These cable providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next a house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee hears testimony from amtrak c. E. O. Steven gardner and the executive director of the northwest Corridor Commission on improving Train Service and efficiency. They also discuss passenger safety, route options in the midwest and west coast and high speed rail. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair may call recess at any time. Without objection, so ordered. I recognize myself for Opening Statement for five minutes. Todays hearing examines the current and future state of amtrak. The Infrastructure Investment and job act gave historic funding to railroads with a large portion of that money going to amtrak. Amtrak is a federally chartere
jeffries. my first vote for speaker of the house was for byron donalds. today i am rising to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house of representatives. now, here we are and for the first time in history there have been two black americans placed into the nomination for speaker of the house. [applause] john: standoff ratcheting up tensions and raising fears of a longer term rift among republicans as the gop leadership remains on hold. sandra: congressman elect donalds will be joining us in a moment, byron donalds is watching for the final vote cast on the float and then hop in front of the camera and join us live. john: first we go to chad pergram live on capitol hill. chad, looks like groundhog day today. well, right now the one thing we know is that they are not going to elect a speaker of the house on this roll call vote. the first vote of the day, the fourth overall in the past two days and kevin mccarthy has not been able to get an outright majority of
that it wasn in fact a revolutionary bill . and then there was this inio the senate for ted kennedy of massachusetts. the man who drove the bill went out of his way to explain this. the democratic party was absolutely not trying to replace the american population with more compliant foreign born voters. for no way. that s an insane conspiracy theory. he explained, quote, this bill will not flood our citiesci .ti immig the immigrants kennedy said itr. will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. n it will not relax the standards of admission. it will not cause american workers to lose their jobs. it it s all bitterly amusing when you look back at it because of course, that is precisely what this bill did. this bill changed america completely bill and forever. and the numbers show it in the years since that legislationn passed, the united states total populationle explodedited by one hundred 140 and forty million people. you re seeing that chart on your screen t ch right now
bill: the mayor is calling for accountability for those responsible. here is one witness describing what he heard and saw last night. he was screaming for his mom and it is hurtful to hear that, man. no one was able to help him. to see him go is like it bothers me seeing this. i don t think i would come outside for nothing else ever in d.c. shots rang out. i was next to a cop. he proceeded on. we were trying to enjoy ourselves, crowds kept running back and forth. dana: mark meredith is live in washington with the details. good morning. police are trying to figure out what sparked the shooting that left a 15-year-old boy dead. latest incident spotlighting the issue of rising crime here in major u.s. cities. sunday s shooting was tied to a juneteenth celebration but organizers did not have a proper mitt and police were trying to break up the event because of previous chaos. they heard the teenage victim call for his mom when the shots rang out. he was killed and other
with the late show with stephen colbert on cbs. they came yesterdaythco for thee six committee hearing in the cannon house office building. now fox has confirmed that the group came to the house office buildings to interview two members of the one six committee, adam schiff and stephanie murphy. t they also interviewed massachusetts democrat jake auchinclossmeme. auchincloss is not on the one- six committee6 capitol police showed the food the group awayfm from the one six committee hearing area because they did not have proper press credentials. fox has toldnot a house radio v gallery denied them credentials because they are notot news. however, fox has confirmed that the group was letho back into the longworth house office building by an aide tousn auchincloss after four p.m. fox has told the aide thought they had more interviews to do. they remained in the house office buildings unattended for hours. the group was arrested after the building closed the rest came around eigh