c is today bigger than alstom and kind of combined. pushing it up the next step for c r c c is in all likelihood continental europe where it could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturer. will be the chinese rival is already the world's leading maker of train engines that combined siemens and alstom group will speed into second place. just a merger of the lead to a more balanced killers for for instance ultimate strong enough to. the middle and south americas humans as. well as the china europe and the united states the portfolio. excellent match. german labor union see the move as an opportunity while their french counterparts fear job losses the merger is still subject to approval from the trust authorities. the results of last sunday's general election in germany have shocked many business leaders a strong showing by the far right party means forming a coalition government among the other parties will be difficult. as guns in china and what's important for us irrespective of the party politics is that it doesn't take too long to conclude the coalition talks don't

c. r. c. is today bigger than alstom siemens and canada's bombarded a combined the next step of this chinese group is in all likelihood continental europe where c r r c could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturers. even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens has considered canadian company body a but the deal was reportedly derailed by a bum body is shaky finances now the competition authorities need to get on board otherwise the big european deal could hit the buffers prosecutors in the united states have charged ten people including an added us executive where the bribery and fraud that's following a widespread investigation into corruption in college basketball prosecutors accuse the manager of bribing athletes families to get players to attend universities that sponsors. confirmed the arrest of the executive on tuesday saying it was unaware of any wrongdoing on its part. and so he is on wall street for us sophia how serious is this case. i mean the f.b.i. is investigating this case so it seems pretty serious to me and to me and it could mean huge damage to the editor through a few taken and

c. r. c. is today bigger than alstom siemens and can it is a combined the next step of this chinese group is in all likelihood continental europe where c r r c could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturers. even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens has considered canadian company body a but the deal was reportedly derailed by bumb body is shaky finances however if the competition authorities aren't all aboard the big european deal will hit the buffers. this some of millions and millions of eggs or recalled from supermarkets right across europe it emerged that they were tainted with an insecticide called fairbairn ale turns out the insecticide was also related to the demise of bees in romania for two years beekeepers that have been seeking compensation but they are getting away. millions of bees used to buzz around here collecting nectar but two years ago all the buzzing activity around beekeeper costello shiela fell silent. take a look all the bees are dead all because of this chemical they sprayed on the fields my entire business is destroyed at some point i'll have to burn down ever

c. r. c. is today bigger than our storm siemens and canada's bomb body a combined the next step of this chinese group is in all likelihood continental europe where c r r c could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturers. even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens had considered canadian company. but the deal was reportedly de railed. shaky finances now the competition authorities need to approve the deal. well to talk through this now i'm joined in the studio by you again and that from the business and in frankfurt off financial correspondent quantified booze and welcome to you both us firstly to you these companies were bitter rival so why are they getting together well they're joining forces in order to match their chinese rival to fend off their chinese rival the state owned c r r c company is by far the biggest manufacturer or in the world and they are going global recently they have gone they have won contracts in britain and in the czech republic and you've got to remember up until two thousand and seven china had to rely on foreign high speed trains they bought them from europe from japan and

c. r. c. is today bigger than alstom siemens and kind of his bomb body a combined the next step of this chinese group is in all likelihood continental europe where c.r.c. could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturers. even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens has considered canadian company body a but the deal was reportedly derailed by bomb body is shaky finances however if the competition authorities aren't all aboard that big european deal will hit the buffers. well let's talk through this now with . business good to see you that's how this why does such two big name companies even need to do this is that the sense that they're trying to tackle fierce competition from china because joining forces seems to be a good idea if we look at a competitor chinese c r r c. corporation is the biggest drolling stock manufacturer in the world and even though this new combined company buys humans and will have a projected revenue of fifteen billion euros per year sixty two thousand employees c.r.c. is still much bigger and the company is not only growing in china it's also trying to gain a foothold outside china it has just recently secured projects in britain and in the czech republic and as i another high speed project in the u.k. so in order to meet that competition i think teaming up is a sensible move here but it's also a change of strategy from the french government in the past have been quite reluctant to companies to sell up so what been their reactions you know european side to the this time up well the idea of this tie up ties in nicely with french president a model marc rawls idea of a pro-business agenda on the one side and a new franco dermont partnership at the heart of a more integrated european union so this is this this deal basicall

c. r. c. is today bigger than alstom siemens and canada's bomb body a combined the next step of this chinese group is in all likelihood continental europe where c r r c could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturer. even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens has considered canadian company body a but the deal was reportedly derailed by bomb body is shaky finances however if the competition authorities aren't all aboard the big european deal will hit the buffers. well let's talk through this now with cost of. business good to see you now tell us why does such two big name companies even need to do this is that the sense that trying to tackle fierce competition from china i think so because joining forces seems to be a good idea if you look at a competitor chinese c r r c. corporation is the biggest drawling stock manufacturer in the world and even though this new combined company by siemens and alstom will have a projected revenue of fifteen billion euros per year sixty two thousand employees c.r.c. is still much bigger and the company is not only growing in china it's also trying to gain a footh

real construction and signposting market is in a state of advanced consolidation the chinese group c. r. c. is today bigger than alstom siemens and can it is bomb body a combined the next step of this chinese group is in all likelihood continental europe where c.r.c. could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturers. even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens has considered canadian company body a but the deal was reportedly derailed by bomb body is shaky finances however if the competition authorities aren't all aboard the big european deal will hit the buffers. well joining us now from frankfurt central train station is our financial correspondent clinic on who's in it good to see what does this mean if travel is on the continent is trains and the railway system experiencing or in a sense in european travel. yes or no you know until very recently the only high speed trains you could take from frankfurt's main train station here was the i.c.e. train operated by. now in less than four hours you can go to paris from frankfurt also on the french

real construction and signposting market is in a state of advanced consolidation the chinese group c. r. c. is today bigger than alstom siemens and canada's bomb body a combined the next step of this chinese group is in all likelihood continental europe where c.r.c. could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturers. even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens has considered canadian company body a but the deal was reportedly derailed by bomb body is shaky finances however if the competition authorities aren't all aboard the big european deal will hit the buffers. prosecutors in the united states have charged ten people including an added us executive with bribery and fraud that's following a widespread investigation into corruption in college basketball prosecutors accuse the manager of bribing athletes families to get players to attend universities that added to sponsors the german sports when they can confirm the arrest of their executive on tuesday saying it was unaware of any wrongdoing on its part. and sophie szymanski is on wall street fo

joining forces in order to match their chinese rival to fend off their chinese rival the state owned c r r c company is by far the biggest manufacturer or in the world and they are going global recently they have gone they have won contracts in britain and in the czech republic and you've got to remember up until two thousand and seven china had to rely on foreign high speed trains they bought them from europe from japan and then they told those companies listen if you want to continue to sell of your trains here you have to manufacture them here and to put it nicely that way they learned how to build high speed trains on their own and now they want to sell them worldwide all right conrad i want to go over to you then because can we be sure that this will be a marriage of equals and that is even as well well go through with it is had a shaky reputation regarding tie ups in the past. you're right. of course this talk of marriage of equals tries to conceal somewhat that they are not perfectly equal why. was the first company in europe to construct and produce high speed trains the famous t.g.v

like to hear that word slash what about the chinese is the chinese threat real well the state owned c r r c company is by far the largest high speed train manufacturer in the world and they are now conquering europe they frequently gained contracts in great britain and the czech republic and they're taking more and more pieces of the pie away from storm and siemens and that's why joining forces there and so now they've been playing a pretty strategic game here a decade ago they didn't have the technology i've been on their trains they fly down those tracks how they managed to catch up and where are they at well up until two thousand and seven they needed to buy foreign high speed trains and they both i'm usually from europe and from japan then they told those companies we love your trains but if you want to continue to sell them you need to build them right here in china and to put it nicely the chinese learned everything they needed to know then how to make high speed trains and now they build those bullet trains the fastest trains on earth they go up to four hundred thirty four hundred th

joining forces in order to match their chinese rival to fend off their chinese rival the state on c r r c company is by far the biggest manufacturer or in the world and they are going global recently they have gone they have won contracts in britain and in the czech republic and you've got to remember up until two thousand and seven china had to rely on foreign high speed trains they bought them from europe from japan and then they told those companies listen if you want to continue to sell of the your trains here you have to manufacture them here and to put it nicely that way they learned how to build high speed trains on their own and now they want to sell them worldwide all right conrad i want to go over to you then because can we be sure that this will be a marriage of equals and zeman is will well go through with it is had a shaky reputation regarding tie ups in the past. you're right helen. of course this talk of marriage of equals tries to conceal somewhat that they are not perfectly equal why. was the first company in europe to construct and produce high speed trains the famous t.

c. r. c. is today bigger than alstom siemens and can it is a combined the next step of this chinese group is in all likelihood continental europe where c.r.c. could rely on a purchase of a european manufacturers. even after the new firm is founded the pressure on the europeans will increase siemens has considered canadian company body a but the deal was reportedly derailed by a bum body is shaky finances however if the competition authorities aren't all aboard that big european deal will hit the buffers. u.s. prosecutors have charged ten people including fall college basketball coaches and financial advisors with bribery and fraud in connection with college recruiting among those charge was the director of global sports marketing for basketball and added us the german sports when they could confirm the arrest of the ana death executive on tuesday and said it was unaware of any wrongdoing on the part of its employee the manager is suspected of conspiring with coaches to pay high school athletes to play at university sponsored by al qaeda. now gold is a smugglers' drink that's because it's extremely valuable even in small amounts and the democratic republic of congo the illegal export of gold has been used to fund groups for decades now a u.n. report to single out an army general saying he personally operated an illegal mine but the military profiteering doesn't stop the. hand to mining for gold is labor intensive and twenty thirteen alone congolese workers dredged up some ten thousand kilos of the precious metal the united nations estimates that ninety eight percent of annual gold exports are illegal the country's military is behind the unlawful trade even though military personnel are forbidden from engaging in mining but the country turns a blind eye to that. the last twenty years has seen the establishment of illicit trading centers mainly in the eastern provinces. a majority of the gold goes to lebanon the united arab emirates and india. the gold sold by the military in twenty thirteen was worth an estimated four hundred nine million u.s. dollars according to the u.n. this is hurt the country's economy to the tune of some eight point two million u.s. dollars annually. meanwhile millions of congolese are fleeing violence that is seen fauzi and killed in recent months. been roundly research as mining in the democratic republic of congo and he joins us now ben thank you for joining us what exactly does the u.n. report accused the military of doing well the u.n. group and see who could use the report was sent up back in two thousand and four by the security council at the end of the congo was part of its mandate was to monitor the illegal exploitation of. natural resources which were thought at the time too contributed to the longevity of the wards now as your report just mentioned army officers are two excluded from participating in natural resource exploitation by the congolese mining code and this latest report has cited a high rank you see the officer. major general. let me see combat in the gold sector through a local company operating in the north east of the congo and i think it's worth mentioning that although this particular case is new the general trend is not and the group of experts have been citing such instances for over a decade or more now. for what exactly are the military using profits from gold mine well that would be hard to say exactly i think we can assume that the army officers would be using profits for their own personal needs to countries materials equipment and provide salaries to their soldiers but also and i think importantly to pass those profits back up the chain of command and often this would have links to senior producer sure or national level politicians so this kind of exporting illegal exporting of gold isn't the goal that isn't allowed but what rules exactly are in place and why aren't they being enforced. well over the last several years now we have built up quite a considerable. legal framework product at the national level at the regional level and at the international level so the legislation is there i think the fundamental particles are making progress is simply the operational challenge of monitoring supply chains across thousands of out is no mind sites which cover a vast region with poor transport infrastructure and low state capacity so when you combine that challenge with the lack of political will being demonstrated under the current could be it ministration to address this issue then progress is difficult so how widespread the problems are highlighted in the un report in the congolese mining sector is it just gold. it's not just gold gold is certainly the most problematic. because of its high value to weight ratio which makes it very easy to smuggle but there are also what we call the three t c t in terms of lim and tungsten and in terms of how widespread is the problem most comprehensive data we have is from the international peace information service whose research is visited around fifteen hundred of his not mine sites over the last few years and they found the presence of groups around half of those mine sites so we can around half half of the sites demonstrate the presence of either the national army or a non-state on group and i think importantly for the other half which we can consider clearly that's a common is that problem is they don't have access currently to legal access to international markets because they are still awaiting certification program to be rolled out which will allow them to gain access. brian bennett radley thank you very much for talking to us about that very difficult problem which is not going to go away any time soon but as. and back to phil now with the story of an unlikely friendship. years ago and have almost. i do know to years made the lo

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c-span's q&a. >> "washington journal" continues. and "washington journal" trenton, new jersey. this is part of the 50 state the c-span r and on bus now joining us is the leader senate, w jersey state steve sweeney. enator steve sweeney in a recent poll, they found that these were the issues most to new jersey residents, property taxes, jobs and then n, health insurance. 50% said property taxes. do you agree with that? guest: absolutely, if not more. has been a state, we have a lot of government in new jersey and that actually drives the cost of your property taxes, but new jersey property taxes are very high and there is great deal of frustration amongst residents because i $8500 per verage is home now. education.c what is the situation with public education in new jersey is the education association rather angry with personally? guest: well, you know, public an issue new jersey is very proud of. we have some great schools, some schools in the nation. i've been fighting to try to get unding, more fair funding for our schools. the education association was fight withing me over an issue peter, we had the top -- we went through a funding fight budget and the we're trying to follow through with school funding formula we and we have districts for children they don't have and children not getting any funding. reduced 0 districts funding, they were getting 18,500 kids they didn't have. districts, top 50 winners 12, 500 kids they their school. in i want to let you know, peter, the argument was, you are taking money from school districts. we took money overfunded to give to the school districts is not one program was cut in the districts that were, you know, where funding moved. it is about fairness and not we've had new jersey, financial challenges between our pension, between, you know, all issues, talk school funding, higher education, we've worked on a lot of issues. when you're leader of the senate, you make decisions and sometimes you piss people off, that simple. my decision is to do the right thing by the entire state of new select few.a i'm union leader myself, i work for the ironworkers union of north america and it's -- you will not union than i re am. but, you know, as a senator, i of to look at all members the community, not just labor, that is what i do. ost: and the senator has been leader of the new jersey senate since 2009. issues lk about some facing new jersey, but which are issues.ernational 202-748-8000 for new jersey the number tot is call in on. all others, 202-748-8001. we'll begin taking those calls in just a minute. sweeney, when guto your website and look at your egislative agenda and some bills that you have been introducing, there seems to be a comm common, couple common themes, wages increase the minimum and another is legislation that disability.ple with is that a fair assessment? uest: peter, i got into politics because i had a boy with down syndrome. i didn't nworker and go to college. i didn't like the way people with disabilities were treated. complain, they don't like something and someone will tell you to do something about it. for office. first thing, i built schools for kids with special needs and moved throughout the ranks of the legislature. helping the voiceless. priorities for me. bannedl we passed was we the word "retarded," and people said, that is just a word. words are meant to praise or hurt, that is a hurtful word. that, but things like i'm the prime sponsor, we passed minimum wage twice. passed paid family leave, i was the prime sponsor of that. i'm the prime sponsor of pay equity. i think new jersey has an opportunity with what you are seeing nationally, peter, you new jersey have the opportunity to show progressive are not going to hurt the economy. i passed00 eye was lead sponsor the nimum wage twice and business community basically they always say the sky is falling. predicted we would lose job, we gained 60,000 jobs. predicted we would lose 30. paid family leave was another learned it er, i from my own experience with my daughter. my daughter was two pounds, she neonatal unit for 75 days, you know, you shouldn't be back to work when you are in a crisis when you have somebody you love and you don't to livether she's going or die and you are going back and forth to the hospital and about your job. there are things that matter to us. we will expand paid family leave from six weeks to 12 weeks and increase amount of money you can collect while you are on it, so can sustain yourself and not fall behind. is that something governor christie will sign or wait new governor? a guest: well, obviously i'm hoping for a new governor and i you can imagine who i'm looking for. democratic governor that will support the principles we believe in. peter, you talk about education we intend to pass a millionaire tax, millionaire tax can go lion more that into education. in two years, myself and my colleague, we will add billion ollars in education funding within two years, that is a good start. fully pathway to get us funded in five years, there are a lot of things we believe in, christiepushed governor would not support and for us, it people knowt to let we haven't walked away from what we believe in. example, equal pay, big issue, women are making man of every dollar a makes. as union worker, female welder same as male welder. the person is doing the same should get , they paid the same there is a whole host of legislation, remind been passing e've since governor christie has vetoed.ernor that he when we get a new governor, we will have an agenda, a list, of legislation that is going to support the middle class and working poor. unemployment rate is 4.5% people,ersey, 9 million $34 billion state budget, where money go, lk of the senator sweeney? $.72 of every dollar back to school funding, local county nt, running colleges, running universities. a lotes back in grants to of communities. but peter, one of the biggest have in new jersey, we're local government, we're controlled, we t have 565 municipalities, 600 districts with too much government. i'm a big proponent of shared the ces and when i ran county government in the -- it s like county commissioner, we started consolidating services, the time i was there we were a year at -- lion when i left office for the towns. to consolidate services, not eliminate service, ut to reduce inefficiency of having all the towns with police chief and having these towns administrators and everything, we wanted to consolidate. the county, wein merged two school districts, kept will school districts administration, saved $1.5 million annually, million taxpayers were not just throwing away there is a way to be more not sacrifice and again, new jersey public schools are some of the greatest in the we have great teachers in the state. our goal is to make sure they need so esources they they can be successful. host: well, let's hear from some let's begin with jen, in sweetsboro, new jersey. on with state senate president steve sweeney. aller: hi, good morning, senator. like to -- first i'd say thank you for fighting hard educatione additional dollars for students in this year's state budget. you estion, what issues do plan to tackle in the next legislative session? you know the big issues are school funding, we and start a pathway moving to pathway to get 100% are ng so our children treated equally regardless of in. environment they live i was successful getting the governor to sign the quarterly pension payment bill, so money in during the year and not end of the year. so there are a couple issues, is another big issue, raise the wages for working poor, we think that puts money in the pockets of working, like lower end working go to work hey'll everyday and can't support their families. that actually will put the money economy, which is important. the other big issue i think is the opioid ill is problem we have, not just the state, in this country, a problem that, s you know, your neighbors, you know, we have neighbors, jennsouth jersey, neighbors that sisters, brothers, husbands, wives to this disease, on eed to put major focus this. holmedale, new jersey gahead with your question or comment. caller: good morning. from new jersey coalition against sexual assault. caller's previous comments and thank you for leadership and support you provided to our rape crisis centers across new jersey and the legislative successes we've couple year last necessary helping to keep our garden state. from your sk you, vantage point, while we've had some significant success in the what do you ears, see as some greatest opportunitys and challenges federal rticularly in climate in which we're operate whenning it comes to addressing prevalence of sexual violence in new jersey? patricia,l, you know, it's been a big fight to expand facilities and more options for kids that have been abused. to a place went called yinona house, named after african american senator in the state of new for y, it was a center children that were abused. and when we saw that, we said his had to be replicated throughout the state. the challenges, you know, what is go og federally is troubling you hear them do is talking about cutting programs. they are going to have major of new n the state jersey and, you know, we are right g to move in the direction, but we can't see all the programs cut. is value to a lot of these programs. we're going to keep, we'll double down on our commitment to run, patricia because they matter and they change people's lives, especially when the damage to -- if being abused is done. put ve to help that person that person back together. as i sxit watch what is going on it is very n, troubling when they talk about the programs, the funding they about cutting and the tax policy they are coming crush new that will jersey citizens and it is tax cut wrshgs it will be enormous increase for almost everybody in new jersey. so my commitment to you, we'll to increase ight funding for programs that make a difference in people's lives. $35 billion budget is a big number, when you crunch those looking at line items, they are not numbers, they are people and that is what we hard at, peter, is having people understand that there is n budget, people that are dependant on hese programs, make a difference in family's lives. ost: earlier we talked with former governor jim mcgreevey about the reentry corporation are you ilot program, supportive of that? absolutely. governor mcgreevey has done a phenomenal job of bring forefront.g to the peter, it's just like my passion community.isabled i tell people, if you can get like sometimes somebody looks at someone and says they can't go because they disabled. if you can get past that, that successful.be very a disabled person can be very productive, just as anyone else. had a drugerson that addiction or has mental health issue. attached and a unfortunately we don't allow people to get beyond that mistake or health issue that caused the imbalance. looking and art thinking differently, governor mcgreevey said, the money we're to incarcerate people, keep people locked up is insane. to find ways to help people put their lives back together. and should n beings be treated with respect and dignity, like everyone else. drug issue, d a it's a drug issue. friends , we've all had and family members that have had that happen, same with mental health. doingovernor mcgreevey is is god's calling, the right thing to do and we need to do of that. peter, one big thing we really past is the stigma, someone looks at someone, that mywhat used to anger me with daughter. people would stare at her, i would say, she's beautiful, she? listen, she understands she is a little bit different, she wants be a good ctive, person, like all disabled people, just like all people addictions. they are brothers, cousins, sisters, at least give them a normal life e a again. ost: andrea, calling from crosswicks, new jersey. you're on with senator sweeney. caller: hi, senator. i live in chesterfield, one of underfunded school districts in the state of new jersey and i'd like to echo the you two callers and thank for the leadership you have shown in the senate and state of new jersey. my district was ble to get an additional 401, 205 thousand dollars in state needed in our district. we're funded 18% now and it is still not quite enough. do you think we're go nothing this fight for more school funding? down going to continue this path? what is next? know, well, andrea, you everyone knows chesterfield in the state, a very small was knownwe made sure because of unfairness that was taking place. we had with oblems school funding, when state assed the school funding formula act they put two temporary provisions in. districts couldn't lose more money than they had. the program was the money would follow the child. districts funded for children they didn't have, they would have a couple years to enrollment caps. temporary issues weren't were there for seven years, yes, the teacher's mad at me, there was monnedistricts with no children, for don't have children that funding. we wanted to start moving the funding to where the children are. we can fund the school funding i amla, we can and andrea, committed with millionaire tax and additional funding next year then moveing that money at the same time from overfunded districts to the funded we can fully fund our school program, our school years. formula in five we know we can do it, it just takes willingness and look, it ook us shutting state government down this year, we had to shut the state government three days, well, the fourth of july we passed budget, budget down for three days to ensure we started moving that money. moving ey started because the money is supposed to follow the child. from time to time was is it fair for one teacher o have 35 kid necessary a classroom and another district that is overfunded to have 20 and ecessary a classroom one school district has tablets for all kids and other districts are sharing books. a game plan. you saw how hard it was in new jersey to fix the problem, i can you when i intend to return to the senate as senate president and when we come back, we're going to fight like hell just as hard as we did this time progress so the other five years no one will be pointing fingers at each other. was, people were, i have mine, shame on you, well, we're in it if together and that is where we're focused and working hard to get to. host: what is your relationship christie?rnor guest: listen, it's been what it has been since the beginning of ime, when he got elected, peter. he got elected governor, i got elected senate president. talked about -- he said to me, is there anything we can get done? focus on areasld where we can compromise and focus on those. we can compromise, we'll compromise and move the ball own the field. you know, it worked for seven and a half years. we also had many fight where is like the't compromise, supreme court and there was a thing on job banning he wanted do and attack on civil servants that we blocked. decision to make, do what they are doing in washington and impose at all thes and have the people of state suffer, or find areas to work through. got the governor to sign the quarterly pension payment ill, which was critical to ensure that the pension fund gets funded on a regular basis, do now.of what they look, it's a working relationship, it has been a orking relationship where we don't agree, we don't agree. he'll tell you the same thing. be partisan, but there are things we believe in that he doesn't and that is why we, again, pay equity was a big issue, we're not walking away from it. stood our e, we ground on things we believed in and he stood his what he believed in. haven't been successful in the veto overrides at this point, but that doesn't mean we trying. host: let's hear one more voice, harold in westwood, new jersey cht good morning. steve, i'm a 94-year-old veteran and we are ii, blessed with seven children. like in ildren are their 70s, they want to move away from new jersey. move.'t want them to we want our family to stay together. here is the problem. ere in westwood, they want to build a $3 million maintenance garage, the board of education, to the council members, they say they have no control over education. steve, please do this, let the people, local mayor and council, control the budget of of education. two ildren are -- some, left already. they say, dad, dad, i'm paying year or $14,000, i'm paying this and that, they cannot. had your chance, you did have your chance, president us a had his chance, he put $19 trillion in debt. democrat,our chance as all the years you run, run, run, what did you do? away -- the money host: all right, harold in westwood. sweeney? guest: well, you know, harold, ne thing that i'd like you to know, this year we passed legislation that is raising the retirement income. o in new jersey, before you were exempt on first $15,000 and single, they taxed rest of retirement income n. $20,000 if you were married. next few years we will raise $75,000 if you to are sing and he will $100,000 if you are married to help people hold on to more money. able to niors will be keep a lot more of their money. s far as schools, you know, capital projects are supposed to, normally put on the ballot on.people to vote that is something that your local districts, local and theyts are elected have their say. o do the voters, they can vote for change. host: steve sweeney, president joins new jersey senate us from trenton on the c-span capital tour.tate we want to thank our partners in usnton, comcast, for helping set this up and tomorrow the continues and we'll be in the capital of pennsylvania, harrisburg. coming up on the "washington journal," senator steve daines talk about the wildfires out west. this is the "washington journal" on c-span. >> that was early on, i believe had just announced and they were worried that he as going to be bad for them in terms of women voters. i thought, really, you are considering how far back they've had anti-woman platform? 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guest: i don't think it is there. bill shuster is pushing this really hard. theyrms of the house gop, have some support there with only one republican voting against, but every democrat was against. there might be three democratic cosponsors, but other than that, i don't there is a lot of support on that side of the out. appropriators don't like it because it cuts off their ability to control the funding for air-traffic control. in the senate, it is unpopular. the senate has a more rural t ilt. these small, general aviation folks are very against it. host: washington, d.c., our independent line. good morning. caller: a couple years ago we had recovery programs right after the economic crisis where we had a whole bunch of money boostto the economy to funding and investment and infrastructure. you see around the country all these billboards and science saying this road that signs -- signs saying this road was built with recovery money. i still see infrastructure spending from local coffers matching federal match grant or the like. whenever i travel around the country, even locally i see there is a bike lane, and a considerable amount of that is coming from federal coffers. i am thinking, is this really good use of federal taxpayer dollars? -- thely should be source should be locally. i don't see how a bike lane helps the development for the betterment of our country. if you could comment on match france, i would appreciate it. guest: that is a good point. you make in argument a lot of people make in terms of what should the federal role be. people make the case that the interstate system facilitates interstate commerce. the states are in charge of operating, but they get a lot of federal money. that case is easy to make. in terms of things like bike lanes, transit. the new york city subway system is a huge, tons of writers a year, people from all over the country. it really only helps new york city. there is an argument to be made that perhaps the federal role if the benefits are mainly accrued at the local level. as long as there are people in congress representing these areas, they will try to get as much funding as they can for their districts. made that point to be quality of life and things like out, andy help people if the money can come from the federal government, that allows the state and locals to do funding for other things. host: bill from michigan. caller: hi. curious about all the trillions the last administration spent on infrastructure. i am in detroit. i tell you what, there has nothing been done to our infrastructure. i know we have a lot of signs out there that told us the government was going to fix our roads. all the reports i have been reading, nothing was done. they knew they wouldn't do nothing. the democratic party stole all that money. why is it not being audited? it was a lot of money. guest: thanks for the question. a lot of people that i talked to , the american recovery and reinvestment act, the criteria for spending that, and there was a lot of focus on shovel ready projects, it was not done in the smartest way to revitalize the economy. the criteria for what could get money, it just incentivize, it kind of filled -- basically it only did projects that were already going to be built anyway. it did not have this transformational power that some people think it could have. mentioned there are signs all over saying this was paid for by arra funds. you do see some of that. i think there is a consensus that if folks could go back a years ago and redo that, there would be smarter ways to invest that money. host: this delay in reauthorizing faa, if there is a delay, does it create any safety issues in terms of air traffic? guest: it should not. there is the air traffic organization, that is exempt now.-- the term escapes me basically they keep running even if there is a lapse in authorization. it will affect the governments ability to collect taxes, the 7.5% tax every time you buy an airline ticket that goes to the government. there are a few different places it goes. that is physically it. -- basically it. that would lapse.' -- that would lapse. the government would not be able to collect a tax. host: ok. issue that you wrote about, self driving cars. the house took the first that in regulating -- step in regulating it. the bill is the first on the federal level to address self-driving vehicles. it would prohibit states and localities from regulating the design, construction, or performance of highly automated vehicles in order to maintain nationwide standards. tell us about this path in congress. what happened, and what are the prospects in the senate? guest: don't be scared. basically, self-driving car's, they are a technology that has been under development for a while. we are getting to the point where we can see in the next five to 10 years what we see highly -- what we call highly automated vehicles that drive themselves in certain conditions. that raises all sorts of questions. the automotive industry is highly regulated. how do you regulate a different kind of automobile? this tries to layout -- when you get your drivers license from wherever, the automobile itself, regulated by the federal government. there are federal motor vehicle safety standards they have to comply with. set that lines to for autonomous vehicles. the question is what is the state will in regulating operations of the vehicle, insurance, all these questions. this says states and local governments cannot regulate what the car looks like, how it drives, and a couple of other things. they kind of stayed within the current structure, but some of the people at the state level think they went a little too far on this. host: you anticipated my reaction, the reaction of state legislators to this. guest: i think they are not there arenst, but issues that it gets a little too much into the car is operated. in terms of setting speed limits, traffic laws, that is always been state and local jurisdiction. they say you cannot regulate how the car is designed. that gets into the software that actually drives the car, which affects how it moves on city and state streets. there is a bit of a push back. they are not whipping against the bill. there should be a senate companion in the coming weeks and months. it will be interesting to see that. it will not be identical. line from is on the new york, are independent line. caller: hi. one of the things i always listen for his the model people use about federal government spending. the federal government is the creator of the money and does not operate like a household or even one of the 50 states. it can actually spend before taxes. aboutk the discussion where will we find the money is actually doing a disservice to the public because the federal government can spend money into things, andr useful transportation infrastructure is the classic public good that the government should be creating for the benefit of society. there is as much money as is needed in order to do that. i would really like discussions in washington to start dealing with the reality of how the federal government creates money and how it operates, and it is different from states and households. maybe a comment on that. guest: you are absolutely right. peopleue is a lot of would say that is not the way it should be done. now,is the way we operate and we just raised the debt ceiling this week. a lot of people, especially conservatives, and the republican party obviously controls both houses now, would say that is not a responsible way to spend. the debt we are racking up at some point will have to be paid. i'm not an expert on fiscal policy. it is a bit over my head. there should certainly be a discussion about when is it appropriate to add to the deficit to deliver public goods like transportation infrastructure. host: kevin calling in from pennsylvania on our republican line. caller: hi. the last color, that is the whole -- caller, that is the whole problem. it is not free money. the government does not just create money that doesn't cost us anything. you are better off to privatize everything. i don't know one case where the government is more efficient than the private sector running any business other than military. i don't know where they do it better than the private sector? that is my only comment. i would say turn as much over to the private sector as possible and have his little government running of the funds as possible. thank you. guest: thank you. what ishink that in terms of practical to privatize, there are just some assets that the private sector does not want to touch. you're not going to toll a road in montana or wyoming that gets 100 cars a day, that is not profitable for anyone. the previous caller raises the point that private companies have overhead for ceos and employees. if it is not a profitable project, they are going to say, it doesn't mean that people in rural areas don't need to get where they need to go. i think that is where the coreent that is governmental function comes in that people step in and take care of it. back to the issue of the wroteauthorization, you about the impact on subsidies for smaller airports as a part of this. you set a subsidy program that pays for airlines to fly into otherwise unprofitable small airports could end up losing mandatory spending component airr the house bill to the traffic control, the house bill we talked about earlier, the essential air services program subsidized commercial flights to small and rural airports funded in part by fees charged by flights that pass over the united states that don't take off or land in the country in fiscal 2017, mandatory spending from such overflight fees provided $113 million for the essential air services program. talk to us about that. has there been a status change on that since you wrote the story? guest: good question. so basically to explain the issue, right now the faa does air-traffic control and airports programs including the subsidy program, called the essential air service where they pay airlines to fly into small laces that they would otherwise not fly into. if trip -- it air-traffic control was taken out of the faa, sorry, the essential air services, funds flights from to payto usa, they have a fee to do that. that goes to the faa. if they were a private nonprofit that was doing the air traffic organization, there is a question about whether they would be able to collect those fees at all and if they could, there no longer linked to the essential air service with the faa. they would not necessarily funnel the money in. rural,ises an issue with gop house members whose districts depend on this program to an extent. i asked about it this week. wereshuster and others saying there would be a vote on the house bill. heavy figure this out? -- have you figured this out? they don't have an answer yet which is an indication they are still working things during getting a final bill ready. host: agnes is calling in from fairview, oklahoma on the independent line. you're on with jacob/ . caller: thank you for taking my call. concerned why their taxes are so high it is because of privatization. government job -- the government's job is to provide services we need to improve our lives. the private sector's job is to make a profit. when you start separating that in your mind maybe you will stop supporting privatization. thank you. host: your reaction? again, we have heard both sides of the issue. rightow, the hope, she is that sometimes privatization deals are really not good for the public art and are -- the public partner. when chicago leased out there ifking meters for 75 years, used as an example, of a deal that was not good for the public entity. and they lostnue control of their own streets where they cannot do construction or divert traffic in certain ways or they have to pay the private company that is running the parking meters. say, thati would upls -- bad deals can end costing the taxpayer more than just doing the service on the public side. host: anna is on the independent line from philadelphia. hi there. caller: good morning. i wanted to know if you would upment on rand paul bringing afghanistan and other foreign countries where we put a lot of money and infrastructure and it has been bombed. countries have free college education and excellent transportation and i wanted to know, why the pentagon, whether congress israeli freezing this, putting foreign interest -- why congress is freezing this, putting foreign interests above our own? paul: i think rand proposed hurricane aid if it did not have an offset in the foreign aid budget. a bit out of my wheelhouse in ands of why the pentagon foreign aid is funded the way it is versus our priorities here. is making rand paul the argument and i think others are as well. president trump ran on an america first slogan, before we go trying to fix things overseas, whether militarily or otherwise, we have a lot of things that need axing here. host: in your coverage of transportation, we talked a lot about infrastructure on the show in a different -- and the different kinds of transportation, rail and other things. what do you think is the biggest pressing infrastructure issue for congress to address? regarding transportation? guest: great question. they have to do the faa. it has to be reauthorized. in terms of what has the biggest need? i hate to do this, i should refer you, what i use mostly is the american society of civil engineers report and they break things down into 16 different categories of infrastructure and give a grade to everything. rail is the best, they gave it a b. the difference between roads and didges, are in the d's -- minus, they are always underfunded. the metro has a basket of problems. it is hard for me to single anything out right now but it is a good question to think about. host: learning to dread the single tracking. that seems to be ubiquitous. ellen is on the democratic line. caller: i don't understand this man. i know he is a republican. the america first ship. t? are you kidding me? host: we will go to mike. caller: i am from missouri. host: i apologize, mike. ok, i love c-span and an opportunity to get my opinion not there. i would like to ask the question battling of are where we get the money for much needed infrastructure, at the comradee, red trump -- trump is wanting to waste money on building a wall between us and mexico and i am sick and tired of hearing, that is why the american people voted for him. he actually lost by 3 million votes. if you take all those people into consideration, if there will be a wall built, somehow or other, we need to bring this up to a public vote and let's get public opinion on it. money.sting american we can't even give our people health insurance and we are going to waste money on building a wall. that is asinine. please stop it. off the subject, i would like to stop the kneeling at football games. it is disrespectful to all the people who died in our wars, black and white. host: let's keep this commerce asian on infrastructure. talking about priorities. certainly, you could make the argument that not only is the w

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