david shuster rejoins us from the current news center. morning. >> stephanie: you too. what a morning. it's one of those days that chris was saying nothing happens and yet everything is happening. where here we are on radio and television, and you can't talk about anything else. a lot happened this week with the shameful gun legislation, the explosion near waco the ricin guy. >> yeah, it has been nuts. and adding to some of the confusion is that police are not saying much at all about what is going on with watertown and their efforts to try to chase the remaining suspect. there is now some conflictingcations about whether in fact they have him cornered in one house or whether he is in one neighborhood. the house that police thought the 20-year-old suspect was in, they finally went in and didn't find him there. so now it's like okay, if they thought they had him cornered there, somehow he got out or he got out, now that opens up the entire area again where they have to go door to door and keep everybody on the lookout for this kid. and we'

it's a david shuster in for jacki schechner today.e. >> progressives have every right to be infuriated five democratic senators joined the republicans to essentially sustain a republican filibuster. and harry reid joined them for procedural reasons. and stephanie progressives are already declaring that they will fund primary challengers against at least two of the democratic senators who made those votes yesterday. >> stephanie: good. we'll cover what is going on in texas and the ricin stuff. a lot of news, and who better than news man extrordanaire than david shuster to tell us about it. >> thank you, stephanie. here is what is going on in boston. investigators have circulated at least internally among police a photograph of two men captured on a lord & taylor surveillance camera, shortly before monday's deadly blast. officials believe the men left a black bag pack or duffel bag. authorities are considering releasing the surveillance photos to the public meanwhile at this very hour, president obama and mitt romney are attending an in

for a sign that says that is that communication elements between neurons i said feature used shuster and if you activate them often they actually change them as i said of one sign app says seven take no develops your more so that the old saying that press makes tasks is to be true or one has to recycle something numerous times in order to memorize it means memory says it capable of doing exactly the same thing as you did developing quite rapidly now using them we can make a thinking cognitive element base that's capable of learning back up orders for us to recruit. others might still not fully understood about memristor years and just what their future holds for ours but as technology advances and with all the work that's going on just around the russian capital we may not be that far out of machines that think just like we do and that's an interesting thought indeed. do we speak your language anything about the will not advance. news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news to angles couldn't stories. you hear. in troy altie spanish find out more visi

congressman bill shuster is chairman of the infrastructure committee.morning. thank you for having me. >> we all hope this is going to be over soon. i'm sure you do, too. will it be over soon? what do you think? >> from the beginning we said the faa, the president has the ability to imp plemt these sequestrations they have implemented this to inflict as much pain on it will traveling public and to use it to pressure congress to raise taxes and raise spending. we don't need to spend one more nickel on faa. they have enough money. they have the flexibility to implement this without the furloughs. >> so you think that the d.o.t. and the faa intentionally, surgely targeted these cuts to affect the highest number of y flyers? >> absolutely. look at the way they've done it. they should have started there with the furloughs, not the people that provide safety in the air. they also, they are not looking at airports differently. they're doing across the board the same. so you have, in iowa, waterloo, iowa, it's 80 flights a day, versus chicago o'hare. 8,200 a da

in a statement, congressman bill shuster the chairman of the house committee on transportation and freezingain structure says quote the administration views the sequester as an attempt to score political points rather than address real issues and find real savings in a bloated federal bureaucracy. he points to sizeable increases in the faa's budget and continued spending on consultants and travel. the administration says the law requiring these cuts gives officials few options. >> furloughs cannot be avoided. 70% of the faa's operation's budget is personnel. the faa must furlough 47,000 employees up to 11 days between now and the end of the fiscal year. >> the replace cuts with other cuts and tax increases on the wealthy. >> this fight is playing out in court as well. the nation's airline association is suing the f.a.a. to halt these furloughs claiming that the administration has the authority to cut elsewhere. bret? >> bret: rich edson at washington's international airport. rich, thanks. wall street is trying to recover from its worst week of the year. the dow gained 20. the s&p 500 was up

and again, i want to thank chairman gibbs and chairman shuster for these sessions and the stakeholders session. i think they've been enormously valuable. we know what we need to do in terms of the work that needs to get done, but we also now know what we need to do as a congress if we really want to see it get done. so i very much hope that this committee has always had a very clear, bipartisan, problem-solving approach. and i hope we can summon that approach in this circumstance to see to it that we give the corps the resources it needs to have in order to get the work done that we all agree has to get done. with that, mr. chairman, i will yield back. thank you. >> okay, mr. thier monday, question? >> in my our comments i had intended to not only think secretary darcy but also general bostick, and the men and women in your organization, particularly the kernel in california, sacramento. it's a pleasure to work with him and his staff. i would like to hear from you, perhaps in writing or subsequent meeting how we could change the systems, some of which are law, some of which are procedu

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this is from bill shuster, the chairman of the transportation and infrastructure committee a republican for the american public is indicative that the administration views as the sequester to attempt to score political points rather than address real issues and find real savings in a bloated federal bureaucracy. the airline industry says that these cuts could be designed much better. they say they have been designed for what appears to be maximum impact. they are suing the faa to try to overturn the way these cuts have been structured. back to you. melissa: we are up-to-date. thanks to you, rich edson. melissa: despite the faa's dire warnings so far flight delays seem to be anything but sequester-related as you just heard. is this another example of the faa crying wolf? let's ask mary schiavo. former secretary with the transportation. faa playing politics. >> they can rely on constituent group, airline and air port operators to run to congress to attempt to put more money at the problem. faa published last september what they had to do. they waited until two months for secretary lahood

coons: madam president, senator murkowski of alaska is a strong leader on energy issue shuster and i'm grateful to work with her on the energy and natural resources committee and so in my view it's fitting that we're here today despite representing very different states from quite different regions of the country and different parties, to talk about an issue that we believe can bring us together. republicans and democrats alike can agree that when it comes to american energy, we need a comprehensive, all-of-the-above strategy. that's the only way we're going to succeed in developing secure, homegrown, and affordable sources of energy for our next generation. oil and gas in my view aren't going away any time soon but if renewable sources of energy are going to grow and also become central players in the american energy marketplace, we have to make sure they're operating on a level playing field and right now, the playing field is anything but equal. for nearly 30 years, traditional sources of energy have had access to a very beneficial tax structure called master limited partnerships. t

shuster: i thank the gentleman. i rise in support of h.r. 1765 so that we can stop this needless pain on the 34er7b traveling public and our economy. the administration and f.a.a. has refuse for months to provide us with a plan to work with the airline industry to figure out how they could -- this could be implemented without all this pain to the traveling public and our economy. i'd like to he remind my colleagues thistry -- industry provides $1 trillion to our economy. it's extremely important to the hardworking men and women of america that our airlines and folks are getting where they need to be on time without delay. this is a very, very damaging to the economy. again i believe this has been mismanaged and i believe that this bill will force the administration, force them to stop these needless furloughs so we can continue making sure that the airline industry is functioning. to keep our economy stronger, growing, and to stop, as i said, the safety concerns to the traveling public. with that i yield back. the s

. >> caller: i got to give you guys compliments when you had shuster and pierce on at the same time talkingephanie: thank you. >> caller: they were awesome. >> stephanie: yeah, they were awesome. >> caller: and one of the two of them if they didn't know something, they would say, i didn't know that. it wasn't random speculation, it wasn't can i hear their accents from a video? but they were so good. >> stephanie: yeah, they were terrific. this literally happened like two blocks from where -- >> his headquarters huh. >> caller: i think once a week you should have them on and indicate the s&p report. >> stephanie: suddenly i'm bob steve -- schieffer. >> you have a much nicer ass than bob schieffer. >> stephanie: thank you. i did not see the brad paisley ll cool j accidental racist but there was something very rude that he wrote, and it's something about a whore and such -- they were comparing wearing the confederate flag to wearing chains and droopy pants -- he was just saying that not accidental racism -- that's racism. >> yeah. >> stephanie: rocky mountain mike and macaroni the official rap

been encouraged by some the new chairman of he house transportation infrastructure committee pibill shusterut keeping an open into this.steps host: meadville, pennsylvania, caller, john. caller: thank you for the work you and your co-workers do on c-span. we enjoy your intelligent, respectful discussions. i work in construction. if your dering if you, report covered longer-term designs so we get more for the pay for.cture we we do a lot of band-aids on with a shortesigns life expectancy for projected cheap increases or versus steel and things. guest: we do address this. certainly support more sustainable and resilient solutions in all of the sectors, certainly transportation gets a lot of attention, a lot of the big there. are you raise a good point though. cost the term life cycle and you have probably heard of that. sometimes there's a temptation lowest up front cost on a project ignoring the operation and maintenance cost the next 50 ty years. when citizens and political are looking at any type of project life cycle cost should be part of the discussion even though a political leader may

jimmy schuster offered to come -- chairman shuster offered to come.he made a comment, this isn't oklahoma? i say, yes. -- this is in oklahoma? i said, yes. -- iyou are suggesting have a couple of questions for mr. smith. in your statement, you said you want to increase your tandem from 28 to 33. correct? >> yes. >> what that increase would you see in the number of trucks in the production that you build, the efficiency of delivering products? , congressman,ned the parcel and less truck business, both network businesses as opposed to the truckload business which is more point two point. one location to another. less thanm with the get outd is that you you may will have a truck that is very heavy. in the parcel business and the business,- ltl you're underutilizing the pulling power of the vehicle. it is about a 18% pay cut and productivity. over time, you would have roughly 18% fewer vehicles that and groundd in ltl parcell and over the road transportation by making that one change. you are safer. we tested them in florida and so forth. they are more st

chairman shuster understands it. he understands were used as a piggy bank.e knows how burdensome we are for this industry. so there is hope. >> i think there's hope for this country when we have ceos like jeff smisek. this is so exciting because he tells it like it is and you're really making a difference. >> my pr people are holding their ears generally when i talk. >> you're the boss. one more question right out here. >> there's been a lot of talk about the potential pilot and take action shortage around the world. cbc that it united and what steps you take to attract and retain these resources? >> that's another long-term issue. the answer is no. but over time what will happen is the express carriers will begin to see it because they move up into the mainline and the question is where did he express carriers get their pilots? when you have rules like 1500 hour rule, which is related to quality, it's number of hours. that has a damaging effect on the skilled pilots coming into the business. so we look at a broad range at united. i'm not prepared to talk pu