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Events. Before we get started i ask that you please silent your mobile devices and cell phones. Please note this conference is open to the press and it is being webcast live and being recorded. The comments from the stage of all the speakers, panelists and moderators are all on the record. As theme for the conference this year is achieving advantage and we will attempt to provide insight on how america can continue to achieve strategic advantage to address current and future global challenges. Our opening keynote speaker today is someone who daily looks at, addresses and is at the heart of Nat...

Well call the Sub Committee to order and like to ask that members who are not on the Sub Committee be permed to sit with Sub Committee of todays hearings to ask questions. With that objection that is still ordered i would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. It is going to focus , obviously, on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And a committee that is holding a host of hearings toth gaer idea on what congress can do to achieve this goal and today were going to hear ideas from highways and transit stake holders. Gathering input from stake holders is essential to the p...

Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. It was vital to pass the first longterm highway bill and a continue to we will need your assistance with teacher legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations Transportation System still needs additional investments. And acting a longterm solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to ensure address those needs into the future. Act, hasn the fast been a central priority of the committee. Funding forderal our nonfederal partners is vital to planning and Building Infrastructure for the 2...

Wrote one of our newsletters and it suddenly occurred to me that for people ,ow who are our age then vietnam is to them, chronologically, what world war i was for us. But not know about you, world war i did not weigh heavily on my imagination at all. The question is, why is vietnam still weighing on our imaginations . It is not so hard to understand. Faults of the ken did touch on it the fact that it is an unresolved question in this society. Hopefully when we have that discussion later this afternoon ,e will talk about the ways intentionally or not, it has opened the door for far more discuss...

Im a visiting fellow here. Im delighted to welcome all of you here for an event on americas global image, cohosted by both brookings and the Pew Research Center. As many of you are probably already aware if you tpwhransed at this newspaper or checked your social media accounts this morning, pew released its latest edition of the Global Research study, with this years survey covering 37 countries and more than 40,000 respondents, all conduct theafed inauguration of President Trump, between february 16 and may 8 of this year. And the findings are news worthy, particularly during a week in which ...