I call this hearing to order. Todays hearing is about the need for this committee to draft and to pass a bipartisan Highway Infrastructure bill. Both Ranking Member carpers staff and my staff have been working on drafting this legislation along with all of the members of this committee. We appreciate all the input we received from our home states, from our fellow members and from transportation stakeholders. Its our shared goal to advance a bill out of the committee this summer. That means the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will be first out of the gate to pass a Highway Infrastructure bill. This is appropriate given the history of bipartisan efforts to pass previous surface as far as surface transportation bills. Chef crumbling roads and bridges and they need to replaced. Projected population growth and existing congestion require states to build new capacity to meet future needs. Our economy is built upon a well functioning road system that allows products from rural a
Has done just that he joins us live in just a few minutes from now to tell us what he will say, what he thanks the nation needs and that ron desantis and Rhonda Desantis andblasting hims reaction. He is here al live in just a few moments. First hilary is moving north historical Tropical Storm expected to slam to Southern California just hours from now. Within 48 Million People in its path gearing up for what could be massive flooding of the southwest and the southland unprecedented for the west coast. Hello welcome to Fox News Live everyone i am eric shawn. Hi arthel. Arthel hello eric hello everyone i am arthel neville. The National Hurricane center just downloaded hilary to a Tropical Storm. It is already blamed for at least one death and mexico. As far inland as a las vegas. Hilary could still dump more than a years worth of rain in some areas of the next day or so. Forecasters warning of catastrophic lifethreatening floods, dangerous mudslides, Power Outages or possibly even tornad
Along with your colleague ms. Risalah media. Good morning hello, we are at your service. Greetings to you, mrs. Hajipour. Good morning to you too. In the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful. May god bless ali muhammad and the family of muhammad. Hello, dear companions of the khabar network , please join us for the first part of the morning news series. Ali bagheri, political deputy minister of Foreign Affairs in a note posted online, the process of releasing billions of dollars of iranian assets that had been illegally seized in the United States for several years began. And the process of freeing all iranian assets in south korea has also started and it has been said that until the money cards are transferred , the prisoners targeted by america will remain in iran. It was done with the mediation of a third country, and the exchange of prisoners includes the release of irans blocked assets in south korea and its transfer to qatar. There are several floors in iran who we
Breathes freely after the cancellation of article 370, which was an obstacle. There are thousands of people who travel to kashmir for tourism. Law 370 was the legal article that gave a special status to the jammu and kashmir region and gave them the right to have a flag, parliament and constitution, and with its cancellation, these two regions were declared part of indian territory. Critics say that local people are facing suppression of civil rights and press freedom in kashmir. Thousands of Security Forces across kashmir secured modis visit and many shopkeepers they had to close their stores under the pressure of security inspections. Public places are also closed following this trip. This visit is only to address and support the bjp main group in the rest of the regions. India for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Modis visit is said to be planned as part of his Election Campaign ahead of indias general elections. Almost none of those present at modis speech in kashmir were ordi
[background noises]7h [background noises] i am pleased to call todays hearing to order. All for joining senator capitol and me too explore one of our favorite topics and that is recycling. Specifically we are here to discuss the sustainability policy called extended producer responsibilitynd how these programs can improve recycling infrastructure and recycling practices. So what exactly is responsibility extended responsibility establishes a system in which financial responsibility for products lifs shifted upstream to producers of those. And how to extend policies worker . Well, states or countries adopt policies that may require producers to pay a fee that is associated with their goods to a producer whose responsibility organization. And then these organizations can use the revenues for the expansion of recycling infrastructure. And for consumer education. Consumer packaging materials like plastic, like cardboard or aluminum theory as we know greatly the respect recyclability. Some