the 19-year-old said shefther supervisor took i with the necklace saying there was a policy against religious items. on a second occasion, the supervisor asked jarvis to hide the necklace under her shirt. a school spokeswoman confirms the story and called the supervisor s actions completely wrong and the school president is reaching out to jarvis to apologize. in the time of budget tightening, furloughs and cut backs, one thing that has seemed to escape is air force one. the national taxpayers union says the president e s plane wi
and the systems and governments have done their part as well. i should point out that we re in a very strange situation right now. because all of the budgets proposed in washington now are calling for massive cut backs in funding for disaster preparedness. right. it s been under the radar screen but we are facing probably 50% cut back in fund to help cities and states get prepared for disasters between 2010 and now. we re facing the elimination of the hospital preparedness program for disasters. so we have this kind of disconnect between funds and resources that we are putting towards this and actual needs that people are experiencing. such an important point. you raise it as not a political point but simply what are we doing to be prepared at the state and federal level and of course congress right now, debating what they are going to do with budget offsets if they go bat of the $11 billion left in the disaster fund. exactly. and everything as we keep
it. i think it was important to innvenience people in this t really unacceptable way. inconvenience people in an unacceptable way. here is what i wish could happen today. i wish every single cancer patient and every kid who is getting kicked out of head start and every person losing a job at a government facility because of cut backs or furloughs. every family losing section 8 housing assistance. i wish every single one of them could have gotten together and bussed by the thousands to all parts of the country to reagan national airport and rolled out on to the runway and strung out in a line that stretches across the entire field so that those planes carrying members of congress who just cast this vote couldn t take off. how is that for inconvenience, senator? joining me from washington, democrat from illinois who voted for the faa bill today, hakeem jeffreys from democrat from new york who voted against the bill. we asked republican fess we