Cspan3, a conversation from Brookings Institution on potential increased Infrastructure Spending. During a president ial campaign, donald trump said he wanted to spend more on roads, bridges and airports here in the u. S. Were a little behind schedule so im going to talk fast. Im really pleased that what we wanted to do was bring together people who have done work in the area of infrastructure to talk about where there is evidence, where there is not evidence, where the things that government does makes sense and where things dont make sense. Physical infrastructure is a rather broad term and so we have a panel that is one part water and three parts transportation. Newsha ajami is Senior Research associate at the Stanford Woods Institute for the environment, director of urban policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not
Where the things that government does makes sense and where things dont make sense. Physical infrastructure is a rather broad term and so we have a panel that is one part water and three parts transportation. Newsha ajami is Senior Research associate at the Stanford Woods Institute for the environment, director of urban water policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not for janet yellen or anybody else at the fed. And Cliff Winston is our colleague here at brookings. I have asked each to say pretend we had a president of the United States who has a short attention span. And pretend that he ran for office saying i want to spend a lot more money on infrastructure. Pretend for a moment that this tax credit thing was something thought up and will never resurface again, what would you tell him about how to wisely spend the m
Congressman delauro or congressman reed need any introduction whatsoever. I have always been haunted by something barney frank said once when he was introduced somewhere, saying now barney frank, who needs no introduction. His response was, just once, id like to hear that introduction that people dont think i need. Rosa de lauro is a congressman from my hometown in new haven. She comes from a very strong line of women politicians. Her mom was an alderman and now 103 years old. Rosa has been in Congress Since 1991 and before that was on the staff of senator chris dod. I learned by reading her official bio you are a member of 62 different house caucuses. You cant possibly go to 62 house caucus meetings. No. Tom reed comes from the Finger Lakes Region of new york. Has been in Congress Since, i forgot, 2010. Somewhat less service than rosa. So he was, before he came to washington, he was the mayor of corning, new york which is relevant because we have had a lot of conversations today about
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