Doctoral fellow and virginia sensor for civil war studies. Im certainly really glad she is here and i think you all will be as well once you hear her talk. Its clear she will bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech in terms of teaching, research and outreach programs as well. She specializes in 19th century u. S. History. It but also north american slavery more generally. Her writing as appeared in civil war monitor annes and Civil War History journal among other publications. Her big project at the moment is converting her ph. D. Dissertation into a book. That is going to be well worth looking at a few years down the line. Its in the same topic we will speak about tonight. You can see the power point is already up there. Black prisoners of war in the confederate south. Under the rebel lash. Hero she was big for 30 or 35 minutes, which will leave us plenty of time for discussion. I think another advantage of the zoom format is that you can type in your questions using the queue and a featu
And Exchange Commission chairman jay clayton regarding the work and agenda of the s. E. C. I thank you for your willingness to appear before the committee today, mr. Clayton, your willingness to testify is essential to our oversight much the s. E. C. The mission of the s. E. C. Is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and sufficient markets and facilitate capital formation. It plays a Critical Role in ensuring our nation has Capital Markets that the public can have confidence and trust in. It provides information to investors so as americans prepare for their futures, they may not only have a wide variety of financial opportunities, but they also have the information necessary to make informed investment decisions. Chairman clay torngs you came before this committee a year ago and assured us you would continue to take steps to ensure that the u. S. Capital markets remain the deepest, moshgt dynamic and liquid in the world. I commend you and the s. E. C. Staff for actions taken o
Development Chris Matthews assistant Vice President Bnsf Railroad and jim dolinsky ceo and the executive a director. And with those challenges to meet the final implementation deadline of december 31st. The recent Committee Hearing is anig Important Technology with the ability to prevent accidents and derailments such as the tragic derailment in washington in 2017. Then to pass by congress and october 2015 and then to implement tpc by december 31st but allows the railroad the extension of up to 24 months if and only if they hit the milestones are pleased to say under the secretary chao in under the leadership the framework has been faithfully implemented and to submit documentation and to qualify for the extension so then to receive a certain extension from that deadline and to make progress on tpc implementation and availability for updates and across the network and from the end of last year witnesses to discuss freight how they implement tpc and to describe what is needed to achieve
Bourg, strategic development, Wabtec Corporation. Chris matthews, assistant Vice President , Network Control systems, bnsf of railway, and jim derwinski, chief executive officer and executive director of metro. Todays hearing will evaluate progress in implementation positive train control, ptc, and examine potential challenges in meeting the final implementation deadline of december 31, 2020. As recent Committee Hearings have highlighted, ptc is an Important Technology that has the ability to prevent accidents, including overspeed derailments, such as the tragic derailment in dupont, washington in 2017, as well as preventing traintotrain collisions. Ptc enforcement and implementation act, passed by congress and signed into law by president obama in october 2015, required railroads to implement ptc by december 31, 2018, however it allowed a railroad to apply for an extension of up to 24 months if, and only if, a railroad met important milestones. I am pleased to say that under secretary
Up along the coast, 43 in cape may, 45 in beach haven. We saw arrows, direction of the wind is like this, out of the south east and with temperatures close to 40 in the atlantic that mild ocean air will be pouring in land over the next lets say 24 to 48 hours and with no blocking high up here to the north, no source of cold air that means whatever cold you are seeing right now will evaporate and lift north up in canada and retreats. Looking at the wide view all this moisture through here will just stream north right up the appalachians and see low pressure developing along this front here and everything moms from south to north over the next, one to two days here , pockets of heavier rain expected, some locations, could exceed 2 inches of rain by sunday afternoon. Forecast for today we are starting off with cloudy skies , very mild morning, see how quickly numbers will jump here by 4 00, 52. By 7 00, 50 degrees. Numbers pulled down toward evening, rain develop between one and 3 00 this