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Speakership. that s why the final vote count is so important. we were hearing that democrats picked up 27 which put them right over the 218, 222? that s really hard to get to 218 of your own party together on any given vote. if they do get to 238, 239, there is some pad. they can lose some of their members on the fringes and still get soft past. the final vot really big. bret: at the same time nancy pelosi will pick up this story, at least in decades, win. chuck schumer is going to lose seats we don t know yet how many. he s going to. even kyrsten sinema didn t object. when you want controversial and unify the caucus more than you divide them and you have a good special touch, people don t come up and challenge you. they don t even challenge but ....
And u.s. oil prices fell 7% to a one-year low. it was crude s worst day since september, 2015. that could be good for you if it means lower gas prices ahead. to amazon now. 14 months, 238 bids, 20 finalists. in the end, amazon chose to split its new hq2 into two locations and will be rewarded richly for it. eye-popping incentives for amazon including a helipad at its planned new york location and new location in new york and virginia. the final deal revealed on tuesday shows new york and virginia provided total incentives upwards of $2.will billion. the wall street journal $2.8 billion. the wall street journal tallies it at $5.5 billion. the combined offer from new york state and new york city does not require approval by any local or state legislative body. the incentives offered for amazon s long island campus total about $1.5 billion. if the company hires 25,000 people. the bulk of virginia s tax incentives come in the form of a ....
And that part of what motivated her to do this docu-series, which was grief. quote, grief for the pain i caused others, grief for the broken young woman i had been before and during my time in d.c. david? all right, linsey davis here with us tonight. linsey, thank you. next here, amazon s big reveal, after all of the hype. dozens of cities across the country applying, hoping they would be chosen. well, they chose new york city and the d.c. area, and tonight, not everyone is happy. here s abc s chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis now. reporter: tonight, the winners of that great amazon bakeoff, following a year-long search, 238 communities, the retail giant announcing not one but two cities. new york and arlington, virginia, the new homes of hq-2. the company investing a total of $5 billion, pledging to bring 25,000 jobs to each location. we needed to go to a place that had access to existing talent. reporter: in exchange for those jobs, amazon, one of the most valuabl ....
I think with the introduction of a third world-class university with cornell tech, i think this is a good move for amazon. and time will tell whether it was a good move for new york city taxpayers, paying $50,000 for jobs that average $150. the real travesty here is 238 cities that are desperate for resources being teased, being given the notion that they had a chance. if you re the wealthiest man in the world, that means you have the most options in the world. the only option you don t have is additional life. so if you re the wealthiest man in the world, are you going to spend 12 minutes, much less 12 days a year in indianapolis? if your family suffers through ten months a year in rainy seattle, are you going to spend more time in toronto? this was an absolute con. and to go to 238 cities and ask them to take valuable resources and planning from the police, for school, for fire and to spend money on this ridiculous con is an abuse of the commonwealth. it shows two things. that jeff b ....
Expected today after a year-long search that started with 238 candidates narrowed down to 20 cities and now we may finally find out where amazon will put its new headquarters in a surprise split decision, they are opening a second and third headquarters location. the rumors appear to be long island city in new york city and crystal city in northern virginia. this was a bit of a twist development when they rumored there would be two new headquarters locations instead of just one. that was the original plan so amazon would have a presence in three major cities. the plan is to divide is 50,000 workers between the locations, 25,000 employees in each location. government officials in both states expected to hold events today so we should hear something soon. this is an announcement many have been waiting for. heather: the way they roll this out and anticipation is another issue. kellogg s selling snap products to get healthier. ....