at amtrak. that is very different than the transit industry. we are looking for an opportunity to work with the fra, with the states, with the manufacturers, to get as much common efforts under this 305 as we possibly can. >> i would just like to make one or two comments and add something at the end. with respect to standardize asian, i think we in the united states must also consider that we should not specify ourselves out of the world market. one of the ways of getting out of this evan flow situation we are in is if we could only export. there is no reason we could not export. we are isolated in our specifications. not as much in freight, but definitely on the transit side. unless we are not cautious to either follow world trends. that is one of the ways of getting rid of the ups and downs of the market. it was a controversial issue, and secretary lahood mentioned it. if we want to be successful in north america as suppliers and manufacturers, we have to have a proper base to manufacture from

at amtrak. that is very different than the transit industry. we are looking for an opportunity to work with the fra, with the states, with the manufacturers, to get as much common efforts under this 305 as we possibly can. >> i would just like to make one or two comments and add something at the end. with respect to standardize asian, i think we in the united states must also consider that we should not specify ourselves out of the world market. one of the ways of getting out of this evan flow situation we are in is if we could only export. there is no reason we could not export. we are isolated in our specifications. not as much in freight, but definitely on the transit side. unless we are not cautious to either follow world trends. that is one of the ways of getting rid of the ups and downs of the market. it was a controversial issue, and secretary lahood mentioned it. if we want to be successful in north america as suppliers and manufacturers, we have to have a proper base to manufacture from

it will require amtrak have passengers check their guns when they're riding the rails. it's no secret that rail systems are an attractive target for terrorists. in fact, in last year's attack, the mumbai, two terrorists executed a commando-style raid on a major railway system gunning down 150 innocent commuters. to date, we've been fortunate that no such attacks have occurred on u.s. soil, but with passage of this legislation, securing the nation's railway system becomes far more difficult. section 159 requires amtrak to allow passengers to travel with guns without checking them against the terrorist watch list. we all get checked against the terrorist watch list when we fly, regardless of whether we check firearms or not. how can we justify not using the terrorist watch list on people who travel the rail? amtrak policy of prohibiting passengers from traveling with guns was established in response to 9/11. with this bill, congress in a heavy-handed way is interfering with amtrak security protocols without a single congressional hearing. this bill would abruptly undermin

amtrak guest rewards members earn double points this fall for any trip on amtrak. details at amtrak.com >> mike: welcome back to the university of dayton, arena where the flyers get ready to take on old dominion. let's take a look at tonight's line-up brought to you by joseph airport toyota. monarchs, under blaine taylor, they are 6-3. they'll go thisy, gerald lee, darius james, keyon carter and frank hassell are the starters for the monarchs. for the dayton flyers, under brian gregory in his seven years, you have chris wright, curtis huelsman, chris johnson. marcus johnson. they come in at 62. the keys to tonight's game. derek, let's start with the visitors >> derek: mike, when we talk about keys to the game for the monarchs, they have to have the long shot. and the offensive rebound. the team is undefeated when they have 14-plus offensive rebounds. they need to be aggressive, passing the basketball, for easy baskets >> mike: for the dayton flyers? >> derek: we talked about dayton, the key to the offensive, playing defense, playing against one of the best big man

amtrak guest rewards members earn double points this fall for any trip on amtrak.details at amtrak.com >> joe: well, we are back. my friend, alan may raised the question, why they have michal neuvirth starting. >> i did question it. if you are going to have varlamov and theodore starting, i don't know why they went with him tonight. he did, however, start the game very well, but he didn't finish so well, and that is all that matters. neuvirth got the loss and toskala got the win tonight. are we going to the highlights and low lights? >> we may have a little technical trouble. but if you want to break down michal neuvirth's night, he was dynamic in the beginning. side to side, with a pretty good glove hand. but in the situation where he start letting in bad goals -- >> well, a couple in a flurry right there. you see, right off the start of the game, having trouble with the rebound control. here he gets across, does a good job. doesn't let the rebound get out. i thought he wasover playing pucks early --over playing pucks early on. losing track of the puck like that.

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amtrak guest rewards members earn double points this fall for any trip on amtrak. details at amtrak.com oh! blue! i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! it's the championship game! i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team! alex! good call. >> joe: i am telling you, it is pretty brisk out there when the wind blows. shivering. well, the toronto mapleleafs and washington capitals, both with 34. >> greg: the caps are all packed up, fly home tonight and get ready to leave monday for colorado for a tuesday might clash. it will be tuesday night at 9:30 on the eastern seaboard. then we are home for one. and one after christmas to boot, joe. not too bad once we get through this long stretch of road games. the capitals have obviously more than kept their head above water while they have been away from verizon center. >> joe: best mark of the eastern conference. nicklas backstrom and friends with 20 victories overall. they have been working in concert tonight beautifully along with alexander semin. >>

amtrak guest rewards members earn double points this fall for any trip on amtrak. details at amtrak.com >> jim: quietly kayla pedersen has tied jayne appel for scoring. both players with ten apiece. kayla pedersen is our pride of the pac. she is a double major in both psychology and communications. and we asked her about her favorite class. she said cognitive neurology. i'm a geek. everybody at stanford is a geek. >> mary: both enabling kayla pedersen to coast right in there. everyone doing the work. and just because you do the work doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to get the rebound. you get to box out. >> lisa: kayla pedersen is 6'4". she has about four inches over bjorklund who is trying to box her out. she's very deceiving. she did say she was excited about this game being sold out and she's playing like it. >> jim: she talks about the stretch against duke, tennessee and uconn. she says it's like tournament. it's going to make us tougher when we get to march. they're ten minutes away from going 2-0 beating duke and tennessee five days apart. bjorklund

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amtrak guest rewards members earn double points this fall for any trip on amtrak. details at amtrak.com >>> halftime show. don't forget saturday an s.e.c./pac-10 double helder. the women take on stanford and the men taking on usc. action tips off at 2:30 p.m. eastern which means 11:30 in the morning for us. presbyterian, and he drives and jams the entire game for the buckeyes. you'll get the point. david lighty had 20. two of the 20 come right here, and this would be a blowout. presbyterian, six freshmen, and it shows. wisconsin and cal poly, hello. first half. they're up 10. hughes also had 20 light david lighty. and then more of his 20 are right here. time winding down in the first half. no need to show you the second, because it was kind of a plowout, 90-42. wisconsin is a winner. oklahoma state/stanford, when they're done you get a full 30 minutes of the "final score" presented by burger king. until then, oklahoma state up by 5 at the break. enjoy your second half. talk to you guys later. >> barry: we prepare to start the second half by five points. it's been a

when will look at amtrak most of their equipment is very old. the newest equipment is approaching mid life. unfortunately some of it were the last equipment bill -- last equipment built 25 years ago. amtrak needs to place its entire fleet -- needs to replace its entire fleet. it is not significant enough to drive the change in the manufacturing base we are looking for. that will come from the development of the highest bill -- high speed rail program. as most of you know, the president's vision [unintelligible] we've had expressions of interest from 40 states for $100 billion. we have received applications from 35 states for over $57 billion. while this reflects a wide range of planning, it demonstrated states are looking apple high- speed passenger rail to meet passenger mobility needs. there are many [unintelligible] experience in the northeast corridor shows service is needed to meet demand. it will require significant amounts of equipment. the california high speed rail authority projects it will need 800 cars to meet service needs. the grow

. $27.5 billion, $8.4 billion for transit, $800 million for amtrak, $500 million for airports where an extraordinary success was achieved with nearly all the airport projects either completed or under contract on the job, improving our airport capacity and $1 billion for the clean water state revolving loan funds to improve wastewater treatment facilities and build new ones where they don't exist today. $750 million for the corps of engineers and $100 million for ship construction to help our maritime interests. we have a highly successful record on that portion of the stimulus that comes from the committee on transportation and infrastructure from which both mr. obey and the distinguished republican leader are graduates. 220,000 direct jobs on over 8,000 projects. 630,000 direct jobs and jobs in the supply chain supplying asphalt, cement, pipe, concrete and culverts for this program. $10 billion paid in payroll checks, $179 million in unemployment insurance compensation checks avoided. and $230 million in taxes paid to the federal government by those on these jobs and more to come. th

if amtrak went broke because we were enforcing safety standards upon them or any airline would get passengerste, we would have believed to that. that is our job. their job is to try to make it. that is very hard. we cannot shy away from our responsibilities. how you size up your call to action? how are your commitment being received? >> the call to action was a fairly robust call to action. it called for a number of things. i think we found one that made a pretty effective. what i asked the carriers to do was to advise us of everyone that had the safety programs that are out there. i put them on notice that i intended to call them out. i said you have through the end of september to advise me that you have done this. we did. it is remarkable the increase in participation that we got between the end of september and the end of october. we had a good number that responded. we have a good number who did not. we put them on our website. we the people know that these are carriers that chose not to do what we asked. i seem pleased to say that of the 98, we had positive responses from 80. for the pr

. $27.5 billion, $8.4 billion for transit, $800 million for amtrak, $500 million for airports where anxtraordinary success was achieved with nearly all the airport projects either completed or under contract on the job, improving our airport capacity and $1 billion for the clean water state revolving loan funds to improve wastewater treatment facilities and build new ones where they don't exist today. $750 million for the corps of engineers and $100 million for ship construction to help our maritime interests. we have a highly successful record on that portion of the stimulus that comes from the committee on transportation and infrastructure from which both mr. obey and the distinguished republican leader are graduates. 220,000 direct jobs on over 8,000 projects. 630,000 direct jobs and jobs in the supply chain supplying asphalt, cement, pipe, concrete and culverts for this program. $10 billion paid in payroll checks, $179 million in unemployment insurance compensation checks avoided. and $230 million in taxes paid to the federal government by those on these jobs and more to come. the

if amtrak went broke because we were in forcing upon the safety standards or any airline because we were in forcing mistakes the war in the public's interests, we would happily do that. that is our job. their job is to make it in a better economy. we cannot shy away from our responsibilities. how do you size up your call to action and how are your voluntary commitments being received? >> call to action was a fairly robust call to action. it called for a number of things. a thing perhaps inadvertently and we found one that made it pretty effective. what i asked the carriers to do was to devise asa of everyone who had any of the safety programs -- to advise us of everyone who read any of the safety programs and i said, you have by the end of september to a device made whether or not you have done this. we published a list. it is remarkable the increase in participation which gap between the end of september and the end of october. a good number responded. but a good number did not. we put them up on our website. we said these carriers chose, not to do what we ask. of the 98 carriers, we ha

if amtrak went broke because we were in forcing upon the safety standards or any airline because we were in forcing mistakes the war in the public's interests, we would happily do that. that is our job. their job is to make it in a better economy. we cannot shy away from our responsibilities. how do you size up your call to action and how are your voluntary commitments being received? >> call to action was a fairly robust call to action. it called for a number of things. a thing perhaps inadvertently and we found one that made it pretty effective. what i asked the carriers to do was to devise asa of everyone who had any of the safety programs -- to advise us of everyone who read any of the safety programs and i said, you have by the end of september to a device made whether or not you have done this. we published a list. it is remarkable the increase in participation which gap between the end of september and the end of october. a good number responded. but a good number did not. we put them up on our website. we said these carriers chose, not to do what we ask. of the 98 carriers, we ha

. $27.5 billion, $8.4 billion for transit, $800 million for amtrak, $500 million for airports where anaordinary success was achieved with nearly all the airport projects either completed or under contract on the job, improving our airport capacity and $1 billion for the clean water state revolving loan funds to improve wastewater treatment facilities and build new ones where they don't exist today. $750 million for the corps of engineers and $100 million for ship construction to help our maritime interests. we have a highly successful record on that portion of the stimulus that comes from the committee on transportation and infrastructure from which both mr. obey and the distinguished republican leader are graduates. 220,000 direct jobs on over 8,000 projects. 630,000 direct jobs and jobs in the supply chain supplying asphalt, cement, pipe, concrete and culverts for this program. $10 billion paid in payroll checks, $179 million in unemployment insurance compensation checks avoided. and $230 million in taxes paid to the federal government by those on these jobs and more to come. the res

if amtrak went broke because we work in forcing upon them safety standards or any airline because we are enforcing on the states which were on the public interest which kept passengers saved, we would do that because that is our job. their job is to try to make it in a bad economy and that is very hard but we can't shy away from our responsibilities, so how you sort of size up your call to action had and how are your voluntary commitments being received? >> yes sir. >> call to action was a fairly robust call to action and called for a number of things. why i think perhaps inadvertently, we found one that made its pretty effective, and what i asked the carriers to do was to advise us of everyone who had any of these safety programs that are out there but i also put them on notice that i intended to call them now and i said you have by the end of september to advise me whether or not you left on this and i'm going to publish the list of those who have lent, and we did. it is remarkable the increase in participate shin bet. between the end of september and the end of october. we have a

i don't mind the federal government invading my privacy if it makes flying on airplanes or riding amtrak riding the bus more safer. i don't mind my privacy being invaded. i would like to say to jenna that the heritage foundation is a very wonderful group. you do an excellent job, and providing the right information for the public. and i wish you godspeed in the future. >> guest: thank you. you know, it's always great to hear kind words about the heritage foundation, and you know, i think you make a point that there are a lot of people who don't mind going through additional screening. but what i really care about the most is that making sure whatever screening we do go through is the stuff that makes us complacent. >> host: greenville, northglenn. crystal on the democrat line. go ahead, crystal tranthirty she had touched on some of the questions that i had regarding the extra security. and i do know, i mean, she can verify this for me, but i don't know whether it was in a stainless package or what bill they were trying to get through the congress, to add additional monies, millions of do

amtrak guest rewards members earn double points this fall for any trip on amtrak. details at amtrak.com oh! blue! time! time out. i touched it. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! you gotta be kidding me, alex! it's the championship game! talk to him, coach. i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team on 'three.' one, two, three. nice going, alex. sorry coach. alex! good call. talk about their books: >> after words with joan biskupic and ted olson continues. >> host: joan, tend of the conference, they wrote -- vote, right? they each cast a vote. and someone writes an opinion, whoever is in the -- tell us how opinions? we're talk about the private conference the justices have after the oral arguments, and they take a vote, and the majority side is going to prepare the opinion for the court, and the most senior justice on that side then assigns the opinion. if it's the chief justice, the chief justice signs the opinion, and back in the 80s, chief justice rhenquist, often the majority, sometim