He was the first africanamerican student body president and his law degree from new york university. After law school he spent a month in new orleans playing trumpet and becoming friends with wynton marsalis. Then he worked in a law firm and later served in the u. S. Department of justice and on the staff of the house judiciary committee. He returned to charlotte in 2001 to work in a law firm there and got elected to the Charlotte City council in 2005, and he was reelected in 2007. He was elected the citys mayor in 2009, the youngest person ever to hold that job, and he was confirmed as the 17th transportation secretary in june of 2013 by a vote of 1000 a rare moment of bipartisanship. So much for biography now on to the everpopular process portion of our program. As always, were on the record here. Ive been told our guest may commit news this morning and so youre listening to the following ground rules your listening to the following ground rules is important. As is always the case at
The availability of drones and the use of drones, and we are scouring our authorities to see what, if anything, we can do as an agency on and well hear more to say about that in the future weeks and months. Are you hoping to meet the september target date . I think hopefully we will meet that deadline or come real close to it, in terms of getting the rule over to onb and hopefully soon thereafter having the rule out there as final. Heres the last one from me. A lot of talk this week about car hacking as result of wired magazine report on the Entertainment Systems in jeep cherokees and a chrysler products where you can get control of steering, brakes and transmission. I want to know your view of the proposed legislation and also where what the department is doing on the subject. Hacking. Look, this is a place where the government and the private sector have to be working very closely together. And we have urged the out toy all Auto Industry to start a roundtable of sorts to focus on iss
Million families that are using these vouchers. I think the variability is a reflection of the fact that somehow the agencies are smaller, they have less of a case load, it may be easier for them to stay on top of these things. Host we talked about the Obama Administration requesting 220 million for the housing choice program. How has that been received on capitol hill . What is the politics surrounding that budget request . Guest that would be a large amount of money that this program has had in a while. The number of families that have been served by the program was cut down significantly by the sequester and is only just now getting back up to the number that it had been. The idea of spending more money i think within the broader context, a lot of antipoverty programs are a hard sell in washington right now, and this is one of them. The Section Eight Program in particular has the stigma attached that a lot of the people that benefit from this are just receiving government handouts,
One generation earlier, not a state in the nation was yellow or light orange or dark orange. Not any state, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, texas was more than 14 to bees. Now obese. Now were looking at obesity rates higher than 30 in one generation. So whats happened is that this one in six that are food insecure for the first time in human history, hunger and obesity coexist in the same community and same person. Be so if youre going to solve a problem, you better know what the problem is. And the problem, it turns out, for many of the food insecure, the majority, 61 at least, is affordable nutrition. Thats what were talking about, getting them fruits, vegetables, dairy, protein compared with, you know, empty calories, fast food, junk food, etc. Now, i also stole this slide. I was on a panel for partnership for healthier america last year in, down in d. C. , and the gentleman who runs the largest cooperative of Food Service Groups in the United States, a 25 30 billion business, he h
Good morning, annemarie. Here on wall street it is shaping up to be another bruising day. U. S. Stock futures hit a sixmonth low this morning. Wall street had its worst performance in 18 months thursday driven in part by a dramatic drop in the chinese stockmarket. A report found chinas factory activity fell at its fastest pace in more than six years. After the devaluation of the chinese currency, there is worry that the slowdown in chinese economy could slow downworld economic growth. Thursday all indicators were down, more than 2 . The dow lost 358 points, the s p fell 43 points. The nasdaq dropped 141 points. Asian stockmarkets tumbled following wall streets selloff. The shanghai composite lost 4 . Meanwhile greece is apparently headed for another national election. After rebelling in Parliament Prime minister Alexis Tsipras said hes stepping down and calling for early elections. Tsipras said he got the best bailout possible from eurozone countries. If he gets approval, elections wil