For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
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President yee supervisor preston . Supervisor preston thank you, president yee. I just want to make sure i understand the situation here, and i guess a question for mr. Kennedy. So as i understand it, this is sort of the j i understand the plans that were in place as an Emergency Response. But then, now with rail service not coming back for this foreseeable future, any changes to the j, are they on hold now, pending the reopening of the of the rail service . Right. So we are we will be depending on the outcome of this appeal process, we will be going to our m. T. A. Board, advancing the second phase of the j project, which would coincide with bringing back the j rail changes in early february, late january. That means it would go across market to church and duboce during approve by our board, and when service would build up, we would build a temporary accessible boarding platform at safeway there that would allow that service to go into effect. Supervisor preston i think what im trying
Anniversary of large Anti Government demonstrations. U. S. President elect joe bidens once again, chris sighs, the current president for denying his victory. He branded donald trump obstruction to transition during a worsening pandemic as totally irresponsible and debilitating. The incoming leader made the comments after a meeting with state governors from both parties to discuss how to tackle the crime of virus plant pandemic once hes in power. Biden was asked what trumps actions display to the american people. I think there were credible irresponsibility. Credibly damaging messages being sent to the rest world about how democracy functions. I think it is. Well, i dont know its murder. I just think its totally spot. Fisher is live for us at the white house and you heard the sound bite. There are strong words, but its a combination of frustration and anger or something else. Or theres certainly a change in tone from joe biden, who, a few days ago was saying, look, its ok, everythings g
Celebrate with large antigovernment demonstrations. U. S. President elect joe biden is once again criticized the current president for denying his victory. He branded Donald Trumps obstruction during a worsening pandemic as totally irresponsible and debilitating. The incoming leader made the comment and discussed how to tackle the coronavirus pandemic once hes in power. Biden was asked what trumps action display to the american people. I think theyre witnessing incredible irresponsibility, incredibly damaging messages being sent to the world how democracy functions. And i think it is well, i dont know his motive. But i just think its totally irresponsible. Anchor alan fisher is live for us at the white house. Alan, you had the sound bite. Strong words but it is a combination of frustration or anger or Something Else . Theres certainly a change of the tone of voice. Now, you can hear there is slightly more anger. There are those around joe biden who suggest he should go to court and cha