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The conversation we are having is about bridging the infrastructure gap. The infrastructure financing gan in particular. Its a remarkably important topic. Many will not under why there is an infrastructure gap. There has been a remarkable change in the way we finance Infrastructure Projects in the world. Over the last several years. Some of it has had to do with the recession that this world felt, and the degree to which banks will get involved in infrastructure issues. As we will hear from our ...

Give all three of our speakers a great hand. [applause] now bear with me. Were going to do a photo law. Im going to ask the speaker to come back up and guess what . We got the tshirt and a bag of chips. [laughter] come on up please. No, we dont have the bag of chips. I was just joking. What are we going to do april 9 . [applause] stand up. Okay. We will hear more about transportation infrastructure in our next session. Weve got that mayors transit roundtable starting probably at 10 30 right back...

Take your seats. Thank you. Cspan3 live today. Just waiting for the American Public Transportation Association conference to begin. Theyre in washington d. C. For their annual legislative summit. Take a look at some of the work recently in the house on transportation. Cq role call reporting recently on the first transportation bill of the new congress. They worked on that last week. The Passenger Rail reform and investment act approved by Committee Last month by unanimous vote and the Congressio...

Of the sanctions it was a cig nif event for the United States as well. I would be happy to entertain questions on that when we get into it. So, theres been an awful lot of listening thats gone on. And what i would say is its broken down into a couple of themes. The first theme being this theme of balance finding the sweet spot. As ive said ive spoken to an awful lot of groups similar to this diverse groups, brookings tends to have a very balanced view of things more centrist so perhaps this prog...

In the United States, the United States government does not own industries. Now, some of the industries that are represented within the aec from other countries are at least partially or wholly owned by if state. Theres a state interest in having those countries in there to be able to develop things within the arctic. We took a different approach. First of all, because of our culture, once again, our government does not own industries. Secondly, if we start getting too close with industry, you s...

The other thing that weve started doing is we call it moral monday iowa. And i believe it started in one of the carolinas. By right. With the naacp. But we just stole the idea. So every monday at noon before we gavel in at 1 00, we have a gathering that draws a lot of press and a lot of advocates, and we talk about an issue that were not getting any legs on. So weve had moral monday iowas on date rape. Weve had moral monday iowas on disparities in education and prisons. Weve had moral monday iow...

So when you do those conversations that leave you scratching your head a little bit. What are you asking for . What could washington do to make this easier for you . Short of comprehensive . I dont know. Short of comprehensive reform what they can do. President obama has chosen that course and we can agree or disagree with it, but hes not saying as the rest of us arent saying we dont need a comprehensive solution because when you pick up pieces like Border Security and dealing with health care a...

Chairman of the National Association of governors. Our state Senate Chairman of the National League of legislators. Our chamber of commerce lane beatty has become on the National Board of the chamber of commerce. And our mayor of Salt Lake City is now the president and the National League of cities. And so, we are looked at, i believe, as a state that is well run, knows how to get things done, but recognizes that investment in infrastructure are one of the key pillars to Economic Growth and vita...

Gains for the countrys Infrastructure Companies by joining aiib a chinabacked International Development bank. The tunisian government has released a video showing the recent storming of a museum by police to free hostages held. In the assault last week the terrorists killed 21 people including three tourists from japan. The video begins with members of a special police unit getting ready for the mission as they approach the museum in the capital tunis. The antiterror unit then enters the buildin...

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