Reauthorized many of the administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of surface Transportation System including fm csa, and its a and h tsa, our witnesses can discuss the implementation. And identify issues the committee should consider as we prepare for transportation reauthorization. That place a greater focus on the nations Freight Network including establishing infragrant program. Others like tiger grants are critical to our nations transportation infrastructure. I hope the witnesses will provide the country with an update on efforts to improve our infrastructure and how grants are being utilized. The Hummus Committee considers reauthorizing fast act i plan to work closely with Ranking Member cantwell and others on both sides of the aisle too, to authorize the build discretionary grants, reauthorize amtrak, continue to enhance freight and Passenger Rail network, innovative Transportation Technologies across modes, coordinated research, develop and and deployments, advance H
House sparked a war of words spnspn with steve bannon. His forthcoming book went after members of the president s family and he fired back in a statement saying mr. Bannon not only lost his job he lost his mind, close quote. Theres more to this story playing out in the newspapers this morning. But we want you to comment to us about this latest spat between President Trump and steve bannon. The white house and steve bannon as well, 2027488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002 on twitter, you can tweet us cspanwj and not only post there but see statements made bizarrea sanders at the White House Press briefing, that as facebook. Com cspan. The book is called fire and fury, inside the Trump White House and excerpts of it appeared on the website for new York Magazine. Part of those excerpts commenting and quoting steve bannon, particularly on several members of the trump family, including donald trump jr. Here is one of the quotes. The three senior guys on the campaign thought it
Departments of transportation of the countryes of and puerto rico and puerto rico in the district of cologne appeared we are an advocacy group. And where theport most Important Missions is to make people understand the value of transportation investment. Host for the people you are representing, how are they looking on these potential announcements from the white house when it comes to infrastructure . Guest we are very interested in what the white house will release and we are pleased the white house has put so much emphasis on infrastructure. We know we have an infrastructure gap in this country. State and local governments are really stepping up. One of the things we know to be the case is this is a shared responsibility. It takes the federal government, state and local governments, and increasingly, the private sector, to make sure were adequately invest in. Right now we are not purely to see some change. We are hopeful what we see from the administration will lead us in that direc
We did not embarq on a truckonly Highway Program. Guest it is darn expensive to do that. Not that there have not been proposals for that kind of approach. You find truckonly lanes in various places around the country. We know that Freight Networks are a huge concern. They are leading commerce. It is one thing we think this administration will care about. Anyding additional lanes in road, especially in an urbanized area, is a difficult and expensive proposition. There are elements we would agree with. I dont think we will see a wholesale truckexclusive interstate any time the near future. Host transportation. Org is the website for our guest association. Washington journal continues. Host our guest is Debra Knopman , a principal researcher for the rand corporation. Not everything is broken, the future of u. S. Transportation. Good morning. What are you suggesting when you say not everything is broken and Infrastructure Spending . Guest we are not suggesting there are not problems. There
Need 3. 6 trillion in investment and thats in all a number that includes things other than transportation but we need 3. 6 trillion in investment by the time the decade is through in order to raise it to appropriate levels. Now thats an all in number as i said. The thing is our infrastructure deficit is only going to get worse without action. We cannot meet the needs of growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more. Over the next generation this will become even more apparent because the country will demand more of this Transportation System than it ever has. By 2050 the system will need to move up to 100 million new people and 14 billion additional tons of freight almost twice what we currently do. Even if Congress Today funded our Transportation System at recent levels we would still be on the same track towards slower , less safe nation where rushhour becomes a rush all afternoon. So what we need right now is to rally around