Cspan all right. You say also in the acknowledgments that, i have spent countless hours discussing this book with my beloved partner in life and work with whom i spent countless hours. who is your husband . Guest my husband is steven postrel. Hes a phd economist who teaches Business Strategy at ucirvine down in orange county. We live in los angeles. We met when we were 18 years old, freshmen at princeton. And weve been, you know, were just kind of soul mates, andintellectual and otherwise. Cspan so is thisis this a wonk marriage . Guest werewere not just wonks. Were interested in big ideas, but you know, wewe enjoywe have a lot of fun, too. Its not just policy wonkery cspan were did you get the idea for the book . Guest well, it goes back to a 1990 piece i did for the Washington Post. Ii didnt start working on the book till 95, butback in 1990 i was very interested, as a lot of people were, in the environmental movement. It was the 20th anniversary of earth day. And i took a sort of le
Face Similar Health and safety risk every day at schools like this. Thus perpetuating lower Graduation Rates and difficulties retaining qualified teachers. In fact, chairman kline and i applaud him for it himself called for action on Tribal School construction in a letter to the bureau of Indian Education just last week, and again mr. Chairman, i applaud you for that. Regarding the school, the chairman said, and i quote, this appalling situation not only adversely affects the quality of education these students receive but also their health and their safety. The chairman is right. Our children deserve better regardless of where they live. I want to particularly thank congresswoman Betty Mccollum for her continued support on this issue, as well as congressman Ann Kirkpatrick of arizona, congressman Ben Ray Lujan of arizona, and congressman ruiz of california for cosponsoring this amendment. Im pleased the Administration Requests more money for the bureau of Indian Education, Constructio
Average guy with 30,000 in debt. My first house cost less than that. I am very old now and then these things or in a situation when we were talking to bob excuse me, not bob. Your first name, david. David, by the way he is even older than i am. I want to know what he is eating for lunch so i can have the same thing. David is retired and in good shape. He has a son who needs physical assistance with prescriptions and medical costs. It makes a difference. A grown son who still needs help. You take away a couple thousand dollars out of your pocket next year, it matters. It is about 270 a month. That is real money. Look, the thing that the folks around this table represent every one of these people are hardworking people. What impressed me most about them was they are even more worried about people who are poor, more worried about people who are out there struggling to put 1 foot in front of the other. We focused on wha tthe tax increase would mean to them. But it would also mean a great d
It sets the framework we are now operating under and we will be looking at a reauthorization in the next congress and it is very important. Let me say whether we abuilding highspeed rail, innercity Passenger Rail, transit services, any kind of infrastructure highways you would not want to build the four lane highway where there are no passengers or vehicles with access that you would not want to build a city Transit System where you dont have adequate capacity and passengers to use that facility, the same thing holds true anymore with passenger service. When i heard president obama and this administration, beginning to promote high speed rail, unfortunately most of the money, the 10 billion, does not go for highspeed rail. They chose instead to support almost 150 projects and that number is growing and a lot of that money has been left behind. In fact, most of the money that has been read dedicated to high speed rail has been sent back by states including my state, the state of florida
Theyve been able to put together 50 million, so the republican employee unions have outstripped california businesses by tenfold in that case. Even in the indian casinos which are huge players of the special interest in the state have spent less than the Public Employees. The problem that we have in california is that the general public doesnt precede the Public Employee Union Control as a special interest. You have big tobacco, big oil, at T Telecommunications old trying to influence the system that none of them have the pervasive power that unions have and that unions have manifested power roast completely and electing democrats to office. Today in california every statewide office, all of the constitutional offices are held by liberal democrats. The Public Employee unions to spend 5 million to help elect him four years ago. They spent 4 million to elect superintendence of the instruction of professional constitution democrats of two thirds control of both houses of the legislature i