a rush by those people that try to get in. what opponents say, refugee halts, the four months prohibition on refugees entering the u.s., that couldn t have been done by the last minute for people trying to sneak under the ban. it s a lengthy process. upwards of a year. but at the same time, trump s white house aides are saying that this is the kind of thing they need to do to really clamp down without allowing people to circumvent the rules. shepard: is there recourse for those that believe this is the wrong thing to do? the trump administration has given some latitude to the cabinet secretaries to allow for exceptions in the event that they re needing. what is inclear is how frequently they will be given, whether they will go to the top and get bogged down in the bureaucratic hurtles or whether it s an outlet for the ban. shepard: former president
speeds is in place but why not on the busiest rail corridor? yeah i mean, amtrak is sort of a net with a lot of blame to go around. the capital expenditures are underfunded, but one of the biggest hurtles is a bureaucracy to make it hard to spend money. the amtrak has been trying to finish its positive train control in the northeast corridor, which is the one place it is really needed for several years now. and it got bogged down because no one had authority to get the wireless service from the private carriers along the track. so you have this this organization amtrak that has been asked to serve too many masters, asked to provide service from chicago to dallas. they waste hundreds of millions of dollars on that. meanwhile, they left the one place where it is vital, the northeast corridor, go lagging.
gl good afternoon we begin as the nation hurtles towards a government shutdown with the right flank of republicans at the wheel and speaker john boehner casting the role of crash test dummy. right now all eyes are on october 1st, the day the government runs out of money and the day the uninsured can begin enrolling in exchanges through the affordable care act. it is the effort to tie the two together in a continuing resolution to fund the government that is sowing seeds of division. if you didn t think there was an intraparty house squabble, you ought to listen to john boehner earlier today. i expect any senate colleagues to do everything they can to defund this law just like the 140us going to do. we re having a fight over here.
in terms that will have some concern for amnesty. opponents because, in effect. amp the hurtles are cleared. they would be allowed to stay. watch. immediately, when the bill passes. people who are here living in the shadows, would get a legal right to stay here and work. they would no longer be deported provided they don t have a criminal record. well, supporters say that that provision that they don t have a criminal record in addition to a background check, in addition to paying fines, paying taxes and going to the back of a whole series of lines, be it for work or residency or ultimately a green card and citizenship means that it s not amnesty. that s going to be debated once again aprogressively and it all starts tomorrow when the president lays down his marker, shep? shepard: on his plan, karl, something similar to this of that on the house or exactly the same thing or, what? well, we don t actually know. the president and the administration has signaled
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