“Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.” YearsHas BeensLastsTermSixMajorsBillsCongressLast TimeExtensionsShort TermTransportation Author:Ray LaHood
“The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.” KnowsWorldWellsMayMaterialsMajorsHundredAdvantageTwentiesBillsDollarsFinancialBillionsRussiaFiftyCurrencyReservesDollar Bills Author:Robert C. Solomon
“Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.” PeopleKnowsPlayFourInfluenceMajorsConceptsHarmonyBillsFischerRavel Author:Herbie Hancock
“In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.” Would BeJobsPresidentLossStudentsSpeechMajorsBillsInvestmentCreditDebtSpendingLondonCardsSavingPresident ObamaLoanSummitSavingsCredit CardUnwiseStudent LoanCredit Card DebtJob Loss Author:Peter Schiff
“There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, have a human being, the next generation of the human race pulled from their bodies, and within a couple of weeks have to go back to work, because if they don't, they can't pay their bills. Something's wrong with that.” IfsHumansBodyNextHuman BeingsPayRaceCuttingGenerationsWeekBabyCoupleMajorsBillsHuman RaceSurgeryNext GenerationBack To Work Author:Megyn Kelly
“That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain to be reversed, that's going to disappear. The Republicans are going to slash the rich's taxes.” MadeImportantCertainLevelsRichRepublicanTaxesMajorsBillsClintonRaisedDisappearInequalityAccomplishment Author:Jonathan Chait
“Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.” IfsNeedsRealBecomingMajorsBillsDollarsStrikesDisasterMeatDigitalGoodsPlasticAbstractionTradingTangibleFurAsteroidsDollar Bills Author:Kabir Sehgal
“Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.” DealsMembersMajorsBiggerBillsCongressMinoritiesAmendmentsMinorsAdjustmentLegislatorsLawmakers Book:Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire Source: Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire