want the plant back, with everything it had? or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have a coal plan. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we move from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. and my dad wasn t a coal miner. my great grandfather was a mining engineer but my dad was in sales, and there was no work so we left to go down to delaware. i told you where those oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolley in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenue, within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood, the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people lived, there was a you d go by a wall that my recollection was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. and it went essentially a city block. and you could see the coal piled up to the very top o
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Everyone in this room is so incredibly efficient. [applause] very excited to be here these past the first test. I am 2024 president of the american society. I want to thank our distinguished guests for joining us today. We have rick larson Ranking Member of the house transportation and infrastructure. I am very excited to continue to Work Together historic Infrastructure Investments Congress Passed and they are working to ensure implementation make sure of the success. We published yesterday in the Infrastructure Investment need to act on federal investment will protect the industries from losing more than 1 trillion in economic output and help avoid more than 600 billing dollars and gives American Families an additional 550 billion in disposable income. I could use that, i dont know about you guys. 237,000 american jobs for the same. The right path for improving Critical Infrastructure network but our work is not done. We regard to keep this economic ecosystem an attractive investment
Please all take a fiveminute break traffic in d. C. Is traffic and deceit we are running ahead of schedule because everyone is so efficient. Chat with yourselves for check the emails will be back with our programming just as soon as we possibly can. Stick close, thank you so much. [background noises] police welcome future of federal investment in infrastructure panel. Welcome we are excited to be here. After he got in the right juris yearswe are supposed to sit in. We passed the first test. Good afternoon my name is marsia i am 2024 president of the american Civil Engineers. I want to thank our distinguished guests for joining us today. We have a representative of the House Committee on transportation and infrastructure chairman of the subcommittee on aviation. And we have a representative rick larsen the Ranking Member of the House Committee on transportation infrastructure but im very excited to hear from these cheap members of congress to continue to Work Together to improve our inf