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Nations rail Service Needs 4 billion to stay afloat for fiscal year 2021. He made the comments in testimony before the house transportation subcommittee on railroads. The subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair declare a recess at any time during todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. I also ask unanimous consent that the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions. Without objection so ordered. This is a hybrid hearing. I want to remind members of key regulations from the House Committee on rules to ensure that the hearing goes smoothly. Members must be visible on screen for the purposes of identification when joining this hearing. Members must also continue to use the video function on todays Software Platform cisco webx for the remainder of the time they are attending this hearing, unless experiencing connectivity issues or other technical problems. If a member is experiencing any connectivity issu
Order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair declare a recess at any time during todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that [ inaudible ] the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions. Without objection so ordered. This is a hybrid hearing i want to remind members of key regulations from the House Committee on rules to ensure that the hearing goes mooths smoothly. Members must be visible on screen for the purposes of identification when joining this hearing. Members must also continue to use the video function on todays Software Platform cisco web x for the remainder of the time attending this hearing unless experiencing connectivity issues or other technical problems. If a member is experiencing any connectivity issues or problems, please inform the Committee Staff as soon as possible so you can receive assistance. A chat function is available for members on the web x platform for this purpose and member
But over the years, many years, weve been paying them from 300 to 500 and even more, Million Dollars a year, china has been paying them less than 40, over the years. So were paying them more than ten times more than china and they are very very china centric as i said, china centric. China always seems to get the better of the argument, and i dont like that. I really dont like that. I dont think thats appropriate. I dont think its fair to the American People. And you know, id tell that to president xi. Id tell that to the doctor. I spoke to him one time. I think hes a very nice man. I liked him, but we will be talking about that next week in great detail, were looking at it very very closely. We want to make sure moneys properly spent. But again, why is the United States paying 500 Million Dollars a year, thats a lot. Okay, thats a lot. Why is china paying last year, this year 42 Million Dollars . But generally under 40 so it niece the 30s so its in the 30s. Were at 500, 452, 400, 401,
Clerk we have a quorum. Item 4 the approval with modifications of the minutes of the meeting set fourth below. This is the regular Meeting Minutes from february 15th, 2020. Are there any corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, ill ask for a motion. I make a motion that we approve the minutes from the february meeting. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. All those if favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed. It has passed unanimously. Item 5, general Public Comment from matters of the boards jurisdiction. Please come forward. I have a comment on the assistance dealing with this coronavirus and the healthcare and they have already got someone that had already got it and would not allow them to even be any lessons because the school and i went to in 200 200r this issue and what they did is that they bribed me and tried to make it work where everything was off base that other things that trying to teach me i was really upset about that because of the healthcare issue and they w