Bill the house is voting for a three year 8 billion ban bandaid, why . Because to re finance the export import bank, congress is playing politics with the nations highways and the house is start being its summer recess tomorrow meaning a longer term transportation solution will not be debated until the fall. That is textbook kicking the can. Now here is why this matters. Americas infrastructure rates a d plus, power communication water power more, they get no more than a dplus grade on a report card, put out by the American Society of Civil Engineers. America needs to spend 3. 6 trillion by 2020, and not only are we doing enough to modernize our infrastructure, were barely maintaining what we have now. It used to be the envy, now were following behind the rest of the world. Down from seivet i seventh in 23. In case youre wondering, hong kong, singapore and the United Arab Emirates took the top three places last year. Hong kong, that joe biden said had an airport so great, you would thi
Overall number in the law, the budget control act, requesting basically a little bit over 1 trillion. 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for. Within that number, he really departed from the budget control act numbers, and he requested a lot more for defense programs. About 54 billion for security related programs. And covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. So thats a violation of the budget control act there. But more than that, its very politically unpopular. Yes members really like the , defense spending increase, but they dont like taking it out of nondefense programs agriculture cut more than 20 . Transportation, federal housing programs cut 15 . Labor, health, Education Programs cut similarly. State Department Programs cut tremendously. And congress is rejecting that. They dont really have their own plan nailed down. While they are inclined to give a lot more to defense, they are not as interested in those nondefense spending cuts. It matters of
Im going to read a statement which i typically dont do at these but i want to make sure you full will you understand fully understand what i have to say on the issue that i think is mostly on our minds this morning. Obviously, any foreign breach of our cybercurt measures is serving, and i strongly condemn any such efforts. Prior to the election the director of National Intelligence released a statement saying that the russian government directed the recent compromises of emails from u. S. Persons and institutions. Including from u. S. Political organizations. That is what the Intelligence Community believes can be said in had unclassified remarks without risking sources and methods. Anything else, anything else is irresponsible likely illegal, and potentially for partisan political gain. I agree with senator schumer, chairman mccain, burr, and others simply cannot be a partisan issue. Let me remind all of you that the Senate Intelligence committee on which i and chairman of the Arm Ser
So if we think about this, which is the first one of the first references to parkways in the United States. Olmstead and vox based their idea off paris. In this early conception of the parkway, they are thinking about a couple of rather simple ideas. First it is a wider than average street. Second, parkways in the early conception were usually treelined. Weve talked a little bit about boulevards and essentially a parkway in the beginning was a wide street with trees indistinguishable from the term boulevard. They are pretty much identical. The most significant difference is the name, which provided a sense of the utility of the parkway as linking a park to park. Norman newton in your text says the parkway provides the psychological carryover of the restful influence of one large park area into its echo in another with little or no interruption along the way. Right . So there is this idea of park. It is connected seamlessly with a parkway. Parkways became to be a little bit more serious
Built between 1930s and finally finished in 1970s. The designer, landscape designer involved in addition to a whole series of architects and engineers of someone given credit for much of the design, stanley abbott, a well known landscape park ark sect in the service. He had begun his work in the 1930s in the westchesters park system. During the depression, moved into the park service as a career. He did much of the committee sign work. The Blue Ridge Parkway, in addition to its great length is known for some of its heroic engineering. One of the major elements is a giant via duct which crosses a particularly steep area of mountainouser terrain. Youre able to see a beautiful road winding through the slopes of app la sha, the blue ridge mountains. Much of it was built during the depression. These kind of handmade walls, again, reflected National Park service rustic architecture and natch listic landscape design. Plantings were planted to heal roadside scars. Great care was taken in desig