Lundquist and Safety Community help agencies go through that. There is a Police Accreditation coalition that brings tremendous resources. Some organizations do not have the capacity to support accreditation itself. Those help to help shepherd organizations. Should we require departments to develop a plan to reach accreditation . It is a pretty good the sort of Gold Standard of policing, that they aspire to. But should we rather than just encourage it, should we consider some system where we require departments at least to articulate a plan to get this way . I think a requirement is important, but also the way it is structured to review agencies, does not have investigatory authority, nor are we seeking that. In some ways, if you require it becomes regulatory, which i think prevents the integrity of the process from moving forward. I want to be cautious. I think incentives to support organization is important. A few things. I wonder if any witnesses have any suggestions on how we might
Year. The last longterm bill we passed with safetealu in 2005. That was 10 years ago and that bill was underfunded because of the resistance of raising the gasoline tax or identifying new revenue sources. For over a decade we have failed to address the funding challenges necessary to break the cycle of underinvestment and put this country back on a competitive path with the rest of the world. Today we spend about 1. 7 of g. D. P. On infrastructure while china spends 9 , europe 4. 5 to 5 . We used to spend 4. 5 to 5 also. There is a 800 million backlog. Public transit has an 6 billion backlog of critical maintenance and repair needs which increased by 2. 5 billion each year as bus and Rail Infrastructure ages. While infrastructure crumbles around us, we dont fill the gap in the Highway Trust Fund just to do a longterm bill at current levels. But this week they will put on the floor a tax extenders that will cost 182 billion over 10 years completely unpaid for. Im concerned that we will
A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from montana. Mr. Daines i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Daines i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of Senate Resolution 181 submitted earlier today. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk Senate Resolution 181, designating may 19, 2015, as national skitzencephaly awareness day. The presiding officer without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Daines i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Daines i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of Senate Resolution 182. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk Senate Resolution 181, expressing the sense of the senate that defense laboratories have been and
German Industrial Production and some reports at least that some ecb members favored a rate cut yesterday. Our road map will go like this. That puzzling jobs number beating virtually every wall street estimate as the Labor Department says sandy had only a minimal effect. Is it true a clean number and what are conspiracy theorists saying. A comment hastings made last july. What does it say about s. E. C. Rules and whether they are out of date. Mcdonalds will post same store sales on monday gets an upgrade to buy taking the forecast to a street high after surveying franchisees. We begin with november jobs number. 146,000 nonfarm jobs added last month above forecast of 80,000. October and september payrolls were revised lower. Unemployment rate fell by 0. 2 to 7. 7. Thats the lowest in four years. The dip occurring mostly because more people stopped looking for work and were not counted as unemployed. As for hurricane sandy, the Labor Department says the storm did not substantively impact
Research Senior Research economist michelle mire and well talk through everything thats been happening through jobs and what to expect. But first, there is a developing story. An earthquake off the northeast coast of japan triggered a tsunami warning. The warning has been lifted, but it was a 7. 3 quake. So far no reports of any injuries or damage. It was for the same area devastated by an earthquake and tsunami back in march of last year. We will continue to bring you any developments. In the meantime, steve has some of the mornings top other stories. Lets start with the markets. Asian stocks rallying to 2012 highs overnight. The nikkei edging lower after hitting a se hitting hitting a seven month closing high yesterday. European trading, shares seem to be fwllat. Bundesbank announced it had cut its Growth Outlook for the country. In the u. S. , the nasdaq snapped its losing streak yesterday with its first gain in five days. The dow was on pace for its Third Straight weekly gain. U. S