[FRANCE24] Gunshots rang out from a passing vehicle near US Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... s residence in Delaware on Saturday night, but the VP and his wife were not at home, the US Secret Service said on Sunday.
The shots were fired on a public road several hundred yards from the house, outside a security perimeter, at about 8:25 p.m. EST. Secret Service personnel at the residence heard the reports and saw the vehicle speeding away.
Biden and his wife, Jill, were in Delaware when the shooting occurred but were out for the evening, the Secret Service said. The home, near Wilmington, is not visible from the road, and it was not clear whether the gunfire was random or aimed in the direction of the residence.
The incident occurred as the Secret Service tries to recover from a series of security lapses, including an incident in September when a knife-carrying man jumped the White House fence and ran into the presidents official residence.
Biden, 72, who served as a U.S. senator from Delaware for more than three decades, has residences in New Castle County and in Washington, D.C.
The Bidens, and President Barack Obama The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesnât. But she is a typical white person... , were briefed about the incident on Saturday night.
Officials declined to discuss the Bidens location on Sunday for security reasons.
Authorities said they would search the area to determine whether the Biden home or other nearby residences were hit by bullets.
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I get the impression Crazy Uncle Joe is big fun at parties, probably knows some great jokes, and likely would feel at home in a double wide in some Midwestern trailer park. Probably just family business.
I still don't know why we didn't send him to France. *couch*football*cough* Vice Presidents were made for gigs like that.
[FOXBUSINESS] The new Republican-controlled Congress is facing an old problem: where to find the money for highway and transit programs.
With gasoline prices at their lowest in years, there had been talk that when the new Congress convened it might be time to raise federal gas and diesel taxes. They haven't budged in more than 20 years.
But already, GOP leaders are tamping down expectations for an increase.
The No. 2 Republican in the Senate, John Cornyn of Texas, says he doesn't know of any support in Congress for a gas tax increase.
Another Republican leader, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, had previously said that all possible funding options should be considered, including a gas tax increase. But he now says that such a possibility is unlikely.
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If you make it proportional, BY LAW, then it'll rise and fall with the price, (But no, then there wont be as much theft. HAH.)
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Not that logic has anything to do with it where gov't is involved, but logic says cheaper petrol encourages increased driving and increased purchasing.... which means GREATER TAX receipts. Not to mention the tax receipts from money spend on consumer goods and services saved on less expensive petrol.
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Simple problem: move all funds from ineffective / local (Amtrack, light rail, buses, pedestrian, bicycle, landscaping, etc.) programs to actual highway construction & repair, repeal prevailing wage rules, prohibit all environmental / endangered species challenges to transportation projects & remove all private rights of action against repair / expansion of existing roads.
Anyone want to wager that the above wouldn't at least effectively triple our annual road-building capacity without raising an additional penny in revenue?
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Eliminate a couple or more worthless agencies and "re-distribute" their budget. Energy, education, and the IRS are candidates. There are others. Big government has been used to address unemployment problems. The money could be better spent in the private sector and we'd get more for our buck. I wonder how much of every dollar sent to Washington get skimmed off to support a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy.
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the government needs more money from the money collected from drivers for maintaining roads, but they don't need it for that. They need it so they can make new bike paths by cutting down motor vehicle lanes. Though this adds to traffic congestion, it does satisfy nostalgia for the great bicycle craze of the 1880s.
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[FOXBUSINESS] The new Republican-controlled Congress is facing an old problem: where to find the money for highway and transit programs.
