debates are down party lines. texas law is shameful, and republicans clearly in texas and throughout the country want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election. i think what the republicans here would tell you is that they re trying to make sure that the person voting is the person on paper so it s a legitimate vote devoid of fraud. reporter: that s the debate in texas. a much different one happening in the nation s capital. while congress is gone, they are still talking about the president s newly-released budget. it s going to cost them $6 trillion if it were to be approved, and already the white house is trying to sell skeptical lawmakers that now is the time to spend bill. we heard today from transportation secretary pete buttigieg. you can t get something for nothing, and in the near term we know that we need to make major investments in our roads, bridges, in our education, in our health. we can t afford not to do these
ultimately, so they re for instance, making it tougher for black americans to do sole to the poles saying you can only do voting on polls sundays after 1:00 p.m. that s how it looks to millions of people. right. and this is actually passed at 6:00 a.m. and i haven t had a chance to look tat or really comment. i know it s going to conference committee. there are a couple fundamentals, here, though, that i think most americans do agree with. that is, asking for an i.d., you know when someone votes. i don t believe that s voter suppression. i think 70% of americans agree with that idea. and then the idea of verifying signatures i think is very important as well. i think what the republicans here will tell you is that they re trying to make sure that the person voting is the person on paper so it s a legitimate vote devoid of fraud.
paper so it s a legitimate vote devoid of fraud. reporter: meantime, the administration still trying to get congress on-board with its $6 trillion spending plan. the budget was released on friday, before the holiday weekend. it was interesting because we had not seen a number of administration officials out there presenting it. we ve been hearing from lawmakers, reacting, democrats applauding it, republicans criticizing it. we re hearing from key senate republican whose have been talking to the white house about a broader infrastructure push. they say while there is still no deal yet, both sides continue to talk. i think we can get to real come he pro mice, compromise, absolutely, because we re both still in the game. the president said let s get this done. we realize this is easy. i think we bring every idea that s on the table into negotiations to see how we can achieve this. reporter: the white house was hoping to get some sort of major
on paper so it s a legitimate vote devoid of fraud. now, we could debate whether, how much fraud occurred in the last election, and democrats have claimed fraud had happened in the prior, previous elections, but one thing that s pretty clear to me, jake, is that a lot of the american people seem to have lost faith in our government. they ve lost faith in our elections, that we need to restore. and i think if we can take measures to take fraud out of the system or even potential for fraud. now, covid was a very different circumstance where, you know, you had different voting measures and longer periods of time. and i m all for longer early voting times, but i m also for counting the votes during early voting so you re not waiting a month or two after the election to see who actually won it. right. but congressman, i mean, texas had a very successful, very clean election, and republicans did really, really well. you won a bunch of congressional districts that democrats thought
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May 20, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Rawalpindi Commissioner Gulzar Shah’s fact-finding report into the aborted Rawalpindi Ring Road (R3) project, which the government has adopted and is acting upon, does not contain a word in defence from at least three dozen officials, private parties and housing societies that have been named and accused of serious misdemeanours.
A reading of the 33-page report shows that at no point did the commissioner summon the “delinquents” to confront them with his findings, observations and conclusions before implicating them in the mega scandal. If he ever gave them a hearing, it is not reflected in his report. The report uses strong words against those it found responsible for the scam. Among others, it uses terms such as “unethical silence” and “rent seeking syndicate” to describe them and their actions.