Ability to get tax reform done and health care reform. Lets turn to tax reform. And we will take you back live to the committee for Economic Development, their annual spring policy conference, and this discussion coming up on infrastructure. Live here on cspan. The next section focuses on and for structure policy. When you look back to the causes of the great economic boon between the 1980s in the financial crisis, there are a lot of parents. You cannot understate the amount of infrastructure built in the 1980s and the amount of capacity added and the contribution of that infrastructure to the boom. As somebody who ran companies during that time and relied heavily on the infrastructure, i the benefits well of getting ahead of our infrastructure needs. The challenge today is that so much of our infrastructure lies in less than good repair, which is a huge opportunity from a maintenance standpoint that also our capacity needs are quite diversity of those needs go well beyond surface tran
Bundle it to any candidate other than those for which theyve registered, it seems to me we may be missing a chance, we may lose somebody may attack it and some court may say, you should have tattered your bundling, but i would be disposed to try and stop the bundling. So, the rational for preventing in this proposal, direct contributions to the lobbyist to a direct [inaudible] that theyre supposed to o lobby, we think that contribution will allow them to curry favor with the official, make the official more receptive to whatever the lobbyist is proposing or advocating for or maybe opposing in some instances. I think and correct me if im wrong, i believe that the commissions view on bundling is largely the same, its not different inkind, its different in scope, that instead of simply talking about a single up to 500 individual contribution from a lobbyist, we should also be concerned about the corruptive influence of not my 500 check if i were a lobbyist but a fairly decent stack of 500
Issues before the meeting today and we would have gladly pulled this aside. It was not brought to the attention of the chairman. I know you want to Say Something commissioner. Commissioner narasaki i just want to note that the commissioners are all well aware of which state advisory and needs are open recruitment. My staff and i have gone out of our way to help as much as the staff to identify people. I have to say that not every commissioner is doing that, so one of the problems we have, as knows,ioner heriot well we have a large number of stated by three committees who are open and not feel and we need to get them done because as we just heard from the report today, they play a very important role. So staff is doing the best they can to try to get these slates up and running. Awould be happy to entertain waiver of our rules to go back and add some people, if there are some qualified people to some of these slates, but we need to start getting some of these slate done. As the chair ha
You can get the details from the report. It will highlight the key groups, and the top two groups oceans and tropical and subTropical Forests were more than half of the species of concern. If we look at the next ones, coast, arid lands, granted, not a lot of species are on the list, but some are showing some decline. To highlight what we have done in this report is not just where are the problems, but what are some of the Key Solutions we need to work on. Not all of these solutions are easy. If they were easy, we might have done them already. Section one, going on best things that are working that we can continue, and a section that challenges that is ok. For example, seabirds, these are birds that spend much of their life at sea, but nest on the water. Many of the seabirds nest on islands. One of the challenges on islands are invasive species. Somebody has introduced something to an island somewhere and make these seabirds vulnerable. In a number of areas where seabirds are nesting th
Attraction in one of marylands state parks. It is a most interesting veteran of three wars. The french and indian, the war for independence, and the war between the states. On bold banks near morehead city, north carolina, the civilian conservation corps is doing another job of repairing the ravages of time. At fort mikan, the sea and wind have been destroying one of the early masterpieces of fortification. On this site for 200 years, forts of one kind or another protrekted this Strategic Point from invasion from the sea. The present fort required 12 years to build. When completed, sometime after 1824, it was considered the last word in Coastal Defense and cost the then amazing sum of 463,700. An active commission during the war between the states, it was seized by the confederates in 1861 and recaptured by the union forces the following year. The walls are of brick and mortar, four feet thick, and theyre rock solid after more than 100 years. Arches, garrison rooms and ammunition magaz