Wyoming, delaware and colorado. Senator john ber rasso chairs the committee. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. President trump has made improving our nations infrastructure a top priority. Infrastructure is critical to our nations prosperity. The Senate Environment Public Works Committee has jurisdiction over our nations highways and roads and its ports. These things allow for American Goods to go from the heartland to the coasts and even overseas. They allow for flood protection for both rural and urban communities that save lives. In addition our committee has jurisdiction over the environmental laws that impact the modernization of infrastructure. Doesnt matter whether the setting is urban or rural, rules and regulations can halt or delay the modernization of infrastructure and the impact is particularly counter productive if theyre applied without understanding the difference between urban and rural. Our committee has members from both urban and rural areas. The members o
Wyoming, delaware and colorado. Senator john ber rasso chairs the committee. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. President trump has made improving our nations infrastructure a top priority. Infrastructure is critical to our nations prosperity. The Senate Environment Public Works Committee has jurisdiction over our nations highways and roads and its ports. These things allow for American Goods to go from the heartland to the coasts and even overseas. They allow for flood protection for both rural and urban communities that save lives. In addition our committee has jurisdiction over the environmental laws that impact the modernization of infrastructure. Doesnt matter whether the setting is urban or rural, rules and regulations can halt or delay the modernization of infrastructure and the impact is particularly counter productive if theyre applied without understanding the difference between urban and rural. Our committee has members from both urban and rural areas. The members o
Wyoming, delaware and colorado. Senator john ber rasso chairs the committee. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. President trump has made improving our nations infrastructure a top priority. Infrastructure is critical to our nations prosperity. The Senate Environment Public Works Committee has jurisdiction over our nations highways and roads and its ports. These things allow for American Goods to go from the heartland to the coasts and even overseas. They allow for flood protection for both rural and urban communities that save lives. In addition our committee has jurisdiction over the environmental laws that impact the modernization of infrastructure. Doesnt matter whether the setting is urban or rural, rules and regulations can halt or delay the modernization of infrastructure and the impact is particularly counter productive if theyre applied without understanding the difference between urban and rural. Our committee has members from both urban and rural areas. The members o
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Denver, colorado. We spoke with professors, authors and graduate students about their research. This interview is about 20 minutes. We are with professor Vernon Burton of Clemson University and peyton mccrary, George Washington University Law School Lecturer and former department of justices story. You are fresh off your panel on historians as Expert Witnesses. When our historians used as Expert Witnesses, professor burton . Vernon in our case, we have done mainly Voting Rights work. Goes back a number of years but historians were used quite a bit now in a lot of different kinds of litigation. Explaining circumstances. Looking at intent. Environmentalfrom concerns to medical issues. Tobacco. Company. Suits. Think, they me, i could almost be used anywhere to help put things into perspective for what is the Voting Rights, sort of law canon we think of, explaining the totality of circumstances of why a law is passed. Host you spent 26 years with the Justice Department. When did you become