Transportation secretary elaine chao outlined the trump administrations infrastructure plan while appearing last week before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. This was her first time testifying before Congress Since being confirmed in january. The hearing is just under two hours. I called this hearing to order and today we are welcoming the secretary of transportation, the honorable elaine chao to testify before the Senate Committee on environment and public works on our nations infrastructure needs. Madam secretary, welcome to the committee. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has always taken the lead on infrastructure issues in the senate. When unveiled, other infrastructure proposals will increase funding and provide streamlining requirements for the construction of pipelines, housing and large, urban projects of various kinds that may be privately financed through publicprivate partnerships to name a few of the issues. However, our nations highways,
Transportation secretary elaine chao outlined the trump administrations infrastructure plan while appearing last week before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. This was her first time testifying before Congress Since being confirmed in january. The hearing is just under two hours. I called this hearing to order and today we are welcoming the secretary of transportation, the honorable elaine chao to testify before the Senate Committee on environment and public works on our nations infrastructure needs. Madam secretary, welcome to the committee. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has always taken the lead on infrastructure issues in the senate. When unveiled, other infrastructure proposals will increase funding and provide streamlining requirements for the construction of pipelines, housing and large, urban projects of various kinds that may be privately financed through publicprivate partnerships to name a few of the issues. However, our nations highways,
And that may be the most important quality is similar they nearly unchecked power of a special counsel. He is already overseen complex criminal prosecution, he has run the fbi, has served under both republicans and democrats. He is earned a reputation for aptitude. He doesnt need to make a name for himself, he has got one already. If there isnt a crime with the bottom of this, he is unlikely to manufacture one in order to earth to save face so many other prosecutors are tempted to do. Mueller, in other words, is about as impressive a choice at the Justice Department could have made. Now, to the second and maybe bigger question of whether a special counsel itself is a good idea. Democrats in congress has been mildly demanding one for a long time now. So has their farm team with a news network spread so much . Those same groups are also demanding open borders and transgender bathrooms in bathrooms. Not everything a mob wants is wise. Now, could prove unwise, at least to the trump campaig
Call witnesses in the senate. Well discuss how that mike work. This follows a day when the house heard from legal scholars, three of them making the case of what amounts to impeachable offenses. Joining me now is House Majority leader steny hoyer. Thank you so much for being with us. What we are going to hear from House Speaker pelosi in less than an hour . Youre going to hear it from House Speaker pelosi, not steny hoyer. Clearly, she wants to keep the American People informed about what we perceive to be an extraordinarily serious and somber time in this country. The consideration of whether or not acts have been committed by the president of the United States which undermine our national security, put our constitution at risk and undermine the voting processes which is the essence of democracy. As far as you know, is the impeachment process moving forward . Well, the impeachment process, obviously, hearings occurred yesterday so the answer to that question is an obvious, yes it is m