That nationwide the continues to see the effect break havoc in this country. What will you do to improve the voting and there it is again. I would like to see open primaries everywhere. Federal voting holidafederal vor registration in 18 years of age we have joel here to join us. You will hear it again. And the automatic voter registration. Lets start with the congressman on this money and if you can be specific on the primaries of the voting i think it is a great solution we should have been in the state of florida. I think republicans should embrace this because we can grow the party by embracing the conservative solutions that appeal to independents and those that are no Party Affiliations so i would say yes to the open primaries and on the other issue whatever makes the voting more accessible and successful so we have greater participation. Congressman. First i have to introduce legislation for this purpose as i indicated before it introduced more than any other member and i introd
Today primary voters went to the polls in five states, connecticut, rhode island, maryland, delaware and pennsylvania. We have live Election Night results and analysis and live candidate speeches beginning in a half hour on cspan. Today two senators discussed the constitutional role of the u. S. Senate in confirming judicial nominees including nominees to the Supreme Court. Democrat Patrick Leahy and republican orrin hatch, both members of the Judiciary Committee, discussed their views on judicial nominations and Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland hosted by the Edward Kennedy institute. This is just under an hour. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] good morning. On behalf of the edward m. Kennedy institute for the United States senate, i welcome all of to you the kennedy caucus room. For this timely and important discussion of the senates role, its advice and consent role in connection with the president s lifetime appointment of individu
Todays secretary, to the president , too i says congress and our lives less than 490,000 men and women in uniform. Absolutely appeared to plan with god now takes an active army of 450000. When they make sure you understand the question. In the absence of sequestration with sequestration requires, which you otherwise see a circumstance in which you recommend the 450,000 450,000 personnel to the secretary . Is there a scenario in which theyll look good for the safety and security of our country . Teaching staff of the army and the secretary have a plan that they have put forward where they can meet the National Security interest in the numbers bear. I have supported them in now. General odierno himself would tell you that greater risk than a 490 army. The question really becomes back to my testimony about the security environment. Where do we want to maintain the forward presence that we have . If the answer to that as we want to be less worried and more at home, we just incurred risk. A
Supervisor elsbernd is that over and beyond your analysis in the tep . Yeah. So were looking at one line a month, sitting down with operators, with the training department, with the union, to evaluate ways so that we can make improvements on those lines, while the tep progress is underway. On the capital side, wed jpip e some reference to this. Thanks to the support of the board of supervisors, we have 62 new hybrid buses that will be coming to us this spring, an exceptionally fast procurement cycle by previous standards. Thanks to john haleys leadership, to significantly streamline that process and get those buses much sooner than we would have otherwise. He also have you also have approved contract for rehab of a bunch of our existing buses in addition to the lrv fleet we have programmed which ill speak about in a moment. In these overhaul projects were identifying the components on the vehicles that are the most prone to failure, getting them replaced or rehabilitated. The results
The vehicles that are the most prone to failure, getting them replaced or rehabilitated. The results so far, the ones that come out of rehab for backup, for lack of a better term, perform much better than the rest of the group which has direct impact on the performance of the system. And the new buses you approved were hybrid buses. We have trolley bus procurement coming right on the heels of that. Estate division as well as with the union on making sure we have adequate Restroom Facilities for operators. It may seem not very much related, but having decent, clean, safe rrmt restrooms for r operators is an essential part of our offering system because if we dont have them they have to defer off route to use the facilities that we take for granted. Its very important for our operators. And then the lrv program, weve got 25 of the fleet has been rehabilitated. The doors and steps, which were the highest failure component of the lrvs have been rehabbed and we have a program to rehab all o