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It system. Well go ahead and call the subcommittee to order. And id like to say good morning and welcome all of our witnesses here today to the hearing. By now weve seen reports last weeks fire in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our infrastructure system which carries 400,000 cars a day. But that volume of traffic, its amazing that there wasnt a any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and local officials for respo...

Theres another extremely important point that the senator from virginia made, and that is that this rule which has been criticized by some is in direct response to a g. A. O. Report, a direct response to g. A. O. Criticizing h. U. D. For not doing a good job in carrying out this part of the 1968 fair housing act. That is so important. How many of us in this chamber have repeatedly looked to g. A. O. For advice on how we can improve how federal programs work . Well, look to g. A. O. , look to its...

Fast act provides a certainty and reforms necessary to improve our nations infrastructure and spur economic growth. The fast act was a significant bipartisan achievement showing once again the senate is back to work for the american people. This committees work, which accounted for more than half of the text of the bill, helped to enhance safety, increase transparency, reform regulatory structures and improve planning for free with reforms covering everything from railroads to cars to trucks to ...

To ensuring that you can provide separation. Its one thing to watch it. But if we have no control over it, the difference between being unmanned and uncontrolled. Thank you all. I yield back, mr. Chairman. Mr. Dolan is recognized for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I have a question. And perhaps miss bristol, mr. Cameron, mr. Hampton and mr. Rinaldi, id like you all to consider it. Im perplexed the way veterans are dealt with in this employment process. You have this shortage here. If my ...

Tests. These tests found problems with officer noncompliance with policy, equipment failures, an officer error due to lack of training. We followed up on systemic corrective make sure actions were taken. They did not consistently track to fix problems. We recommended that they do so, and they have actions underway to do that. Mr. Chairman, in some respects our findings mirror some of the themes we have seen over the past several years. In general, the u. S. Has made significant process combating...

We went to get your thoughts on this deal that has been reached to fund the government, to push up the debt limit. Involved, butost how they are achieved. You can give us a call in three lines this morning. If you want to post on our social media pages, cspanwj on twitter. On facebook facebook. Com cspan. Send us an email at journal cspan. Org. This deal taking place tentatively yesterday. In the New York Times, Congress Strikes a deal with the president. Would alert default. Is here. Bolton cou...

Certainly my state as well. This also represents a milestone as members of this Committee Work to complete a multiyear highway bill the first time in a decade. And long overdue. With Service Transportation programs set to expire on friday, it is imperative we work quickly to reach a bipartisan and by cbicamybicameral agreeme. A number of issues happened to be particularly important to my state. For example, upgrading the freight corridors and interstate system that moved goods through my state t...

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Dr. Rosekind if confirmed to really for the first time in a decade look to see if we are taking this job seriously in light of the resources we are committing to it. Senator mccaskill thank you for the question. Its all about transparency and those hearings have been critical for the American People to understand whats going on. Connect the dots when you are getting 75,000 complaints every year. You want those complaints. Every voice should count. We we need to increase the people and technology...

The National Freight Advisory Committee had 81 recommendations that they gave to us. A lot of those we can act upon with an existing authority, including thinking about freight multimodally. Our National Freight Strategic Plan really takes that tack. Some of the other things is that theyve recommended to us is figuring out where our data gaps are. Thats where youll see in our conditions and performance report thats upcoming a real emphasis on where our data gaps are. Also theyve aggressed theyve...