Break the dysfunction, at least to an extent. Flood insurance. Infrastructure. You know, everybody in that congress has railroads and roads and airports and schools. Theyre all decaying. Metro north. And the amtrak line that im willing to bet a lot of folks here rode today is a 20th century track. 50, 70 years old in some places. And your train going home is going to break down, is going to stop just like last thursday night in the new haven line, people were stranded out on the tracks in one of the coldest days of the year. Soverb has a stake in infrastructure. And there are ways to do an Infrastructure Bank a railroad trust fund, this is an idea that in the absence of earmarks, i came to congress in the postearmark era, the senate had abandoned earmarks to the over the protests of many of my more seasoned colleagues would you like them to come back . Do you think that would help . I think whats needed is maybe not specific earmarks for specific congressional districts or even states,
That people who have a job arent living in poverty. The overwhelming majority of americans support a minimum wage. We should make sure that we create manufacturing opportunities so we can make things in america again. President obamas established two manufacturing hubs already and proposed four more last night. But acknowledged that we can actually kick that into even higher gear if republicans are willing to work with him on actually passing legislation to do that. But at the end of the day, we have to make sure that were focused on working together and, kevin, i actually we have a good working relationship. I think there are things that we can sit down and come together on. Week of talked about that privately many times. But look at what the republicans agenda was this week. With all due respect, to suggest that your Top Priorities have been focusing on helping more americans join the middle class when yesterday the top priority for republicans, on your agenda, was to restrict a woma
Senator, thank you for joining us. Senator rob portman of ohio. Well get right to it. You have been in washington for some time since the 1990s and worked in the two bush white housees and former house member and been a senator since 2010, how would you say this beats ranks to other state of the unions over the years . Where does this rank . The president as he always does, but there were no big proposals and it was kind of the me an ambivolent speech. The state of the union is going great and he said its not going so well and therefore we need to make some changes in terms of takehome pay and longterm unemployed and he said i want to work with congress and then he said, by the way, im going to go around congress. As compared to other states of the union that i have listened to, the message was muddled and hard for me to really know what he was trying to communicate. I believe he is uncertain about what kind of second term president he wants to be and there are a couple of models and b
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