Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
Kpix 5 joe vazquez is live at the grand center mall where it happened in the middle of the busy lunch hour. Joe . Reporter and juliette, behind me, you can see the crash scene still as investigators are pouring over it. Folks are eating dim sum here in the canopy at the dynasty chinese seafood parking lot. Police say the driver of the white toyota 4runner was 50 yards away in another part of the parking lot and then witnesses said it sounded like he gunned his engine. His car began to lurch forward, driving over two sidewalks, then smashing into the tables here. Eight people injured, rushed to the hospital. San jose police say the driver may have had some sort of a medical emergency right before the collision. I feel sorry for the man and for the people too because it was not intentional, you know, and hes an older man. We dont know the details. He could have had a heart attack or a stroke or something happened, you know . The man was in his late 70s. He was pretty scared, crying. And
Tested, they all tested negative for the china virus. That includes Vice President mike pence, Supreme Court nominee amy coney barrett. President trump begins his treatment and isolation for the china virus just 32 days before the president ial election. Joe biden and his wife tested negative for the virus today. They were campaigning in New Hampshire and michigan. The Trump Campaign says all the previouslyannounced events involving the president are in the process of being moved to Virtual Events or are being temporarily postponed. They add that Vice President mike pence will be resuming all of his scheduled campaign events, and we suspect that a few more will be added to his schedule as well. The university of utah today also said wednesdays Vice President ial debate between the Vice President and senator harris will go on as planned. And within the last hour, weve learned the president is being treated by white house physician sean conley. The doctor has given the president a single
Cornell University History professor or Lawrence Glick man describes the modern concept of Free Enterprise formed in the 1930s during the rise of the new. Deal hes a professor of american studies in that department of history at cornell. In addition to Free Enterprise in 2019, he has written four other books. He writes on a regular basis for publications including the Washington Post though i am not sure we would call that a popular publication. [laughter] the Boston Review and dissent with his articles was named one of the most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you to rachel for the behindthescenes work and pete, eric, and christian and all organizations that make this possible. Thank you to all of you for coming out. I am honored by the size of this audience. No historian works alone. We stand on the shoulders of those who came before and i would like to begin by mentioning the many scholars whose work helped me identify Free Enterprise as a topic worth exploring. I ha
Cabinet members and family were tested, they all tested negative for the china virus. That includes Vice President mike pence, Supreme Court nominee amy coney barrett. President trump begins his treatment and isolation for the china virus just 32 days before the president ial election. Joe biden and his wife tested negative for the virus today. They were campaigning in New Hampshire and michigan. The Trump Campaign says all the previouslyannounced events involving the president are in the process of being moved to Virtual Events or are being temporarily postponed. They add that Vice President mike pence will be resuming all of his scheduled campaign events, and we suspect that a few more will be added to his schedule as well. The university of utah today also said wednesdays Vice President ial debate between the Vice President and senator harris will go on as planned. And within the last hour, weve learned the president is being treated by white house physician sean conley. The doctor