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[Donerail]

What legislation has the IDS passed that accounts for the low (relative to all the others) unionization rate?

[Donerail]

Could we get some data on which colleges have a student population where >5% of the population are receiving federal student loan assistance?

[Donerail]

Mr. GM, could we get some estimates on how much it would cost to build this network (brown lines from Corpus Christi continue on to the border):



Red, blue, and orange are TGV-esque high-speed rail, while green and brown are conventional intercity rail.

[Donerail]

do you have a figure for the total mileage?

St. Petersburg-Tampa-Lakeland-Orlando-Sebastian-West Palm-Ft. Lauderdale-Miami: 350 miles.
Orlando-Winter Park-Jacksonville-Savannah-Charleston-Fayetteville-Raleigh: 500 miles.
Jacksonville-Macon-Atlanta: 300 miles.
Atlanta-Greenville-Charlotte+Winston-Salem-Greensboro+Raleigh/Durham-Rocky Mount: 340 miles.
Atlanta-Chattanooga: 120 miles.
Atlanta-Birmingham-Tuscaloosa: 210 miles.
Tuscaloosa-Jackson: 180 miles.
Tuscaloosa-New Orleans: 300 miles.
Dallas-San Antonio: 280 miles.
Houston-Austin: 160 miles.
Dallas-Texarkana-Little Rock: 328 miles.
New Orleans-Lafayette-Lake Charles-Beaumont-Houston: 400 miles.

Dallas-Houston is made already and Raleigh-Durham-Greensboro-Charlotte is made.

[Donerail]

     Does the South need any money for Hurricane Sandy? I wasn't made aware of this request for money until quite recently.

Damage was minor in Florida. Sand was washed onto some coastal roads in South Florida, and traffic lights were thrown out of order due to power outages, and of course you had flooding and beach erosion in some areas. Schools and all extracurricular activities were cancelled in Palm Beach/Broward/Dade Counties, as did several schools on the Treasure Coast. In east-central Florida, 1,000 lost power. 20 flights were cancelled at Miami and 13 were cancelled at Ft. Lauderdale. There was also damage to the White Oak Conservation Center in Nassau County, which led to two panthers escaping (they were later recaptured). A Russian electronic intelligence-gathering ship was also granted safe harbor in the commercial port of Jacksonville.

In North Carolina, a state of emergency existed in 24 western counties due to large snowdrifts (up to a foot). 2 feet of water flooded Highway 12 and Ocracoke, while 20 people were stranded on Portsmouth Island. The HMS Bounty sank off the coast of North Carolina as well, and five sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway were shut down.