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Are looking at Hurricane Harvey. How as a weekly did we plan for this coverage . We were going to wait to see what the storm was like because when we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not hit. By sunday it was clear that it was a huge disaster. Peter was back from vacation, he is an economist and he can take almost any story and look at the economic angle but also a human angle. He was perfect for this. There is another story. Chris has been doing work with fema and reporting on National Building codes and how a place like houston and texas in general are allergic to building codes...

Are looking at Hurricane Harvey. How as a weekly did we plan for this coverage . We were going to wait to see what the storm was like because when we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not hit. By sunday it was clear that it was a huge disaster. Peter was back from vacation, he is an economist and he can take almost any story and look at the economic angle but also a human angle. He was perfect for this. There is another story. Chris has been doing work with fema and reporting on National Building codes and how a place like houston and texas in general are allergic to building codes...

And it could result in lives lost unless we have enforceable rules and regulations that protect the traveling public, not just the folks who may be behind the wheel but also passengers in vehicles out on the roads today. Driving continues to be one of the deadliest activities. The reason the framework issued yesterday concerned me so greatly is that it depends on voluntary selfassessment by the industry as opposed to mandatory rules. It was termed by one report even less burdensome than the voluntary one issued under the obama administration. The net effect would be to leave enforcement virtua...

Support for and thoughts and prayers for all the victims of the recent hurricanes and most recently of course in the state of florida and our colleague in the Ranking Member on this committee, senator nelson, he and senator rubio are there today as they should be and looking out for the needs of their constituents and so again we certainly want to express our support for them and for the people of florida as they deal with the horrific storm and its aftermath. This committee has been working for some time in a bipartisan fashion to progresses the advancement of Autonomous Vehicles and i want t...

And senator rubio are there today as they should be and looking out for the needs of their constituents and so again we certainly want to express our support for them and for the people of florida as they deal with the horrific storm and its aftermath. This committee has been working for some time in a bipartisan fashion to progresses the advancement of Autonomous Vehicles and i want to thank senator peters for partnering with me in this effort. And senator nelson who is unable to join us today. We put a lot of work into this effort to date and i look forward to continuing to work with this co...