Im talking about the maintenance of the entire infrastructure system that made this country great in the last century. Beauty rating and aging infrastructure impacts our on families, communities, the entire country. As was noted, for example, more than 40 of our urban highways are congested. That means americans waste almost two billions gallons of gas a year and a folks spent more than 7 billion on gas idling while in traffic. The point is that indirectly we are spending this money and were not getting anything for it. Highway trust fund is essential for maintaining and improving our infrastructure system. Poor infrastructure to quality of life and also hurts our economy. We also know that investing in the building and maintaining of our infrastructure create jobs for every american, both directly and indirectly. Not just jobs for construction crews and manufactures, or even engineers, but jobs for everyone. At asce we have conducted a series of economic studies and found that iterati
Tonight hurricane christie, outrage over the Deal Congress didnt vote for. New jerseyans and new yorkers are tired of being treated like secondclass citizens. Shame on you. Shame on congress. Top new york democrat Christine Quinn tells me what she wants now from the speaker, john boehner. Plus, a family still struggling after sandy. My politicians are going to hear from me and from my community. Hillary clinton out of the hospital, but that hasnt stopped the conspiracy theories. Why some on the right claim the secretarys illness is not what it seems. People who go out and generate rumors and lies are stupid. And a star is born. Well, in about six months. The unending fascination with kimye. This is piers morgan tonight. Good evening. Im wolf blitzer, in for piers morgan. It isnt often that you hear a politician, a governor no less, on the job react with the kind of anger we heard from Chris Christie today. Hes a man who famously says what he thinks. And what he thinks about John Boehne
Blitzer. Happening now. This was the speakers decision. He is alone. I called the speaker four times last night after 11 20, and he did not take my calls. A blistering attack on the House Speaker, john boehner, from a rising star in his own party. Up next, why his republicans failed to vote on a 60 billion aid package to sandy victims and why they are scrambling now to make it right. And then averting the fiscal cliff. We are going live to wall street for an update. Paul ryan says, quote, wasnt afraid to vote yes on the fiscal cliff deal. Could that be a sign for 2016 . I am wolf blitzer, and you are in the the situation room. If the gop house of representatives thought they were feeling the heat for the fiscal cliff, they did but it may have been nothing compared to what they are feeling now. The bite bg backlash coming from prominent members of their own party, they are blasting last nights decision to end the 112th Congress Without approving a 60 billion aid package for the thousand
Began. This all dates back to when we were growing up together in kenya. Yeah. We had, you know, constant runins on the soccer field. You know he wasnt very good. Right. Resented it. Yeah, yeah. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell live in washington. And were following all of the action in a president ial contest that is basically tied. Today, the candidates are scrambling. A big name makes an anticipated endorsement. Talking about republicans and rhetoric about rape. Joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza, manager editor of postpolitics. Com and writer ruth marcus. Breaking news, the Washington Post put up its editorial, not too surprisingly, i think, it is for president obama. It is for president obama. Why . Youre a part of the process. Im part of the process. We endorsed president obama four years ago after having a lot of discussions about the relative merits of senator mccain and senator obama. We expressed some disappointment with some of the things that the president failed
The journey begin . We will talk to the democrat democratic freshman class. What is coming of the gop . Some are calling for a make over and a self described former nra partisan, on what it will take to put a stop to the gun violence, that has killed more than 2 Million People since newtown. Thousands from all over the country gathered, including 100 people from newtown, connecticut, all of them rallied on the national mall, calling for action. A leading liberal voice in the senate will be retiring in 2014. Tom harkin said today, quote, its just time to step aside. He came to washington in 1994 and was a key backer of the 2010 Health Care Bill and congressman paul ryan today spelling out what he learned from the reelection. The reelection of president obama, he is speaking at the National Review summit and talking about his experience as a Vice President ial candidate, he said moving forward the gop has to layout their vision with more specifics and with a broader appeal. Meanwhile, th