All my predecessors, laguardia was when the cofounder of u. S. Conference of mayors. It did not exist. He was one of the people who gave us the voices here. I do not know if there was a mayor who spoke about the nation. What i do know is a lot of things my city needs happen right here. The political environment will not allow us to get the support we need. We have to change the debate and the political environment. We need to build a coalition of leaders that will push the debate in the right direction. I have to ask i have to achieve these changes will making sure my city is safe and improving our schools and a host of things we do every day. Commissioner bratton is a great job. The overall crime index shows it is going down thank god, but , weve got to achieve both. We cannot have cities abandoned by the federal government. Last one. You are the one, yes. Are you concerned at all about the experience that Great Britain went through with the labour party shifted to the left . Totally
Significant event in philadelphia with amtrak. I want to make sure i pass along our sincere thoughts and prayers. Hopefully have a speedy recovery. The other thing important for us to recognize, 1st responders were on. Immediately. Our deepest thanks. The other thing this is really bad always silver lining. We have the significant events in the United States. Up. You see people helping each other trying to recover can help people get out of the wreckage. That is inspirational. Talking about her experience she looks at her shoe and said, these are my shoes. That is what we need to be doing its. I just wanted to recognize that. Infrastructure week us dot we would hope that infrastructure week was a really. Linda solomon a lot of things. In todays world the whole package is important for us to recognize longterm importance of investing. Investing. We have been working hard for part three or four years now trying to get the country to push it up to look at Infrastructure Investment. Recent
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Message where it needs to be delivered, that the time is critical and i look forward to being part of the solution. Thank you very much, mike, for your comments and your contributions. Ill take it a little bit out of order now and take my law partner and former member of congress, state of georgia, congressman Jack Kingston to give his perspective on some of the things theyre doing down in georgia, particularly in the port project area and hes now with us, with these projects probably had something to do with them back when you were in congress yourself. Jack, why dont you go ahead and tell us about what is happening down there. Thank you very much, senator. I have to take a point of personal privilege that i really came here to lobby jennifer on going ahead and getting a fast lane on 395. I think we all would like to see that happen. And, mike, i want to say my mother actually lives in louisville, colorado, and your toll road is great. Thank you. Ive driven it many times. It is such a
132 million. These are impressive numbers and keeps us aware of the system here today. To address the first question if you look what the faa tried to do, to shut them down because they didnt have funding, majority of those more contract hours but more faa towers, majority of them were in Rural America. That is one of our biggest concerns about status quo. Thanks for looking out for Rural America. Thank the senator from montana for looking out for Rural America and i think he and i would probably both agree at the end of this we would like to see more direct flights to and from, is that right . I appreciate i think weve run out of questioners and i do appreciate very much the panel great remarks today different perspectives this is the senates first foray into the issue of reform and we have to figure out a way as we move towards reauthorization of doing whats best. We all have the same goal in mind as was pointed out. Sometimes maybe slightly different perspectives on how best to get