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Asking for your thoughts on whether it is a good use of taxpayer dollars. Weird also like to hear if and how ike commuting is supported in your community. We would also like to hear if and how bicycle commuting is supported in your community. We have a special line for cyclists this morning. You can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages on twitter and facebook. You can also email us. Morningstart this talking about this story in roll call. It notes that as cycling to work becomes more popular, it is becoming more dangerous. This story goes on to note that is proposingmocrat and 11 million lowCost Loan Program. The program would be modeled on the popular transportation Infrastructure Finance and infrastructure act that provides loan guarantees for road, bridge and transit projects. As you might note, the league of American Bicyclists is one group that is in favor of this program after the congressman unveiled his proposal at the end of last month. The league rele
To see that as a threat and a security situation to be locked down. And while i think that that perspective is understandable and i think its borne of a good intent to secure the boarder and secure the homeland, when you look at the facts, were spending 18 billion a year right now unprecedented levels of spending weve doubled the size of Border Patrol in the last ten years, we have or record low northbound immigration attempts, record southbound deportations, and el paso is the safest city in America Today four years in a row, actually, bordering on ciudad juarez, what is the largest Financial Community in the world. San diego is in the top ten safest cities, honolulu, another port city, is among the top ten safest cities. So i want to hear you talk about the opportunities at the border. In el paso alone, we have 22 million pedestrian and auto crossings every single year. Its the life blood of our economy, and its the life blood of who we are as a community. That is in addition to the
Cspan. Org. We must deny entry to terrorists, drug traffickers, human traffickers, Transnational Criminal Organizations and other threats to National Security and Public Safety while, and i emphasize this, continuing to facilitate legal trade and travel. In this regard, i, too, congratulate our Law Enforcement and National Security partners and the government of mexico for the capture and arrest this weekend f guzman on february 22nd. D. H. S. Must continue efforts to address the growing cyberthreat to the private sector in the dotgov networks shown by the ongoing series of attacks on public and private infrastructure. Many in con depress have expressed a willingness to help in cybersecurity. We appreciate that. Have studied h. R. 3696 out of this committee. We think bill is a good step forward. We want to continue working with congress on this and other legislation to improve this and the nations overall cybersecurity posture. We must continue be vigilant in prepping for and respondin
That are falling apart. Will Congress Respond to the billion dollar price tag . There is agony and brief in turkey. At least 274 miners died in yesterdays explosion. The families of 124 missing families are anxiously waiting for news of their loved ones. Violent protests after turkeys Prime Minister visited the site. Demonstrators blamed the government for the disaster. Andrew simmonds reports. Reporter what was a rescue operates is now a procession of carrying bodies to the surface. A fleet of amambulances driving away the dead. This is the aftermath of on underground fire, an explosion, poisonous fumes every miners worst fear. And now for the families, stunned imcompression. Rescuers did their level, but most miners who died had no means of escape. Hour after hour families waited in vape. Reporter its become a grain routine, every so often bodies arriving. People hoping theyll recognise their loved ones, hoping theyll be alive. That is a forlorn hope. Names of the dead were posted at