That representation Transportation Safety issues along with my Ranking Member senator cantwell let me welcome our Signature Panel of witnesses and thank them for this hearing. Well hear from the department of transportation including neil szabat ron brinks and straygur of the federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and deputy minister of traffic and safety. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2019 better known as the fastback rasterized the administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface transportation paid sns and fra. Identifying issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The fastback places a greater focus on our nations Multimodal Network that includes establishing the emperor Grant Program. This program and others such as formerly tiger grants are critical to improve our nations transportation infrastructure. I hope the winces will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve our i
Us. Im adam tuss. Im jennifer fitzgerald. Our former colleague tom where say a orange sherbert sunrise. You know, lauryn has some good s descriptions awell. We are happy to have her with us. Lauryn, this weather has been aioss the last couple of days. Once ag you walk outside and you are going to feel the humidity and mugginess yeah, tom had a great way of describing things out there. Lets show you guys the sunrise out there rightus now beca it is absolutely gorgeous out there. And we are go g it continue to see some beautiful conditions you see the banner, weather alert. It is red because we have got so more storms on the wayfor today. Currently that i temperature 76 degrees. 76. It is so warm out there right now. Winds are calm right now. Not seeing any rain out there right now, so that is the good eews. But we have mor rain on the way. It will be a little different than yesterday. You what to expect in just a littl bit. Guys. Lauryn, thank you vermuch. Video and pictures of the stor
It was a big rally yesterday gave back many of the gains late in the session the dow did end up more than 100 points by the end of the session. Overnight in asia, a bit more muted today after the big gains yesterday in the markets the hang seng opening after being closed on monday for a holiday. Its the stock market trying to do some catch up it was up by 1. 2 . Shanghai was flat. Nikkei was up by a tenth of a percent. In europe, some early trading taking place a bit of a mixed picture there. Ftse up by a half percent. Modest declines for the cac and the dax. Stocks are higher in italy and weaker in spain. In the United States, if youre watching the threreasury market the tenyear is yielding 0. 15 lets talk trade President Trump saying trade talks have begun following his meeting with president xi jinping at the g20 speaking at the oval office yesterday, the president said the renewed talks are being held by phone any trade deals will have to lean in the u. S. s favor obserit has to be
Today we will hear from department of transportation officials. The administrator of the federal railroad administration. The administrator of the federal Motor Carriers administration. And the deputy administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2015 reauthorized many of the modal administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System. Fra. Ding fmcsa, nasa, and hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of and identify issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The act placed a greater focus on our nations multimodal freight i hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve infrastructure and how build grants are being utilized. Are the Commerce Committee considers reauthorizing the fast act, i plan on working with members on both sides of the aisle to auth
Places you on item number four. Approval of minutes for the march 5th regular meeting. Secretary, id like to make some opening remarks, if thats all right, before we get into minutes, i wanted to just thank everyone for being here today, and i just feel that i need to open up this meeting with an acknowledgment of the tragic events that occurred at west portal station over the weekend. Im imagining, but i dont know. But im imagining that many people are feeling anger, rage, a sense of powerlessness, hopelessness. I know that ive cycled through these feelings myself over the past 72 hours, and this happens whenever i hear of any fatalities or serious injuries on our streets. It shouldnt happen in our city or anywhere, and our hearts are with the family. I also know that when these kinds of things happen, there is a natural tendency to want to make sense of the situation very quickly by finding a villain to blame, pointing a finger and demanding action and i understand that. I think that