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I appreciate the good work in ferreting this out. How long is Homeland Security and secret service had your report . When did they get your first draft . They received my first draft this draft may 6th. We supplied the underlying materials either in the middle of late last week. Yet theres been no consequence yet. We get reports that maybe one person is going to retire and who knows when that will be. What direction does secretary clancy have in revoking their security clearance . I dont have that information. But he could revoke their security clearance immediately. Correct . Im not sure what...

Take your seats. Thank you. Cspan3 live today. Just waiting for the American Public Transportation Association conference to begin. Theyre in washington d. C. For their annual legislative summit. Take a look at some of the work recently in the house on transportation. Cq role call reporting recently on the first transportation bill of the new congress. They worked on that last week. The Passenger Rail reform and investment act approved by Committee Last month by unanimous vote and the Congressional Budget Office saying the bill would authorize 7. 2 billion in spending from 2017 to 2020 the big...

The other thing that weve started doing is we call it moral monday iowa. And i believe it started in one of the carolinas. By right. With the naacp. But we just stole the idea. So every monday at noon before we gavel in at 1 00, we have a gathering that draws a lot of press and a lot of advocates, and we talk about an issue that were not getting any legs on. So weve had moral monday iowas on date rape. Weve had moral monday iowas on disparities in education and prisons. Weve had moral monday iowa on education spending, and next week were having it on womens health. We get these huge crowds. We...

The number of people who turned 65 a day, and will for the next ten years, if you havent googled it, google it it will blow your mind how many of us there are. And im one of those. And they tell me all the time, we want transit because we want to age. Were not going to drive for much longer. Hopefully they will but many of them wont. They want to be able to take transit but they want to be technical savvy. They want to pull up the next bus locator and see when the bus comes. Texas is hot. Fort worth is 110 in july and august. And you dont want to stand on the corner looking for your bus. You w...

Chairman of the National Association of governors. Our state Senate Chairman of the National League of legislators. Our chamber of commerce lane beatty has become on the National Board of the chamber of commerce. And our mayor of Salt Lake City is now the president and the National League of cities. And so, we are looked at, i believe, as a state that is well run, knows how to get things done, but recognizes that investment in infrastructure are one of the key pillars to Economic Growth and vitality. So were here today with three incredible mayors that are going to talk to you about their stor...