bill: so, you thought washington would settle down after the debt deal. well, think again. here are how some democrats are describing republicans over this dust-up with the faa. are we need to act on this issue now. 75,000 americans demand it, our country demands it, and it s irresponsible to hold hostage these people and be our country and the safety of our airways pending some petty political gain that might be reached. under the cover of the debt ceiling crisis that they manufactured, they have set in motion a second crisis. and once again are holding the livelihoods of americans hostage until they get everything they want. this is becoming a very disturbing pattern. we will not submit to a
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faa jobs. bill: i don t disagree with you when you look at the jobs number we ve been following for a couple of years, but is it smart for the taxpayer to subsidize airline tickets to the tune of $3,720 a ticket? is that a smart way to spend money? what is not smart, bill, is to have congress leave town on their vacations while they get a paycheck and 70-plus thousand people are out of work not getting a paycheck. these controversial items that you just mentioned can be worked out. congress passed a bill on 20 different times without dealing with any of these. they can deal with them. they can handle these. they ve passed this bill on 20 other times so 70-plus thousand people are not out of work. and by the way, for all the people who care about debt and deficit around here and all the speeches that have been made a billion dollars in taxes is not going in to the federal coffers. so i say to those conservatives
is on their minds, joe to your specialty, police from virginia tech, and blacksburg, virginia, christianberg, virginia, montgomery county, they have all responded and that is quite a force, is it not? if there is a csis in one city, they all respond and it came through today and we know it works and what they ll do is maintain a position on the university area, until they feel secure, and then will put a show of force, 3, 4, 5, patrolling officers to be seen, and, will also have other people such as the local detectives, university police, doing what they call an area canvas and will go through the dorm and knocking on doors, and just start asking questions. bill: we re on the web site for the university here, www.vt.edu and so far, it is able to handle
past 20 minutes and we are watching the news reports out of blacksburg and, unfortunately, virginia tech, knows the drill all too well, april 16, 2007. a span of two hours, 32 were killed and 45 were wounded, before the gunman committed suicide in blacksburg, virginia. alisyn: what the campus is putting out on the web site, right now, on your screen and it is ominous, person with gun, reported near dittrich, obviously a building, stay inside, secure doors, emergency personnel responding, call 911 for help. that is very chilling right now, of course, hard not to remember what happened there, the scene of the biggest massacre, school massacre in american history. bill: from what i am reading, dittrich is the dining hall and i m not sure where that is situated on campus, as we use the map with the assistance of the google map we ll try and figure out where on campus the dining hall is located.