something that i m really enjoying doing right now. griff: eric, tell us about this program and why you did it, why you started it. well, you know, the u.s. chamber of commerce started this program back in 2011 really to address the national crisis of veteran unemployment. we hosted over 800 hiring events in the first three years, but as we ve grown as an organization, we ve also found that veterans and military spouses are strategic assets that businesses can t get enough of from a work force perspective. so we started to really leverage our broad reach across communities, across bases to really help service members like jerilyn, this and military spouses get the training, get the skillet sets concern skill sets, get the connections with employers to help them find those long-term, meaningful careers they so richly deserve. griff: talk to me about the challenges, everyone is having
groceries and pretty soon when americans go christmas shopping, every american is going to be left footing the bill of the radical expansion of the government by pelosi and biden. griff: i ve got 20 seconds left. what impact to you see the election in virginia this past week. i think in virginia and new jersey, enough spending in washington d.c. we want to rip the bandaid off covid and get our lives back and we continue to see nancy pelosi and joe biden not understand the american people. griff: congressman bryan steil, we ll see you when we have the next bill. molly: on the other side of the aisle we bring in democratic congress woman, thank you for joining us on this saturday afternoon. we appreciate it. of course, happy to be here with you.
strip, hopefully not. go blue. griff: and peter morici at the university of maryland professor joins us to discuss the supply chain prices. molly. molly: after years of pushing every development on the russia investigation, this week the mainstream media ignored the latest event that the fbi arrested a man based on special council. a look at the key source of the steele doesier. the inassignment of igor danchenko, intertwined with the investigation of president trump in russia, washington post said in the lead story, allegations cast new uncertainty on past reporting on the doesier by news organizations including the washington post. yet despite the enormous media attention to the russia
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social spending bill, which will now come after congress returns the week of november 15th. but republicans are firing back today the saying this infrastructure bill is not what s been advertised. the we re going to do infrastructure, let s do infrastructure. less than 10% of it, $110 billion, goes to, quote, surface transportation. and of that, $70 with is public mass transit leaving 3 or 4% to go to roads and bridges, traditional things that americans, you know, really desperately need in their communities. reporter: president biden says americans will start to feel the if effects of the infrastructure bill in the next 2-3 months. molly? molly: lucas tomlinson, thank you. griff? griff: well, supply chain strangled by trucking shortages, add rising inflation, and this could add up to be one of the most expensive high school day season holiday seasons ever.