Is closed and theres a shooter in the building that locke will slide in. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Each week in the segment of the washington journal we take a look at how your money is at work in a different federal program this week we focus on the 911 Victims Compensation fund. To do that were joined by a Congress Reporter for the new york daily news. Started off with a history of this fund. How long after 911 wasnt established in the criteria to qualify as a victim of 911 . There was a fund initially begun right after 911 and it lasted for a couple of years and that lapsed it do not take into account things liket people getting sick in the subsequent years. Numbers from new york including hillary clinton, pete king pushed for six years until he finally got another bill passed in 2010. At the end of 2010 it was letting the past congress avenue the victims competition fun for couple of billion dollars worth and then that expired in 2015 so they had to come back and do
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That is an indication of how we must continue to nurture people in this work, to not only make it adequate and informative, but they can help to relieve you in your duties when it is time. Over the last few months and weeks we have all had the opportunity to be front row and center to some of the nations most serious issues that happen not that far from here in baltimore. Where young people continue to fight or their lives and make sure that young people have an adequate seat at the table where they can provide authentic engagement that goes just beyond the town hall setting or the focus group setting. This is about not just the conversation but in the planning implementation and the analyzing afterward. We want young people to be the leaders, not just for the future but for now. I will jump right in and have each of our panelists tell us why they got engaged in this work. Most get engaged in this work because of something traumatic in their lives but i think it is really important for
Funeral services are scheduled for today and later this week for the victims from the amtrak crash. New questions this morning on what caused the amtrak train to derail. This is also the part of the larger debate on americas infrastructure. Do you support or oppose more Infrastructure Spending . If you support more spending 202 7488000. If you oppose, 202 7488001. You can also join in on the conversation on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com cspan. Send us an email, journal cspan. Org. Or send us a tweet, cspanwj. Good sunday morning to you. This is the headline from todays philadelphia inquirer, suddenly there was darkness and chaos. Jumping the tracks just outside the 30 street station in philadelphia. We want to get your comments and calls. First, the president who spoke about infrastructure last thursday. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] president obama we should not be thinking smaller today, we should be thinking bigger in this Global Economy. My hope is that we have a chan