appropriations subcommittee. rep. wasserman schultz: today s meeting may mute participants microphones for the purpose of eliminating background noise. i will ask you if you would like the staff to unmute you. if you indicate approval by nodding, staff will unmute your microphone. if there is a technology issue, we will move to the next member until the issue is resolved and you will retain the balance of your time and we will come back to you. you will notice a clock on the bottom of your screen double show you how much time is remaining good at one minute remaining, the clock will turn to yellow. as always we provide a little bit of flexibility. in terms of the speaking order, we will follow the orders set forth in the house rules beginning with the chair and the ranking member. we will recognize in order of seniority, alternating between majority and minority. finally, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members can send anyt
Tunnel goers. Officials arent too shy patting themselves on the back either. 160,000 drivers every day can now expect a quicker ride through the mountain. Plus, the 417 Million Dollar project is done early and under budget. Great accomplishment to come millions of dollars under budget. State of california and im proud to say the federal government, too, working together to gets a great project done. But not everyone is overly impressed. Some say weve lowered our expectation with these massive projects. I think weve seen so many fiascos with respect to these Public Infrastructure projects were shocked when its done on time and at cost. Reporter according to caltrans, the largest chunk of money to build this bore is federal dollars from the american recovery and reinvestment act, along with local taxes and dollars. But when a project is done under budget, its not the price tag that gets people talking. For this tunnel, its the design. It looks kind of like a spaceship at first. The light
Ours and jobs left our country. Large corporations changed their Business Models by exporting jobs to other countries and then shipping their goods back to the United States where they would make massive profits and wouldnt be paying tax to us either. We lost the jobs, we lost the taxes, they closed the buildings, closed the plants and factories. We got nothing but unemployment. We got nothing. Other businesses, even classic american brands, switched their headquarters to foreign countries. Because of this and other reasons like weak borders, america remains stuck in the past. I have to tell you, we have general kelly here today and we stopped 78 going up to 80 on the border traffic coming through in just a short period of time. [applause] hes done some job. Whole different world out there right now. Today we are still taxing our businesses at 35 , and its way more than than. Think of it, in some cases, way above 40 when you include state and local taxes in various states. The United S
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